Odette Canales is the Food Service Director at San Diego Independent School District. She was nominated by Aramark to the 2022 Summer Meeting Awards-South, and she earned the Embrace an Entrepreneurial Spirit Award.
The San Diego man accused of murdering two young women on July 1 was recently charged with the endangerment of a child - criminal negligence. As of Tuesday morning, 42-year-old Alejandro Lopez of San Diego remains in the Jim Wells County jail and has a total bond of $2,536,500.
AUSTIN - On a sweltering summer day in South Texas, Linda Duran rode in air-conditioning on her way home from seeing her husband at the nursing home. She was taking a public transit service she uses every day to also get to work and the grocery store, and now Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is investing nearly $150 million to help people like Duran across the state.
First Community Bank (FCB) is expanding its customer base, announcing today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire loans and deposits of the two existing Investar Bank, National Association locations in Alice and Victoria.
Texas families have through July 31 to enroll their newborns at 2021-22 prices in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund®, the state’s prepaid college tuition program. Newborns are children younger than 1 year of age at the time of enrollment.
Beach-nesting bird season continues along the upper Texas Coast and Gulf Coast Bird Observatory is continuing to monitor birds on Matagorda Beach and Sargent Beach. We are focused on Wilson’s Plovers and Least Terns which are protected by the Migratory Bird Act and are considered species of high concern due to habitat loss and disturbance. Most of the birds have finished nesting at this point but there are still chicks running around so please be cautious when visiting the beach and make sure to give them plenty of space. Along with the Wilson’s Plover and Least Tern, we have observed other breeding shorebirds as well such as Blacknecked Stilt.
Submitted FALFURRIAS – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents rescued a Guatemalan citizen snakebite victim near Falfurrias. On July 17, at approximately 11:00 p.m., RGV agents apprehended a group of five migrants unlawfully in the U.S.
BOSTON (AP) — Fourth of July gatherings, graduation parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
CORPUS CHRISTI – For Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s Skylar Moring, RN, taking excellent care of babies is a personal matter. Skylar, who has been a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurse at Driscoll Children’s Hospital for two years, credits her parents for her career choice.
The Port of Corpus Christi has partnered with Learning Undefeated, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides life-changing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) experiences for communities, to launch the new Port of Corpus Christi PORT-Able Learning Lab, bringing a unique and innovative educational resource to schools across the Coastal Bend region.