The longtime Laredo congressman fended off Republican challenger Jay Furman despite a federal indictment accusing the incumbent of bribery and money laundering.

The county decided to not have an early voting site at a Laredo university because of historic low turnout. It will have one on Election Day.

Texas desperately needs more and denser housing to keep up with the demand. But zoning restrictions get in the way, a Texas Tribune analysis found.

The South Texas city has hired a consulting firm for $200,000 to provide an interim director for the utility amid a restructuring of the department.

Despite the group’s strong participation, Hispanic students graduate college at a lower rate than peers in the program, according to a report.

The South Texas city is the latest to grapple with aging water infrastructure, which officials suggested could have been the cause for the E. coli outbreak.

Record challenging warmth soon returns.

Reporters from both organizations spent a day documenting the reality on the border. Here’s a summary of what they found.

The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press visited five locations along the 1,254-mile span to separate the facts from the political narrative during a heated election year.

Federal agents confiscated $6.5 million in methamphetamine at a Laredo port of entry Friday.

The Laredo Police Department killed a mountain lion after the wild feline escaped into a neighbor's property.

The FBI San Antonio Division is looking for information about two women reported missing in late May.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, an 18-wheeler hauling a commercial shipment was referred for a secondary inspection at the World Trade Bridge.

Search and rescue efforts are deployed as a result of unexpected dangers during illegal border crossing attempts.

The Laredo Democrat faces allegations of bribery, money laundering and working on behalf of a foreign government.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agriculture specialists seized almost 125 pounds of prohibited pork products at a Laredo port of entry.

A Dallas man was sentenced to seven years in prison this week for his alleged involvement in transporting migrants through San Antonio and throughout the state.

Furman won the Republican nomination in a runoff against Lazaro Garza. Cuellar’s criminal charges have suddenly made it a high-profile race.

Border officers arrested a man out of San Antonio wanted for aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Irada Akhoundova pleaded guilty to facilitating a $60,000 payment to Imelda Cuellar, the congressman’s wife, that she believed would benefit Azerbaijan and its state-run oil company.

A woman tried to smuggle in a baby at a Laredo port of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.

Cuellar was expected to cruise to reelection. Now he’ll need to rely on support from local and national Democratic leaders to help him overcome scandal.

Laredo residents who live near a sterilization plant say the new federal limits on the pollutant will improve air quality and reduce their city’s high cancer risk.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $5.3 million worth of drugs at a Laredo port of entry.

During the search, officers discovered 1,033.96 pounds of alleged methamphetamine, border officials said. Officials said the seized methamphetamine is worth $9,507,568 on the street.

A North Texas man was recently sentenced for his role in the smuggling of hundreds of people from the border to San Antonio inside tractor-trailers, federal authorities said.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar on Thursday celebrated the passage of their proposal to reform the presidential process for new and expanded border bridges at Laredo, Eagle Pass and Brownsville.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers in Laredo found meth and cocaine worth more than $10 million in a tractor-trailer last week.

An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing child who police believe is in “grave or immediate danger.”

Cuellar was unharmed in the incident, and law enforcement eventually retrieved the car.

Federal agents in Laredo stopped two human smuggling attempts this week when they found more than 30 migrants and a bag of fentanyl pills in two tractor-trailers.

Jose Sanz worked for the Democrat for two years, as his press secretary and then his district director. Sanz said he realized his values didn’t align with the incumbent’s.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $7.7 million in methamphetamine at a Laredo port of entry.

Rosie Cuellar, former Webb County tax assessor and the sister of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Thursday she intends to run in the Democratic primary for House District 80.

KSAT 12 News court reporter Erica Hernandez will soon be featured in an episode of ABC News’ investigative show “20/20.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at a port of entry in Laredo seized a huge shipment of methamphetamine Monday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Thursday seized rooster blades used for illegal cockfighting at a port of entry in Laredo.

The moderate Democrat from Laredo announced endorsements from top Democrats in the U.S. House, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

A stolen tractor-trailer out of Laredo with a dozen migrants crammed inside the cab was a first for the Von Ormy Police Department, said Chief Lionel Perez Jr.

A 21-year-old Laredo man is facing a minimum of 15 years in prison after admitting to recording sexual material of a minor and posting it to social media.

As the Biden administration prepared to launch speedy asylum screenings at the border this spring, authorities pledged a key difference from a Trump-era version of the policy: Migrants would be guaranteed access to legal representation.

A National Weather Service meteorologist says parts of Texas could see scorching temperatures that are blamed for nearly a dozen deaths return to a more typical level by the weekend as a heat dome is expected to move eastward.

U.S. authorities have announced the arrests of four men they say were part of a human smuggling effort last year that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants, including eight children, who were left in a tractor-trailer in the scorching Texas summer.

Corpus Christi logged a heat index of 125 degrees at one point in the past week, as Laredo, Del Rio, San Angelo and Junction also set new highs.

The Biden Administration and the United States border communities are preparing for the end of the pandemic era policy Title 42 that is set to expire on Thursday night.

Eight people from San Antonio have been charged in connection with transporting stolen cars from U.S. to Mexico, according to federal authorities.

Mexican prosecutors formally presented homicide charges against four soldiers implicated in the Feb. 26 shooting deaths of five men in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The killings in the cartel-dominated city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, caused outrage.

Anti-border wall activists are racing to find landowners along the Rio Grande before they sign contracts with the state.

Mexico's Defense Department has confirmed that soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck in the violent northern border city of Nuevo Laredo over the weekend, killing five men and wounding a sixth.

Mexican army soldiers have apparently clashed with residents of the rough border city of Nuevo Laredo.

A Texas-based online citizen journalist wants a federal appeals court to revive her lawsuit against Laredo area officials over her 2017 arrest.

One year later, there have been no arrests or charges filed related to the case. Cuellar maintains that he was never the target of the investigation and will ultimately be cleared of wrongdoing.

Edgar Martinez Jr., 19, was last seen at about 7 p.m. on Dec. 21 as he got into the passenger side of a red single-cab Chevrolet pickup truck.

Priscilla Villarreal was arrested over her Facebook postings. In a rare proceeding, the entire 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will weigh whether she can sue, a case that could have major ramifications for citizen journalists like her -- and professional ones.

A single mother from Laredo, Sandy Martinez, said she has “a knot her in stomach” but has no regrets about pulling up roots and moving to San Antonio to give her 23-year-old son, who has autism, a better chance in life.

A jury on Wednesday found a former Border Patrol supervisor guilty of capital murder.

For some local relief programs, a lack of staffing, political support and effective community outreach got in the way of spending federal funds to prevent evictions, a new report found. More than $30 million went unspent and had to be returned.

For the first time in the capital murder trial of an ex-Border Patrol agent, Juan David Ortiz showed some emotion.

After two days of interrogation video of an ex-Border Patrol supervisor being shown to the jury, his confession and motive were finally heard on Friday.

One of the lead investigators looking into the deaths of four prostitutes in Laredo testified late Thursday afternoon that the suspect in the killings admitted to the slayings.

The jury in the capital murder trial of an ex-Border Patrol agent on Wednesday viewed the interrogation video of him after he was arrested on suspicion of killing four women in Laredo in 2018.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at a Laredo port of entry seized $8.3 million of methamphetamine.

The trial of Juan David Ortiz, a former Border Patrol agent accused of murdering four women near Laredo in 2018, is being tried in Bexar County after a change of venue was granted.

Henry Cuellar vs. Cassy Garcia; results below beginning at 7 p.m.

The final scores for the tenth week of high school football - October 27, 28, and 29 - in the San Antonio, South Texas and the Hill Country area.

KSAT Reporter Erica Hernandez recaps the events that led up to his arrest and also a look at what we can expect from the upcoming trial.

The final scores for the sixth week of high school football - Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1 - in the San Antonio, South Texas and the Hill Country area.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized $11.8 million worth of cocaine at a Laredo port of entry.

Juan David Ortiz is charged with capital murder of multiple persons.

One of them is in Laredo, which has elevated rates of cancer, according to a recent state analysis. The findings come after reporting by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents who live near medical sterilizing plants in 13 states and Puerto Rico about potential health risks from emissions of ethylene oxide, a chemical widely used in their operations.

The body of a 68-year-old Von Ormy woman was found Monday afternoon near Laredo, law enforcement officials said.

It was the single deadliest migrant smuggling case in U.S. history, according to a Homeland Security official. Citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were among the victims.

A recount is underway in a Texas primary race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros.

The state Democratic Party confirmed Monday that Ramirez’s opponent, Michelle Vallejo, won by a slim margin.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at a Laredo port of entry seized $7.1 million of methamphetamine.

The Texas primary runoff between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his progressive challenger, Jessica Cisneros, was too close to call Wednesday, more than a week after the election.

A man in Laredo was arrested Thursday on terroristic threat charges after buying a firearm scope on social media and telling the seller he was going “human hunting.”

One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress is in the toughest reelection battle of his career in South Texas.

An FBI raid on his home before the primary and a threat to Roe v. Wade. Henry Cuellar is heading into the primary runoff election more vulnerable than ever before.

Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection found more than $18 million worth of meth hidden within a tractor-trailer on the South Texas border over the weekend.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s lawyer says federal authorities have informed him that the Democrat is not the target of an investigation that led FBI agents to search Cuellar’s South Texas home.

The move provides little relief as trade between Texas and Mexico is hampered along the border because of Abbott’s order. The Colombia bridge is just one of 13 commercial crossings between the two countries and the only one connected to Nuevo León.

Less than a week after Governor Greg Abbott announced "aggressive action" at the border ahead of Title 42 ending, the busing of migrants has begun, as has mass migrant response rehearsals by the Texas Military Department.

Commercial traffic at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge stopped Monday and a similar protest affected traffic into and out of El Paso. The blockades could impact the flow of produce to restaurants and grocery stores.

Trucks delivering products from Mexico are facing hourslong waits at ports of entry.

The governor is pushing for more border security measures, some of which he acknowledges will slow traffic across the Texas-Mexico border.

The bill faces stiff headwinds in the Senate, where it would require 60 votes to pass. A similar measure the House passed in 2020 failed in the upper chamber.

A San Antonio man died in Laredo Wednesday night after a crash involving a tractor-trailer, police confirmed.

Launched in June, a cross-border effort using buses and donated vaccines is helping roughly 2,000 Nuevo Laredo residents per day get COVID-19 shots in Laredo — 10% of Texas’ daily total.

The U.S. House speaker said during a stop Wednesday in Austin that she always supports her incumbents — “from right to left.”

The leader of Cartel Del Noreste, a bloodthirsty gang of border hitmen, has been indicted in San Antonio on drugs and weapons charges.

Gunfire and burning vehicles in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo led U.S. officials to briefly close the U.S. consulate and briefly shut down border crossings there.

The county is the most populous to embrace the Republican governor’s “catch-and-jail” policy to arrest people accused of crossing the border illegally for state crimes, including trespassing.

Cisneros came within 4 percentage points of unseating the moderate Cuellar in 2020. He seemed better prepared to fend her off in 2022 — until the FBI raided his office.

COVID-19 numbers are plummeting statewide, but on Texas’ southern border with Mexico, Laredo is still battling its fourth surge.

San Antonio police say they have rounded up as many as 30 people who were seen climbing out of the back of a big rig at a far West Side shopping center last Friday morning.

Three people are dead after an argument escalated into a shooting outside of a Laredo sports bar overnight, according to Laredo police.

On this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Abby and Karen about U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s legal situation and whether the omicron wave is receding.

For three of the state’s most experienced politicians, bad news comes with the territory. But bad news in the critical stages of an election is another, more serious, kind of trouble.