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Maria Hernandez, left, and Yajaira Hernandez look to purchase cell phones on Nov. 19 at Pocket Communications because their current provider was costing too much.

On the up and up: Flat-rate cell phones add new options to telecommunications

McALLEN — Yajaira Hernandez couldn’t handle the extra charges that came with going over her cell phone minutes, or the pennies for each text message she received under her old T-Mobile phone plan. So, the 22-year-old Edinburg resident scrapped her...

Joe Pardo, above, unloads a barrel of pork from the trailer of a Compasa truck for delivery to Mexico on Wednesday at Bebo in Pharr.

Meat market: Exporter carves a savory niche in Mexico

McALLEN — The market for meat products in Mexico has never been better. Now, a McAllen-based company is helping to feed the country’s carnivorous appetite. After only six years of business, President Yadira Salinas has turned Compasa LLC into...

Exporters carves savory niche in Mexico market

McALLEN — The market for meat products in Mexico has never been better. Now, a McAllen-based company is helping to feed the country’s carnivorous appetite. After only six years of business, President Yadira Salinas has turned Compasa LLC into...

Jesse Abercrombie creates a fireball while cooking a meal on Monday, the first day P.F. Chang’s in McAllen was open to the Rio Grande Valley.

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Palms crossing is not expected to pull business from other area retail centers

P.F. Chang’s opened at Palms Crossing shopping center to long lines of hungry customers this week. Just a few weeks earlier, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse drew similar crowds for its grand opening and has continued to serve the masses. The two...

Julio Guerrero, right, consults a calculator to figure out how much steel to take off a mold before his son, Felix Guerrero, cuts it on Wednesday at ALPHA XL Mold and Tool in Mission.

It's all in the family

Mission business provides key support for maquiladora industry

Julio Guerrero twists a steel handle, sliding the piece of steel ever so slightly back and forth over a milling machine. The piece he’s working needs a slight pitch, less than a half a millimeter from side to side. Carefully, he slides the...

Credit worries linger; stocks slide down slightly

Countrywide’s CEO concedes that a housing-driven recession is now possible.

NEW YORK — Wall Street ended a mildly erratic day slightly lower Thursday after anxiety about widening credit problems offset investor optimism about a $2 billion capital infusion into troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. The market...

Riding the Marketcoaster

The stock market isn’t for the faint of heart, so buckle up for a bumpy ride

McALLEN — Bill Martin doesn’t have a degree in psychology, but the local financial planner says he’s been spending a lot of time in recent weeks trying to calm down investors panicking over the turbulent stock market. The advice is usually the same...

Shell Oil looks at South Texas for natural gas

McALLEN — Shell Oil Co. wants more natural gas and it’s looking at deep South Texas to get it. Royal Dutch Shell Group subsidiary Shell Western Exploration & Production Co. expects to drill two or three exploratory wells a year in Hidalgo, Starr,...

Hilda Mares, a tax preparer, places tax forms in an envelope recently at the Electronic Tax Center in McAllen. (By Joel Martinez)

Tax preparers depend on hundreds of seasonal workers

McALLEN — For Hilda Mares, January through April is all about taxes. No, it doesn’t take Mares four months to find all her receipts and calculate deductions. April through May is tax season and Mares is a tax preparer for Electronic Tax Center...

Obra moving headquarters to Houston

McALLEN — Obra Homes will shed most of its jobs here as it moves its headquarters from McAllen to Houston, the company announced Friday. Obra, which grossed about $95 million in 2005 according to Builder Online, plans to cut all non-sales and building...

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