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Covers:  state courts, elections, crime, federal courts, mcallen pd, border issues, hidalgo county government, hidalgo county sheriff's office, city of edinburg, u.s. border patrol, other municipal police departments, immigration, texas dps
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I cover law enforcement and courts for The Monitor in McAllen, Texas. I like baseball, Bob Dylan and bad jokes.

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Farmer: DPS detained, then released illegal immigrants on property

Farmer: DPS detained, then released illegal immigrants on property

McCOOK - Texas Department of Public Safety troopers briefly detained and then released about 20 people suspec…

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Sullivan City weighs 2 finalists for police chief

Sullivan City weighs 2 finalists for police chief

SULLIVAN CITY - The police department in this city of 4,000 on the western edge of Hidalgo County has been wi…

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On day of conspiracy verdict, sheriff celebrates community

On day of conspiracy verdict, sheriff celebrates community

SAN CARLOS - Monday, he spoke to a combative defense attorney, a U.S. district judge and a federal jury on th…

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Archaeology project getting to the bottom of cemetery's mysteries

Archaeology project getting to the bottom of cemetery's mysteries

You can't find Restlawn Cemetery on Google Maps.

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Former Mission PD officer resigned amid internal investigation

Former Mission PD officer resigned amid internal investigation

MISSION - A former Mission police officer whose stepson was charged with capital murder last month resigned a…

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Abbott promises more funding for border security

Abbott promises more funding for border security

Calling it "the most significant vulnerability to the State of Texas," Attorney General and gubernatorial can…

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Year-round ethanol blend bill passed by US House faces uncertain Senate path

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By David Lightman Verified, Jacob Fischler Verified, Ashley Murray
| News from the States
Proponents of ethanol, including lawmakers from corn-growing states, say year-round sales of a gasoline blend containing 15% of the biofuel would give consumers a less expensive alternative to fill their gas tanks, boost energy supplies and benefit agricultural interests. So why hasn’t Congress allowed it?
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Officers beaten on Jan. 6 call Trump’s $1.8B fund ‘most brazen act of presidential corruption this century’

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By Jacob Fischler Verified
| The Arizona Mirror
Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people said to be victims of judicial weaponization, saying the fund would aid and encourage the pro-Trump rioters who attacked that Capitol that day and still harbor desire to harm the officers. Retired U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges said in a complaint in federal court that Jan.
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Pentagon IDs four US soldiers killed in Iran drone strike, all assigned to Iowa unit

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By Jacob Fischler Verified
| Rhode Island Current
The U.S. Defense Department on Tuesday named four of the six U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone strike, the first U.S. casualties of the war with Iran that President Donald Trump launched over the weekend. Army Reserve soldiers Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, died March 1, a Pentagon statement said.
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