by Corrie MacLaggan, The Texas Tribune Jan. 2, 2014 A growing percentage of Texans are originally from foreign countries, including one in four in the state’s most populous county, Harris, according to new census data. Over a five-year period ending in 2012, Texas had the nation’s seventh-highest share of foreign-born…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A recently released autopsy report regarding the death of Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees President Enrique Escobedo, Jr. on December 19, 2013, reports Escobedo died from a gunshot wound to his head from a small caliber handgun,…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Donna Independent School District Board of Trustees President, Alfredo Lugo, committed suicide by hanging himself on Wednesday, January 1, 2013, in Donna, Texas, announced Lieutenant Ricardo Suarez of the Donna Police Department. Donna and Rio Grande Valley residents and…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. United States Border Patrol Officer Adam Garibay of Corpus Christi, Texas is being investigated for allegedly killing his wife’s extramarital affair lover, Keith Martin of Hondo, Texas, announced Medina County Sheriff Randy Brown. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Adam Garibay…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, J.D. Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The New Year 2014 ushered in the first state, Colorado, to allow the legal sale and purchase of marijuana for recreational use on January 1, 2014, after voters approved a state-referendum approving the sale and purchase of marijuana…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Young Kaylee Casares is the first baby born in Maverick County in 2014, announced Lourdes Munoz, Marketing Director of Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center. Kaylee Casares was born on Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 11:59 A.M. and weighed six…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. United States Border Patrol Officer Brian Edward Phipps who allegedly committed suicide on Sunday, December 29, 2013, in Dimmit County, Texas may have been playing Russian Roulette with his handgun when he shot himself in the head according to…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. United States Border Patrolman Brian Edward Phipps who earlier this year on September 13th was acquitted of 22 counts of aggravated continuos sexual abuse of a young child by a Maverick County, Texas jury in the 293rd Judicial District…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. McAllen, Texas resident Diana Castaneda, also known as Diana Balderas, was arrested by federal agents for allegedly paying voters in cash, beer, and cigarettes in exchange for casting their votes for certain candidates whom she was working for during…

By: Jose G. Landa Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department was awarded the County Essentials Grant through the Office of the Governor of Texas for the amount of $150,000 in 2013 for the purpose of developing a law enforcement and border security strategic plan  …