Bruni, TX

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - In two separate incidents, Border Patrol agents discovered undocumented individuals using trains to get further into the United States. The first attempt happened on June 8 when Hebbronville Border Patrol agents discovered 12 undocumented individuals hiding inside a car-hauler of a train. Then on June 12th,...

LAREDO – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered illegal aliens using railcars as a dangerous method of traveling further into the United States within days of each other. The first incident occurred on June 8, when Hebbronville Border Patrol agents discovered 12 illegal immigrants while conducting train checks near Hebbronville inside a car-hauler.  On June 12, Border Patrol agents from Laredo South Station discovered several individuals trapped in the boxcar with no means of escape.  Agents were able to assist two illegal migrants out of one railcar and discovered that an adjacent…

LAREDO, Texas – Within days of each other, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered undocumented individuals using railcars as a dangerous method of traveling further into the United States. The first incident occurred on June 8, when Hebbronville Border Patrol agents discovered 12 undocumented individuals while conducting train checks...

Webb CISD Superintendent Beto D. Gonzalez submitted his letter of resignation to the school board Monday night following an incident with a district vehicle from last December that has caused he and the school district to be involved in a million-dollar lawsuit. Due to this, the school district is actively promoting the fact they are looking for any interested candidates to fill the role.

LAREDO, Tx. (KGNS) -Border Patrol agents foiled two human smuggling attempts during the Memorial Day weekend. The first happened on May 30 when agents were following a suspicious Sedan traveling south on Bob Bullock Loop. The driver, a United States Citizen, lost control as he tried to turn onto Jacaman...

How is the city going to fund Binational River Park Project?

Registration is now open for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Veterinary Science Certificate Program and East Foundation Animal Science Instructional Course to be held April 18 at the San Antonio Viejo Ranch near Hebbronville. The program will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is designed for youth...

A South Texas deer breeding facility in Duval County Chronic has detected Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The tissue samples were submitted by the deer breeding facility as part of the required CWD surveillance programs. CWD is a neurological disease that can spread rapidly among wild deer and elk populations. This...

Joe Quintanilla is a colorful speaker. The white-mustachioed owner of Avila’s BBQ in Hebbronville, an hour’s drive east of Laredo, is sitting on the edge of a picnic table bench in the shade cast by his open-sided smokehouse. The tantalizing scent of nearly finished beef sausages and fajitas wafts out from one of the long-barrel, direct-heat smokers. Meanwhile, Quintanilla delivers morsels of the wisdom gathered in his 61 years of life and his three decades at the helm of Avila’s BBQ. Customers often ask him for the secret to great barbecue, he says. “I don’t have secrets,” Quintanilla tells them. “Secrets are for a–holes.” For him, culinary skill comes not from creative genius but rather from hard work, attention to detail, and experience.