By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Department’s continuing investigation of the vandalism committed against Eagle Pass High School and Junior High School during Spring Break 2017 has nabbed another 11 juvenile students, totaling 18 individuals to date that have…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The United States Drug and Enforcement Agency (DEA) will host a safe disposal of unused and/or expired prescription medications in Eagle Pass, Texas on Saturday, April 29, 2017, at the Tractor Supply Company, located at 2116 Town Square Boulevard, from…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The City of Eagle Pass, Texas Election for Mayor and two City Council positions kicks-off on Monday, April 24, 2017, through May 2nd for Early Voting and on Saturday, May 6th, as Regular Election Day at the Multi-Purpose Center on Adams Street…

By: Charles Ornstein, ProPublica The public could soon get a look at confidential reports about errors, mishaps and mix-ups in the nation’s hospitals that put patients’ health and safety at risk, under a groundbreaking proposal from federal health officials. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to require that…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 Maverick County voters will go to the election polls on the County of Maverick’s request to issue $8.5 Million in Certificates of Obligation (Bonds) starting on Monday, April 24, 2017 with the commencement of a two week Early Voting Period…

By: Patrick G. Lee, ProPublica During her career as a Massachusetts lab chemist, Annie Dookhan has admitted to making up drug test results and tampering with samples, in the process helping send scores of people to prison. Her work may have touched some 24,000 cases. On April 18, nearly five…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 According to reliable sources, The GEO Group, Inc., a publicly held stock company dedicated to providing private correctional and re-entry community services to both public governments and private entities, has acquired the real property and improvements formerly known as the…

by Jim Malewitz and Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune April 19, 2017 A proposal to bring the nation’s spent nuclear fuel to West Texas appears to be on the ropes. Waste Control Specialists, which currently stores low-level radioactive waste in Andrews County, has asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to…

(Press Release) Over the four day holiday weekend, the Eagle Pass Police Department arrested 2 adult males and 3 adult females all in separate incidents for driving while intoxicated. All five adults were presented before a magistrate and remanded to the Tom Bowles Detention Center in lieu of individual bonds….

by Johnathan Silver, The Texas Tribune April 18, 2017 A state House committee on Tuesday advanced a measure that would create a grant program to pay for bulletproof vests for all officers on patrol in Texas. The $25 million program approved by the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee…