By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass City Council held a special meeting on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at City Council Chambers at City Hall in Eagle Pass, Texas, addressing several important items including a rate increase for natural gas users. The highlight…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Structural Metals, Inc., a subsidiary of Commercial Metals Co. (CMC), entered into an agreement to purchase Newell Recycling of San Antonio LP, located in San Antonio . CMC anticipates the acquisition will be completed by June 13, 2014, contingent…

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in Del Rio, Texas, 60-year-old Abel De Leon of Asherton, TX, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for receiving child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune June 24, 2014 As the state’s top elected officials debate how to halt a recent surge of immigrants — many of them unaccompanied minors — across the Texas-Mexico border, health officials and volunteer doctors are voicing concerns over what they say is the more…

(PRESS RELEASE) – Two senior members of the Los Zetas Cartel operating in Piedras Negras, Mexico, face up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted them of smuggling thousands of kilograms of marijuana and hundreds of assault rifles announced Robert Pitman, United States Attorney; Janice Ayala, Homeland Security…

by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune June 23, 2014 The latest loss for Texas in its ongoing campaign against the federal government and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency came Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court largely dismissed Attorney General Greg Abbott’s challenge of federal climate rules. Seven justices agreed that…

by Gilad Edelman, The Texas Tribune June 19, 2014 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout to include a response from Pilgrim’s Pride and the TCEQ. Texas is the second-biggest water polluter in the country, in terms of pounds released, according a new report. But when the toxicity of…

AUSTIN – Texas House Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) selected State Representative Poncho Nevárez (D-Eagle Pass) today to the Select Committee on Economic Development Incentives, which will assess the economic benefit provided by state and local incentive programs and make recommendations to make those programs more effective and efficient. The…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Extreme poverty, gang warfare, and hopelessness caused by their respective governments or authorities supported by United States foreign policy during the past 20-30 years has forced many undocumented women and children from Central American countries such as Honduras, Guatemala,…

ALBUQUERQUE – A federal grand jury sitting in San Antonio, Texas, has indicted Angus Kelly McGinty, 50, a former Texas state district court judge in Bexar County, Texas, on bribery, extortion and wire fraud charges, announced Damon P. Martinez, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Christopher Combs,…