EL PASO, Texas — With busy daily schedules, it can be hard to find time for religion. Some masses may be too early or others scheduled during work hours. But one El Paso church has the answer to all that: Just drive through. Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church offered a drive-thru Ash Wednesday service. Pastor Amy
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EL PASO, Texas – Look around El Paso. Go for a walk in San Jacinto Plaza to see the lit up tree during the holidays, the fanfare that comes with the yearly Sun Bowl, or maybe catch the UTEP women’s basketball team in action as the program rises. There’s a constant behind all of this.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — One Saturday morning, Liliana Muñoz Puente of Juarez was with her aunt shopping at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart, buying school supplies for her son. That Saturday morning was last Aug. 3. Muñoz Puente spoke to local documentarian Charlie Minn about what she went through. She was leaving the store when she saw the shooter.
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A large opioid manufacturer has reached a settlement agreement in principle worth $1.6 billion with attorneys general for 47 states and US territories, according to a company press release. Mallinckrodt announced Tuesday that the proposed deal will resolve all opioid-related claims against the company and its subsidiaries if it moves forward. Plaintiffs would receive payments
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she wouldn’t step aside before the Democratic convention if none of her presidential rivals reach the number of delegates required to clinch the party’s nomination before then. It was the biggest headline in a marathon night of town halls from South Carolina. Over four hours, former Vice President Joe Biden
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A great horned owl injured during a California wildfire flapped back into the wild Wednesday evening, thrilling the firefighters who rescued him. Early last November, Ventura County Fire Department crews working on the Maria Fire spotted something unusual, an owl hopping on the ground. “We were watching him, it wasn’t normal” said firefighter Caleb Amico.
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that she is ready for a convention floor battle this summer if none of the Democratic candidates reaches a delegate majority during the primaries. The senator from Massachusetts made it clear at a CNN town hall in South Carolina that she would be willing to lobby superdelegates, who have votes on
Continue Reading There are “ongoing” conversations at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about expanding airport health screenings for the novel coronavirus due to the rapid spread of the infection in Italy, South Korea and Japan, according to an agency spokesperson. Currently, the United States is doing health screenings only for passengers who are flying
Continue Reading The novel coronavirus outbreak appears to have entered a new stage, as cases continue to rise around the world, raising fears of a global pandemic, even as the situation stabilizes inside China. World Health Organization (WHO) officials said Wednesday that for the first time, the number of daily cases reported outside China had exceeded the
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Tenors will bring their blend of country, Broadway tunes, classical and gospel to the Plaza Theater on Monday, March 23 at 7 p.m. in a benefit concert for the Woman’s Club of El Paso. The Texas Tenors are a vocal group formed in 2009 by country singer JC Fisher,
Continue Reading Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she thought she might have gotten hit in the middle of a heated exchange between businessman Tom Steyer and former Vice President Joe Biden during Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. “That moment with those two, they were going at it and I stood there,” the Minnesota Democrat recalled on Wednesday night during
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced an investigation into a multi-state E. coli outbreak they believe is linked to Jimmy John’s. The announcement comes a day after the Food and Drug Administration accused the sandwich chain of serving unsafe vegetables. In a CDC Food Safety Alert, the health agency says people reported becoming
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 19-year-old engineering student at New Mexico State University says she was nearly scammed out of the money she desperately needed to find a new home close to campus. Jeannina Pratt isn’t alone as several other Las Cruces residents have recently dealt with a new rental scam that has been
Continue Reading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reflected on how personal tragedy has affected his faith while connecting Wednesday night with a pastor who lost his wife in the 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Rev. Anthony Thompson’s wife, Myra, was one of nine African Americans killed by a white supremacist at
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A worker at the sprawling Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee opened fire Wednesday afternoon, killing five employees before taking his own life, the company’s chief executive officer and police said. The suspected shooter, a 51-year-old man from Milwaukee, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police Chief Alfonso Morales told reporters. Gavin Hattersley, Molson Coors president
Continue Reading The mother of a Tennessee toddler missing for two months was arrested on Tuesday after giving investigators false information, police said. “During the investigation we determined that some of the statements Megan Boswell provided to us were false,” Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said Wednesday. “Many of the false statements that Megan made delayed our
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s top music institutions are coming together to commission a piece of music to honor the victims of the Aug. 3 Walmart mass shooting. The El Paso Symphony Orchestra, El Paso Pro-Musica, El Paso Opera, and UTEP’s Department of Music are working together for the first time to create “Communities
Continue Reading On Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign announced that it was opening 15 field offices in cities with large African-American populations, part of the incumbent’s broader attempt to court black voters this November. Also on Wednesday, the Public Religion Research Institute released a massive summary of its 2019 polling data that contained a clear message
Continue Reading Two Americans charged with aggravated murder and extortion in the stabbing death of an Italian police officer last July went on trial Wednesday in Rome, claiming self-defense. Finnegan Elder, now 20, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, now 19, say Italian paramilitary officer Mario Cerciello Rega and his partner threw the first punches in a 32-second scuffle
Continue Reading Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is calling for a district judge to resign after she admitted to using the n-word in text messages, saying she has “compromised her ability to preside as a judge.” District Judge Jessie LeBlanc, who is white, is facing increasing pressure to step down after she admitted to using “n***er” at
Continue Reading President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that concerns over the novel coronavirus are only partially responsible for the US stock market plunge this week, insisting that the dive is also related to the Democratic presidential debate that took place after markets plunged. “I think it took a hit for maybe two reasons. I think they look
Continue Reading Representatives for Barack Obama sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Republican super PAC on Wednesday, demanding that it stop airing an ad that uses the former President’s words to imply former Vice President Joe Biden supports “plantation politics.” Read the letter below:
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To survive, MedMen Enterprises plans to simplify. The popular, yet troubled, cannabis dispensary chain wants to get out of the business of growing and producing cannabis so it can focus on its retail stores. “While vertical integration has been a big focus for the industry, our growing belief is that cannabis is evolving like every
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Soldiers at Ft. Bliss are going through some grueling training and braving the heat of the kitchen. A local team is getting ready for the by the Army in Virginia and they’re not just making prepared field meals. The Ft. Bliss Culinary team are preparing to go head to head against
Continue Reading Clive Cussler, the bestselling author and sea explorer, died on Monday, his family announced in a Facebook post. He was 88. In the Facebook post, wife Janet Horvath said it had been a privilege to be with the author over the years. “I want to thank you, his fans and friends for all the support,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Preston (WFSB) — A young girl is being credited with saving the life of her bus driver last week. A seventh-grade student at Preston Plains Schools, Ava Boenig, took charge when her bus driver, Randy Centeno, suddenly pulled the bus to an unscheduled stop. He was having a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Baldwin County (WALA) — Area rivers continue to see historic flooding as the waters in some areas reach their highest point in 40 years. Folks at Hubbard’s Landing on the Tensaw River say it’s the highest they’ve ever seen. The Mobile River has crested at 17.2 feet at
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The White House is in the midst of a sharp dispute with Senate Democrats over the amount of money needed to address the threat of the novel coronavirus, even as federal health officials warn that it’s no longer a matter of “if” but “when” the US will have to grapple with a growing number of
Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign on Wednesday escalated its feud with the news media to new heights, filing a libel lawsuit against The New York Times in which it alleged the newspaper “knowingly published false and defamatory statements” in a March 2019 opinion piece. In a statement, a spokesperson for The Times said, “The Trump
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