By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The thundering Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks kick-off the 2015 Texas High School Football Season in a classic Father versus Son match-up under the helm of Head Coach Eric Villasenor against the rising Laredo LBJ High…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles will kick-off their 2015 Texas High School Football season under the leadership of Head Coach Tom Gonzalez on Saturday, August 29, 2015, against the Killeen Ellison High School Eagles in a Non-District…

by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune Aug. 21, 2015 On the fourth day of a criminal trial involving undrinkable water in two border communities, one of the two defendants pleaded guilty to all charges against him. Luis Camacho, who oversaw operations at the Rio Bravo Water Treatment Plant until June…

AUSTIN ⎯ Texas added jobs for the fourth consecutive month with the addition of 31,400 seasonally adjusted nonagricultural jobs in July. The state has added jobs in 57 of the last 58 months. “Texas employers added 31,400 jobs in July, resulting in an increase of 260,500 positions over the year,”…

District Attorney Roberto Serna (Press Release) District Attorney Roberto Serna announced that on August 19, 2015, a Maverick County jury convicted Juan Carlos Jimenez, 35 years old, of the offense of Possession of Cocaine, which occurred on April 13, 2012, behind Gerardo’s Bar located on El Indio Highway in Eagle…

Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 10:27am: Officers assigned to the Eagle Pass Police Department Patrol Division responded to a report of indecent exposure in the down town area of Commercial Street. The reporting party informed investigating officers of an adult male who had been sitting in a black in color Honda…

(Press Release) SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in central and south Texas arrested 61 convicted criminal aliens during a three-day enforcement operation which ended Wednesday. The operation included ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers from San Antonio, Austin, Waco, the Rio Grande Valley and…

EAGLE PASS, Texas – On Aug. 15, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry prevented a shipment of narcotics from making entry into the United States. At about 9:54 a.m., the officers, at Camino Real International Bridge, inspected a 2003 Volkswagen Beetle, driven by…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Eagle Pass, Texas City Council unanimously approved a settlement agreement with City Manager Gloria Barrientos regarding the separation of her services with the City of Eagle Pass at its special meeting held on Tuesday, August 18, 2015.  …

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Eagle Pass Independent School District (EPISD) Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 in which they held a public hearing to discuss the 2015-2016 fiscal year budget and proposed tax rate and adopted…