Dave Hendricks
@dmhj
Reporter / Producer at @CBS4RGV.
#TX34, held by @RepGonzalez, would also extend a lot further out of the RGV into the coastal areas, flipping this seat to the GOP.
Former prosecutor challenges Rep. Vicente Gonzalez for District 34 valleycentral.com/news/local-new… via @CBS4RGV
Former Progreso school board President Francisco "Frank" Alanis plans to appeal his 12-year prison sentence #rgv
🚨BREAKING🚨 Former Progreso school board President Frank Alanis was just sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in federal prison. Alanis participated in a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine through South Texas. Some of the cocaine was stored in a local middle school #rgv
Progreso man who shipped cocaine to Georgia avoids prison after cooperating with prosecutors valleycentral.com/news/local-new… @CBS4RGV
Eric Flores is launching his campaign for Texas congressional district 34 today #rgv
For too long, politicians have put themselves first while the Valley gets left behind. @realDonaldTrump stood up to these insiders and fought for us: the people the career politicians forgot. I’ll stand with President Trump and deliver for South Texas every single day.
ICYMI: As expected, the government filed a motion to dismiss two charges against U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar on Friday #rgv
Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3TL8s7C
Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3TL8s7C
City says Starbase gates are now ‘operational’ valleycentral.com/news/local-new… via @CBS4RGV
.@CBP officers confess to cheating on physical fitness test valleycentral.com/news/local-new… via @CBS4RGV
ICYMI: The @dallasnews reports that GOP candidate for Texas attorney general Aaron Reitz took a $100K donation from a doctor who was accused of millions in fraud and fled to Dubai before the indictment. Story by @PhilJankowski. dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege
Don Rumsfeld on 2/27/2001:
Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
"The department is, however, expected to withdraw charges against Mr. Cuellar under the Foreign Agents Registration Act stemming from his business dealings with Azerbaijan and Mexican citizens ..." nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/… via @NYTimes
"The funding crisis has prompted concern throughout the federal Judiciary that many of these private lawyers, known as panel attorneys, could decline new cases."
The program that pays court-appointed private attorneys to represent indigent federal criminal defendants has run out of money, starting a painful three-month delay in paying these attorneys for constitutionally mandated legal work. uscourts.gov/data-news/judi…
A businesswoman who sold more than $20 million in silver to a Willacy County game room was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for submitting fraudulent paperwork to the IRS. valleycentral.com/news/local-new… via @CBS4RGV
TEXAS redistricting news in Midday: TRUMP said Rs will try to squeeze out 5 more red seats We hear tentative plan is to draw them in: 1. Cuellar's #TX28 2. Gonzalez's #TX34 3. Julie Johnson's #TX32 4. Houston area 5. TBD - possibly Austin area w @JakeSherman + @MicaSoellnerDC
" ... the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings ..." 404media.co/the-medias-piv…
I've been saying this all week, not only about the statement -- but about the prison video too. "The credulous headlines, in addition to lending an undeserved appearance of meaning and significance to the DOJ’s announcement, totally missed the point that the DOJ was intentionally…
BREAKING NEWS: State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to court records. kut.org/politics/2025-… #txlege