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Twilight in the Rio Grande Valley. (Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune) ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. The day that Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther ...

to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Also, sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The day that Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther was arrested for reopening her business in defiance of Texas emergency stay-home orders, Robin Torres sat in a county jail 500 miles away facing the consequences of his own failure to follow such rules. Luther became a conservative darling this spring for he...

Sponsored by: Pinball Wizard is chasing a Breeders Cup Turf berth this weekend in Argentina Led by multiple Group 1-winning 5-year-old Pinball Wizard and the fast-closing 4-year-old Tetaze, winner of the Longines Gran Premio Latinoamericano (G1), a standout field of 13 runners has been entered for Saturdays 1 ½-mile Gran Premio Internacional Carlos Pellegrini (G1) — South Americas most prestigious race — at Hipódromo de San Isidro in Argentina. The winner will receive an automat...

By Yucatan Times on December 17, 2020 Share In Merida alone, more than 15,000 cases of coronavirus have accumulated. MERIDA Yucatan (Health Secretariat) – This Wednesday, December 16th, the coronavirus in Yucatan left 97 new infections for 25 thousand 236 positive cases until today. There were also eight deaths, which add up to 2 thousand 806 deaths in the entity in the pa...

An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru Indigenous Shipibo leaders in Peru’s Ucayali region say they live under the threat of attacks from suspected land traffickers who continue to invade their territory. The Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya says these invasions have been exacerbated by the advancement of oil palm plantations in the Amazonian district of Nueva Requena. In August 2020, an outside group was caught cutting down trees that belong to the commun...

McAllen City Commissioner Javier Villalobos says hes running for mayor 3 months 2 weeks 5 days ago Wednesday, December 16 2020 Dec 16, 2020 December 16, 2020 11:41 AM December 16, 2020 in News - Local Share: McAllen City Commissioner Javier Villalobos announced Wednesday that hes running for mayor. Villalobos was elected to the City Commission in March 2018, when McAllen held a special election to replace City Commissioner Richard Cortez — who resigned to run for county judge. He represents D...

By Yucatan Times on December 16, 2020 Share Port of Progreso. (PHOTO: Revista Alianza Empresarial) Yucatán is the state that has grown the most in the country in the last two years since it managed to increase the generation of jobs in the Mexican export industry by 44% during 2019, the National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry president (Index),...

By Yucatan Times on December 16, 2020 Share Mérida broke the barrier of 15 thousand infected by Covid-19, reported the Yucatan Health Secretariat (SSY), establishing that out of every five cases registered in the entity, three correspond to the capital city. Likewise, he pointed out that in the 10 municipalities with the highest incidence there is just over 80 percent of th...

Published December 15, 2020, 3:46 PM San Juan City will start with the house-to-house distribution of Christmas food packs to city residents on Wednesday, December 16. Mayor Francis Zamora said the food packs will be the local government’s 15th wave of relief packs distribution since the start of the pandemic. The city government has provided grocery packs to residents forced to stay inside their homes during the lockdown period due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “This Dece...

Aquila frontline service training spanned 10 locations across six islands in the BVI. More than 2,500 people were trained over two weeks Before the British Virgin Islands reopened to tourism Dec. 1, the government needed to ensure frontline workers were trained in new health protocols and ready to make visitors feel welcome despite masks and distancing. Hospitality still needs to reign supreme, even in this era, as BVI Tourist Board Director Clive McCoy put it. 2,500 workers trained McC...