LAREDO MORNING TIMES: Attorneys representing Martin Cuellar in the election contest scheduled for July 16 were given the names of 75 people Sheriff Rick Flores alleges cast ineligible ballots during the April 8 runoff, where Flores was unseated as Webb County sheriff.In a court document filed Tuesday, Flores also claims that the electronic voting devices used on Election Day are not reliable and cannot be employed to make a determination of the election results.

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EL PASO TIMES: Two men treated at El Paso's Thomason Hospital earlier this year after being wounded in Juárez shootings were fugitives sought by U.S. authorities, a U.S. Marshals Service official confirmed Thursday. Juan Uvaldo Verdugo Varela and Hector E. Nuñez Venzor survived being shot multiple times in separate incidents, officials said. The men are among at least a dozen patients treated this year at Thomason after being shot in Mexico.

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EL PASO TIMES: For more than 50 years, the United States has been kind to 92-year-old Pedro Porras Carrasco. On Thursday, Porras, who was born in Chihuahua, finally became a U.S. citizen, one of 1,537 people who took part in the largest naturalization ceremony in the city's history.

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EL PASO TIMES: The city councils of El Paso and Juárez gathered at Juárez City Hall on Thursday in a show of unity as both communities search for ways to quell cartel-related violence. El Paso Mayor John Cook said he and city representatives reciprocated by traveling across the border after the Juárez City Council accepted an invitation and attended an El Paso City Council meeting several months ago. The Juárez City Council presented each member of the El Paso City Council with a bronze bust of Benito Juárez.

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THE MONITOR: The International Museum of Art & Science is set to scrap its admission fee every Sunday afternoon for at least a year starting this weekend. New state legislation and a $50,000 donation from Hidalgo County helped museum leaders make the move.

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THE MONITOR: Some 250 workers at a plastics manufacturing facility here have fallen victim to the slumping U.S. auto industry. Ontario-based Progressive Moulded Products Inc. announced Thursday it was shutting down factories in the United States and Canada and laying off 2,000 employees, including 250 at its plant at 6900 S. Bentsen Road in McAllen.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville is filled with history. Teresita Guevara began working there in 1955 as a laboratory clerk, where state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. would later have his bones "put back together like a puzzle" after a childhood accident and where doctors like Lorenzo Pelly have become heroes to families they have served for years.

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VALLEY MORNING STAR: The Texas Department of Transportation awarded funds to support public transportation across the state, which could help Rio Metro Harlingen minimize the city's match and go towards keeping the local bus system running, officials said. The TxDOT funding will help the system run here for approximately an additional year, said Tomas Reyna, the assistant director of regional transit for the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council.

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VALLEY MORNING STAR: Police Chief Daniel Castillo said Thursday that he has ordered the formation of a gang detail. In a news conference, Castillo said the department will continue to enforce a "zero tolerance" stance to any gang-related activity.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: The $46 million price tag for the Brownsville Sports Park could soon increase again by nearly $85,000. Officials continue to consider changes and additions for the complex being constructed on Merryman Road, and its projected cost has already increased from $10 million to $46 million.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: Eloisa Tamez, one of the border fence's most stalwart opponents, was sued by the federal government Tuesday, after nearly a year-long fight to keep the barrier off her land in El Calaboz. The land condemnation lawsuit claims 0.26 acres of Tamez's land, part of a larger tract which has been in her family since 1767. She chose not to settle out of court, after officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers offered her $13,500 for the swath of land.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: Former Cameron County District Attorney Yolanda de Leon has been indicted on charges of tampering with governmental records and perjury. She appeared in a state District Court on Thursday afternoon to be arraigned on the charges, but her arraignment has been postponed for two weeks.

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