ENCINAL, TX (KGNS) - A driver and several individuals are taken into custody following a vehicle pursuit that involved a semi-truck on I-35.

This past Tuesday, on June 27, Encinal Police assisted DPS Troopers who were following a tractor trailer on the northbound lane of Interstate 35.

The semi-truck was brought to a stop near mile marker 56.

DPS arrested the driver, and seven undocumented immigrants were turned over to Border Patrol custody.

LAREDO, TX. (KGNS) - A man found dead in downtown Laredo startles those who frequent the area as well as people at a nearby shelter.

Several Laredo Police officers blocked off the corner of San Bernardo and Hidalgo at around 11 a.m. Saturday morning after a man was found deceased.

According to police, the victim was a man in his 40s who was believed to be homeless.

While the investigation remains ongoing, Laredo Police believe the man died of natural causes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the second time in less than three weeks.

The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was not formally notified but became aware on Friday of the bus dispatched from Brownsville, Texas, to L.A. Union Station, Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl said in a statement.

“The City of Los Angeles believes in treating everyone with respect and dignity and will do so,” he said.

The bus arrived around 12:40 p.m., and the 41 asylum-seekers on board were welcomed by a collective of faith and immigrant rights groups. Eleven children were on the bus, according to a statement by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.

The asylum seekers came from Cuba, Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. They received water, food, clothing and initial legal immigration assistance at St. Anthony’s Croatian Parish Center and church.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesperson for the coalition, said the group “was less stressed and less chaotic than the previous time.” He said most were picked up by family in the area and appeared to have had sandwiches and water, unlike the first time.

Los Angeles was not the final destination for six people who needed to fly to Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland, he said.

The city received a bus carrying 42 migrants from Texas on June 14. Many were from Latin American countries, including Honduras and Venezuela, and they were not provided with water or food.

Bass said at the time that the city would not be swayed by “petty politicians playing with human lives.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he sent the bus to Los Angeles because California had declared itself a “sanctuary” for immigrants, extending protections to people living in the country illegally.

It was unclear if Abbott sent the latest bus. A phone message to his office was not immediately returned.

Earlier in June, the state of Florida picked up three dozen migrants in Texas and sent them by private jet to California’s capital, catching shelters and aid workers in Sacramento by surprise.

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Sunland Park Fire and Border Patrol rescued a female patient who had heat-related and lower-body injuries on Saturday afternoon, July 1 in the foothills near Mount Cristo Rey, the fire department said on its Twitter account.

A Stokes basket or stretcher was used to carry the patient through a tunnel off Brickland Road. The incident happened in the foothills of Mount Cristo Rey by the Rio Grande levee.

They did not say how old the female patient was or where she is from.

They received the initial call at about 12:30 p.m.

LAREDO, Tx (KGNS) - While many families tend to light up the sky during the fourth of July, the Laredo Fire Department is urging residents to think twice before you light them up.

With Independence Day taking place this coming Tuesday, the Laredo Fire Department is stressing that while they might be small, fireworks are still explosives that can pose a danger.

In recent years, the fire department has responded to house fires and burns caused by fireworks.

Ricardo Oliva with the Laredo Fire Department says some of the fireworks most people assume are okay for small children can still be just as dangerous.

“What people fail to understand is that sparklers and these are the ones that we give our youngest kids, they burn up to 1400 degrees,” said Oliva. “So the amount of heat that these sparklers provide is sufficient to cause third degree burns like in an instant so 1400 degrees is the degrees that its burning that’s how much it needs to be able to be burned and we’re never mindful of that because we think oh it’s sparklers there’s no harm right but these are the ones that cause the most harm because of the temperature that it burns at.”

Oliva goes on to say that if a family member does suffer a burn, it’s best to get it treated by a professional instead of trying to use other methods.

Oliva also recommends taking advantage of the multiple fireworks display that will be held by our City of Laredo officials.

Just a reminder, it is illegal to light fireworks within city limits and those caught doing so could receive a hefty citation.