PRO 8 NEWS: Residents in one colonia in Nuevo Laredo have another problem to worry about: rattlesnakes. According to city officials the problem is that people have left their property uninhabited or that they don't clean it regularly.

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DEL RIO NEWS-HERALD: A traffic accident Friday night resulted in the arrest of City Secretary Susan Corp on a drunk driving charge, police said. Corp was arrested about 8 p.m. Friday, March 5, after the car she was driving rear-ended a vehicle at the intersection of Kings Way and Cantu Road, Del Rio Police Department Capt. Bill Rattay said Monday.

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EL PASO TIMES: An attack on a family, a street shooting and a burned corpse were part of another violent day in Juárez on Tuesday. Two women were killed and a 3-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon inside a home near the airport, officials said.

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EL PASO TIMES: The University of Texas at El Paso late Tuesday postponed a vote that could increase tuition up to $240 a year mostly to subsidize intercollegiate sports. Students were going to vote today and Thursday on whether to change fees that could provide a $5 million fund for athletic programs and free up money for student clubs and services.

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EL PASO TIMES: Justice of the Peace Sissy Hernandez's bid for re-election ended Tuesday when she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of nepotism. Hernandez, 56, pleaded guilty before 120th District Court Judge Maria Salas-Mendoza. The judge fined Hernandez $500, removed her from office and barred her from ever occupying a judicial position in Texas.

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EL PASO TIMES: Maj. Gen. Howard Bromberg, responsible for one of the largest expansion projects in Army history, will leave his job as Fort Bliss commander later this year. Bromberg's tenure has included oversight of nearly $5 billion in construction as the post grows, the departure of the air defense artillery center and school to Fort Sill, Okla., and the deployment of thousands of soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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EL PASO TIMES: An FBI agent testified Tuesday that the owner of an upscale El Paso restaurant arranged for $1.1 million to be sent to a man who later died in a shooting in Mexico. The restaurateur, Oswaldo Kuchle Lopez, sought bail during a hearing in U.S. District Court. The U.S. government has charged him with conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements to obtain credit.

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THE MONITOR: Conjunto legend Ruben Vela’s career stretched from his boyhood in dusty South Texas dance halls to the days of the powermix and the music video. The accordion mastery that kept people dancing for more than half a century has been forever silenced. Vela, 72, died Tuesday evening at Valley Baptist Medical Center. Known as the "King of the Dance Hall Sound," Vela started recording in the 1950s but scored his biggest success at an age when most people start considering retirement. In the late 1990s, Vela’s hits "El Coco Rayado Powermix" and "La Papaya" brought the 60-year-old international fame and a whole new generation of fans.

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THE MONITOR: Receptionists at the Hidalgo County Precinct 1 office answered the phones Tuesday by announcing that the caller had reached Commissioner Sylvia Handy’s office. At the end of the day, it wasn’t her office anymore.

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THE MONITOR: Sylvia Handy has maintained since her arrest last year that she never violated the trust of the voters who elected her to office. And despite pleading guilty to felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges, she is expected to resign her office today standing by that declaration.

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THE MONITOR: At dusk the city’s center drains of life. Classrooms remain half full during the day and businesses surrounding the main plaza shutter with the first twinge of twilight. The shooting has largely quieted but Reynosa’s residents stand one mass e-mail, one Internet posting or one YouTube video away from descending into panic again.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: If you need to travel to Monterrey, the American Consulate in that city is advising all U.S. citizens to not drive to the region. On Friday, the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, issued a warden message, urging Americans not to use the major highway between Reynosa and Monterrey or the highway between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: It was 81 years ago that history was made in Brownsville with the opening of the region’s first airport. It was a historic event, but the arrival of a Mr. Charles Lindbergh at the airport marked the official dedication of the facility on March 9, 1929. On that day, at 1:34 p.m., Lindbergh flew the first international airmail from Mexico to Brownsville, delivering 500 pounds of mail. It was a five-hour, 38-minute flight.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: A federal judge Tuesday approved Freedom Communication Inc.’s reorganization plan, giving a green light for the company to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of this month. The court action gets the Irvine, California-based media company and parent of The Brownsville Herald out from under 58 percent of its debt – from $775 million to $325 million. The company’s unsecured creditors will share in $32.2 million compared with the $5 million Freedom originally offered.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: Be counted. If you find a 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire in your mailbox in the following weeks, do not throw it away — fill it out. The results will be used to determine the distribution of $400 billion for schools, hospitals, transportation and programs in cities across the United States. And the more people counted in a city, the more money the city gets.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: The arrests of nearly 1,500 suspects and the seizure of 4,300 weapons and 123 tons of marijuana are among the top figures recently released by the Mexican military. The figures were compiled nationally by Mexico’s Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and take into account all the seizures made during January and February.

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