Eagle Pass Winn Mavericks Face Uvalde Coyotes in District 29-5A Football Showdown
November 8th, 2017By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright The thundering Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks will face the Uvalde High School Coyotes in a key District 29-5A football showdown on Friday, November 10, 2017, at 7:30 P.M. at Uvalde, Texas. The Mavericks come into the…
Eagle Pass City Council Approves Law Firms to Represent Taxpayers in Opioids Litigation
November 8th, 2017By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council approved to hire the law firms of Luis Roberto Vera, Jr. and Associates of San Antonio, Texas and Napoli Shkolnik PLLC of New York, New York to represent and prosecute any legal…
Overtired, Bleary-Eyed Kids? Blame Too Much Screen Time
November 7th, 2017By: Roz Brown, Public News Service – NM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M – If your kids are falling asleep watching TV or with cell a phone tucked under the covers they’re likely going to bed later and getting much less sleep than kids without access to electronic devices. Monique LeBourgeois, the associate…
Recently passed Texas law allows for armed volunteer security at churches
November 7th, 2017by Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune Nov. 6, 2017 Only hours after First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs was ravaged by one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history on Sunday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Fox News that “arming some of the parishioners or the congregation”…
Texas back in federal court over anti-“sanctuary cities” law
November 7th, 2017by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Nov. 7, 2017 Attorneys for the state of Texas are set to head back before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday to defend the state’s new immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, against charges that the measure is…
Will Texas massacre finally push the military to improve its criminal reporting system?
November 7th, 2017by A.C. Thompson and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune Nov. 7, 2017 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had an urgent question Monday about Devin Patrick Kelley, the former U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of killing 26 people worshiping at a church service in Sutherland Springs on Sunday:…
With no state-approved textbooks, Texas ethnic studies teachers make do
November 7th, 2017by Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune Nov. 7, 2017 When 16-year-old Adán Zylberberg was in need of a book about Malcolm X for an ethnic studies project, Elizabeth Close handed him a copy of “Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography,” which brought to life the civil rights activist’s history in vivid…
It’s Election Day. What’s on the Texas ballot?
November 7th, 2017by Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune June 6, 2017 Monday marked the beginning of early voting for the Nov. 7 election. Texans are being asked to approve seven amendments to the state’s constitution. During legislative sessions, lawmakers typically agree on multiple changes to law that require amendments to the state’s…
Former Eagle Passan Among 26 Victims Killed at Sutherland Springs, Texas Church Massacre
November 7th, 2017By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 Former Eagle Passan Ricardo Rodriguez is one of 26 persons killed on Sunday, November 5, 2017, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas by a lone gunman identified as Devin Patrick Kelly, age 26. Rodriguez and his wife…
San Antonio-area shooter who killed 26 was denied license to carry by state
November 6th, 2017by Bobby Blanchard and Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune Nov. 6, 2017 Editor’s note: This story is being continually updated with breaking developments. The shooter who killed 26 people at a church outside of San Antonio on Sunday tried to get a license to carry a gun in Texas but…
