Uvalde, Texas – Southwest Texas Junior College will host a free summer engineering camp for incoming Associate of Science in Engineering Science (ASES) students, which will run from June 6 to July 7 on the Uvalde campus. The college began offering an ASES degree during the fall 2015 semester, which…

Del Rio-Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College students, their families, and RGC faculty and staff gathered in the Grand Ballroom of the Ramada Inn on Saturday, April 28, to celebrate a variety of student accomplishments for the 2015-16 school year. Dr. Claudia Wright, RGC’s Director of Admissions and Student…

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX— Today, MALDEF filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal court against the Normanna Cemetery Association and its caretaker for maintaining a policy of burying only Anglos in the San Domingo Cemetery, in violation of state and federal prohibitions on race and national origin discrimination.  MALDEF filed the lawsuit on behalf of the…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 An Eagle Pass man, Daniel Torres, age unknown, was murdered in a fight among several people at the 300 Block of Los Angeles Street in Eagle Pass, Texas near the Los Angeles Heights Public Housing Unit of the Eagle…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Eagle Pass Independent School District Board of Trustees held their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April, 12, 2016 in which they discussed and approved to hold the Board of Trustees Election on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Four EPISD…

By: Senator Carlos Uresti April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and while I believe we have made progress, we must remain steadfast in our resolve to ensure every child remains safe and healthy. It’s going to take participation from everyone — from lawmakers to citizens —to fight for those who…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been busy with tens of thousands of public corruption cases in the United States. According to the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Unit 2013 Report to…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 April is National Financial Literacy Month and IBC Bank-Eagle Pass is celebrating by teaching students at Ray Darr Elementary the importance of being money smart and savings savvy with an event to be held on Thursday, April 28,2016 from…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 A 14 Year Old Carrizo Springs, Texas boy, Ezequiel Quintanilla, was run over by a tractor-trailer on Highway 83 while riding his bicycle on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 in Carrizo Springs, Dimmit County, Texas and was airlifted to a…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 An Eagle Pass Independent School District female teacher has been suspended with pay pending an investigation concerning the posting of a nude photograph of her on the internet, announced Eagle Pass Independent School District Board President Lupita Fuentes. An…