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Wednesday, May 08, 2013  School districts in the Rio Grande Valley are taking a proactive approach to combat sexting and cyber bullying among youth.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013  Men caught up in sexting scandal with a 14-year-old girl all plead guilty.

Friday, August 24, 2012  A Brownsville man is behind bars after he allegedly sent a series of sexually explicit text messages to an 11-year-old girl he reportedly met on Facebook.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012  A Lyford man is spending the next two years in prison after he was found guilty of sexting and having improper sexual contact with a teenage girl.

Saturday, June 30, 2012  A tutor at Santa Maria Middle School is out on bond after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Wednesday, May 09, 2012  A Brownsville police commander says he is retiring after a nude photo that he had sent to a woman with his city-issued cellphone landed on the Internet.

Monday, January 30, 2012  A Brownsville man is behind bars after being accused of sexually abusing a young girl he met at a local church.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011  Joe Rodriguez was suspended for one week without pay and received six months probation for texting porn pics to a Cameron County constable's government cell phone in September.

Thursday, September 01, 2011  Nearly 700 new laws went into effect in Texas on September 1st. Texas motorists no longer have to worry about slowing down at sundown.

Monday, February 07, 2011  Texas lawmakers will soon look at teen 'sexting' laws. There's a bill on the table that would lessen the punishment for first time violators of sexting for those 18 and under.

Monday, November 15, 2010  A 35-year-old man who volunteered with a Port Isabel softball team is behind bars after he allegedly had inappropriate contact with a 13-year-old girl.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009  A nationwide trend of teens sending sexually-themed text messages and photos to each other on their cell phones could be present in the Rio Grande Valley.