San Antonio Fugitive escapes into Mexico and kills two and wounds two others
January 6th, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A San Antonio fugitive, Ignacio Ruiz, age 37, who was wanted for murder and shooting another person on January 1, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas, escaped U.S. law enforcement authorities and fled into Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico where he…
Female Truck Driver found dead inside her Truck Cab
January 6th, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A 48 year old female truck driver was found dead inside her 18 Wheeler Truck Cab by Eagle Pass Police Department Officers at an Eagle Pass truck stop located at the intersection of Highways 57 and 277 on Sunday,…
GAME RECAP: Cowboys Never Give Up, Battle Back to Beat Lions, 24-20
January 5th, 2015By: Kurt Daniels They finished this fight. Bring on the next one. Once again proving that there is no quit in this Jason Garrett-led team, the Cowboys battled back from a 14-point deficit to hand the Lions a 24-20 defeat and advance to the divisional round of the playoffs. The…
XTO Energy Inc. to Restore Areas Damaged by Natural Gas Extraction Activities
January 5th, 2015The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that XTO Energy Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nation’s largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and…
Maverick County-Elected Officials Sworn-In on January 1st
January 5th, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County public officials who were elected or re-elected in the November 4, 2014, general election were officially sworn-in on Thursday, January 1, 2015, at a ceremony hosted by 293rd Judicial District Judge Cynthia Muniz and 365th Judicial District…
Freedom Industries Officials Indicted in January Chemical Spill
January 5th, 2015U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that Freedom Industries Inc. (Freedom) and six former Freedom officials have been charged with various federal crimes related to the January 2014 Elk River chemical spill in Charleston. “Just a mile upstream from Charleston’s primary source of drinking water, the conditions at the Freedom…
Eagle Passan Salvador Rios Nunez kidnapped and falsely arrested and detained in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
January 4th, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Just as Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto is set to visit United States President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 6, 2015, both countries have much to talk about the growing violence and…
International Bridge traffic spikes during December 2014 at Eagle Pass
January 2nd, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. International Bridge crossings and traffic significantly increased by 7.98% in December 2014 at the two City of Eagle Pass International Bridges compared to the same month in 2013, announced Mario Diaz, Executive Director of the City of Eagle Pass…
Maximiliano Aleman is first Maverick County Baby born in 2015
January 2nd, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A young and healthy baby boy named Maximiliano Aleman is the first baby to be born in Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas at the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center on January 1, 2015, at 6:08 A.M. Maximiliano Aleman…
Community Education Centers, Inc. and Kinney County slapped with prisoner lawsuit
January 1st, 2015By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A federal detainee of the United States Marshal’s Service filed a federal civil rights prisoner inmate lawsuit against Community Education Centers, Inc., Al Castillo, Warden of Kinney County Detention Center, Kinney County, Texas, Kinney County Detention Center, Kinney County…
