By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles slayed their District 29-6A nemesis San Antonio Southwest High School Dragons in a key District football game, 18-13, on Thursday, November 2, 2017, at Eagle Pass Independent School District Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial…

by Lisa Song and Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal, The Texas Tribune Nov. 2, 2017 HOUSTON — After four sleepless days fighting to keep her home dry during Hurricane Harvey, after losing her car, after nearly getting electrocuted by a fallen electric box as…

by Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune Nov. 2, 2017 Texas abortion providers are set to be in to court Thursday to try to block part of a new state law restricting the most common second-trimester abortion procedure. Arguments in Whole Woman’s Health, et al. v. Ken Paxton, et al. will…

by Claire Allbright, The Texas Tribune Nov. 2, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said Thursday fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault because the “lights are on.” His comments came during an event hosted by NBC News and Axios in Washington, D.C., where Perry was to lay out…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The Houston Astros outlasted the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series to clinch its first-ever World Series Championship in franchise history on Wednesday, November 1, 2017, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California….

by Giulia Afiune, The Texas Tribune Oct. 31, 2017 The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday it is suing the Trump administration, seeking the immediate release of an undocumented 10-year-old with cerebral palsy who is currently in federal custody in Texas. The organization filed a complaint with the U.S. District…

by Alex Arriaga, The Texas Tribune Oct. 31, 2017 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it had appointed Michael Honeycutt, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s chief toxicologist, as chairman of the federal agency’s Science Advisory Board. “I am pleased and honored to bring my knowledge and experience to…

by Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune Oct. 31, 2017 Open enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act begins Wednesday, and enrollees may see greater challenges this cycle following federal budget cuts. Two cuts in particular could have serious ramifications for Texans looking to register on the federal market….

by Alex Arriaga, The Texas Tribune Oct. 31, 2017 At an Austin radiology center on a recent afternoon, a technologist pointed to an X-ray image to explain what doctors can see on a 3-D mammogram more clearly than on a 2-D one: blood vessels, mammary glands — and early signs…

by Jim Malewitz and Edgar Walters The Texas Tribune Oct. 31, 2017 In the early months of 2016, as U.S. overdose deaths were on track to break records and the number of Texas infants born addicted to opioid painkillers climbed steadily higher, Gov. Greg Abbott was courting a massive pharmaceutical company,…