Month: June 2010

An undercover drug sting by the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office resulted in the arrest of three men for various drug offenses. After receiving several complaints about drug use and drug selling at the Malibu Club in Canutillo, undercover sheriff’s deputies entered the club on June 5. While inside the club, deputies were allegedly approached

El Paso’s gay community paraded through downtown this weekend in the third annual Pride Parade – part of this year’s Pridefest. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple – the colors of diversity brightened El Paso’s downtown for the parade. “There’s still issues, not just here, everywhere, but it’s getting better,” said one parade participant.

Nearly 200 Fort Bliss soldiers are back home this weekend, reunited with family and friends. The soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division returned home from Iraq, and were welcomed with open arms and big smiles as they arrived at Fort Bliss. The unit had been overseas and away from their families

A SWAT situation in Westway ended peacefully early Sunday morning. El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the 800 block of Tiffany Road around 2:15 a.m. According to a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, a family on that block was having a party when a neighbor complained about the noise. That led to a disagreement between the

Emergency crews were busy tending to three separate crashes in different parts of El Paso. One man was driving his car when it rolled over on Interstate 10 overnight. The rollover happened on Desert Boulevard, leading onto I-10 West near Mesa Street. The overturned sedan was destroyed, but the driver is expected to be all

A man is behind bars after he allegedly stabbed two men in Central El Paso. According to officials, 27-year-old Macario Duran and another man were both stabbed in the neck shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday. The stabbing happened at an establishment called “At The Bar”. 22-year-old Daniel Carrera was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

A scary situation for several hikers in the Franklin Mountains Sunday afternoon. El Paso fire officials said a woman and two men, all in their 20s, got stranded on the west side of the mountain near Mesa Hills DrIVE and Stanton Street. The hikers use their cell phone to tell emergency crews they had run

You can add a police raid to the long list of troubles for a popular Eastside bar. On Wednesday, employees at the 3 Legged Monkey were hit with eight citations. The owner, Mike Armstrong, said he intends to fight every single one of them. “This is hard earned tax payer dollars spent to come in

Elderly people (65 years and older), infants and children and people with chronic medical conditions are more prone to heat stress. Air-conditioning is the number one protective factor against heat-related illness and death. During conditions of extreme heat, spend time in locations with air-conditioning such as shopping malls, public libraries, or public health sponsored heat-relief

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – John Wooden, college basketball’s gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, has died. He was 99. The university said Wooden died Friday night of natural causes

An 11-year-old El Paso boy is being hailed a hero for his quick thinking. On Friday afternoon, Dean Richardson got a thank-you from Doris Causey, the woman he saved. Dean says he was walking home from school when he saw Doris on the ground. Apparently, Doris had taken too much medicine and collapsed. Dean called

Las Cruces Police say two armed robbers are still on the loose. Around 4:30 p.m. two men held a taxi driver at gunpoint at an apartment complex at 1900 North Solano, according to police. About five minutes later, an ice cream truck driver reported being robbed by two men who briefly took the vehicle and

El Paso Police are investigating two overnight stabbings in Central El Paso. Two men were stabbed around 11:30 p.m. Friday in the 2200 block of Myrtle. According to police, they were both taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. There was no word on their names, or on what sparked the stabbing. Then, around 3

Private 2nd Class Francisco Guardado-Ramirez, 21, of Sunland Park, New Mexico died in a non-combat-related accident in Iraq, the U.S. Army announced Friday. Guardado Ramirez, assigned to the 1stBattalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Divisionbased out of Fort Stewart, Ga., was killed Wednesday night in a traffic accident according to

Debrahlee Lorenzana, 33, says she’s just a regular woman. But at 5’6″ and 125 pounds she definitely has movie star looks and that’s what she says got her fired from a $70,000 a year job at Citibank in New York. “In their exact words? Too distracting,” Lorenzana told WABC in New York. Those are the

El Paso’s Spelling Bee champ spelled her Round 3 word correctly in the oral competition at the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday afternoon but was still eliminated. Abigail Spitzer correctly spelled imprecatory. She was eliminated based on not accumulating enough points during the written and oral parts of the competition. “For each correct spelling offered

As of Thursday afternoon, Southern California was still waiting to hear from the NCAA on when an infractions committee decision will be announced, meaning almost certainly nothing will happen this week, according to a report on USAToday.com The NCAA typically notifies schools 48 hours in advance of an infractions announcement and then delivers the committee

With temperatures expected to reach into the 100-plus degrees over the next few days, Sun Metro is encourageing El Paso?s senior citizens to step onboard a bus and take a cool trip to any popular, air-conditioned destination such as the mall, area movie theaters, recreational centers, libraries or museums. While people of all ages are

At the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley, there dogs and cats up for adoption, but their life span there isn’t very long because there just isn’t enough room for all the animals. On most days dogs and cats are brought in by Animal Control officers. They join more than 500 animals housed in

The next time you fly anywhere from El Paso International, you just might have to step into a full- body scanner at the airport…and it can see everything. El Paso is the 81st of 450 full body scanners across the country. They look under travelers clothes to spot any weapons or explosives. Officials with the

El Paso — El Paso Police officer say more people means more crime on the eastside, and it’s getting tougher to fight it. Crime has gone up five percent in the area compared to this time last year, and police officers say the expanding eastside is a big factor. “It’s growing out of control,” Cmdr.

With high temperatures forecast to hit triple digits through the weekend, those who are stuck outside will have to find ways to beat the heat. The hot temperatures didn’t deter many from coming to downtown El Paso. No surprise – refreshment stands have been doing well. “Yes, we have sold a lot of popsicles, water,

In an effort to accommodate Downtown businesses, Sun Metro’s maintenance department is rescheduling its routine work on the Mercaptan (fuel odorant) system to Sunday, June 6 instead of Saturday. Depending on weather conditions, the highly concentrated odorant may permeate the Downtown area and be perceived as a gas leak; however, it does not pose any

Socorro Independent School District to offer Summer Food Service Program The Socorro ISD Child Nutrition Department will offer free meals to all children ages 18 and under from June 7 through July 2. The Summer Food Program provides nutritious meals at no cost to all kids at participating school sites. To participate, just show up.

As a cheerleading coach, her life was full of smiles and laughs. But Donna Montelongo’s life would come to an end after a late night motorcycle crash less than one mile from her school. Montelongo, a mother of two and special education teacher at Morehead Middle School, died Thursday. The crash, police say, happened around

A law in the Village of Vinton is making some neighboring communities change the way they do business for this upcoming 4th of July. Depending on the size of the population, municipalities are allowed to extend the area they can enforce their health and safety ordinances by using extra territorial jurisdiction or ETJ. El Paso

On the second hottest day of the year for El Paso, the weather was inconvenient for some, and downright dangerous for others. There was no escaping the heat Thursday for Edgar Diaz as he and his crew built a rockwall in East El Paso. He said he and his crew start earlier on very warm

Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 76. Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke. She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured

Hot Weather Resources To report a rented property without some form of air conditioning, call Code Compliance at 599-6290. If you need a fan donation, call 211 for the Extreme Weather Task Force. You can donate a fan at any fire station.

El Paso’s Extreme Weather Task Force offers the following tips for preventing heat-related illness: -Drink more fluids (non-alcoholic), regardless of your activity level. Don’t wait until you’re thirsty to drink. Warning: If your doctor generally limits the amount of fluid you drink or has you on water pills, ask him how much you should drink