Crew members with the Texas Department of Transportation Pharr District are heading to Northeast Texas to assist with ...

Zapata, who also worked for a food delivery company, admitted he picked up the woman not far from the homeless encampment ...

Eric Miguel Zapata and his alleged sexual assault victim told wildly varying accounts Tuesday of their October 2023 chance ...

Texas is expanding its annual oral rabies vaccine program to include far West Texas and hand-distribution in urban areas to ...

A man has died after crashing into a turning tractor-trailer. His passenger was hospitalized with serious injuries.

An Odessa man died early Monday morning as a result of a three-way vehicle crash along FM 866 and W. University.  Jorge ...

DPS Troopers tell First Alert 7 that 27-year-old Jorge Zapata was killed when a 18 Wheeler, collided with a Dodge Sierra ...

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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - There is an ongoing Texas Department of Public Safety, Border Patrol and Laredo Police Department chase along South bound Loop. There’s an ongoing vehicle pursuit with DPS that ...