By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The controversial Dos Republicas Coal Partnership (DRCP) amended application for a Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit No. WQ0003511000 to discharge its Eagle Pass Coal Mine waste and stormwaters into Elm Creek and Rio Grande River will be heard…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Nov. 9, 2015 Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional comment. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has once again ruled against the Obama administration’s controversial immigration program, upholding a lower court’s injunction barring the plan from…

By:  Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. , Copyright 2015 Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber announced the Sheriff’s Department responded to a report of a young child bitten by rats in his home in the City of Eagle Pass, Texas on Tuesday, November 10, 2015. The child was…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber announced that Juan F. Hernandez, age 60, was found dead by hanging at his residence in Deer Run Subdivision in Eagle Pass, Texas on Tuesday, November 10, 2015.  The Maverick County Sheriff’s Office preliminary…

Friday, November 6, 2015, 9:12am: An officer assigned to the Eagle Pass Police Department Patrol Division responded to the Highway 57 U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after Border Patrol Agents detained 30 year old Ignacio Adrian Escareño. A computer inquiry by Border Patrol Agents at the checkpoint revealed an active warrant…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 As expected, Maverick County Commissioners Court appointed Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Officer, Mario Alberto Hernandez, as the new Constable of Precinct 3-AB of Maverick County to replace former Contstable Pete Vengas, Jr., who resigned upon his appointment…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 A 60 Year Old Corpus Christi, Texas man, Mark Rogers, was killed and another female passenger seriously injured in an auto accident with an Eagle Pass Independent School District bus at the intersection of Loop 480 and El Indio…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Eagle Pass High School Eagles were sheared by arch-rival Del Rio High School Rams 24-8 in the 2015 football season finale designated as Homecoming game on Friday, November 6, 2015, at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Cozel…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The 2015 Eagle Pass High School Homecoming Court was announced during halftime of the Eagle Pass Eagles and Del Rio Rams football game on Friday, November 6, 2015 at Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Stadium in Eagle Pass, Texas. Crowned as…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Maverick County Commissioners Court is appointing Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Officer Mario Alberto Hernandez as the new Constable of Precinct 3-AB  in Maverick County to replace Pedro “Pete” Venegas, Jr. , whom resigned upon his appointment as…