EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported 3,100 new cases in the county on Wednesday morning, shattering a previous daily record by more than 1,000 cases. The health department’s Covid-19 dashboard also shows a massive increase in active cases. That number now stands at 21,902, also an all-time high, with a
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results SANTA FE, New Mexico — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján won election Tuesday night to the U.S. Senate in New Mexico. Luján, a six-term congressman from northern New Mexico, defeated Republican former television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti and Libertarian scientist Bob Walsh. Luján rose to the No. 4
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Republican Tony Gonzales has won election to U.S. House in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. Republicans hung onto the seat left by Rep. Will Hurd, one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of President Donald Trump. Hurd had endorsed Gonzales, whose victory Tuesday night
Continue ReadingCLICK HERE to see latest Electoral College map for presidential race WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump is vowing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election. Trump appeared before supporters at the White House early Wednesday morning and cried foul over the election results, calling the process “a major
Continue ReadingCOMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas — Democrat Veronica Escobar has won re-election to U.S. House in Texas’ 16th Congressional District. Escobar, who became one of the first two Texas Latinas elected to Congress in 2018, cruised to an easy re-election victory. Escobar had 65% of the votes in the
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump narrowly carried Texas on Tuesday as national results continue to show him and former Vice President Joe Biden in a neck-and-neck race. The Republican incumbent was poised to win Texas’ 38 electoral votes — 52% to 46.6%, based on returns from
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Click here to view the national presidential electoral map SANTA FE, New Mexico — Joe Biden on Tuesday won the presidential contest in New Mexico and captured the state’s five Electoral College votes. Biden’s statewide election victory on Tuesday without a campaign visit to New Mexico extends a string of victories for Democratic presidential candidates in the
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — In one of the country’s most hotly contested U.S. House races, Republican challenger Yvette Herrell won by roughly 20,000 votes late Tuesday night, as the New Mexico Secretary of State said only 2,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted. Incumbent Democrat Xochitl
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EL PASO, Texas – Embattled Council District 4 incumbent Sam Morgan appears headed to a runoff in his bid for re-election. Morgan, who is facing charges of domestic violence against his wife stemming from an arrest more than a year ago, leads with 7,749 votes or 32.09 percent. In second in the crowded field is
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas – Retired city employee Miriam “Judy” Gutierrez beat incumbent Alexsandra Annello by nearly 2,000 votes in Council District 2, but will need to go to a runoff to win the seat. With most of the votes counted, Gutierrez has 7,915 votes or 47.65 percent.
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Sen. John Cornyn won re-election Tuesday night in Texas, where Democrats for the second time in two years had momentum and mountains of money to mount a U.S. Senate challenge but not the votes to end decades of losses. Cornyn’s victory came in
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas – City Council District 7 incumbent Henry Rivera crusied to an easy re-election against a political newcomer. Rivera has tallied 12,101 votes or 56.56 percent. Challenger Aaron Montes has 9,293 votes or 43.44 percent. Rivera is a retired police officer who served for more
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas – Former El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser built a huge lead in a crowded mayoral field and was headed to a runoff with current Mayor Dee Margo in December. According to the unofficial final results posted early Wednesday, Leeser accumulated a total of 87,810
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas — After being forced into a runoff in a special election last year, incumbent Cassandra Hernandez emerged as a big winner. Hernandez, in Council District 3, has 11,957 votes or 54.08 percent. She leads her nearest competitor by more than 5,000 votes. Challenger Jose
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EL PASO, Texas — A man was shot and wounded in south-central El Paso on Tuesday night, police said. The shooting happened along the 4500 block of Blanco around 6 p.m. Detectives on Wednesday identified the shooting victim as 26–year-old Marcos Aguilar and said he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. Aguilar was being
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Tuesday set a new record for the number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day and hospitalizations marked a new high for the 12th day in a row. State health officials reported an additional 1,141 cases Tuesday, bringing the statewide total to 49,240 since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Las Cruces man has been arrested and is accused of beating his girlfriend, threatening to kill her and trying to keep her from leaving his vehicle. Arturo Barraza, 33, is charged with aggravated assault against a household member, tampering with evidence, battery and attempted false imprisonment. At 8:45 p.m.
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EL PASO, Texas – A 17-year-old was arrested after he allegedly hid more than 2 pounds of methamphetamine in his shoes and groin area and tried to smuggle it across the border. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested the teenager, identified only as a U.S. citizen, shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday at the Ysleta Port
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EL PASO, Texas – Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after they say he crashed into a rock wall, fled the scene and left a passenger to die last month. El Paso Police say they have arrested 31-year-old Johnny Samaniego and charged him with accident involving death. On Oct. 11, police say Samaniego was driving
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Click Here for Dona Ana County election results Five minutes before the polls closed in Doña Ana County, the government center was practically empty! Still, 82,000 county residents voted in 2020 compared with 70,000 in 2016, according to @dacclerk 🇺🇸🗳 LIVE UPDATES: https://t.co/DlRfl3VKRK #ElectionNight #nmpol pic.twitter.com/lkycVZXdOJ— Kate Bieri (@KateBieri) November 4, 2020 LAS CRUCES, New
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Temps will hit record highs Thursday with temps in the mid 80’s then gradually cool over the weekend and early next week. A cold front will arrive Sunday and Monday bringing that colder air and shoving it eastward. Temps by early next week expected in the 60’s Monday and 50’s Tuesday with slight rain chances.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego “failed to do his job” and claimed is “now illegally shutting” down businesses. The governor issued a scathing statement criticizing the county judge’s recent shutdown order on the eve of an important court hearing on a temporary injunction sought
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EL PASO, Texas – The Walmart supercenter at 9441 Alameda in the Lower Valley has been temporarily closed to deal with the surge in coronavirus cases in the Borderland, the company announced Tuesday afternoon. The store closed at 2 p.m. Tuesday and is slated to reopen at 7 a.m. Thursday after a deep cleaning done
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EL PASO, Texas – Per a news release from Florida International, this Saturday’s UTEP vs. FIU game has been canceled. https://t.co/ugTk4cnnII— FIU Football (@FIUFootball) November 3, 2020 In the statement released by FIU, the game is being called off due to a lack of healthy scholarship football players at Florida International. The game will not
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EL PASO, Texas — El Pasoans who haven’t voted yet are being encouraged by Borderland native R&B superstar Khalid to do so. On Tuesday, he tweeted that his fellow El Pasoans should be sure to vote, but also be careful while doing so because of the surge of Covid-19 infections in the community. El Paso
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC – A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to have postal inspectors sweep processing facilities in multiple battleground states, including Texas, for election mail. The order mandated the sweeping process so that no mail-in ballots currently in processing centers go undelivered. The move comes after USPS delivery performance dropped five straight
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department has put up security barricades around its regional command centers on Election Day as part of what appears to be precautions against election-related unrest. “We have contingency plans in place for any major incidents and are prepared to respond accordingly,” said Sgt. Enrique Carrillo, an EPPD
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Election Day voting was underway Tuesday in New Mexico where Democrats were striving to maintain control of the state’s delegation to the U.S. Senate and hand Joe Biden a presidential victory, while Republicans are trying to flip a Senate seat and change the course of statewide politics. Polls were to remain open
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas was unusually shaky ground for Republicans on Tuesday as a record surge of voters in America’s biggest red state, typically among the worst for turnout in the U.S., lined up to decide the most unpredictable election here in decades. The high stakes in Texas rippled beyond whether President Donald Trump was genuinely at
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Independent School District will be opening up all of its campuses to a select group of students next Monday. The district announced Tuesday that it had identified priority populations of students that will be allowed to return to “learning pods” at schools. However, they will still be
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