Public Service Announcement RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIALTRASH PICK UP Due to the upcoming holiday January 20th (Martin Luther King Day), the City of Eagle Pass Municipal Solid Waste Department is hereby informing the public that trash collection will be picked up on your regular scheduled day Monday through Friday. If you have any…

(Press Release) In San Antonio, a federal judge sentenced 46-year-old former pharmaceutical sales representative Holly Blakely, of San Antonio, TX, to 30 months in federal prison for a Bribery/Health Care Fraud scheme that netted her over $1 million, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs,…

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By: Peter Elkind, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Former nurse Genene Jones, suspected for decades of killing more than a dozen children but tried and convicted for only one, pleaded guilty…

By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Jan. 15, 2020 “Texas carries out nation’s first execution of 2020 for domestic violence slaying in Collin County” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government…

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EAGLE PASS, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers at Eagle Pass Port of Entry recently seized a noteworthy amount of hard narcotics worth more than $580,000 in one enforcement action. “This significant seizure illustrates the commitment our CBP officers have in keeping dangerous narcotics off…

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Jan. 15, 2020 “Program offering legal help to asylum seekers stuck in Mexico launches in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,…

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Jan. 15, 2020 “Federal judge blocks policy that allowed Gov. Greg Abbott to ban refugees in Texas” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and…

By Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune Jan. 16, 2020 “Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn back new North American trade deal to replace NAFTA” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics,…