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CDC ISSUES TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
From ReutersThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory on Wednesday warning pregnant women to consider postponing travel to Brownsville, Texas, because of the risk of...
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CRIME, LEGAL SYSTEM VICTIMS PROTEST IN FRONT OF FBI
Special to El Rrun-RrunVictims of violent crime and of the Cameron County legal and judicial system will gather Friday in front of the new FBI Building on Paredes Line Road caddy corner from the HEB...
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WORLD TURNS UPSIDE DOWN IN 3 P.M. SCHOOL-OUT RUSH
(Ed.'s Note: The world turned upside down for the driver of the small truck seen overturned here after it was struck when it ran a red light heading north on Seventh Street where it intersects with...
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SHADOW GOVT. UNITED BROWNSVILLE IN DEATH THROES
By Jim Bartonhttp://brownsvilleobserver.blogspot.com/No, rigor mortis has not yet set in. Bishop Daniel Flores has not performed the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, the so-called last rites. But, United...
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"INDICT LUIS SAENZ!" PROTESTERS CHANT AT FBI BUILDING
By Juan MontoyaCiting a number of high-profile cases where victims who were killed, seriously injured or where their relatives feel the justice system has failed them, a score of protesters called for...
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TAKE HEART ADVERTISERS: RRUNRRUN'S 7 READERS R LOYAL
(Ed.'s Note: We don't like to toot our own horn, but once in a while we like to remind out seven readers that they're not alone. And no, we just don't have the time or inclination to be piling up...
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A SCORE IS A SCORE IS A SCORE, OR JUST ABOUT 20
(Ed.'s Note: Call it a tempest in a teapot or something akin as far as its importance, but when we took the photo of the protesters at the FBI Building on Hudson Blvd. we counted 18 people and were...
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VICTORIO AVILA BACK ON THE VICTORIA HEIGHTS MARQUEE!
By Juan MontoyaRemember when former Pct. 2 Constable Pete Avila was fit to be tied when a new school nprincipal painted over his his brother's name from the marquee at Victoria Heights Elementary...
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PUB RATEPAYERS FIND TENASKA PROJECT "BARRIL SIN FONDO"
By Juan MontoyaThe week of December 11-17, 2012, proved to be a fateful period for the electric, water and waste water rate payers of the Brownsville Public Utilities Board.In that week, a unanimous...
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COUNTY TAKES TIP FROM MAYOR, X-MAS BASH BY RSVP ONLY
By Juan MontoyaAre you on the list?That's what some of the 1,500 Cameron County employees area probably asking themselves after word got out that Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño and his bods are...
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A NIPPY START TO A TUESDAY MORNING IN BROWNTOWN
(Ed.s' Note: The weather (person) says we woke up in the low 50s, but to residents of a city that is used to average temperatures of 70s and 80s even in the dead of winter, it sure feels a mite chilly....
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THE TRUE STORY BEHIND JOE LOPEZ'S PRISTINE 57 CHEVY
By Juan MontoyaThe first time I wrote about Joe Lopez and El Grupo Mazz it was in the late 1970s when they had just released their first hit "Laura Ya no Vive Aqui."The group was better known in...
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COPS HAD ENOUGH: PROTEST ORLANDO'S TANTRUM
By Juan MontoyaLong-simmering dissatisfaction by the rank-and-file officers with Brownsville Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez over questionable management practices some say are driven by political...
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THE LONELY HUNTER: A CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY
By Juan MontoyaJose Ortega looked out from his window at the gritty snow piled over the sidewalks of his home in Chicago Heights.It was late November, and the daily blasts of icy wind buffeted the...
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LOYAL REPUBLICAN RESPONDS TO TRUMP BASHERS
Special to El Rrun-RrunWell, Trump got elected, so I figure that everyone who was so offended and butt-hurt as to unfriend me for being Republican has done so already. I know that those people didn't...
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WELL, THERE SEEMS TO BE PLENTY ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
By Melissa Fletcher StoeltjeSan Antonio ExpressSTAFF WRITERA survey that examined job growth and weekly wages over the past year in 343 of the largest counties across the nation found that two in South...
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DELAUNAY WINS GRINCH WHO STOLE XMAS ROLE HANDS DOWN
(Ed.'s Note: It's obvious that George Delaunay, Chief Investigator at the Cameron County District Attorney's Office is not thrilled to have Santa cuddle up to him and wish him a Merry Christmas. This...
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EVEN BEFORE O. LUCIO TAKES OATH, PRETENDER IN THE WINGS
By Juan MontoyaWell. Justice of the Peace Mike Trejo has given new meaning to the saying that you just can't do some things early enough.Trejo, whose office is in La Feria, announced through his "Team...
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WHY DIDN'T WIGHTMAN THINK OF THIS $2,000 SCAM?
(Ed's Note: Believe it or not, a law firm in Austin has issued a demand letter to a Richland Hills clinic (action Therapy Services) because it alleges that the clinic's website is not compliant with...
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