Del Rio News Herald

News-Herald supports Rams!
A Spirit Line to wish the Rams well as they depart Del Rio for Saturday’s game will gather on U.S. Highway 90 East Saturday near the open field located across the highway from the U.S. Border Patrol Station.
November 20, 2009

Oversized load
Three large pieces of natural gas extrication equipment, including the one pictured here, made their way through Del Rio last night. Each of the three units measured 22 feet tall, 19 feet wide and between 150 to 180 feet long.
November 19, 2009

'Turning dirt' on Del Rio Loop
Commissioners Precinct 3 Beau Nettleton, Precinct 4 Jesse “Cheo” Ortiz, Precinct 1 Ramiro V. Ramon, Precinct 2 Roy Musquiz and County Judge Mike L. Fernandez “turn dirt” on the State Loop 79 project during a groundbreaking ceremony Monday
November 18, 2009

Teachers get stipend returned
Deborah Cantu and Monica Fernandez, speech language pathologists, listen as superintendent Kelt Cooper speaks. The women filed a formal grievance heard by the school board relating to a $5,000 stipend revoked by the board in September.
November 17, 2009

Queens win Uvalde Basketball Tournament
The Queens varsity basketball team won its first tournament of the year Saturday as they went undefeated to claim the Uvalde Tournament chamapionship. The team, coached by Bric Turner, went 5-0 over the tournament’s two days.
November 16, 2009

Full-time nephrologist
Dr. Mohamed Shafiu, nephrologist, stands with Fresenius Medical Center nurses Luz Euresti and Hilda Escobedo at VVRMC. Shafiu, Del Rio’s first full-time nephrologist in several years, is contracted by the hospital to provide dialysis treatments for its patients.
November 06, 2009

A Friendship Hug
Del Rioan Kayla Mayer, who was named Miss Congeniality during the recent Miss Del Rio Pageant, embodies the spirit of amistad as she joyfully embraces a member of the court of Senorita Amistad Mariana Reyes from Ciudad Acuna.
October 24, 2009

Searching for Evodio
Sheriff's Office Deputy Raul Hernandez stands at the top of the granite steps leading to the front door of the Val Verde County Judicial Center, about 10 a.m. Thursday and calls out the name of Evodio Martinez.
October 16, 2009

New Miss Del Rio
Danielle Nicole Hanson, the 17-year-old daughter of Michael and Jackie Hanson, was crowned the 2009-10 Miss Del Rio Thursday night at the Paul Poag Theatre.
October 09, 2009

One vehicle accident
Officer Manuel Aguilar III and Juan Vazquez of Del Rio Towing, examine the damage to a 2005 Chevrolet pickup that struck the concrete post, foreground, in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart SuperCenter, 2410 Dodson Ave., Sunday morning.
October 05, 2009

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