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FINAL VOYAGE: USS Saratoga arrives in Brownsville

By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS For the second time in seven months, area residents gathered along the beaches and jetties on South Padre Island to witness a piece of floating history, as the USS Saratoga made its final journey through the shipping channel early Friday morning. One of only four Forrestal-class supercarriers built by …

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: USS Saratoga makes way through South Padre Island

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Body found on Boca Chica

BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Deputies with the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department found the body of a young man around 10:30 a.m., Tuesday near the jetties at Boca Chica Beach. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS E-edition by clicking here or call the news office at (956) 943-5545. Tweet

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