By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Eagle Pass Police Department Detective Humberto Torralba, III was honored by the Eagle Pass City Council upon his retirement from the City of Eagle Pass, Texas employment after 23 years of service at the Tuesday, February 6, 2018 regular meeting…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reported a 41 year old 18 Wheeler Truck Driver, Alexander Zamarripa of San Antonio, Texas, was seriously injured in a single vehicle roll over accident on Old Uvalde Road, FM 4181, in Maverick County, Texas on…

LAREDO, Texas – On February 6, 2018, Border Patrol agents arrested six subjects involved in a bank robbery in Laredo, Texas.  Border Patrol agents were placed on high alert after receiving information from the Laredo Police Department of a robbery in progress in Laredo, Texas.  Less than an hour later,…

LAREDO, Texas – As Valentine’s Day rapidly approaches, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s highly skilled agriculture specialists continue to dutifully examine hundreds of millions of arriving cut flower stems to ensure that plant diseases and plant pests are detected and stopped from being introduced into the United States where they…

By: Andrea Sears, Public News Service – NY NEW YORK – Environmental groups have joined with New York and nine other states in a lawsuit to end delays in implementing the Clean Water Rule. The 2015 rule clarified which small streams and wetlands are protected by the Clean Water Act….

by Robert Moore and Nick Miroff, The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune Feb. 7, 2018 EL PASO — A Border Patrol agent whose death last November fueled President Trump’s calls for a border wall appears to have died in an accident, according to FBI findings released Wednesday. Border Patrol Agent…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Texas Wrestling Entertainment of San Antonio, Texas announces a Live Pro Wrestling Event in Eagle Pass, Texas on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at the Eagle Pass Youth Center (formerly Boys & Girls Club), located at 1904 Antonio Garcia Street, featuring…

By: Mark Richardson, Public News Service – TX SAN ANTONIO, Texas – More than 1 million uninsured Texans are in limbo, waiting for Congress to approve funding for the neighborhood clinics known as Community Health Centers. Lawmakers face a Thursday deadline to approve a new budget to avoid another federal…

by Regina Mack and Sierra Juarez, The Texas Tribune Feb. 7, 2018 Today’s Texplainer question was inspired by reader Grace Chimene. Hey, Texplainer: How do I join in on the action at the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian party conventions? Essentially, how do I get hyper-involved? Texas primary season is quickly…

by Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune Feb. 6, 2018 In an interview this week, former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro gave the strongest indication yet that he’s interested in running for president in 2020. Castro, a Democrat who led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack…