By Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune March 7, 2018 A wave of Texas women candidates won or made it to runoffs in more than 50 primary races statewide amid a surge of interest in running for office among women around the country. Texas women dominated in dozens of congressional, legislative…

By Meagan Flynn, The Washington Post March 8, 2018 In Tarrant County, defendants are sometimes strapped with a stun belt around their legs. The devices are used to deliver a shock in the event the person gets violent or attempts to escape. But in the case of Terry Lee Morris,…

(Press Release) U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Station arrested a Mexican national who had been convicted of manslaughter. “This arrest highlights the stark reality that violent criminals are constantly attempting to illegally cross our borders,” said Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Felix Chavez. “Our agents…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reports two men were injured as a result of gunfire at Balcones Heights Subdivision in southern Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at approximately 6 A.M. The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department…

(Press Release) UPMC Hamot (Hamot), a hospital based in Erie, Pennsylvania – and now affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) – and Medicor Associates Inc. (Medicor), a regional physician cardiology practice, have agreed to pay the government $20,750,000 to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that…

(Press Release) SOUTH TEXAS – During the months of January and February 2018, Border Patrol agents throughout the South Texas Corridor disrupted 30 tractor-trailer human smuggling cases resulting in the rescue of 448 illegal aliens. Border Patrol agents discovered the illegal aliens locked in the back of trailers or concealed…

By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune March 6, 2018 It’s official: Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke will face off in the general election for U.S. Senate in Texas. Cruz, the Republican incumbent, and O’Rourke, a Democratic congressman from El Paso, were on track to easily capture their parties’ nominations Tuesday…

By Abby Livingston and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune March 6, 2018 The state of Texas is all but certain to break a major glass ceiling and send at least one, and likely two, Hispanic women to Congress next year. In El Paso, former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar…

By Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune March 7, 2018 And then there was one. After Tuesday’s primary elections, the only Hispanic Republican incumbent who will return to the Texas Legislature in January is state Rep. J.M. Lozano of Kingsville. That’s after three Hispanic GOP lawmakers served during the 2017 legislative…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council unanimously approved the involuntary annexation of four tracts of real property totaling 977.93 Acres instead of their original proposal of five tracts totaling 1,804.15 Acres at the third reading of an annexation…