Month: November 2010

A man who was stabbed at the Golden Nugget bar on Trowbridge died after being taken to an area hospital, said El Paso Police Department This could be the third homicide this year in El Paso. Police said a fight started inside the bar and went outside to the parking lot. The victim was transported

Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne has had his full genome sequenced and analyzed as part of a research project. He joins the likes of DNA co-discoverer James Watson and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates on the short roster of people to have their full genome sequenced and analyzed. Osbourne was initially skeptical about the

When you change the clocks back one hour this Saturday evening or early Sunday morning, the El Paso Fire Department hopes you also remember to change the batteries in your smoke alarms. “Smoke alarms are going to give you that early detection,” said John Concha, the spokesman for the fire department. “When you don’t have

El Paso continues to see a decrease in overall crime, according to statistics released by the El Paso Police Dept. on Friday morning. Through Saturday, October 30, 2010 overall crime is still down 1 percent, compared to this time last year. The crime categories with the largest decreases across the city are Murders, which are

Jojo, a 9-month-old pitbull who works with people taking physical therapy, has been named the grand prize winner in the Pro Plan Doing More for Pets contest. Jojo will be honored at the national dog show presented by Purina in Pennsylvania this month. A few months ago, Jojo was in need of therapy herself after

When the city of El Paso put the debate over domestic partner benefits to the voters, it received a bill from the El Paso County Elections Department for $130,000. So what did that money exactly pay for? The short answer: manpower. The proposition to take away benefits from gay and domestic partners of city employees

A second free legal clinic will take place on Saturday, November 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Veterans, active duty military and their families are welcome to join us at the Transmountain campus of El Paso Community College to obtain free advice and referrals from lawyers and legal aid agencies specializing in their needs.

Just in time for the holidays, there’s a brand new mall in the El Paso area. Soldiers were given the day off to take their families and enjoy their day at Freedom Crossing at Fort Bliss. Thousands showed up to the grand opening of Freedom Crossing, a first of its kind retail center on post.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and Anthony Police Department are investigating two drive-by shootings that happened in the Upper Valley on Thursday night. At about 9:25 p.m. Thursday, Anthony Police units and El Paso Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to Poplar and Celeste in Anthony, Texas in reference a drive-by-shooting. Authorities arrived and discovered that

Former UTEP Miner Jeff Moturi was named to the Indianapolis Colts practice squad this week, according to a report in the Indianapolis Star newspaper. Moturi went undrafted in the 2010 NFL Draft this spring. He signed a free agent contract with the Green Bay Packers but did not make the squad. Shortly following the conclusion

After losing the U.S. Representative District 16 race to Silvestre Reyes on Tuesday, Republican challenger Tim Besco fired off an email filled with anger and frustration to members of the El Paso Republican party. In the email, Besco accused El Paso Republican party members of actively working against him during his campaign, an accusation denied

The University of Texas at El Paso Police Department received a call Friday morning, Nov. 5, that a man with a gun was in the IC-2 parking lot next to the Liberal Arts Building on campus. Campus police officers responded to the parking lot immediately, where they detained a man and determined that he had

El Paso law enforcement officials want to keep El Pasoans safe and sometimes they need the public’s help to find suspects. One frustrated viewer told us he’s reported a suspect, but the man is still on El Paso streets. “He’s got that very nice demeanor, very pleasant,” said Richard Chatterton about Gustavo Lopez, who is

El Paso Animal Services officers found several dogs without water and not properly confined. This after police got a call about the dogs fighting. The El Paso police officer who responded to the call said two pit bulls were fighting when he got to the central El Paso house. An officer with Animal Services also

Two UTEP students are the latest victims of violence in Juarez after they were were shot and killed Tuesday. According to Chihuahua State Police, Manuel A. Acosta, 25, and Eder A. Diaz, 23, were traveling in a 2005 Sentra with Texas license plates when gunmen opened fire at about 8 p.m. Tuesday. Acosta died at

According to the Pew Research Center, about 85 percent of American adults have cell phones. That number jumps to 96 percent with young Americans. Many of the phones have video cameras in them, making it easier to just point and record whenever something interesting pops up. But some cell phone recordings are actually landing people

Step by step, Drug Enforcement Administration agents inch their way toward a mobile home trailer housing a meth lab. Equipped with magazine cartridges, handcuffs,and batons, the agents draw their guns and identify their threats. One of the agents shouts, “we have a police search warrant!” before the agents enter the trailer as part of a

Courtroom availability and financial concerns are just a few of the issues Judge Gonzalo Garcia will have to mull over before he decides if and where to move David Marmolejo’s new trial. Mamorlejo is accused of killing his mother, Gloria Marmolejo, and dumping her body in the Santa Teresa desert in July 2009. Garcia declared

The city of El Paso will be renamed “Miner Orangeville” on Friday, Nov. 12, and the city will be painted orange the week of Nov. 8 in honor of Tim Floyd’s regular season debut as UTEP’s head basketball coach. The Miners will take on Pacific (23-12 last season) at 7:05 p.m. on Nov. 12 at

A 15-year-old Dona Ana County girl has been turned over to the Juvenile Probation Office after she allegedly tried to poison the her father’s pregnant girlfriend. At about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a residence in the north valley of Dona Ana County after receiving a call from a 51-year-old

The El Paso Police Department will be accepting applications for the position of Police Trainee starting November 5, 2010 and running through December 3, 2010. These applications are for an academy that is tentatively scheduled to start sometime in June 2011. The police academy is approximately 6 months long and recruits are paid while attending

Fort Bliss officials announced that soldiers will no longer need to report to Physical Training, or PT, at 6:30 a.m. PT will now be at 3 p.m. Army Maj. Gen Dana Pittard, commander of Fort Bliss, said in a news release that research on other posts has shown an increase of morale among troops because

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Some children will lose their health benefits after voters reversed El Paso City Council’s decision to provide health insurance to gay and unmarried partners of city employees. That’s because the wording of the ordinance on the ballot stated benefits should only be for city employees, their spouses and their dependent children. Under federal tax law,

A proposition to repeal health insurance benefits for gay and unmarried partners of El Paso city employees passed Tuesday, but people on both sides of the issue agree the battle may just be beginning. “I want to thank everyone who voted against the proposition. Those who voted for it, I think we forgive them of

Tim Floyd, who was named UTEP’s 18th men’s basketball head coach on March 30, 2010, is set to make his regular season debut on Nov. 12 at the Don Haskins Center. Floyd has written a special message to UTEP students in the campus newspaper The Prospector. In the column, Floyd talks about his time at

It could cost up to $20 million to clean more than a million cubic yards of slag from an arroyo that funnels arsenic into the groundwater and the Rio Grande, according to an El Paso Inc. story. Slag is the black byproduct of smelting that?s piled up along Interstate 10 and buried under the giant

Hello! My name is Paul Bauernfeind and I have been appointed by Bishop Max Whitfield to serve as one of the associate pastors here at St. Mark’s. Let me tell you a little about myself. I was born in Temple, Texas on August 5, 1955 and when I was about five months old, we moved

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Reverend Felicia P. Hopkins is the resident preaching pastor at St. Mark’s, where God has used her to touch and inspire numerous lives. Along with a regular Sunday morning preaching schedule, she also leads a uniquely-designed-for-women monthly worship service that draws women from other churches and denominations in our Texas/New

San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children, according to a Reuters report. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed the law on Tuesday on a veto-proof 8-to-3 vote. It takes effect on