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Thursday, May 02, 2013  Authorities are investigating a Thursday morning shooting that left a Progreso Lakes woman dead.

Saturday, March 02, 2013  A home in Progeso was completely destroyed after a fire broke out Saturday morning.

Friday, November 23, 2012  A Weslaco man takes decorating for the holidays very seriously.

Friday, November 16, 2012  Authorities are investigating who was behind the wheel during a drug chase that ended with the suspect's vehicle catching on fire.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012  More than $785,000 dollars worth of marijuana is off the streets after authorities found 302 packages hidden inside a shipment of jalapeños.

Monday, November 05, 2012  A Rio Bravo man pleads guilty to bribing a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent to let he and two other illegal immigrants enter the country without being inspected.

Thursday, October 25, 2012  Seven people are in custody after a chase suspect drove his car through a park and then crashed into a sugar cane field where it caught on fire.

Monday, October 22, 2012  Authorities have exhumed the body of a relative of a feared drug-cartel leader in order to conduct DNA testsand quiet doubts that Zetas head Heriberto Lazcano was slain earlier this month.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012  Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutors says authorities are seeking permits to exhume the remains of the parents of deceased drug lord Heriberto Lazcano, to obtain material for DNA testing.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012  Authorities are working to identify a body recovered from the waters of the Rio Grande early Tuesday afternoon.

Friday, October 12, 2012  An autopsy carried out on the body of slain Zetas drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano-Lazcano shows he died of six gunshot wounds, including two to the head.

Thursday, October 11, 2012  A federal judge has sentenced a Progreso man to six years in prison for traveling to Mexico to have sex with a teenage girl.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012  The Mexican navy says a team of marines had no idea that they had killed the leader of the country's most-feared drug cartel in a gunfight that erupted when they tried to search a group of suspicious men outside a baseball stadium.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012  Authorities are confirming a that the Zetas supreme leader was killed in a gun battle in Coahuila but that his body was stolen from a funeral home.

Monday, October 08, 2012  Authorities are waiting on final autopsy results to determine if one of two gunmen killed in Coahuila on Sunday is the Zetas supreme leader.