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Tracking some nice changes to the forecast!
Cooler weather and rain are usually not things we get to talk about much during July, but that is exactly what we are lucky enough to talk about for the next week to 10 days! A few isolated showers and thunderstorms are possible this evening, but the better rain chances will move in during the early morning hours of Thursday as a cold front moves in. As of now it doesn’t look like all of us will see rain Thursday, but the best coverage of scattered showers and thunderstorms will be during the morning hours. Most of Thursday afternoon will be rain-free, with highs only making it into the low-to-mid 90s.
UTRGV Track & Field 2024 All-Academic Teams and Athletes Revealed
RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced on Monday that The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s (UTRGV) men’s and women’s track & field teams were named 2024 All-Academic Teams while four student-athletes, Aaron Cooper and Jedidiah Udunna of the men’s team and Zoë Adams and Hannah Hilding of the women’s team, achieved All-Academic Athlete status. To be eligible for All-Academic Team recognition, the cumulative grade point average (GPA) for all on members of the team must be 3.0 or better. UTRGV’s women’s team owns a cumulative GPA of 3.26 while…
STHS Hiring Event for Their Newest Freestanding Emergency Department, STHS ER Pharr, July 18th
Medical emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere. Often occurring when we least expect them, they require swift action. If a person is involved in a traffic accident, experiencing a stroke or heart attack or dealing with a poisoning-related condition or another issue requiring critical care, there can be serious danger of damage to their health if they don’t get prompt medical attention.
Therapist Reaches RGV Patients From Mercedes
Marisa de Leon grew up the daughter of baby boomers, listening to the music of the Beatles and knowing from an early age how “music is woven into our identity.”. “Music affects every part of who we are,” she said. De Leon also grew up playing music. At...
Weslaco bribery defendants argue for their convictions, sentences be overturned
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two men convicted in 2022 of defrauding the city of Weslaco out millions of dollars during a $42.5 million rehabilitation of the city’s water and wastewater infrastructure are asking a federal appeals court to overturn their convictions and vacate their lengthy prison sentences.
STHS Neurosciences & Stroke Institute Earns AHA/ASA Stroke Care Award
It’s a popular phrase in the medical field, “Time is brain.” It’s used to stress the importance of providing immediate medical attention to a patient experiencing a stroke. Each minute that a stroke goes untreated, 1.9 million brain cells are lost, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the longer a stroke patient goes without medical intervention, the greater their risk of disability and death.
Become an Instant Millionaire With Any of These 27 Texas Lottery Scratch Offs
Me and a coworker were talking recently about what seven figure money number we'd be comfortable having in our bank account. My answer was $2.5 million. I could buy a house and a good car for my fiancé and me, about $500,000 for those. We could pay for our wedding and have a nice honeymoon, about $50,000 for those. That's my Lindale math working there but I think those numbers are reasonable. Everything else would sit in the bank to take care of everything else.
Texas woman arrested in connection to Arizona fraud case
PHOENIX — A Texas woman was recently arrested in connection with an Arizona fraud case, authorities announced Tuesday. Maria Rivera, 64, was arrested in Carrollton, Texas, in early July on charges of fraud, theft and identity theft, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. YSCO began investigating the...
Texas restaurants sue utility CenterPoint over response to Hurricane Beryl
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Restaurants in and around Houston on Monday filed a class action seeking more than $100 million from U.S. power provider CenterPoint Energy, alleging incompetence and negligence in the utility's efforts to restore power quickly following Hurricane Beryl.
90 School Districts in Texas Have Moved to a 4-Day-Week
This is a topic that has been trending for the past year. School districts in Texas moving to four-day-school weeks. KXAN, reports that at least 90 school districts across Texas have now switched to four-day school weeks. This is the state of Texas' effort to prevent teacher turnover!. Other districts...
Texas Standard for July 16, 2024: Department of Energy turned down CenterPoint’s upgrade plans for Houston, report says
CenterPoint Energy is facing growing scrutiny for what the governor says was a failure to prepare for Hurricane Beryl. But a new report says that a year ago, the Department of Energy turned down a CenterPoint plan that could have prevented widespread outages. Here are the stories on Texas Standard...
New fugitives added to Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added two fugitives to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List. Texas Crime Stoppers is now offering a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of either Fabian Martinez Toribio or Octavio Cruz Hernandez.
2 Major Texas Grocery Store Companies Set To Merge, Prices Could Lower
It appears that two major chain grocery stores will be merging, and it might even have a positive impact on the cost of your grocery bill moving forward. A while back it was announced that Albertsons and Kroger would soon be merging, well it looks like that will certainly be the case. We've got everything you should know about the merger and what it could mean for your grocery bill moving forward...
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