Starr County

A federal judge in McAllen on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Starr County officials brought by Lizelle Gonzalez, a South Texas woman who was unlawfully charged with murder after a self-induced abortion.

District Attorney Gocha Ramirez filed murder charges against Lizelle Gonzalez in 2022. She is now suing Ramirez and others for deprivation of liberty, distress and reputational harm.

When a Texas woman was arrested and jailed for self-inducing an abortion in 2022, her name and mugshot were quickly broadcast around the world. Three days later, the Starr County prosecutor dropped the charges and was later disciplined for bringing them at all.

Several fragments of the meteor that fell in South Texas on Feb. 15 were recently recovered. Some of the meteorite hunters are members of the American Meteor Society, an organization that tracks these types of fireball events and publishes information so meteorite hunters have a better idea of where to search. Mike Hankey, operations manager of the American Meteor Society, spoke with TPR’s Jerry Clayton.

Two county judges in the Rio Grande Valley issued declarations of disaster this week in response to the increasingly severe water shortage and ongoing drought in the region.

Texas Public Radio le brinda información actualizada sobre el COVID-19 en el Valle del Río Grande y en el área de San Antonio. Puede encontrar las últimas noticias en español en “TPR Noticias" aquí.

Texas Public Radio is providing COVID-19 updates and information for the Rio Grande Valley and the San Antonio area. You can read news stories in Spanish under "TPR Noticias: COVID-19" here.

Lizelle Herrera, 26, was released from custody Saturday night on $500,000 bond. Then, on Sunday, the DA said the Starr County Sheriff's Department "did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital." However, he said that this is not a criminal matter under Texas law.

As Texas lawmakers prepare to redraw political district maps with new census population data, some community leaders of the Rio Grande Valley fear they will get the short end of the stick.

San Antonio’s Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA has thrown out a lifeline to an overwhelmed hospital near the Texas-Mexico border which saw its coronavirus…