Presidio County News

CBS 7 News Staff July 2, 2009 PRESIDIO COUNTY - Tonight the fate of the Presidio County Jail lies in the hands of the Governor's Office.

When legislators and prosecutors realized a sex abuse case at a remote West Texas juvenile prison had languished in the hands of a local district attorney for two years, they vowed to move the case swiftly forward as the graphic allegations created a statewide scandal.

CBS 7 News Staff June 23, 2009 PRESIDIO COUNTY - Presidio County Commissioners are working on a way to re-open the jail, which is now temporarily closed.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News June 11, 2009 Presidio County leaders are temporarily shutting down the county jail because a lack of funding.

If it were a state, the Big Bend region of Texas would rank 42nd in size. In the approximately 10,000 square miles between U.S. 90 and the bend in the Rio Grande, there are only five towns that are more than just a wide spot in the road and miles of highway through the desert and mountains.

Border patrol agents found and rescued a fourth illegal immigrant Thursday evening in a group that was stranded near the brush fires in Presidio County, according to a news release from U.S. Border Patrol Marfa Sector spokesman Bill Brooks.

PRESIDIO COUNTY Firefighters and the Texas Forest Services are fighting a 200-acre blaze that was deliberately started by suspected illegal immigrants trying to block their pursuers, according to a news release from forest service spokesman Marq Webb.

In March, 19 illegal immigrants were arrested in Campo after they tried to elude Border Patrol agents by traveling in a vehicle posing as a DHL delivery van.

A dry lightning storm that rolled through West Texas on Thursday sparked four large grassfires that kept the Texas Forest Service and area firefighters busy, forest service spokesman Lewis Kearney said.

MARFA A clever smuggling scheme in Presidio County came to an abrupt end March 5 with the arrest of a Presidio man who had been using an ambulance service to transport illegal immigrants past a Border Patrol checkpoint, a news release said.

PRESIDIO U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents working at the Presidio port of entry nabbed a man wanted in connection with a Missouri homicide investigation late Saturday night.

Establishing boundaries is practically always controversial, and so it was that after Texas won its independence from Mexico, it claimed areas south and west of the Rio Grande, although it was never able to establish authority over what is now El Paso until the Treaty of Guadalupe -- which ended the Mexican War -- went into effect in 1848.

Rachel Osier Lindley, 24, looks up Highland Avenue, Marfa's main drag, toward the Presidio County courthouse.

As a university teacher who has been in education all my life - I began teaching English along the border in Presidio County when I was 16 for a mission effort - I shudder at the stimulus money.

For those who need a bluebonnet fix, there is a new option - a broadcast on the Web of camera footage of some of the many thriving bluebonnets at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center.

In the 1970s, artist Donald Judd grew frustrated with New York City's small gallery spaces.

This editorial appeared in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Any first-grader who's experienced the Junior Achievement program that develops the next generation of capitalists knows the difference between a want ...

On a bright big bend afternoon in far-west Texas, I steer myself along a high-desert, two-lane highway, tufts of dried-up tumbleweed thistle packed like snow against barbed-wire fences.

Presidio County has never seen the kind of fictional carnage that was filmed there for the movie, "No Country for Old Men." But if it ever does, Sheriff Danny Dominguez now has the gear to fight it, thanks to ...

As drought prevailed, pasture and stock tanks dried out and burn bans were put in place in many counties, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service agents.