Jose G. Landa
Staff writer

The Eagle Pass Business and Economic Development Committee (BEDC) hosted a Regional Economic Development Forum on January 25 at the International Center for Trade.
BEDC Business and Industry Chair Hector Cerna, President of IBC Bank welcomed those in attendance and introduced special guest and sponsors.

Staff reports

  The Maverick County Sheriff Department and United States Border Patrol agents were involved in a high speed pursuit on Friday, January 12 at approximately 12:30p.m. when they attempted to pull over a vehicle on Highway 277 headed towards Carrizo Springs.

The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department made two arrests Monday evening after occupants of a vehicle attempting to enter the US through International Bridge I were found with narcotics.

PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) — A day after a failed North Korean missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump had a message Monday for the North's ruler: 'Gotta behave." At the same time, Vice President Mike Pence warned at the Korean Demilitarized Zone that America's "era of strategic patience is over."

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The biggest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped in combat by the U.S. military killed 36 militants in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday, and villagers in the remote, mountainous area described being terrified by the "earsplitting blast."

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump cast the United States assault on a Syrian air base as vital to deter future use of poison gas and called on other nations to join in seeking "to end the slaughter