Latest local news, weather, high school sports in the Rio Grande Valley

Saturday, May 18, 2013  Texas will keep testing public high school athletes for another two years under the state budget deal agreed to on Friday.

Friday, August 31, 2012  The University of Texas at Brownsville has a new mascot: the Ocelot.

Friday, October 14, 2011  A male cheerleader at Alice High School is claiming discrimination after being kicked off the Coyotes cheerleading squad and suspended from school after being caught giving a same sex kiss.

Friday, March 25, 2011  During the Donna High School baseball game tonight, there will be a fundraiser to benefit an athlete from Brownsville who was diagnosed with cancer.

Friday, May 14, 2010  Forget the NBA finals! For Berta Cabaza Middle School in San Benito, their biggest game this year was this afternoon in their school gym.