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Friday, May 03, 2013  Officials are hopeful for positive impacts of the railroad project.

Tuesday, February 05, 2013  An SUV stopped too close to the railroad tracks and got hit by a train in Harlingen.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012  Authorities are searching for a man who fired a gun during a weekend convenience store robbery in San Juan.

Thursday, November 15, 2012  Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited the border to inspect a new highway and a railway linking Brownsville and Matamoros.

Thursday, September 20, 2012  Authorities are investigating a Thursday morning accident where a pickup truck hit a moving train in Brownsville.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012  A San Benito man was arrested Friday night after he drove into a railroad crossing sign and then attempted to flee from police.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012  Authorities are investigating an accident where a train reportedly hit a cement truck just north of Rancho Viejo.

Friday, March 09, 2012  Three kidnapping suspects are behind bars after leading authorities on a chase from Harlingen to Rio Hondo.

Friday, December 30, 2011  Progreso bridge owner Sam Sparks leaves a history of kindness.

Thursday, June 16, 2011  Two months after an area known as Tent City in Harlingen was cleared out by law enforcement, a new makeshift shelter for the city’s homeless has popped up.

Thursday, April 14, 2011  Homeless people who live in Harlingen's 'tent city' are being evicted from their longtime home by police and the Union Pacific Railroad company.

Thursday, December 16, 2010  It was 1910 when a National Railway system between Brownsville and Matamoros was first opened.

Friday, November 26, 2010  Between the abandoned warehouses, just off a set of unused railroad tracks sits a place Abel Martinez calls home.

Thursday, September 23, 2010  Gustavo Merez said when it rains he has to park his cars a quarter of a mile from his home.

Monday, September 13, 2010  Authorities are waiting on autopsy results to determine how a man whose body was found by a set of railroad tracks died.