The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will take over the Willacy County State Jail from Management and Training Corp. of ...

A riot at a private immigration prison in Willacy County, Texas, forced officials to close the facility and relocate 2,800 inmates. But it also left the county with a $2.3 million budget shortfall.

WILLACY COUNTY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Sebastian resident was arrested for making four abusive calls to 911, authorities say. Marcos Daniel Cortez, 30, was charged with silent or abusive call ...

As Willacy County faces a gaping hole in its budget, $128 million in debt still owed on Tent City, and the loss of its largest employer, I’d come to find out if the prison that was supposed to ...

The Texas Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will review whether a southeast Texas school district and its residents ...

The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s second largest, with 426 turbines towering over Willacy and Starr counties in the Rio Grande ...

Aug. 3 (UPI) --An escaped rodeo goat on the loose for more than two weeks in Texas was safely captured by a pair of cowboys. Veronica Herrera said she and her son, Travis, 10, were loading up a ...

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Meanwhile, in Texas The Ballad of Willy, the Missing Willacy County Rodeo Goat The li’l guy went missing a week ago. Whoever finds him is going to be rich (in barbecue, gift cards, and pie).

Panic rose in Veronica Herrera's chest when she heard her 10-year-old shout. "I think we're missing a goat," Travis yelled. Inside a rodeo arena in Willacy County, Tex., last month, Herrera paused ...

In Willacy County, which lies almost at the southernmost tip of Texas, Luther Blanton, 57, and his son John, 24, went duck hunting one day fortnight ago. They went only a little distance from ...

This photo provided by the Willacy County Livestock Show and Fair shows a rodeo goat named Willy, who went missing on July 15, 2023, in a rural South Texas county.