10-digit phone dialing now required for El Paso, Las Cruces areas
EL PASO, Texas — Starting Sunday, phone users across portions of Texas and all of New Mexico must include area codes when dialing to make all…
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16-year-old girl dies when teens in speeding Mustang crash in Fabens
FABENS, Texas – A car carrying a group of teens crashed and overturned early Sunday morning in Fabens, ejecting four of them and killing a…
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Aaron Jones & Packers win 6th straight, defeat Washington 24-10
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — El Paso native Aaron Jones and the Green Bay Packers defeated Washington 24-10 on Sunday for their sixth consecutive…
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After ‘heartbreaking’ theft of $200k of LCHS band equipment, some items recovered
UPDATE: Albuquerque Police on Saturday night said they had located the stolen Penske rental truck with Las Cruces High School’s band equipment. The…
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Man flown to UMC after being shot in Las Cruces
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man was hospitalized after a shooting in Las Cruces late Saturday night. The shooting took place at Jordan Road and…
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Woman wounded, another grazed in east El Paso shooting tied to burglary
UPDATE: Police confirmed a 25-year-old woman suffered a leg wound and a 20-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet early Saturday as multiple gunshots…
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Raging gunbattles in northern Mexico city kill 4, wound 2
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Residents of the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros are recovering from a night of terror in which raging…
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Pickup truck driver dies after crash into cement barrier along I-10
UPDATE: Police said a man seriously injured after crashing his pickup truck into a cement barrier early Saturday died later in the morning at a local…
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Borderland Blitz week 9 highlights & scores
FRIDAY SCHEDULE: *All games kickoff at 7:00 p.m. unless indicated otherwise El Paso 6 Austin 30 Irvin 7 Andress 54 Jefferson 59 Bowie 21 Eastlake 50…
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Athletic chief says UTEP will still play in an FBS conference despite C-USA exodus
EL PASO, Texas — Major college football is setting into a strange period of frayed allegiances that could have dramatic implications for UTEP. The…
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Warrant in deadly shooting says Baldwin not aware prop gun had live round
UPDATE #3: Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally…
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Samaniego looks back a year after El Paso’s ‘worst in nation’ bout with Covid
EL PASO, Texas — One year ago at this time, El Paso County shattered a pandemic record as health officials announced 1,161 new Covid-19 cases in a…
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West El Paso massage parlor shut down amid sex probe
EL PASO, Texas – Local and state officials have shut down a west El Paso massage parlor where they contend “illegal activity occurs habitually.”…
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Irvin High School student in custody after report of gun
EL PASO, Texas — An Irvin High School student was taken into custody Friday by El Paso Independent School District Police after a report that he had…
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Bond set at $200k for El Paso man caught standing over stabbing victim with knife
UPDATE, Oct. 22: A man was being held on $200,000 bond after El Paso police arrested him with a knife in his hands standing over a stabbing victim,…
Continue Reading FDA says Pfizer COVID vaccine looks effective for young kids
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press Federal scientists say kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear highly effective…
Continue Reading City of El Paso to provide Moderna, J&J vaccine booster shots
EL PASO, Texas – The City of El Paso announced it will now administer booster doses for Moderna’s and Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus…
Continue Reading US recorded more than 1.6 million southern border arrests last year, highest on record
CNN By Geneva Sands, CNN US Border Patrol made nearly 1.66 million arrests for unlawful crossings on the US-Mexico border over the past year, the…
Continue Reading Private air travel from Mexico to El Paso soars amid pandemic despite travel ban
EL PASO, Texas –For nearly two years land borders between Mexico and the United States have been closed to all non-essential travel. Air borders…
Continue Reading U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t block Texas abortion law, but will hear case
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the…
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CDC expands Covid booster rollout, OKs mixing shots
UPDATE: Federal health officials say millions more Americans can get a Covid-19 booster and choose a different vaccine for that next shot. Certain…
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El Paso Walgreens pharmacist mistakenly gives woman Covid vaccine, not flu shot
(Editor’s note: Martin initially said it was a pharmacy tech who administered the shot, but later indicated that she learned it actually was a…
Continue Reading Remains found in Florida park identified by FBI as Brian Laundrie
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Authorities say remains found in a Florida wilderness park are those of Brian Laundrie, who was a person of interest in…
Continue Reading U.S. House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House voted Thursday afternoon to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in…
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Texas urges Supreme Court to leave abortion law in place
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason…
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Haiti gang leader threatens to kill kidnapped missionaries
By EVENS SANON, MATÍAS DELACROIX and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that…
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Onions from Chihuahua tied to salmonella outbreak sickening hundreds in Texas
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — A salmonella outbreak tied to onions from Chihuahua has sickened more than 650 people in 37 states, U.S. health officials…
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Police say man shot at central El Paso bar was intruder who broke in
UPDATE, Oct.20: Police said a 37-year-old man wounded at Chankla’s bar over the weekend was a burglar who was shot after breaking in. Investigators…
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‘Armed and Dangerous:’ Police identify suspect in Las Cruces deadly shooting
Update: Las Cruces Police on Wednesday identified 26-year-old Tyler Williams as the shooter who allegedly killed a man at an apartment complex…
Continue Reading FDA authorizes booster doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, says mix and match OK
By Maggie Fox and John Bonifield, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration authorized booster doses of both Covid-19 vaccines made by Moderna and…
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