Comedian Cristela Alonzo was once a young girl in Hidalgo County, living in abject poverty. Her family squatted for years in an abandoned diner. In the early aughts, as a 20-something, she moved to ...

People who live next to a blighted and abandoned property in Sharpsburg say they're living in a nightmare. "Raccoons, rats. We can't sit out here at night because of the mosquitoes, flies," said ...