By: Nick Aldridge

Tiger Woods took the news media by storm after crashing his SUV in the early morning hours. No one seems to know for sure what happened. It seems his wife intercepted a text message from one of his girlfriends in the middle of the night. Every day after seemed to bring new claims by women telling tales of having affairs with Tiger. A madam from New Jersey even claimed Tiger paid for high-dollar prostitutes and a ménage à trois.
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JOSE CANTU CHAMPIONED THE DOWNTRODDEN

By Juan Montoya

In these days of shock jocks and venomous conservative talk-radio hosts, it’s hard to imagine a newscaster whose only passion was to champion the rights of the poor and powerless of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

However, longtime Valley residents who were around the late 1940s and early 1950s still talk about Jose Rangel Cantu, a broadcaster who used radio to champion the rights of Hispanics through his “Programa Popular” which aired in the afternoons. Read full story

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his mark on history during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Motivated by his faith, King fought against the oppression of his fellow African Americans by protesting segregation.