Eagle Pass High School Lady Eagles Softball to Battle McAllen Nikki Rowe Lady Warriors in Bi-District Championship during April 27-28th

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The thundering Eagle Pass Winn High School Lady Mavericks Softball Team will face the Corpus Christi Carroll High School Lady Tigers in the 2018 University Interscholastic League Class 5A,…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reports that a two year old boy from Quemado, Maverick County, Texas was killed in an accident involving a tractor on Saturday, April 21, 2018. …

(PRESS RELEASE) EAGLE PASS, Texas – Border Patrol agents assigned to the Highway 57 immigration checkpoint in Eagle Pass seized 78.2 pounds of cocaine worth $869,750 from a commercial bus Thursday. “Drug trafficking organizations rely on profits from illicit substances…

By Sydney Greene, The Texas Tribune April 20, 2018 For one minute and 13 seconds on Friday, students across Texas stood in silence outside of their schools after walking out of class. The 13 seconds were in honor of 13…

(PRESS RELEASE) DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers recently seized a significant amount of alleged crystal methamphetamine with an estimated street value of more than $1.2 million in a single enforcement action at the Del…

By Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune April 20, 2018 Today’s Texplainer question was inspired by reader Tiffany Adair. Hey, Texplainer: How do employment benefits for Texas educators compare to those in other states? This question has been a point of…

In San Antonio, Senior United States District Judge David A. Ezra sentenced 61–year–old Louisville, KY, truck driver James Matthew Bradley, Jr., to life in federal prison without parole for his role in an illegal alien smuggling operation that resulted in…

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune April 20, 2018 HIDALGO, Texas – Ron and Janella Frankl Reicks had just finished an early steak dinner when they stepped outside of their home here and chuckled about snow falling back in their…

(PRESS RELEASE) DEL RIO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector welcomed approximately 100 National Guard personnel today as part of Operation Guardian Support. “National Guard personnel bring valuable training and skillsets which we will be able to…

(PRESS RELEASE) Brownsville, TX, April 18, 2018 – The Housing Authority of the City of Brownsville (HACB) along with the City of Brownsville was awarded a HUD Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant in June 2016 for the Buena Vida Neighborhood. The…