Judge blocks Florida governor’s order banning mask mandates
By TERRY SPENCER and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Florida school districts may impose mask…
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Truck, car collide in crash that shuts down Montana at Lee Trevino
EL PASO, Texas — A traffic crash Friday morning forced the closure of all lanes of a busy east El Paso street. The crash happened in the 11000 block…
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COVID vaccination site opens at Dulles for arriving Afghans
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has opened a mass COVID-19 vaccination site for arriving Afghans near…
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EPPD officer exchanges gunfire with man at bar fight; no injuries
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police officers responded to a bar fight early Friday morning on the east side, when shots rang out near the scene…
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Texas House OK’s GOP vote restrictions after Dems’ holdout ends
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans advanced new voting restrictions Thursday night after months of protests by Democrats, who after returning from a…
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Body found in remote desert area of Dona Ana County
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A body, suspected to be that of a migrant, was recovered Thursday night along the western edge of Dona Ana County. The…
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13 U.S. troops dead in ISIS Kabul attacks; Biden vows revenge
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombers and gunmen targeted crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport on Thursday, in the waning days of a…
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Supreme Court allows evictions to resume during pandemic
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden…
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Texas Supreme Court pauses mask mandate in San Antonio case, but El Paso’s is still in effect
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked San Antonio’s mask mandate for public schools Thursday — the latest in the…
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El Paso federal judge grants injunction blocking migrant stops by Texas troopers
EL PASO, Texas — A federal judge in El Paso on Thursday granted the Biden administration’s request for a preliminary injunction halting an executive…
Continue Reading Blue Origin successfully completes 1st test flight from Van Horn with no passengers after Jeff Bezos trip
VAN HORN, Texas — The rocket that flew Jeff Bezos to space last month just took another brief, suborbital jaunt to the upper reaches of the…
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Rescuers call off search for man seen in Rio Grande near Ysleta Port of Entry
EL PASO, Texas — Rescuers called off the search Thursday afternoon for a man spotted by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the river near Loop 375 and…
Continue Reading Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over insurrection
By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police officers who were attacked and beaten during the Capitol…
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El Paso health department works on plan to administer Covid vaccine boosters
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso’s health department director, Angela Mora, said the city is working on a plan to begin administering Covid-19…
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El Paso’s Pepi nets game-winner at MLS All-Star Game; playing for U.S. in World Cup qualifiers
LOS ANGELES, California — Ricardo Pepi grew up straddling the ever-dwindling divide between Mexican and American soccer. The El Paso native who…
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Woman, granddaughter killed in central El Paso flood are laid to rest
EL PASO, Texas — Funeral services were held Wednesday evening for a 65-year-old woman and her 2-year-old granddaughter who died when an…
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Congresswoman Escobar visits Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss
FORT BLISS, Texas — El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar visited with Afghanistan evacuees at the Fort Bliss Army post during a tour of…
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10 new cases of Covid-19’s Delta variant found in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas – Ten new cases of the highly contagious Covid -19 Delta variant have been confirmed among El Pasoans, including…
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WATCH: El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony
EL PASO, Texas — They are among the best the Sun City has to offer in the world of sports. The El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame held an induction…
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Police seek van driver who witnessed man get gunned down on Las Cruces street
UPDATE, Aug. 25: Las Cruces police said Wednesday they were seeking to talk with a transport van driver who likely witnessed a deadly drive-by…
Continue Reading Terror threat: Americans at Kabul airport gates told to ‘leave immediately’
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Wednesday advised U.S. citizens at a number of gates at the Hamid Karzai International Airport to…
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Horizon City fire briefly rekindles; 151,000 gallons of water used on it
UPDATE, Aug. 25: A hotspot at the scene of Tuesday’s large fire in Horizon City rekindled on Wednesday afternoon due to windy conditions, sending…
Continue Reading Abbott bans Texas vaccine mandates amid FDA status
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced an executive order banning Covid-19 vaccine mandates regardless of a vaccine’s…
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State Dept. says 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan yet
UPDATE: WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that there are approximately 1,500 people who may be Americans left…
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DEA in El Paso sees 60% rise in teen drug abuse
EL PASO, Texas — It’s an alarming new trend according to El Paso’s division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The DEA has seen a 60 percent…
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ICUs over 90% full in Texas, 7 other states from Covid
WASHINGTON, DC — There are now over 100,000 Covid-19 patients in U.S. hospitals, the most in seven months, according to federal data. The rate of…
Continue Reading Pentagon mandates US military service members receive Covid vaccine immediately
By Jessica Schneider, Ellie Kaufman and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Pentagon is mandating that US military service members get fully vaccinated…
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EXPLAINER: What’s happening with Afghanistan evacuations?
By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban…
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West central El Paso home goes up in flames
EL PASO, Texas — Firefighters battled a blaze Tuesday night that consumed a west central El Paso home. That fire broke out at 1007 Arizona Avenue.…
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Doña Ana County surpasses 500 Covid deaths
DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — With more than 500 Doña Ana County residents dead from Covid-19 complications, the state is educating New Mexicans…
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