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Press Release
-TxDoT Laredo
Effectively immediately, both IH 35 northbound main lanes are closed at mile marker #70 due to a four vehicle collision involving two semi-tractor trailers and two passenger vehicles. Road is expected to be closed multiple hours. One possible fatality reported.
IH 35 northbound traffic detour to FM 468 for continued travel. Please expect travel delays.
For more information, contact TxDOT Laredo District Public Information Officer Raul Leal at (956) 712-7416 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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For updates on this and other transportation-related news, please follow the TxDOT Laredo District Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/txdotlaredo .
Adrián Ibarra
-Westlakes
A fin de mantener los vecindarios de alta calidad, Pct. 1 con la colaboración de Carreteras y Puentes ha terminado la limpieza en la zona de Barrio Westlake.
Mantener callejones limpio y libre de basura es importante porque puede ser necesaria en caso de que una llamada de emergencia para vehículos de mantenimiento para acceder a los postes de electricidad o en una ruta de escape en caso de incendio.
"A medida que trabajamos hacia la construcción de vecindarios fuertes, debemos ser proactivos para asegurar a nuestros espacios públicos, como calles, callejones, parques y vías fluviales son limpias y seguras para nuestros ciudadanos", declaró el Comisionado del Precinto 1
A.D. Ibarra
-EPISD
Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Chief Eduardo Esquivel has stepped down turning in his letter of resignation on march 24th.
Esquivel has been the man in charge of the EPISD Police Force since February of 2013 and had been serving the EPISD as Interim Police Chief for several months before he received the approval of the Board of Trustees and officially became the new chief of police replacing former chief Johnny Ruiz.
According to an official press release by Melissa Gratkowski, Public Information Officer for the EPISD, Eagle Pass Independent School District Superintendent of Schools, Gilberto Gonzalez, released the following statement today regarding EPISD Chief Eduardo Esquivel:
"Chief Eduardo Esquivel stepped down as Eagle Pass Independent School Chief of Police, effective Tuesday March 24, 2015. He will remain Acting Chief until a replacement is hired. He stepped down for personal reasons."
Unanimous council
recommendation names him top administrator
(Laredo, TX – March 25, 2015)
The Laredo City Council officially named Eagle Pass native Jesus Olivares, the current Interim City Manager for the City of Laredo, as the City Manager after a Special-Called City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 24, where the three remaining finalists for the position were interviewed. Olivares was named interim city manager following the retirement of former City Manager Carlos Villarreal at the November 17, 2014 City Council meeting.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
Main Street Director Joe Cruz, announced that the Super Hero Pooch Parade initially set for March 21st has been rescheduled for April 11, after it was cancelled last Saturday due to inclement weather and it will still take place within the framework of the International Friendship Festival 2015.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Ford Shale Project
Con los precios del petróleo más bajos en años las compañías petroleras en la región sur de Texas a lo largo de la proyecto Eagle Ford Shale seguirá despediendo a los trabajadores y hacer importantes recortes presupuestarios.
A.D. Ibarra
-Quemado, Tx
Texas Rural Communities, an organization that impacts our farmers, ranchers and non-profit organizations who impart the ever-important knowledge of agriculture in our great state assisted two of our own last year with $10,000 in funding.
A.D. Ibarra
-Main Street
An automobile accident around noon on Wednesday sent a two year-old girl to the hospital with facial injuries and lacerations to her forehead when a Ford F-150 in which she was a passenger hit a Ford F-250 from behind.
Adrián Ibarra
-UMC
Congressman Will Hurd was in Eagle Pass to take part in a very important symposium with board members and administrators of the United Medical Centers who informed the congressman of several key issues dealing with federal funding namely changes which are projected to be made to the Medicare system.
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press
DAVE McHUGH, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) —The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and "intentionally" sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot's frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's "intention (was) to destroy this plane," Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said, laying out the horrifying conclusions reached by French aviation investigators after listening to the last minutes of Tuesday's Flight 9525. The Airbus A320 was flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf when it began to descend from cruising altitude of 38,000 feet after losing radio contact with air traffic controllers. All 150 on board died when the plane slammed into the mountain. Robin said the pilot, who has not been identified, left the cockpit, presumably to go to the lavatory, and then was unable to regain access. In the meantime, Lubitz, a 28-year-old German, manually set the plane on the descent that drove it into the mountain. Robin said the commander of the plane knocked several times "without response." He said the door could only be blocked manually.
