By: Ricardo E. Calderon Live from the San Antonio ISD Coach Mary Ann Villarreal Softball Complex The Eagle Pass High School Lady Eagles lassoed the perennially potent Brownsville Porter High School Cowgirls 8 to 2 in game two of their best of three Area Softball Championship series on Saturday, May…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon Live from the San Antonio ISD Coach Mary Ann Villarreal Softball Complex The Eagle Pass High School Lady Eagles stampeded the visiting Brownsville Porter High School Cowgirls 10 to 3 in game one of their best of three Area Softball Championship on Friday, May 3, 2013,…

EAGLE PASS, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry Sunday detained a North Carolina man wanted for attempted murder. Late Sunday morning, CBP officers working at the Camino Real International Bridge inspected a Chevrolet Tahoe as it arrived in the United States…

Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Eagle Pass South Station apprehended a convicted sex offender Sunday evening. Agents patrolling near the Maverick/Webb county line, apprehended an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. During processing, agents discovered that Nicolas Pop-Aguilar, 40, had been previously deported from the United…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Maverick County Juvenile Probation Officer and local construction contractor Javier Gonzalez, age 42, plead guilty on one count of a federal criminal indictment of paying a bribe to a Maverick County official on Thursday, May 2, 2013…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Former Maverick County Commissioner of Precinct 1 Eliaz Maldonado plead guilty to one count of a federal criminal indictment on Thursday, May 2, 2013 before United States Magistrate Judge Victor Roberto Garcia for the Western District of…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass High School Principal Rudy Bowles and his administration announced the top 25 graduating seniors of the Class of 2013 at the Eagle Pass Independent School District’s Top Five Percent Honor Graduates Banquet held on Thursday,…

Maverick County Precinct One Commissioner Eliaz Maldonado and Maverick County Probation Officer and general contractor Javier Gonzalez each face up to ten years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty this morning to a bribery charge in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging…

Improving our Partnership with Latin America By: Barack Obama Last week, I was proud to visit Mexico for the fourth time as president and to meet with Central American leaders in Costa Rica. It was a chance for me to reaffirm our friendship with a region to which tens of…

By Sen. Carlos Uresti There are many superlatives that can rightly be used to describe Texas. It’s a great place to work and live, and the people who call Texas home can be proud of its history, traditions, values, and cultural diversity. Count me among those who feel that pride….