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• Soldiers Allegedly Assault Nuevo Laredo Officers

  Three Nuevo Laredo police officers are allegedly assaulted by Mexican soldiers while they do some surveillance at a ranch.

• Officials warn about West Nile in Laredo

  The Health Department is urging the public to continue to clean their yards, lots, and businesses and get rid of standing water: All to prevent vector-born diseases such as West Nile and Dengue Fever.

• Our obsession with private automobiles is unsustainable

  Are we driving ourselves into oblivion? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO Columnist David Suzuki wonders if we're driving ourselves into oblivion, or if new automobile technology will save us from the environmental impact of fossil-fuelled tanks.

• What's Happening

  Movies, Music, Arts, Theater & Books The Mark Richey Band is performing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. today at Bo's Barn Dance Hall in Salado.

• SCAN celebrates milestone

  A local program is celebrating a milestone. Coordinators of SCAN's sexual assault program have been helping victims in Laredo for 15 years now.

• Laredo HWY Ranked 68th Most Congested TX Roadway

  The Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT just released the top 100 most congested roadways and one Laredo highway made the list this year.

• Calderon acknowledges 'central threat' of cartels

  Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars south across the border each year.

• Broadway Street bridge close to opening

  Wednesday's rainy weather may have caused some minor flooding issues in low areas, but it hasn't had much of an impact on the Broadway Street bridge project.

• Close to 800 pounds of marijuana seized in two busts

  A tip to CrimeStoppers leads to a drug bust at a house in central Laredo. Sheriff deputies could be seen removing bundle after bundle of marijuana from the house in the 1600 block of San Enrique, earlier this evening.

• Reputed Mexican drug lord was once a Texan

  Scrambling to proclaim victory after more than three years of bloody narcotics warfare, Mexican authorities paraded a Texas-born suspected drug lord before the media Tuesday and offered abundant details of his climb through the violent drug underworld before his capture in a mountain hideout.