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McAllen youth wins award for singers
Michael Morris, a 13-year-old boy from McAllen, won an award for singing this month in Los Angeles.
Michael participated in “iPOP!,” a singing showcase held at Los Angeles’s Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on January 7. Michael won the title of…
No. 2 Alabama beats No. 1 LSU 21-0 for BCS title
NEW ORLEANS — The Rematch of the Century, it wasn’t.
Alabama romped to another BCS championship against top-ranked LSU with a smothering defensive performance, a numbing barrage of field goals and even a long-overdue trip to the end zone.
Good…
Raiders look to ground it out against Vikings
PHARR — With the implementation of the spread offense the rage in high school football in recent years, PSJA North is stuck in the 20th Century — the mid-20th Century.
Old-school coach Bruce Bush’s “nasty Slot-T” — which has its roots in…
Family: Frazier dies after fight with cancer
PHILADELPHIA — He beat Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, battled him nearly to the death in the Thrilla in Manila. Then Joe Frazier spent the rest of his life trying to fight his way out of Ali’s shadow.
That was one fight Frazier…
Local hearts and minds not far from Japanese aftermath
The Rio Grande Valley may be thousands of miles away from the devastation left by one of the largest earthquakes of the century and the tsunami that followed it, but for those who have loved ones in the area, the ties could not be closer. Families…
Group works to reform labor laws for migrant children
SAN JUAN — It’s been almost half a century since migrant activist César Chávez began fighting for farmworkers’ rights.
And today, the battle is not over, especially when it comes to child labor laws, said Norma Flores Lopez, director of the…
Nebraska’s Osborne: Big Ten move trumps tradition
LINCOLN, Neb. — When Nebraska beat Oklahoma in the 1971 Game of the Century, when Johnny Rodgers took that punt return the distance, Tom Osborne was there.
He made the call when the Cornhuskers fell short on the 2-point conversion try for the win…
Time capsule filled with Harlingen memories
HARLINGEN — City officials sealed the lid on a century’s worth of memories and mementos Thursday morning.
Mayor Chris Boswell and District 1 City Commissioner Larry Galbreath stood over city workers as they buried a time capsule that will…
Conjunto legend Ruben Vela dead at 72
HARLINGEN — Conjunto legend Ruben Vela’s career stretched from his boyhood in dusty South Texas dance halls to the days of the powermix and the music video. The accordion mastery that kept people dancing for more than half a century has been…