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How Far Can PSJA North’s Football Team Go In The Playoffs? (Really)

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Over the past 10 weeks, the PSJA North Raiders football team has looked nothing short of dominant on the field. Following a 30-0 trouncing of fellow Valley 5A district powerhouse rival, Edinburg Vela, there’s been absolutely no question who has been the best high school football team in Rio Grande Valley this year.

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Making The Grade: The Best High Schools In The Rio Grande Valley – 2022

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Earlier this Summer, the Texas Education Agency released its annual A-F Accountability Report for the 2021-2022 school year, measuring the performances of campuses and their respective districts all across the state using a variety of different standardized education metrics.

As we’ve done previously, your friends at The Bench Wire have combed through the data and we’ll be presenting our findings in a series, Making The Grade, ranking some of the best, and worst, in education that the Rio Grande Valley has to offer.

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Making The Grade: The Best School Districts In The Rio Grande Valley – 2022

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Earlier this Summer, the Texas Education Agency released its annual A-F Accountability Report for the 2021-2022 school year, measuring the performances of campuses and their respective districts all across the state using a variety of different standardized education metrics.

As we’ve done previously, your friends at The Bench Wire have combed through the data and we’ll be presenting our findings in a series, Making The Grade, ranking some of the best, and worst, in education that the Rio Grande Valley has to offer.

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Making The Grade: The Worst School Districts In The Rio Grande Valley – 2022

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Earlier this Summer, the Texas Education Agency released its annual A-F Accountability Report for the 2021-2022 school year, measuring the performances of campuses and their respective districts all across the state using a variety of different standardized education metrics.

As we’ve done previously, your friends at The Bench Wire have combed through the data and we’ll be presenting our findings in a series, Making The Grade, ranking some of the best, and worst, in education that the Rio Grande Valley has to offer.

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Weslaco’s Omar Figueroa Suffers Second Straight TKO – Announces Retirement

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After eight rounds of punishment, Omar Figueroa’s corner had seen enough and ended his 140-pound title eliminator bout against Sergey Lipinets who stepped in only five days ago after Adrien Broner stepped away due to mental health issues.

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Man Dies After Shooting Himself At Point Blank Shooting Range in Pharr

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Pharr PD responded to a 911 call at approximately 12:30 PM today at 407 N. Jackson Rd., the location of Point Blank Sporting Goods in Pharr, a popular shooting range in the Rio Grande Valley, where it was reported that Robert Levrier, Jr., 22, shot himself.

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Woman Charged In Deadly Weslaco DWI Crash Had A Long Rap Sheet

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Daena Nicole Gonzalez, the 27-year-old woman accused of killing 18-year-old Jaime Elias Garcia while drunkenly evading police in Weslaco on Saturday, has a history of run-ins with local law enforcement that includes assaulting a public servant, child abandonment, and making a terroristic threat toward another person.

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Nobody Likes The New Brownsville Mural, Trey

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Taking a break from the quantum continuum of Schrodinger’s box, the City of Brownsville unveiled their newest downtown mural which looks like…well…

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