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BROWNSVILLE — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two unauthorized immigrants from Guatemala who had been bitten by a rattlesnake on a ranch near Kingsville, Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The agents came across the men early Tuesday morning and took them to the emergency room at Christus Spohn Hospital Kleberg in Kingsville. Since the fiscal year began in October, Rio Grande Valley sector agents have rescued nearly 200 people and found the remains of 64. Rescues often escalate in the summer, when agents come across or are called by unauthorized immigrants suffering from heat exhaustion.

The Texas Department of Transportation is asking Nueces County residents to attend a public meeting in Driscoll to comment and provide input on proposed upgrades of US 77 to a controlled access facility that meets interstate standards. The purpose of the meetings is to review proposed options for upgrading US 77 and to present recommendations, TxDOT officials said. The first round public meetings were held in early March. This second round of public meetings is being held as part of TxDOT's continued effort to gain public input on issues related to proposed improvements and to provide an opportunity for public...

Account was apparently hacked Kleberg County wants the money back that someone recently helped him or herself to by hacking into one of the county's accounts at Kleberg Bank. During Wednesday's special session, Kleberg County Judge Pete De La Garza said he'd been in contact with bank president Joe Hinkle regarding the matter and he was only now getting around to filing a claim with the bank's insurance company. "Kleberg Bank has been working with us on this except for getting our money back," De La Garza said. Although De La Garza refused to divulge the amount of money drained...