The Brownsville Herald - Tue Nov 10

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is not ruling out involving outside organizations in the process of securing a permit from Mexico for the Brownsville-Matamoros dam project - commonly referred to as the weir - on the Rio Grande.

Houston Chronicle - Mon Nov 09

A man who helped load smuggled immigrants into a tractor-trailer in which 17 of them later died in Victoria was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison Monday.

KRGV - Mon Nov 09

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Brownsville Port of Entry discovered and seized nearly $4.3 million in heroin, cocaine, and marijuana over the weekend.