By Kate Galbraith Recovery efforts continued Friday in West, two days after the town was devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion. And as investigators search for the cause of the explosion, environmentalists said that the situation highlighted lax regulations in Texas for plants handling dangerous chemicals. So far there are…

By Chris Hooks and Maurice Chammah House Bill 63, which would make texting while driving a statewide criminal offense, passed the House by a 98-47 vote Wednesday, narrowly surviving multiple attempts to substantially weaken its provisions. The bill, authored by Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, would make it a misdemeanor to…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 After one of the largest manhunt for a criminal suspect in the history of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Watertown Police Department, Boston Police Department, Massachusetts National Guard, and many other law enforcement…

By Sen. Carlos Uresti and Sen. Kel Seliger Advanced drilling techniques have spurred an oil boom in South and West Texas that is bringing economic prosperity not just to those regions, but to the entire state. The surge in oil and gas production holds great promise for our future as…

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (ABI) and Grupo Modelo S.A.B. de C.V. that requires the companies to divest Modelo’s entire U.S. business – including licenses of Modelo brand beers, its most advanced brewery, Piedras Negras, its interest…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Less than six hours after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released the photographs of two Boston Marathon Bombing suspects, the two alleged Boston Marathon terror suspects robbed a convenience-gasoline store in Cambridge, Massachusetts which led to…

In Eagle Pass, Texas, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents along with Texas Department Public Safety agents arrested 35-year-old Hipolito Amaya, owner of AM-ROD Construction based in Eagle Pass, in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge…

LARRY W. SMITH/EPA By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 A devastating industrial accident explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant in the central Texas community of West, Texas, about 20 miles north of Waco on Interstate 35 North, jolted the entire region with a…

Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas CEO Rose González Pérez welcomed Judith A. Canales, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, to the Girl Power! exhibit at UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures on March 28. Canales, a native of Uvalde and resident of Eagle Pass,…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 The City of Eagle Pass Public Library Director Thomas Eggers announced that the local public library is celebrating National Library Week during April 14-20, 2013. Eggers invites everyone to visit the Eagle Pass Public Library during the…