(Press Release) Chief of Police Alberto Guajardo and the Eagle Pass Police Department would like to take this opportunity and wish the citizens and community of Eagle Pass a safe and happy Halloween night. The police department would like to emphasize safety at all times during the hours that our…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. , Copyright 2016 The Early Voting Period in Maverick County, Texas starts on Monday, October 24, 2016 and runs through Friday, November 4, 2016 at the City of Eagle Pass Multi-Purpose Center located on North Adams Street in Fort Duncan Park with…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles were thrashed by the Laredo United High School Longhorns 48-7 in a kry District 29-6A football game on Saturday, October 22,2016 in Laredo, Texas, falling to 4-4 overall in the season and…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. , Copyright 2016 The District 29-5A leading Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks staved off a furious fourth quarter rally by the San Antonio Harlandale High School Indians with an interception of an Indians pass attempt by defensive back…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune Oct. 21, 2016 If this election has not already made your head hurt, allow us to finish the job. The Texas secretary of state announced Wednesday that about 78 percent of the state’s voting-age population is registered to cast ballots in the Nov. 8…

by Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune Oct. 21, 2016 Amid increasing concerns that the state is regularly failing to protect endangered children, the Department of Family and Protective Services this week asked state leaders for $53.3 million to hire 550 additional staffers. On Thursday, Department Commissioner Hank Whitman told state…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Oct. 21, 2016 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. It would not be completely accurate to say billions in local school tax money is being used for general state spending. But it wouldn’t exactly…

(Press Release) Thursday, October 19, 2016, 7:08 PM:  An officer of the Eagle Pass Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a white 2007 GMC Sierra pickup truck for a traffic violation within the 100 block of North Adams Street.  During the course of the traffic stop the officer was…

(Press Release) Guillermo Rodriguez-Sanchez, a 42-year-old resident of Mexico City, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of at least ten years and up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him late yesterday afternoon of importation cocaine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Homeland Security…

by Matthew Watkins, The Texas Tribune Oct. 19, 2016 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating Baylor University for its handling of sexual violence on campus, the department confirmed Wednesday. The investigation comes after more than a year…