By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The talent-laden Eagle Pass High School Eagles smashed the Edinburg North High School Cougars 10-1 in Game One of their best of three Regional Quarterfinals series on Friday, May 16, 2014, at Laredo Veterans Baseball Field in Laredo, Texas,…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The District, Bi-District, Area, and Regional Quarterfinals Champion Eagle Pass High School Lady Eagles rally against the potent San Marcos High School Lady Rattlers fell short in Game 2 of their best of three Regional Semifinals series 4-3 on…

By: Carrie Feibel More than 700,000 Texans signed up for a health plan in 2014 through the Affordable Care Act’s online insurance marketplace. For that group, the ACA appears to be working. But an even larger number of Texans – one million or more – still have no access to…

by Aman Batheja, The Texas Tribune May 15, 2014 A dispute over how to distribute $225 million earmarked for road repairs in Texas oil field counties could force officials to let the money sit idle for months. LaSalle County, a South Texas community in the heart of the Eagle Ford…

by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune May 16, 2014 IRWINDALE, Calif. — Surrounded by blue storage drums, thousands of plastic bottles and chile grinders the size of refrigerators, a Texas politician this week urged a Southern California businessman to move his factory to someplace more hospitable — like the Lone…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune May 15, 2014 Editor’s note: This story has been updated. A San Francisco-based firm plans to build Texas’ largest single solar facility, which would help power Austin. Recurrent Energy has signed a 20-year deal with Austin Energy, the municipally owned power provider, to build…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass High School Lady Eagles dropped a heartbreaking game that went down to the last out in the bottom of the seventh inning with two base runners on third and second base and two outs with the…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Dos Republicas Coal Partnership has filed two lawsuits against Maverick County, including County Judge David Saucedo as Floodplain Administrator and County Judge of the Maverick County Commissioners Court, and the Maverick County Commissioners Court, in state district court in…

Del Rio, Texas –Border Patrol agents on Monday rescued two undocumented immigrants after they attempted to illegally cross the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass. At approximately 3 a.m., Border Patrol agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station observed a large group of individuals in the middle of…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Amidst a dangerous train derailment on Aril 30, 2014 resulting in three tanker railroad cars carrying crude oil contaminating the James River in Lynchburg,Virginia,  the United States Department of Transportation issued an emergency order requiring that Railroad companies inform…