http://www.mail.com/locations/158602-mcallen.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/158602-mcallen.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/1765306-4-texas-officers-accused-helping-move-cocaine.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against four officers from a South Texas anti-drug task force who they say took thousands of dollars in bribes to help guard large shipments of cocaine. The officers — two from the Mission police department and two Hidalgo County Sheriff's deputies — were members of the "Panama Unit," wh... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1765306-4-texas-officers-accused-helping-move-cocaine.html 2012-12-13T21:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759814-mexico-riveras-plane-hit-with-terrible-impact.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at a speed that may have exceeded 600 miles per hour, Mexico's top transportation official said Tuesday. In the first detailed account of the moments leading up to the crash that killed ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759814-mexico-riveras-plane-hit-with-terrible-impact.html 2012-12-12T01:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1757460-mexico-tests-dna-jenni-rivera-plane-crash.html MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities were performing DNA tests Tuesday on remains believed to belong to Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera and six other people killed when her plane went down in northern Mexico. Investigators said it would take days to piece together the wreckage of the plane carrying Rivera and find out why it went dow... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1757460-mexico-tests-dna-jenni-rivera-plane-crash.html 2012-12-11T18:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1755760-ntsb-singer-rivera-dead-mexican-plane-crash.html MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash in northern Mexico. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to help investigate the crash, and the board... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1755760-ntsb-singer-rivera-dead-mexican-plane-crash.html 2012-12-11T01:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1674236-texas-asks-fbi-to-investigate-helicopter-shooting.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas state police said Friday they have asked for a federal investigation of a chase in which a trooper fired on a fleeing pickup truck from a helicopter, resulting in the deaths of two Guatemalan immigrants who were hiding in the bed. The Texas Department of Public Safety has said troopers believed drugs were hidden under a sheet i... Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1674236-texas-asks-fbi-to-investigate-helicopter-shooting.html 2012-11-02T20:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1671972-texas-trooper-chopper-shooting-returns-to-work.html LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — The Texas trooper who fired on a fleeing pickup truck from a helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing two illegal immigrants hiding in the bed, has returned to work but in a different role, the state Department of Public Safety said Thursday. The announcement came less than an hour after the American Civil Liberties Union and ... Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1671972-texas-trooper-chopper-shooting-returns-to-work.html 2012-11-02T00:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1666332-diplomat-texas-agents-people.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement agents were close enough to a pickup truck to see it was carrying people, not drugs, before one opened fire, killing two Guatemalan immigrants hiding under a cover in the vehicle's bed, a diplomat said Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety officials have said the helicopter crew believed the truck was carry... Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1666332-diplomat-texas-agents-people.html 2012-10-30T23:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1657412-2-dead-flying-trooper-fires-vehicle.html MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Three people were found wounded, two fatally, in a vehicle that was fired upon by a Texas state trooper in a helicopter. The incident happened Thursday afternoon near the South Texas border with Mexico near the town of La Joya (HOY'-yah), about 70 miles northwest of Brownsville. Katherine Cesinger (SEHS'-ihn-jur) of the Texas Departm... Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1657412-2-dead-flying-trooper-fires-vehicle.html 2012-10-26T00:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1637640-beckett-sues-pipeline-builder-ocelot-habitat.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Not even the legal equivalent of a fastball under the chin could stop a Texas pipeline builder from clearing acres of brush that Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett claims is critical habitat for the endangered ocelot. A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Laredo by two of Beckett's companies asks a judge to stop any further work o... Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1637640-beckett-sues-pipeline-builder-ocelot-habitat.html 2012-10-17T20:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1612894-star-rockets-rookie-faces-fear-flying.html HOUSTON (AP) — Royce White couldn't wait any longer. Last weekend, just before the Houston Rockets opened training camp, he called his agent and told him he had a problem. He needed to map out a plan for dealing with his general anxiety disorder and his fear of flying. It needed to be done before his first NBA season began. Before the ... Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1612894-star-rockets-rookie-faces-fear-flying.html 2012-10-06T19:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1451490-apnewsbreak-us-mexico-disagree-border-fence.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — An agency that monitors the U.S.-Mexico boundary is agreeing to a U.S. proposal to build border fence segments in a South Texas flood plain, a move Mexico opposes. The decision by the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission comes despite objections from its Mexican counterpart. Mexico argues the fence would deflect floodwate... Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1451490-apnewsbreak-us-mexico-disagree-border-fence.html 2012-07-25T00:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1451092-official-tire-caused-deadly-texas-crash.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A pickup truck's front tire that apparently had come apart was likely the cause of a weekend crash on a rural South Texas highway that claimed its 15th victim Tuesday, authorities said. The truck packed with 23 suspected illegal immigrants crashed Sunday evening near Goliad, about 90 miles southeast of San Antonio. Eight passengers r... Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1451092-official-tire-caused-deadly-texas-crash.html 2012-07-24T19:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1446866-authorities-trying-to-14-killed-texas-crash.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — With little more than photographs and fingerprints, authorities were trying to identify 14 suspected illegal immigrants who were killed when a pickup truck packed with nearly two dozen people crashed in South Texas in one of the nation's deadliest immigrant smuggling accidents. The victims — men, women and children — were carrying to... Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1446866-authorities-trying-to-14-killed-texas-crash.html 2012-07-23T23:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1446490-despite-jitters-batman-fans-pack-theaters.html NEW YORK (AP) — The three 18-year-olds, friends since middle school, are about to go off separately to college this fall. But on Sunday, these avid fans of the Batman film franchise had no doubt where they wanted to be: together, at the movies, watching "The Dark Knight Rises." "What happened in Colorado was horrible, but that guy was just a psycho," said... Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1446490-despite-jitters-batman-fans-pack-theaters.html 2012-07-23T19:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1414140-relative-dad-sons-shot-ice-agent-fear.html HARGILL, Texas (AP) — A father and two sons shot at a federal immigration agent parked outside their home along the Texas border this week because they were afraid someone was going to break in, a relative told a newspaper. U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Kelton Harrison was shot in the back early Tuesday, when prosecutors say Pedro Alvare... Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1414140-relative-dad-sons-shot-ice-agent-fear.html 2012-07-07T17:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1378032-texas-man-charged-death-mom-slain-boys.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man accused of fatally shooting two boys, including his 1-year-old son, in a hotel room also was charged Thursday in their mother's killing. Demond Bluntson, 36, already was being held in a Laredo jail when a judge in another county signed a murder warrant accusing him of killing his girlfriend, 28-year-old Brandy Cerny. Whar... Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1378032-texas-man-charged-death-mom-slain-boys.html 2012-06-21T21:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1373506-2-boys-shot-texas-hotel-mom-believed-killed.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Hours after a man fatally shot one of his girlfriend's sons and critically injured another in a South Texas hotel room as police tried to check on the family, police found what they believe to be the body of children's mother, authorities said. Laredo Police spokesman Joe Baeza said officers arrested 36-year-old Demond Bluntson at th... 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Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1366546-cartel-money-laundering-cases-tough-critical.html 2012-06-16T18:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1284588-mexico-drug-wars-latest-toll-49-headless-bodies.html MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes. The bodies of 43 men and six women with their heads, hands and feet chopped off were dumped at the entrance ... Mon, 14 May 2012 04:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1284588-mexico-drug-wars-latest-toll-49-headless-bodies.html 2012-05-14T04:08:00Z