EL PASO, Texas – A 28-year-old man from New Mexico is dead after a Saturday morning crash in west El Paso, according to police. It happened after 8:30 a.m. near Doniphan and Sunland Park. Officers say the 28-year-old motorcyclist was traveling westbound on Doniphan and approaching Sunland Park. They say a Ford F-150 truck driver
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An Austin judge has temporarily stopped the state from investigating many parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children. The state has ruled out allegations of child abuse against one family under investigation, but at least eight more cases remain open. Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer issued a temporary restraining order Friday in
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas judge blocks state from investigating families of transgender children for abuse over gender-confirming care.
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Criticized by law enforcement experts for slowness in taking out the shooter, Pete Arredondo described an agonizing wait for a key that would work. In an interview with The Texas Tribune, he said he hadn’t spoken out sooner because he didn’t want to compound his hometown’s grief or point blame. Editor’s note: This story contains
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, will begin publicly presenting evidence about the violent riot and its precipitating events at 7 p.m. Central time Thursday. The select committee “will present previously unseen material documenting January 6th, receive witness testimony, preview additional hearings, and provide the
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Ricardo Castellano, a Socorro Independent School District trustee, is under investigation by the Texas Rangers for allegations of official oppression, according to an investigation report. Castellano’s wife, Gabriela, is also under investigation for allegations of stalking, according to the report, which the Texas Department of Public Safety released to El Paso Matters via an open
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Teslas with partially automated driving systems are a step closer to being recalled after the U.S. elevated its investigation into a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles or trucks with warning signs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it is upgrading the
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UVALDE, Texas — A Texas House Investigative Committee will hold its first public hearing Thursday morning regarding the events of the shooting at Robb Elementary. House Speaker Dade Phelan announced the creation of the committee on June 3. The committee is being led by a Lubbock Republican, state Rep. Dustin Burrows. El Paso Democrat Joe Moody, a
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso City-County Health Authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza is weighing in on monkeypox. On Tuesday, the first case of the monkeypox was confirmed in Texas. According to authorities, it was a single case infection in Dallas county. The patient had a recent history of international travel. Dr. Ocaranza said people need to
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, recounted in video testimony to Congress on Wednesday how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot and “just stayed quiet.” Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader
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Stacker compiled a list of cities with the most expensive homes in Texas using data from Zillow.
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DALLAS, Texas – The Texas Department of Health Services confirms the first monkeypox case in Texas. Officials say it’s a single case virus infection in a Dallas County resident with recent international travel. Health officials have identified a few people who may have been exposed and are self-monitoring for symptoms of infection. The DSHS says
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WASHINGTON – Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey has called for “gun responsibility” in the wake of the deadly shootings in his hometown. McConaughey joined White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to deliver remarks during Tuesday’s press briefing.
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Nearly a decade ago, Texas lawmakers created the school marshal program, a way for educators to carry weapons inside schools. It was the state’s rapid-fire legislative response to an unthinkable national horror 2,000 miles away when 20 first graders and six adults were shot and killed in a Sandy Hook, Connecticut, classroom just before Christmas
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EL PASO, TX – The murder trial of Ricardo Marquez continued today, and witnesses provided their testimony to the court. An officer with the El Paso Police Department was the first witness of the day, and his testimony revealed that he was the one that collected evidence from Marquez’s brother-in-law’s Jeep. Pictures of the Jeep’s
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EL PASO, TX – Texas state democrats are conducting a series of Town Halls regarding gun violence, and the first one is being hosted by the El Paso State Delegation. The delegation said in a statement that it is “[their] responsibility to keep our communities and schools safe from such devastating tragedies,” such as the
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EL PASO, TX – Multiple operations conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Department of Homeland Security have brought home 70 missing children. DPS and HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) announced on May 25, Missing Children’s Day, that 3 operations ran from the end of April through mid-May in El Paso, Midland, Ector
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey. The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin’s facilities in West Texas at 9:26am ET, vaulting a group of six
Continue Reading By Chuck Johnston, CNN At least three people were shot early Saturday when a suspect opened fire from a U-Haul truck on a parking lot outside a Houston nightclub, police said. A woman and two men were transported from the scene on Cullen Boulevard in the city’s south side after the shooting after 4 a.m.,
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Van Horn, Texas — Blue Origin’s New Shepard 21 mission, or NS-21, is launching from its West Texas facility in Van Horn this Saturday morning. The crew includes a repeat flyer, NS-19 astronaut Evan Dick, and the fist Mexican-born woman and the youngest American to fly to space, Katya Echazarreta. She is 26 years old.
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN Joe Del Bosque roamed the 2,000 acres of his California farm knowing he couldn’t touch nearly half of the land he’s owned for decades. “I got the land, I got the people. I have everything but no water. I can’t do it,” said Del Bosque, a 73-year-old farmer in Firebaugh, California.
Continue Reading EL PASO, TX – Prosecutors have provided a glimpse into what happened that fateful Saturday night of July 13, 2019, the date that Erika Gaytan was seen for the last time. Marquez is accused of killing Erika Gaytan after they attended a concert together on July 13, 2019. Her body has never been found. Marquez’s
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UVALDE — Everyone in town is waiting to hear from Pete Arredondo. As chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, it was his call to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers on scene to immediately charge the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb
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New Mexico — The release of water has reached the Borderland for the 2022 irrigation season. Video captured from around 9 Friday morning near Fairacres road shows our area’s water arrival. There was an urgent clean-up following last year’s rainstorm in El Paso preceding the release. The Frontera Wastewater Emergency forced El Paso Water to
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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan on Friday announced the creation of a legislative committee to investigate the Uvalde shooting. “The fact we still do not have an accurate picture of what exactly happened in Uvalde is an outrage,” the Beaumont Republican said in a statement announcing the committee. “Every day, we receive new information that
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Stacker compiled a list of the lowest earning counties in Texas using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police are seeking information about a transgender teen named “Tracey” after they were contacted about a report she was assaulted outside an El Paso Library. The assault was reported on May 25 in the Los Angeles Blade. According to the article, four men approached Tracey, 17, outside an El
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas gas prices went up overnight, averaging $4.34 a gallon, an $0.08 increase compared to last week. Gas prices are averaging $1.63 more per gallon than they were one year ago today. Drivers in El Paso are still paying the most per gallon on average at $4.54. The national average price
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A Texas lawmaker said Thursday that the school district police chief in charge of the scene at the Uvalde school shooting last week was not informed of the multiple 911 calls made inside the building while the shooter was still inside. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, said during a press conference the Uvalde school
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Rebekah Riess, Holly Yan and Chris Boyette, CNN Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez raised questions in a news conference on Thursday about whether information on 911 calls from inside Robb Elementary School was relayed properly to responders at the scene of the shooting. Gutierrez said he spoke with the agency that regulates
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