Month: September 2019

In a moment of part celebration and part heartbreak, the Eastwood High School football team stood before El Paso City Council members on Tuesday. The football team is mourning the death of former teammate Eddie Cruz, who drowned over the Labor Day weekend. Cruz played on last year’s football team. But council members also gave

The gunman in a west Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that blocked him from getting a gun in 2014 due to a “mental health issue,” a law enforcement official told the Associated Press. The official spoke Tuesday on

The road to healing has been difficult and different for El Pasoans in the month since the Aug. 3 mass shooting that left 22 people dead at the Cielo Vista Walmart store. However, the path forward has been helped along spiritually by the restorative religious powers of faith, physically by the intense healing efforts being

This week was supposed to be a time for the Eastwood football team to focus and prepare for a big game Thursday near Dallas. But now Trooper Nation is in mourning following news of the death of Eddie Cruz, a former star wide receiver for the Troopers. Cruz, 18, graduated from Eastwood back in June

Amid Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the Bahamas, nearly 100 dogs in Nassau were homeless, so one dog lover took them all in herself. Chella Phillips is sheltering 97 dogs inside her home in the Bahamian capital during Dorian’s slow-moving stay in the islands. A whopping 79 of them

El Paso City Council representatives voted Tuesday to hold a special election to fill the seat belonging to District 3 Rep. Cassandra Hernandez, after determining last week that she resigned her seat as a result of a brief Facebook post about a mayoral bid. Council set a Nov. 5 date for the special election, holding

Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of ammunition for handguns and assault-syle rifles and also ban customers from openly carrying firearms in stores. The announcement comes just days after a mass shooting claimed seven lives in Odessa and follows two other back-to-back shootings last month, one of them at the Cielo Vista Walmart store

An oil warehouse in the El Granjero neighborhood of Juarez went up in flames Tuesday, with thick, black smoke from the blaze visible for many miles across the border in El Paso. Mayor Armando Cabada Alvídrez described firefighters actions in containing the blaze as heroic, noting that there were no injuries or public threat. The

Mexico’s drug war appears to be back — and it may be worse this time around than in the bloody years of the government’s 2006-2012 offensive against drug cartels. Back then, the worst of the violence was confined to a few areas, but now it is spread out throughout the country. Once it was not

Police on Tuesday identified a 23-year-old El Paso man as the victim killed in a weekend shooting outside an eastside bar, but indicated no arrest had yet been made in the case. Jamaal Deontrae Jones-Aguilar was shot to death during a fight after being thrown out of Gourmet Hot Dogs Bar at 1700 North Zaragosa

An arrest warrant has been issued for the former Montwood High School band treasurer on embezzlement charges and authorities indicated Tuesday that she may have fled the El Paso area. Stacey Telles, 40, is accused of stealing $50,000 in band funds over a six-month period, according to police. Detectives said Telles’ home in 11700 block

A body was found Tuesday along railroad tracks in north Las Cruces and police were looking into whether the man may have been struck by a train. Investigators said while a cause of death hadn’t been determined, no foul play was suspected. Authorities said a call was made to 9-1-1 around 8 a.m. about an

Hurricane Dorian, after wreaking havoc over the Bahamas for nearly 45 hours, was picking up speed Tuesday and forecasters said the deadly storm will soon move “dangerously close” to Florida, forecasters said. Dorian, now a Category 2, is expected to approach the eastern coastline of Florida Tuesday night through Wednesday evening, before targeting Georgia and

R&B star Khalid’s benefit concert for the victims of the August 3rd mass shooting raised $500,000, according to a tweet from Khalid on Monday. Last night we raised $500,000 for the El Paso Community Foundation! ❤️ thank you so much for all of the support! pic.twitter.com/GDHgPsxqtB — Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) September 2, 2019 The concert at

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