By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. An Eagle Pass baseball player, Daniel Bernardo Medellin, age 23, died on Sunday, October 19, 2014, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico after falling ill during a Sunday League baseball game complaining of feeling light-headedness and was transported to the…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Early voting for the November 4th general election begins in Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas on Monday, October 20, 2014 at 8 A.M. at the City of Eagle Pass Multi-Purpose Center located at 480 South Adams Street in Fort…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Maverick County Candles for Life Walk-a-thon is on Sunday, October 21, 2014, at 4 P.M. at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Eagle Field on Del Rio Boulevard in Eagle Pass, Texas, celebrating Maverick County’s cancer survivors and…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Texas Democratic Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, State Senator Leticia Van de Putte, is hositing a political rally at Eagle Pass Rotary Club Park on Monday, October 20, 2014, at 3:00 P.M. in Eagle Pass, Texas. Van de Putte…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The thundering Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks stampeded the Laredo Cigarroa High School Toros 27-20 in a key District 29-5A football game on Saturday, October 18, 2014, at Shirley Field in Laredo, Texas, improving to 2-5…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass High School Eagles were collared and upset by the visiting Laredo LBJ High School Wolves 24-22 in a critical District 29-6A football game on Friday, October 17, 2014, at the Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Stadium during the…

Federal, state and local law enforcement have arrested 23 individuals, including 35-year-old alleged ringleader George Alamillo of San Antonio, charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the Crystal City, La Pryor, Carrizo Springs and San Antonio areas announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge…

by Morgan Smith, The Texas Tribune Oct. 17, 2014 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. Fear over possible exposure to Ebola has triggered campus closures in some Texas school districts and additional safety measures at many more in the almost three weeks since a Dallas hospital diagnosed the…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Academy Sports and Outdoors officially celebrated the ribbon-cutting ceremony of its new 56,000 square foot Eagle Pass store located at 2083 North Veterans Boulevard at 4:50 P.M., on Thursday, October 16, 2014, amidst 130 store associates and 30 Eagle…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. During the Citizens Communication agenda of the Eagle Pass Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting held on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, Eagle Pass High School and Junior High Band Booster Club President, Lourdes M. Perez, and concerned parent…