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City Manager Proposes Budget Without Layoffs After Month of Pushback; Funding Cuts Planned Elsewhere
For more than a month, city employees have been waiting and wondering if they are one of the 22 full-time employees and 4 part-time employees slated for layoffs. Pushback from City staff and the City Council has pressured City Manager Shawna Burkhart to create a version of the budget without layoffs.
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10-Year Sentence for Man Who Tried to Smuggle 17 People Through Del Rio in Fake Lowe's Truck
A significant human smuggling case originating from a traffic stop near Del Rio has concluded with a 10-year prison sentence for Cezanne Megel Patterson, age 29, of Jackson, Mississippi. Patterson was sentenced on July 24, 2025, after being convicted of smuggling 17 undocumented immigrants. Patterson was apprehended after a DPS Trooper stopped what appeared to be a Lowe’s Home Improvement Store delivery truck (coined as a “cloned truck”) on US-277 outside of town.

Stevie Quilo
Jul 30, 20252 min read
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