(Press Release) Eagle Pass ISD Superintendent Gilberto Gonzalez recently accepted to serve as the Chairman for the BEDC Labor Workforce & Training Committee.  He was previously serving as the Vice-Chair for the committee, which was previously led by Terri Patlan-Contreras.  Contreras had been serving as Chair since July and recently…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Three persons were killed in an apparent head-on auto collision between a Ford Expedition and a Mercedes Benz SUV on Old Uvalde Road (FM 481) on Monday, December 25, 2017, at approximately 11:30 P.M., according to law enforcement authorities.  Both drivers of…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 Legendary Maverick County Restauranteur, Businessman, and News Media Magnate Frank Ravenna passed away on Sunday, December 24, 2017, in Eagle Pass, Texas, announced his daughter Carmen Ravenna in her Facebook. The tragic and sudden passing away of Frank Ravenna…

(Press Release) Today Speaker Joe Straus appointed Representative Poncho Nevárez (D-Eagle Pass) to the Sunset Advisory Commission. The 12-member Sunset Commission has five members of the Senate and one public member appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, and five members of the House and one public member appointed by the Speaker…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune Dec. 21, 2017 Attorney General Ken Paxton has clarified that licensed handgun owners can bring their weapons to church as long as the church does not say otherwise — a question raised after the deadly church shooting last month in Sutherland Springs. “Unless a…

by Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune Dec. 21, 2017 With a Republican in the White House, top Texas leaders have reached an agreement with the federal government to keep Medicaid money flowing into Texas to help hospitals treat uninsured patients. The agreement with the Trump administration extends the life of…

by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune Dec. 21, 2017 U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold may have announced his retirement last week amid a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, but the U.S. House Ethics Committee is not letting up on him. Just as members rushed out of the chamber to head home…

by Susie Cagle, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune Dec. 20, 2017 In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security began building 654 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. To complete the job, the agency had to seize land from private landowners, most living in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. A decade later,…

by Alexa Ura and Ryan Murphy, The Texas Tribune Dec. 20, 2017 After gaining almost 400,000 new residents in one year, Texas is now home to 28.3 million people. New estimates released Wednesday by the Census Bureau show Texas crossed that population threshold between July 2016 and July 2017 following…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 Eagle Pass Police Department Detective Division announced the arrest of Eagle Passan Abigail Moreno, age 50, on charges of theft of Christmas Gift Packages delivered at homes by ground carriers in Eagle Pass, Texas on Tuesday, December 19, 2017. Eagle…