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…

by Aman Batheja, The Texas Tribune Nov. 6, 2015 A Travis County district judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday by the city of Austin that challenged the state’s property tax system. Austin filed the lawsuit in August, arguing that the appraised values of billions of dollars in commercial and vacant land…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks dropped their 2015 football season finale against the District 29-5A leading Somerset High School Bulldogs 26-15 on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Cozel Foster-Veterans…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Nov. 6, 2015 Editor’s note: This story has been updated. To avoid confusion and uncertainty, the state’s 2016 elections for Congress and the Texas House will proceed under the current political maps, a three-judge federal panel in San Antonio said late Friday. The court…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Nov. 6, 2015 How Energy Future Holdings emerges from one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history holds major implications for Texas ratepayers and the electric grid. That’s gotten plenty of attention, and for good reason. But as Texas’ biggest power company continues…