Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Another San Benito educator was arrested this week on child molestation charges. David Noyola, Band Director at Miller Jordan Middle School of San Benito, was arrested on Aug. 13, for sexually assaulting a minor – this after former San Benito CISD educator, Jose N. Mendez Jr., was accused …
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Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A married couple from Brownsville, under the guidance of their attorney, have turned themselves over to local authorities for their alleged involvement in an Aug. 10 hit-and-run incident that left 23-year-old Richard Garcia Mata of San Benito dead. At 3:33 a.m. on Sunday, officers with the San Benito …
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Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com While many of the rest of us have been enjoying our hot summer days at the beach or with friends, members of the San Benito High School Greyhound Band have been practicing 14-hour days in hopes of securing their place at the state competition this year. Of their …
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Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com At a special meeting of the San Benito City Commission on Tuesday, Aug. 19, attorneys from Arnold & Itkin LLP law firm out of Houston will meet in executive session to advise the City of San Benito’s elected officials, referencing possible legal recourse with regard to the incapacitation …
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Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com At a recent meeting of the San Benito City Commission, the mayor and elected officials asked City Manager Manuel Lara to reassess the 2014-2015 proposed budget, in an effort to potentially offer City employees a pay raise as high as five percent. “The elected officials and Mayor asked …
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Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com BROWNSVILLE – The 13th Court of Appeals affirmed the June 2013 murder conviction and sentence of Rio Hondo resident Eric Christopher Gonzalez, who struck and killed a woman and severely injured her husband in a 2011 motor vehicle collision while Gonzalez was evading Harlingen police. According to a …
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Aug 15 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Even though it’s been more than 10 years, I can still remember the look on my friend’s face the first time he tried mussels. George – an eccentric fellow who I thought of as a brother – said something rather curious to me as we looked on in confusion …
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Aug 15 2014
By MARK MOLINA Living Waters Church It has been a terrible and difficult week for several families. My son-in-law — husband to my oldest daughter, father to their 6-year-old daughter, and youngest son to his mother — passed away Monday evening after a tragic accident. The prior week he was floating down a river and …
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Aug 14 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com On August 13, David Noyola, Band Director of Miller Jordan Middle School in San Benito, was arrested by Rio Hondo Police Department for alleged sexual assault on a minor. Regarding this arrest, San Benito CISD Community Relations Director Celia Longoria has issued the following statement: “A San Benito …
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Aug 12 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com At a special meeting of the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees on Aug. 7—in a vote of 4-3—trustees green-lighted an $800,000 program with the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) at Houston that will provide the district with instructional support service. Although the board’s majority ruled …
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