FBI El Paso Warns of Kidnapping, Virtual Kidnapping
EL PASO, Texas — The FBI of El Paso warns the public of an increase in kidnapping and virtual kidnapping extortion. According to the FBI El Paso…
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2 Barrio Azteca gang members found guilty in consulate murders of 2010
EL PASO, Texas — Two Barrio Azteca gang members were found guilty in the 2010 murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband, and the husband of…
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DHS announces creation of new cybersecurity review board
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has announced the creation of a new Cyber Safety Review Board that will have public and…
Continue Reading The FBI has identified suspects accused of making threats to HBCUs this week, official says
By Travis Caldwell and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The FBI has identified people suspected of making bomb threats this week directed at historically Black…
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El Paso police officers met with ‘violent confrontation’ at south-central intersection
EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police say two officers encountered a ‘violent confrontation’ when a man approached their patrol car, which was stopped at…
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Sensors are helping El Paso police detect gunshot incidents
EL PASO, Texas– You may not have known it, but for the last couple of months gunshots sensors have been an extra set of ears for the El Paso Police…
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Embarrassed burglar leaves $200, flees home with his AR-15
Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The first surprise for a pair of suburban homeowners in New Mexico was finding an armed burglar in their…
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Four girls in custody, charged with causing $100,000 in damage at 2 El Paso schools
EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police say they have taken four juveniles into custody after they caused about $100,000 in damage at two elementary…
Continue Reading ‘I’m just tired of being terrorized like my grandparents were’: More than a dozen HBCUs got bomb threats on the 1st day of Black History Month
By Alisha Ebrahimji, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have had to lock down or…
Continue Reading The barrage of bullets that killed a Houston-area deputy was captured by his own dash and body-worn cameras, court records show
By Rosa Flores, CNN In what would be his last moments, the 12-year veteran deputy constable sat in his squad car minutes after midnight as the…
Continue Reading A fire captain in California has died after he was shot at the scene of a blaze
By Stella Chan, CNN A captain in the Stockton, California, fire department has died after a man shot him at the scene of a fire, officials announced…
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Man charged with animal cruelty: El Paso police say he kicked dog, dragged him by collar
EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso man has been arrested for animal cruelty. According to police, 34-year-old Roland Heras was seen dragging and kicking a…
Continue Reading Federal judge rejects plea deal on hate crime charges in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing over sentencing concerns
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Angela Barajas and Melissa Alonso, CNN A federal judge Monday rejected the plea deal reached by prosecutors and Travis…
Continue Reading Exclusive: Kamala Harris drove within several yards of pipe bomb at DNC headquarters during Capitol riot
CNN By Whitney Wild, Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drove within several yards of a pipe bomb lying next…
Continue Reading Arrest made over swastika graffiti at DC’s Union Station
By Sarah Fortinsky and Kelly Murray, CNN The Washington Metropolitan Police Department and Amtrak Police announced Saturday the arrest of a man for…
Continue Reading Native American tribes announce $590 million settlement framework with opioid maker J&J and distributors
Every 8 minutes someone dies from an accidental drug overdose. Most of the time, it’s from…
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ABC-7 Sunday Xtra: Rising Crime in Juarez
EL PASO, Texas-The bodies of four women found in Juarez inside plastic bags raises concerns about a possible uptick in violence against women in…
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Man charged with murder of 78-year-old man in Socorro grocery store parking lot
Chauhtemoc Sanchez Espinoza, 40, is accused in the murder of a 78-year-old man. UPDATE #1, JAN. 29: Deputies arrested a man Saturday in connection…
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One dead, one injured in Las Cruces trailer park shooting
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A shooting at a trailer park in south central Las Cruces left one man dead and another person injured on Saturday, police…
Continue Reading ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic has sentence reduced by one year, to 21 years, in ‘murder-for-hire’ plot
By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Joe Exotic, of Netflix’s “Tiger King” fame, aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, has had his sentence in the…
Continue Reading Stormy Daniels testifies on Avenatti: ‘He lied to me and betrayed me’
By Lauren del Valle, CNN Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who was allegedly defrauded by Michael Avenatti, testified Thursday in federal court…
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Three police officers shot in Houston; suspect in custody after hours-long negotiation
UPDATE #3: – The person suspected of shooting three Houston officers has been arrested, police said Thursday night. UPDATE #2: Police are talking to…
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Hold the bologna: hidden shipments stopped at 2 El Paso ports of entry
EL PASO, Texas — Two separate seizures of pork bologna at two El Paso ports of entry netted 243 pounds of processed meat. The unrelated discoveries…
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Fearing tips could get lost, sheriff halts Facebook comments
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s office has turned off public comments on its social media posts because too many people are…
Continue Reading Oklahoma death row inmate who requested firing squad is executed by lethal injection
By Amanda Watts, CNN An Oklahoma death row inmate who had requested execution by firing squad was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, according…
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Mexican town protects forest from avocado growers, cartels
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press CHERAN, Mexico (AP) — Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the…
Continue Reading A second local investigation into the death of a Georgia teen found in a rolled-up gym mat has closed with no charges filed
By Victor Blackwell and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A second local investigation into the 2013 death of Kendrick Johnson, the Georgia teenager who was found…
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New K-9s added to El Paso Police force to take a bite out of crime
EL PASO, Texas-The El Paso police department just added three new four-legged officers to its force. Now EPPD has as many as 20 dogs in the unit.…
Continue Reading Biden signs executive order making sexual harassment an offense in military’s judicial code
By Ellie Kaufman, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order designating sexual harassment as an offense in the US…
Continue Reading Los Angeles officials plead for help in solving the killing of teen girl dumped on the freeway
By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Nearly three weeks after the body of a teenage girl was found dumped on a busy freeway off-ramp in Los Angeles, local leaders…
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