EL PASO, Texas – In a unanimous vote, El Paso’s City Council voted to approve a mid-year salary raise for City employees. That brings the minimum wage from $10.36 to $11.11. The city also approved a pilot program to offer new non-uniform hires a $1,000 signing incentive. The money will be distributed in two parts.
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By Paula Reid and Kara Scannell, CNN Federal prosecutors may soon reach a charging decision regarding Rudy Giuliani‘s foreign lobbying efforts involving Ukraine, after he helped investigators unlock several electronic devices that were seized by the FBI, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe. Giuliani has also offered to appear for a separate interview
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UPDATE (4/15): El Paso police say the body of a man found in a home on the 1800 block of Montana was 57-year-old Samuel Ortiz Lozano. Police also announced the arrest of 19-year-old Juan Pablo Gil. Gil is charged with capital murder and is being held on a $1,250,000 bond. Police say Gil was driving
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By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A cryptocurrency expert has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade U.S. sanctions. Thirty-nine-year-old Virgil Griffith pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy, admitting he presented at a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea in 2019. That was even after
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COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers have signed linebacker Troy Reeder, who spent three seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. Reeder was originally a restricted free agent, but the Rams decided not to offer him a contract extension, which made him an unrestricted free agent. He started seven games in 2020, when
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — El Instituto Nacional de Migración de México identificó a 133 migrantes centroamericanos que se encontraban en la caja refrigerada de un tractocamión y que eran transportados en situación de hacinamiento por la carretera Río Verde en el estado de San Luis Potosí, informaron este martes en un comunicado. Las autoridades
Continue Reading DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Shirley Spork did more than help found the LPGA Tour. She spent her life teaching the game and that was always going to be her legacy. The LPGA says Spork died Tuesday at her home in California at age 94. Her death comes two weeks after Spork learned she would
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By Andy Rose and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law Tuesday that makes it legal for most residents to carry a concealed firearm without a license. The measure — which supporters call “constitutional carry” — passed the legislature April 1 and allows anyone who was previously eligible for
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By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans and San Antonio Spurs both made it to the postseason through patience and perseverance. First-year Pelicans coach Willie Green had to adjust to star forward Zion Williamson being unavailable because of injury the entire season and also had to overcome a
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans and San Antonio Spurs both made it to the postseason through patience and perseverance. First-year Pelicans coach Willie Green had to adjust to star forward Zion Williamson being unavailable because of injury the entire season and also had to overcome a
Continue Reading ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Anaheim Ducks are keeping head coach Dallas Eakins in charge next year for his fourth season with the struggling club. New general manager Pat Verbeek says the Ducks are picking up Eakins’ contract option for the 2022-23 season. The Ducks are finishing up their third consecutive losing season under Eakins,
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball has added former North Texas guard Jazion Jackson as a transfer, head coach Kevin Baker announced on Tuesday. Jackson will have two years of eligibility left with the Miners. Jackson is a dynamic point guard who has spent three seasons as a starter at North Texas, highlighted by leading
Continue Reading MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman has sued claiming her decades-old drug conviction was one of more than 300 cases tainted by a prosecutor who was simultaneously doing legal work for the judges hearing those cases. The federal lawsuit filed Monday by Erma Wilson is part of the continued fallout from Weldon Petty’s years
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — FIFA successfully argued to sport’s highest court that letting Russia try to qualify for the World Cup risked doing “irreparable and chaotic” harm to the competition. The legal debate between FIFA and Russia’s soccer federation was published by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It explained
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins, Jim Sciutto and Oren Liebermann, CNN The US is expected to announce on Wednesday it is sending hundreds of millions of dollars in new military assistance to Ukraine, three sources familiar with the package tell CNN. The final amount had not been finalized as of Tuesday but is expected to be close
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Stella Chan and Amir Vera, CNN Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and making false statements in court Monday. Papini appeared virtually in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California Monday where Judge William B. Shubb
Continue Reading DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Agency is proposing to downgrade Colorado’s biggest population center from a “serious” to a “severe” violator of federal ozone standards. The move would force the state and industry to adopt tougher local rules to improve air quality. Colorado officials expected the recommendation after several smoggy summers that often shrouded
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RUIDOSO, New Mexico – More than 150 houses and structures have been lost in a massive fire in Ruidoso, according to village officials. As of 9:00 p.m., officials say the fire burned more than 4,000 acres and is still 0% contained. MCBRIDE FIRE UPDATE at 9:00 p.m.: Attached is the current fire map. The fire
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Netflix quiere facilitarte la tarea de sugerir las series y películas que te gustan. La plataforma de streaming habilitó el lunes un botón de “Me encanta” con dos pulgares arriba que es “una forma adicional para que los suscriptores nos hagan saber qué tipos de series y películas quieren
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say avian influenza has been detected at a second northern Indiana duck farm. The Indiana State Board of Animal Health said Tuesday that laboratory testing of a commercial duck flock in Elkhart County has come back as presumptively positive for the virus. It says the samples are being verified at
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Democrats running for reelection in the midterms are intensifying their fight against the Biden administration’s decision to roll back a Trump-era immigration rule, going directly to the border and signing onto legislation that would block the Biden administration’s actions in an escalation that could leave the party splintered
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El Real Madrid sufrió y estuvo a punto de salir eliminado. Tras el 3-1 en la ida contra el Chelsea, el conjunto de Londres dio un golpe e iba ganando 3-0 al minuto 75 en el estadio Santiago Bernabéu de Madrid con goles de Mason Mount, Antonio Rüdiger y Timo
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Maybe the Internet sleuths who track flights should tune in a week before the PGA Championship. Southern Hills is the next logical place for Tiger Woods to play, and even then he didn’t sound very certain. When he finished the Masters, Woods said he would
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CNN By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After a historic union victory at an Amazon warehouse in New York City earlier this month, a grassroots labor organization is hoping it can notch a second win at a facility just across the street. Hundreds of Amazon employees at a Staten Island sorting facility known as LDJ5
Continue Reading By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business The rate of serious injuries at Amazon warehouses in the United States is more than twice as high as those at other, non-Amazon warehouses, according to a new study that examines injury data supplied to the federal agency that oversees workplace safety. Amazon employed 33% of all US warehouse
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AUSTIN — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called on the Governor Greg Abbott to end enhanced safety inspections of commercials trucks at the border. Miller called it a “catastrophic policy which has now led to Mexican truckers blockading the border.” Miller says the smart way to go would be for Texas to shift its resource
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Chelsea’s title defense in the Champions League ended despite a 3-2 win against Real Madrid as Karim Benzema spoiled its comeback by scoring in extra time to put the Spanish powerhouse back into the semifinals. Benzema had scored a hat trick in the first leg to
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — New Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia has shown he’s capable of doing the improbable. He took over as Las Vegas interim head coach following Jon Gruden’s midseason exit last fall and steered the Raiders to their first playoff berth in five
Continue Reading JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Saint Peter’s has hired Jersey City native Bashir Mason to replace Shaheen Holloway as the coach of the Peacocks. Holloway left Saint Peter’s a day after his team was eliminated in the Elite Eight by national runner-up North Carolina to return to Seton Hall, his alma mater. Saint Peter’s was
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Amir Vera, Elizabeth Wolfe, Kristina Sgueglia and Paul Murphy, CNN Riders of a New York subway train were victims of a mass shooting Tuesday morning when a man donned a gas mask, set off smoke grenades and began firing as the train made its way toward a Brooklyn station, police said. A
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