Month: March 2011

The Sun City was making preparations all day for various Mardi Gras events around the area. Beer, live bands and beads will fill Union Plaza on…

Day 18: It’s the kind of binge that only Charlie Sheen would be proud of. See the pie in the picture to the left? It looks like something you…

UTEP senior guard Julyan Stone was one of five players named to the Conference USA All-Defensive Team on Tuesday. Joining Stone on the squad were…

Fans planning to attend the Conference USA basketball games Wednesday, March 9, through Saturday, March 12, can avoid battling traffic and struggling…

A morning jog left Sonia Brown slightly out of breath Tuesday morning. But as she talked about running for City Council representative for District 5…

Wicked winds whipped through the Borderland on Monday afternoon. Dirt and dust blanketed most of El Paso and Las Cruces. By Monday night, the winds…

A 20-year-old woman who made international headlines when she accepted the job as police chief in a violent Mexican border town was fired Monday for…

A man was shot with a Taser gun in Canutillo early Sunday after El Paso County sheriff’s officials said he lunged at deputies. Raul Medrano,…

A Good Winter Means Lot?s of Water! A reader of Spotlight El Paso emailed me a few weeks ago wondering about water run-off this Spring from the snow…

Time to Change Your Clocks! Don?t forget to change your clocks March 12th (Saturday night) before you go to bed! Every spring (actually 7 days before…

On a typical day, the Organ Mountains are a picturesque view, but by Monday afternoon, you would never even know it. Picacho Peak was also invisible,…

This week?s MANHUNT MONDAY Most Wanted Fugitive is an individual sought for a sex crime that occurred several years ago. The target is identified as…

Three people have been taken to the hospital after flames tore through a Northeast El Paso home Monday morning. Emergency crews responded to the…

El Paso Electric officials say are two poles down at U.S. 54 at McCombs, leaving 2,000 customers without power in the area. Winds have been kicking…

ABCNews It’s hard to see how Charlie Sheen will “win” this one: today, Warner Bros. fired Sheen from TV’s No. 1 comedy,…

El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen terminated Zake Rivera’s employment with the El Paso Police Department Monday. Rivera was arrested and booked…

The 33-year-old man who was found dead near a ditch last month died of bleeding to death after being being hit several times to the neck and chest,…

UTEP senior guard Randy Culpepper was tabbed first team All-Conference USA for the second straight season, and senior guard Julyan Stone was…

The El Paso Marathon, including a half-marathon and a 5K race, will take over El Paso streets Sunday. The full marathon is a multi state route that…

The owner of a controversial El Paso bar is speaking out about a drug search involving federal agents at his mother’s lower valley home.…

A woman and her two children stranded in the Franklin Mountains have been found and are in the process of being rescued as of Sunday night. Emergency…

A woman is dead after crashing the car she was driving, according to Department of Public Safety officials. The crash happened at about 7 p.m. Sunday…

With El Paso’s fantastic weather all year, there’s always plenty to do. UTEP’s campus, home of the Don Haskins Center and Memorial…

For the first time the City of El Paso has been named the City with the lowest crime rate in the United States with a population of over 500,000…

El Paso police arrested two men after a fight at the Cincinnati Bar Saturday evening. Officers were called to the Cincinnati Bar shortly after 11…

El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Bill Blaziek recently lost out on a proposal to bring 700 ? 800 people to El Paso for a 2012 Catholic…

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said her plan to expand ?Katie?s Law?n is one step closer to happening. The law is named after Las Cruces murder…

The second murder trial of David Marmolejo is set to begin in San Antonio on Monday. Judge Gonzalo Garcia, defense lawyers, prosecutors and court…

El Paso Rhinos’ goalie Trent Casper stopped all 28 Tulsa Rampage shots and the Rhinos beat Tulsa, 4-0, to take game one of the best-of-three…

New information on the communication between El Paso Water Utilities and El Paso Electric during last month’s winter storm. The El Paso Times…