Month: January 2015

A 54-year-old woman was killed Monday morning in a traffic collision. El Paso Police said that at 7:38 a.m., Geraldine Baxter Rodriguez was driving a 2001 Saturn eastbound on Montana when for unknown reasons she lost control of her vehicle and entered the westbound lanes of Montana. She struck a 2004 Mazda 3 near the

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurstsayshe’s heard from hundreds of employers across the state over the years about how hard it is for them to find job applicants who can pass a pre-employment drug test. He saidSenate Bill 21, which Gov. Rick Perry signed into law on Friday,will help solve that problem. “The program of being able

Mayor John Cook’s farewell party from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. today is open to everyone It will be at the convention center Downtown. Admission is free. Drinks and appetizers will be provided courtesy of local businesses and organizations that assisted in organizing this meaningful farewell fiesta. Mayor Cook states, “thanks to everyone for their

Storms developing to our north and east and moving south. We will have the best chance of rain and storm tonight at 30% with 10% both tomorrow and Sunday. Some of these storms could be strong to severe but on an isolated basis. Temps will gradually warm up over the weekend to 100 for Sunday

The City of El Paso has launched a webpage for open records requests. The Cithy’s Communications and Public Affairs Office is responsible for all Open Records Requests. All requests must be made in writing. To submit an Open Records Request through the electronic system, please click on the “Submit Open Records Request” tab on the

Suing neighbors over water can be expensive. A paragraph deep in theTexas budgetshows that the state has allocated $5 million in fiscal year 2014 for its legal battle to extricate more river water from New Mexico. Texas has already hired a California lawyer to represent it against New Mexico in the case, which the U.S.

Wednesday has been another hot day with an expected high of 105. Moisture begins to surge in from the southeast Thursday through Sunday. Rain chances will go up and temps will take a little dive. Storm chances begin Thursday night at 20 percent and 30 percent for Friday. Some storms Friday could become strong to

June 14, 2013 Update: El Paso Police arrested Daniel Miller for the offense of Intoxicated Manslaughter with Motor Vehicle. Police said Miller was the driver of the motorcycle that was involved in the collision that resulted in the death of Diane Valdez Bernal on June 11. He was booked into the El Paso County Detention

A year from now, UTEP basketball will turn 100 years old and to celebrate the milestone, UTEP is asking the fans to help select the UTEP centennial basketball team. The UTEP Athletic Dept. has come up with a list of 66 candidates. Fans can vote for 10 of them. Fans are allowed to vote once

U.S. Congressmen are used to battling each other in Washington, D.C. over proposed bills but Thursday they will be battling each other on the baseball diamond for charity. Democrats and Republicans will play against each other in the annual Congressional Baseball Game and El Paso’s own U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke will be participating. O’Rourke, who

University of Texas at El Paso officials will announce this week the start of construction on UTEP’s newest student housing complex. University President Diana Natalicio, Associate Vice President for Facilities Services Greg McNicol, and a representative from Tempe, Ariz.-based Sundt Construction, the project’s general contractor, will discuss the project on June 13, including its benefits

Quarterback Tim Tebow will be signing with the New England Patriots and joining their minicamp Tuesday, a person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because no official announcement had been made, told the AP on Monday that Tebow was headed for Foxborough. ESPN first reported that

Lee County’s (Fla.) board will vote on Tuesday morning to make El Paso City Manager Joyce Wilson their choice for county manager and to begin negotations with her. The meeting will be at 7:30 a.m. Mountain Time. On June 5, 2013 at a special meeting to interview candidates for county manager, the Lee County board

El Paso Police are investigating a late Sunday night traffic accident in which a 5-year-old boy was struck by a motorcycle. Police say the crash occurred at 10:16 p.m. in the 14000 block of Tierra Venado when a boy was crossing the street with an adult family member when the child was struck by a

CNN A woman apparently took an extreme measure to try to quit smoking, and it got her arrested. Etta Lopez, 31, is charged with assaulting a police officer. “It was totally unprovoked,” Deputy Matt Campoy said. Out of nowhere, a woman purposefully blocked his way as he left his shift at the Sacramento County Jail.

Fort Bliss commanding general Dana Pittard is asking soldiers and family members to only go to William Beaumont Army Medical Center’s emergency room when it is a serious illness or an injury. “I spoke to one Soldier from 3/1 AD last week who stated that he and his wife waited ten hours to be seen

For many students in El Paso, the end of the school day doesn’t mean their studies are over. Low performing campuses that fail to meet federal standards are obligated under the No Child Left Behind law to provide tutoring to low-income students. But a law meant to help under-privileged kids, may be indirectly hurting them.

A woman who lobbied the North Dakota Legislature for tougher drunken driving laws after her two sons were killed by a drunken driver last summer faces a misdemeanor charge in an alleged alcohol-related driving incident. Sandy Hernandez, 30, whose address is listed as Souris, was involved in a rollover crash Saturday morning in Bottineau County,

Twenty-nine residents of Doa Ana County, N.M., and El Paso County, Texas, including 22 who were arrested Wednesday morning, are facing federal drug trafficking charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation. The charges and arrests were announced by federal, state and local law enforcement The defendants are charged in 13 criminal complaints with distributing

Disney has dropped an effort to trademark “Dia de los Muertos,” the name of the traditional “Day of the Dead” holiday celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S. The company announced Tuesday that it was withdrawing a trademark request it made on May 1 to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application prompted

A minimum of five UTEP football games, including three outside of El Paso, will be carried on television networks this fall, the Conference USA office announced on Tuesday. The Miners’ games at Colorado State (Sept. 28), Rice (Oct. 26) and North Texas (Nov. 9) will all be televised. CBS Sports Network will have coverage of

They killed it. There’s no other way to put The Killers’ one-two punch of two sold-out concerts in El Paso on Monday night. The band’s first gig of the night was at the Abraham Chavez Theatre, marking the third time the band has performed in El Paso and the first time in six years. “Day

The family of New Mexico State University redshirt freshman quarterback has changed his website to provide updates on his recovery and raise money following a a spinal cord injury. “Our son Miles Washington, a Los Angeles native and graduate of Culver City High School, suffered a cervical fracture on April 13, 2013, during a spring

El Paso is No. 4 in the country for MILFs. Not that kind of MILF, but “Moms I’d Like To Find online,” according to OurTime.com. The website is an online dating site for singles 50 and over. “To calculate the ranking, the dating site examined internal user data to find the U.S. cities where female

Garrey Carruthers, New Mexico State University business dean and vice president for economic development, has been selected as the university’s new president. The vote was not unanimous, with three regents voting for him and two against him.

El Paso has its slogan. After weeks of billboards teasing with new words being added, the new slogan has been revealed as “El Paso. It’s All Good.” Bill Blaziek, GM of the El Paso Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, said in April that the billboards were part of the Greater El Paso Strategic Communications Task Force’s

The City of El Paso Engineering & Construction Management Department is scheduled to begin construction for Sun Metro Brio’s Mesa Rapid Transit System (RTS) Corridor in mid-May 2013. In an effort to share the project details with the public, the Engineering & Construction Management Department and Sun Metro will host THREE community meetings detailed below.

Pope Francis has named Mark J. Seitz, auxiliary bishop of Dallas, to be the sixth bishop to lead the Catholic Diocese of El Paso. Seitz, 59, said he was surprised by the news but grateful to the Holy Father. “Since I entered the seminary here in Dallas as a young 18-year old boy, I have

Weather looks pretty normal the next several days although storm chances go up next weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Our winds will be in the low end of the windy category with gusts around 30-35 each day the rest of this week. Temps will stay in the low and mid 80’s with partly sunny skies.

This Saturday is a free admission day at the El Paso Diablos game at Cohen Stadium but there’s a catch. You have to pick up free general admission ticket vouchers at One Source Federal Credit Union locations around El Paso. Each voucher is good for four fans’ admission. Tickets can be picked up at the