A cartel planted an improvised explosive device that killed a 74-year-old Texas rancher and another individual, authorities said.

State government officials blamed Mexican cartels for the death of a U.S. rancher from south Texas who was killed by an improvised explosive device left on the U.S. side of the Mexico border. “A tragic and alarming incident occurred near Brownsville,

The death of a Texas rancher south of Brownsville, Texas, has spurred a warning from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller that ranchers in and around the Rio Grande Valley are at risk. “A tragic and alarming incident occurred near Brownsville,

A West Texas person who was hospitalized with measles has died, marking the first death from the illness in an outbreak that began last month in the South Plains region. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death Wednesday,

Nearly a month after the first reported case of measles in the South Plains, health officials have confirmed the first death due to the outbreak.

A child who tested positive for measles died in West Texas, the state health department said, marking the first death in an outbreak that has sickened nearly 140 people. The Texas Department of State Health Services said a school-age child died after being hospitalized in Lubbock.