The first week of high school football has finally touched down.
Scores will be updated as the games finish.
Here are the matchups:
By P.J. Hernandez | Advance News Journal
The first week of high school football has finally touched down.
Scores will be updated as the games finish.
Here are the matchups:
By Special To The Advance
Mario Lizcano was raised in Pharr, near the Villa de la Esperanza development comprised of low rent public housing units on Polk Avenue in Pharr.
By Gregg Wendorf | Advance News Journal
What does the following description sound like? Booze or drugs? It’s from an entry found at Wikipedia.com.
By P.J. Hernandez | Advance News Journal
The city said that it ranked No. 27 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026–2027 Best Places to Live list. More so, the city McAllen ranks No. 11 among Texas communities.
The City of Mercedes released an announcement Friday stating that its city manager — Alberto Perez — has resigned.
By P.j. Hernandez | Advance News Journal
WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced that his agency is pausing construction work in Big Bend National Park while he conducts an “on-the-ground evaluation,” reversing course after heavy machinery had begun moving dirt.
By Gabby Birenbaum | The Texas Tribune
Here are the latest headlines around the state.
By Gary Borders | Texas Press Association
Gov. Greg Abbott has asked a federal judge to reject Minnesota’s effort to force the extradition of an immigration officer arrested in Texas, saying he has “serious concerns” whether the officer is actually a fugitive from justice.
By Alex Nguyen The Texas Tribune
PHARR — Mario Lizcano was raised in Pharr, near the Villa de la Esperanza development comprised of low rent public housing units on Polk Avenue in Pharr.
Created by the City of Pharr Board of Commissioners in 1949, the Pharr Housing Authority (PHA) aimed to provide safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations and affordable rentals to families of low income. In 1952, the 75 units at Villa de la Esperanza were built to serve the needs of housing residents.
By Special To The Advance
Montgomery County man admits to producing child sexual abuse material HOUSTON — A 34-yearold Willis resident has pleaded guilty to production and distribution of child pornography.
Authorities identified Jesse Thomas Raines in 2023 when investigating activity on social media.
The first week of high school football has finally touched down.
Scores will be updated as the games finish.
Here are the matchups:
MERCEDES TIGERS
PSJA BEARS
By P.J. Hernandez | Advance News Journal
The high school football season will officially start this week as local teams — including PSJA and PSJA North — played in their respective scrimmages just a few days ago.
This year has the recipe for an interesting season as those who have been keeping up know that the realignment and reclassification of some schools switched up traditional schedules.
By P.j. Hernandez | Advance News Journal
If you’re a football fan in the Rio Grande Valley this week, you’re going to be eating good. The second season in the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s football program history is set to start Saturday as the Vaqueros will host UT Permian Basin at 7 p.m.
By P.j. Hernandez Advance News Journal
If we didn’t live in a one-party majority county (Democrat), which means most of the incumbent Democrats never face a viable opponent in the primary and can still goof off between elections (not all), imagine how many more political signs there would be flooding the roadways if the two parties were equal in Hidalgo County.
By Gregg Wendorf Advance News Journal
Recently, we’ve been inundated with ads for or against various candidates.
By Tom Haughey Advance News Journal
In case you haven’t noticed, the continents are slowly moving and grinding against each other. As a result, we’re experiencing earthquakes extending all the way from Japan to the west coast of North and South America.
By Tom Haughey | Advance News Journal
In the Old Testament book of Daniel, the third chapter, is the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
These three young Jewish men were captive in King Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian empire, which existed 600 years before the birth of Jesus. The king sent out a royal decree that all his subjects would bow down and worship the idol the king had made of himself. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow down and worship the idol of the king.
By Chris Voss | First Christian Church
This week, Cinderella Pet Rescue is featuring two active senior dogs, Mabella and Brandi.
We’d like to remind our readers that even though a dog grows older, their ability to love whole-heartedly doesn’t.
Both Mabella and Brandi have lots of loving years left in them and each would be a great companion to a person or family looking for a very good dog.
Meet Mabella
By Cory Raymond Cinderella Pet Rescue
This week, Cinderella Pet Rescue is featuring two very good dogs in need of homes to call their own–Bistro and Cafe–big dogs with big hearts and lots of love to share with a person or family of their very own.
Both dogs are German Shepherd crosses, but each has an unusual colored coat.
Bistro, the good boy
Bistro was born in March, 2024. His main color is fox red, highlighted with black and white. Like a fox, he has a beautiful bushy tail.
By Cory Raymond | Cinderella Pet Rescue
SAN JUAN — Alonso Rodriguez Cantu, 75 , passed away Aug. 18 at Houston Methodist Hospital.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Adan and Fidela Rodriguez Cantu, and four siblings; Thelma Sanchez, Adan Cantu Jr., Isaura Cantu and Romeo Cantu.
PHARR —Jose Mendoza, 74, passed away Friday, August 21, 2026, at Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Joss Mendoza and Maria Gonzalez.
Jose is survived by his significant other, Martha Milanes; seven children, Jose Mendoza, Rafael Mendoza and Maydalena (Jessie) Lopez, Maximus (Ysamar) Mendoza, Maria (Ramon) Garcia, Jessica (Arnold) Orzoco, Adriana (Rafael) Parra; nineteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
EDINBURG — Norma Mendoza De Garza, 69, passed away Thursday, August 20, 2026, at South Texas Health System Edinburg.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Juan Garza.
Mrs. Garza is survived by her five children, Jose Luis (Maribel) Garza, Juan Jose Garza, Elizabeth (Eduardo) Gaona, Esmeralda (Ovidio Garcia) Garza, Issi Garza; 12 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and numerous siblings.
PHARR — The PSJA North Raiders hosted the Lyndon B. Johnson Wolves out of Laredo here at PSJA ISD Stadium on Thursday.
The Raiders looked to be victorius as they took the scrimmage, 42-7.
Both squads look to start their seasons next week. The Wolves will take on Laredo Nixon on Friday.
The Raiders will travel to Laredo to take on the United Longhorns the same day.
SAN JUAN — The PSJA Bears, who are arguably the best team in the RGV, won their first postseason game against the Harlingen Cardinals on Thursday by the score of 13-0.
The second game is set for Harlingen on Friday. If there is a third game needed, it will be on Saturday in San Juan at 1 p.m.
The UTRGV Vaqueros (5-8. 0-3) took a regular season series against the Texas Southern University Tigers during a home stretch in Edinburg.
On Wednesday, the Vaqueros took the commanding win, 10-4. The night before that, they won 5-3.
This weekend, starting on Friday, UTRGV will host a Southland Conference three-game series against New Orleans University.
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