Maverick County News

By Conor Harrison Times Staff Writer conor.harrison dailytimes.com One of Kerrville's best and most respected pilots died in a plane crash near Eagle Pass Wednesday morning.

For more than two hours at a Monday budget hearing, the Maverick County commissioners listened as department heads begged for things as basic as postage stamps and working printers, and as sobering as mandatory repairs to the county jail.

A pregnant woman was rescued after deputies used the woman's cell phone signal to find her.

Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents conducting outbound operations this weekend seized $279,950 in undeclared currency at the Eagle Pass port of entry.

The South Texas border city of Eagle Pass is slated to receive $100,000 to develop a small business program designed to attract and retain jobs as well as assist unemployed Eagle Pass residents.

George Dixon Mahon, 81, of Granbury, Texas, passed away peacefully Tuesday, July 14, 2009.

An Austin man wanted by police and charged with the sexual assault of a child was arrested Tuesday night in Mexico.

Two Maverick County investigators who allegedly took money in exchange for protecting local 8-liner operators from a criminal probe several years ago were arrested Thursday on federal bribery charges.

Authorities say two convicts who escaped a Louisiana prison last October were recaptured while trying to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico.