by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune July 15, 2016 If it’s legal to give money to a state officeholder without violating Texas bribery laws — as is apparently the case with gifts reported by Attorney General Ken Paxton for use in his legal defense — what keeps rich folks from…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune July 15, 2016 If New Mexico wasn’t already sweating in its longstanding tug-of-war with Texas over water in the Rio Grande, this might be the summer it starts. More than three years after Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. Supreme Court alleging that…

by Khorri Atkinson, The Texas Tribune July 14, 2016 Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state’s rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades….

(Press Release) On Monday, July 11, 2016, at 2:23am, officers assigned to the Eagle Pass Police Department Patrol Division responded to an alleged assault within the 2400 block of Main Street. Investigating officers were informed by a 19 year old male complainant that he had been approached by three (3)…

by Isabelle Taft, The Texas Tribune A baby boy born with microcephaly in Harris County is the first Zika-affected infant in Texas, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday. The baby’s mother contracted Zika in Colombia, and the baby was infected in the womb, according Umair Shah, executive…

In Del Rio, a federal judge has sentenced 43-year-old former Del Rio police officer Raymond Villarreal to seven years in federal prison for drug distribution announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden. At sentencing yesterday afternoon, United States…

by Madeline Conway, The Texas Tribune July 13, 2016 *Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. The University of Texas at Austin will give its faculty and staff the option of banning guns from their private offices when the state’s campus carry law goes into effect next month, under…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Dimmit County Sheriff’s Department pulled over a white Ford Pick-Up Truck on Saturday, July 9, 2016 after observing multiple individuals emerge from the brush on the side of a road and jumped into an enclosed trailer being towed…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Buisness Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council commenced interviews for the vacant position of City Manager on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 with three candidates interviewed and another three candidates will be interviewed on Thursday, July 14, 2016.  Eagle…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles under the helm of Head Football Coach Tom Gonzalez announced their 2016 Football Schedule. The Eagles will compete in a new realigned District 29-6A which includes the Del Rio High School Rams,…