By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber in an exclusive interview with the Eagle Pass Business Journal on February 27, 2015, announced that the joint U.S.-Mexico Law Enforcement Collaborative Initiative has yielded its first positive result of finding a disappeared young…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has begun a two-day markup of four immigration-related bills designed to attack immigrant and Latino families and deny due process to child refugees. Legislation under consideration would nationalize the widely discredited Arizona SB 1070 racial profiling law, escalate a wasteful and destructive…

SAN ANTONIO –  While a combination of earlier detection and better treatments have yielded a steady decline in the colorectal cancer death rate over the past 20 years, colorectal cancer will kill nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. in 2015, including 4,134 in Texas, according to the American Cancer Society….

WED. MAR. 4, 7A-7P – ONE DAY CLOSURE OF US 57 (GARRISON ST.) BRIDGE AT UPRR TRACKS IN EAGLE PASS FOR BRIDGE REPAIR WORK – PREPARE FOR DETOURS & DELAYS Weather permitting on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Gibson and Associates will…

AUSTIN – Spring Break is a dangerous and deadly time on Texas roadways with more than 30 fatalities resulting from impaired driving in each of the past two years. In an effort to curb this deadly trend, the Texas Department of Transportation today held a press conference at Texas A&M…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass International Good Neighbor Council announced that Eagle Passan Manuel Pete Rodrigues has been named as the 2015 Mr. Amigo for the International Friendship Festival’s Abrazo Ceremony to be held on Friday, March 20, 2015, at 5…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The 2015 Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico International Friendship Festival will be held during March 20-29, 2015 with activities being sponsored in both U.S.-Mexico border sister cities, announced Sandra Martinez, Executive Director of the Eagle Pass…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Lady Mavericks hosted their cross-town rival Eagle Pass High School Lady Eagles in their 19th softball meeting in their storied rivalry during the past eight years on Wednesday, February 25, 2015,…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Texas legendary Oilman C. C. “Charlie” Winn was laid to rest at a solemn ceremony at 5:30 P.M., on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at the Winn Ranch Cemetery in Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas, with over 200 persons in…

by Jay Root, The Texas Tribune Feb. 27, 2015 The Texas Supreme Court has dramatically expanded the rights of insurance companies to duck lawsuits from injured workers, even when they are accused of intentionally misrepresenting policies or using the criminal justice system to maliciously punish the worker. In a unanimous,…