By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Many City of Brackettville, Texas citizens have received misdemeanor citations from their law enforcement officer or animal control officer for alleged violations of keeping livestock within a certain restricted boundary area of the city limits as a result of…

(Press Release) District Attorney Roberto Serna reported that on March 26, 2015, in the District Court of Zavala County, Dominick Mendez was sentenced to 6 years confinement in the penitentiary for the charge of Burglary of a Habitation. D.A. Serna further indicated that the District Attorney Prosecutors and Investigators will…

Ninfa Lagrange Torralba of Eagle Pass, Texas, went to be with the Lord on March 29, 2015, at the age of 84.  She was born June 26, 1930 in Eagle Pass, to Alfonso Lagrange and Ninfa Gomez Lagrange.  She married Anacleto F. “Tito” Torralba, Jr. in 1948.  Mrs. Torralba lived in…

Friday, March 27, 2015, 10:20 pm:  Officers assigned to the Eagle Pass Police Department Patrol Division responded to a fight in progress within the 400 block of Washington Street. Investigating officers detained four (4) male juveniles involved in the fight. All four juveniles were transported to the Eagle Pass Police…

This week, the Senate Homeland Security committee examined various immigrant guest worker proposals. This was the Committee’s third “Securing the Border” hearing this week, after Tuesday’s hearing on transnational crime, and Wednesday’s hearing on root causes of Central American migration. The witnesses all agreed that increasing legal immigration would decrease…

(Laredo, TX – March 25, 2015)  The Laredo City Council officially named Eagle Pass native Jesus Olivares, the current Interim City Manager for the City of Laredo, as the City Manager after a Special-Called City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 24, where the three remaining finalists for the position were…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The anxiously awaited special meeting of the three-judge panel to appoint a Maverick County Auditor held on Friday, March 20, 2015, at the Maverick County Courthouse Jury Room in Eagle Pass, Texas was continued after a marathon session until…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune March 20, 2015 It could have happened anywhere, but it was on the high plains of Guthrie, Texas — 90 miles east of Lubbock — where Dannie Tiffin suddenly collapsed of a heart attack last spring. No one knows for certain, but doctors and…

District Attorney Roberto Serna District Attorney Roberto Serna reported this week that Juan Ramon Medrano, Jr. was formally sentenced to 55 years in the penitentiary for the offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault.  Juan Ramon Medrano, Jr., had been found guilty by a Maverick County jury in December of 2011, but…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune March 18, 2015 Texas House members overwhelmingly gave tentative approval to a sweeping border-security measure on Wednesday following about four hours of debate on the measure’s costs, accountability mechanisms and whether it will stain the image of border cities. House Bill 11 by state…