Brownsville Herald

08/26/2025

Flight 10 of Starship S37 and Super Heavy B16 was scrubbed again today.

Flight 10 of Starship S37 and Super Heavy B16 was scrubbed again on Monday.

08/25/2025

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi came to New York to herald Zambada’s guilty plea as a “landmark victory,” saying “will die in a U.S. federal prison where he belongs.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded guilty Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, saying he was sorry for helping flood the U.S. with co***ne, he**in and other illicit substances and for fueling deadly violence in Mexico.

08/25/2025

Besteiro Middle School and the Brownsville Independent School District on Friday celebrated the school’s attainment of an A rating from the Texas Education Agency for the 2024-2025 school year.

08/24/2025

SpaceX has scrubbed Starship Flight 10, which was scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today.

SpaceX has scrubbed Starship Flight 10, which was scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

08/23/2025

Hunchback will have a cast of nearly 50, including Aaron Bravo as Quasimodo, Alejandra Rodriguez as Esmeralda, Ivan Melendez as Frollo and Quinn Boyer as Phoebus.

Tickets went on sale Friday for “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” the opening show for the 62nd season at Brownsville’s Camille Playhouse, which is inviting audiences to travel the globe and their soul “discovering love, murder, gambling, mystery and heartbreak.”

08/23/2025

From the university celebrating 10 years, to having its first football season, another historic first set to take place is the inaugural season of the UTRGV Marching Band.

EDINBURG — Fall of 2025 is set to be a historic semester for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

08/22/2025

Separate from a $133 million federal modernization project for Gateway bridge soon to begin phase one, the $10 million county project involves construction of a separate, two-lane pedestrian walkway to be located just west of the existing bridge.

Cameron County’s plan to build a new pedestrian walkway at Gateway International Bridge in downtown Brownsville has cleared a major hurdle now that a Presidential Permit has been issued for the project.

08/22/2025

Another family member cursed Villalobos, stating she hoped he will rot in hell.

BROWNSVILLE — A jury in 197th state District Court on Thursday found Jose Luis Villalobos guilty of one count of murder and one count of aggravated assault.

08/22/2025

According to results of the SpaceX-led mishap investigation into Flight 9 overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration, Starship S35 began to run into trouble after all six engines were lit and the vehicle had separated from the booster.

With Starship’s tenth suborbital test flight launching from Boca Chica/Starbase as early as 6:30 p.m. Sunday, SpaceX has revealed what it thinks went wrong with Flight 9 on May 27, when Starship S35 was lost before it could land in the Indian Ocean near Australia as planned.

08/22/2025

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08/22/2025

Cameron County saw no school districts receive an A rating but a trio are in the upper B grades.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the 2024-2025 A-F accountability ratings for public schools systems Aug. 15 that showed a handful of Valley school districts improved their ratings while some remained stagnant and a few were downgraded.

08/21/2025

Nathan Burkhart, vice president of Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, has been named one of North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers of 2025 by Consultant Connect, a national consulting agency.