Raymondville Chronicle News

Statewide realignment looming for Bearkats and Bulldogs

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:08 +0000

By Rey Sifuentes Jr.

Raymondville and Lyford Consolidated Independent School District will find out where their sports teams will compete for the next two years when the University Interscholastic League unveils its biannual statewide athletic district realignment on Thursday. Both the Bulldogs and Bearkats currently reside in District 31-3A along with Corpus Christi Miller, West Oso, Orange Grove and Robstown.

County livestock show awards premium $ to participants

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:09 +0000

BY TONY VINDELL

Reporter

Willacy County Livestock Show & Fair generates premium dollars for area students who enter one or more show animals they raise for the annual auction event.

A total of 123 out of 180 entries were auctioned during the premium sale that brought in $175,000 for the participants from Raymondville, San Perlita, Lyford and Willacy FFA and 4H.

Defendant pleads guilty in 9-year-old boating fatality

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:21 +0000

BURNET - Travis Aaron Marburger has pleaded guilty in 33rd Judicial District Court to a third-degree felony charge of failure to stop and render aid involving a fatal accident, ending a nine-year-old case that began with a 2002 boat crash on Lake Buchanan that claimed a Lampasas teenager’s life and injured two others.

Mexico: 5 slain police tried to extort cartel suspects

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:22 +0000

TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) - Mexican authorities say five police officers fatally shot near Mexico City after stopping a car were trying to extort money when they were attacked.

Mexico State prosecutor Alfredo Castillo says the officers from the town of Ixtapaluca asked the four La Familia Michoacana cartel members in the vehicle for about $460 to let them go.

Thieves steal 274 guns from Houston-area stores

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:34 +0000

HOUSTON (AP) - Thieves have stolen 274 guns, including rifles and handguns, in an organized crime spree that targets gun stores and pawn shops in the Houston area, authorities said.

The culprits strike at night when businesses were closed, authorities said Thursday at a Crime Stoppers news conference.

Mexican man sentenced for being in Arizona illegally

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:34 +0000

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A convicted felon from Mexico who was arrested for being in Arizona illegally has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison.

Prosecutors said Friday that 44-year-old Jose Luis Zavala- Vasquez will be formally removed from the U.S. following his 77-month incarceration and banned for life from all legalization processes.

Mexican cops charged in killing of students

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:34 +0000

MEXICO CITY ( AP) - Prosecutors in southern Mexico say two state police officers have been charged in the killings of two student demonstrators during a protest last month.

Guerrero state prosecutors say the shots that killed the two students were fired from where the officers were standing.

Subway coming to Lyford

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:34 +0000

BY TONY VINDELL

Reporter

Healthier foods will soon be on the menu for residents of Lyford and surrounding area.

Subway Sandwiches, a national franchise that advertises itself as offering one of the healthiest providers in today’s food wars, is planning to open a restaurant here.

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Texas game warden shoots armed suspect dead

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:38 +0000

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) - A man who police say opened fire on officers investigating after a traffic accident is dead, fatally shot by a Texas game warden.

The incident happened about 1:30 p.m. Thursday on a side road near a federal prison on the southern outskirts of Texarkana, Texas.

Pedestrian struck, killed by Dallas police car

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:39 +0000

DALLAS (AP) - A 43-yearold woman was struck and killed by a passing Dallas police patrol car as she stepped into the street.

Police say Beverly Kirk was attempting to cross the road after an ambulance had just passed and apparently did not see the marked squad car traveling behind it at about 3 a.m. Sunday.

The ambulance had its lights and sirens on. The patrol car did not.

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