KGBT-TV: At least one man was killed in a three-hour shootout that took place in a neighborhood behind an former Halliburton facility in Reynosa. Tamaulipas state officials confirmed at least one man was killed in the violence.

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PRO 8 NEWS: We have new information on the violence happening across the border in our sister city. Nuevo Laredo officials have been denying over and over that there is any kind of violence occurring there.

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PRO 8 NEWS: Nuevo Laredo authorities plan to release wasps to eradicate the carrizo cane along the Rio Grande. As a bi-national event Mexico and United States will release the wasps 400 kilometers from Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo.

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PRO 8 NEWS: The primary elections are over and now there are five races that will go to a run off. Right now all of those who are not in the run off must take their political signs down.

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EL PASO TIMES: The State Board of Education on Wednesday renewed its discussion about the state's social studies curriculum and which public figures should be featured prominently in textbooks. The board also discussed the role Christianity should play in the social studies curriculum and debated nuances in language that could influence interpretation of historic events.

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EL PASO TIMES: A police officer killed, a threat against the mayor and an attack on a family were parts of the latest violence in Juárez. Police officer Luis Alberto Adame Rubio was off duty when his car was sprayed with gunfire by men with assault rifles Wednesday afternoon in the Jilotepec area, a Juárez city spokesman said. Adame died at the scene.

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EL PASO TIMES: Central El Paso is getting two new sewage lines designed to handle growth at Fort Bliss and better serve residential water customers. The Public Service Board, which oversees El Paso Water Utilities, voted 6-0 Wednesday to award $4.8 million in contracts for the project.

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EL PASO TIMES: The irrigation season has arrived. That means El Paso's irrigation canals and the Rio Grande in this area will soon be full. Jesus Reyes, general manager of the El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, said irrigation water for this season has been released from Elephant Butte in New Mexico. Some of the water has begun arriving in El Paso.

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EL PASO TIMES: A police officer killed, a threat against the mayor and an attack on a family were parts of the latest violence in Juárez. Police officer Luis Alberto Adame Rubio was off duty when his car was sprayed with gunfire by men with assault rifles Wednesday afternoon in the Jilotepec area, a Juárez city spokesman said. Adame died at the scene.

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THE MONITOR: Starr County district clerk candidate Dave “Chachi” Jones filed a petition Tuesday seeking a recount in last week’s Democratic primary election. Jones lost by 79 votes to incumbent Eloy R. Garcia, according to the final, unofficial results, which are set to be canvassed today.

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THE MONITOR: Former University of Texas-Pan American police chief Howard Miller was fired for falsifying records and berating officials after an inspection of the campus, according to documents released by the University of Texas System. According to the 43-page report detailing Miller’s termination, an internal inspection revealed that the former chief did not have a current firearms qualification score on record. Inspectors also discovered that Miller, who was fired more than a year ago, lied about earning a passing score on the school’s annual pistol qualification exam.

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THE MONITOR: At least one man was killed in a shootout among civilians on the city’s west side Wednesday morning — the latest in a string of fatalities reported this week. Reynosa city officials first reported the incident about 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Casa Bella neighborhood, along Boulevard Hidalgo near a Halliburton facility.

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THE MONITOR: Buying a house in the Rio Grande Valley will be much harder by this summer — and it’s not easy now. Buyers have until April 30 to sign a contract to qualify for the homebuyer tax credit, up to $8,000 for first-time buyers and up to $6,500 for repeat buyers.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: Robert Lopez, director of administrative services for Cameron County, has announced his candidacy for the Texas Southmost College Board of Trustees. Lopez is a Brownsville native and alumnus of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.

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BROWNSVILLE HERALD: After twice being ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald G. Morgan, Cameron County District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos on Tuesday turned over a list containing names of defense attorneys who say he developed a list blackballing them. While defense attorneys Moises M. Salas, Nat C. Perez Jr., Angela P. Nix and Star Jones say the list was directly developed at Villalobos’ direction in a blacklist conspiracy, Villalobos says the list is “entirely innocuous.”

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