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The 13th Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday directing a judge to vacate his decision disqualifying attorney Rick Salinas from representing Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Sonia Treviño in her election contest against Ramon Segovia. State District Judge Jose Manuel Bañales disqualified Salinas, Treviño’s lead attorney, from representing her after he said in…

In mid-May, the people of McAllen learned that relations between their city and their school district had soured so much that the city of McAllen wouldn’t even loan McAllen ISD bleachers to use for a hometown baseball game. Tensions between the district and the city have been boiling all year long, ever since the school…

ALTON – An Alton woman will spend the next decade behind bars after pleading guilty to Intoxication Manslaughter, announced Hidalgo County District Attorney Toribio “Terry” Palacios. Sorely Lizeth Nino, 21, was sentenced to serve 10 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The case was heard by 476th District Court Judge Ysmael Fonseca.…

A judge Thursday disqualified Rick Salinas from representing Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Sonia Treviño in her election contest trial after he said in court that he’d witnessed Treviño’s opponent, Ramon Segovia, make fundraising comments relevant to the lawsuit. Segovia sued Treviño in June, alleging she’d won the May primary runoff for Hidalgo County…

“I’m just feeling tired,” veteran Rio Grande Valley lawyer Gilberto Hinojosa said Wednesday on the tail end of a day’s worth of testimony in the Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Precinct 3, Place 1 election contest between Ramon Segovia and Sonia Treviño. That day clocked in at over 10 hours in the courtroom and…

This article originally appeared in the June 14 edition of the Progress Times. The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District Board of Trustees failed to reach a consensus Monday on whom to appoint for a vacancy on the board despite votes on three possible candidates. The death of longtime Place 6 Trustee Jesus “Jesse” Vela, Jr.…

Just five minutes after being told to permanently remove a list of 676 books from its schools’ libraries by a conservative activist group last month, Mission CISD agreed to remove any of those titles it finds in the district’s libraries and thanked the group for making the demand. That list was sent to the district…

Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District Board Trustee Luis “Louie” Alamia lost his chairmanship and seat on the board’s insurance committee and agreed to give up his say in awarding insurance products for a year after the school district received a complaint in January about comments he allegedly made to the Hidalgo County District Attorney. The district received…

After about five hours and 45 minutes of discussion in executive session Monday, the McAllen Independent School District Board of Trustees appointed attorney Lucía “Lucy” Thompson to the Place 7 board seat longtime Trustee Sam Saldivar, Jr. resigned from last month. The board met at noon to discuss the 31 people who applied for the…