Former Vice President Joe Biden is a near-lock to carry El Paso in November, but President Donald Trump has a substantial fundraising advantage in the Sun City, according to Federal Election Commission records. Trump has ...
A 59-year-old inmate at the El Paso County Jail has died of COVID-19, Sheriff Richard Wiles told El Paso Matters. It is the first known COVID-19-related death of a person held at any jail or ...
The good news is that El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis appears to have plateaued. The bad news is it appears the plateau is at pretty high elevation. El Paso reported 1,439 new COVID-19 cases in the ...
El Paso-born actor/playwright/director William Windle is taking on a new challenge, directing what appears to be the first socially distanced, live theater experience produced for Zoom. “Drumming With Anubis,” written by David Templeton and produced ...
The El Paso County Republican Party posted a photo of new state party Chairman Allen West with El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen and other law-enforcement officials gathered close together and without face coverings on ...
This story has been updated with final July numbers from the National Weather Service. July was El Paso’s hottest month in more than 130 years of weather records, the latest example of the impact of ...
El Paso taxpayers have paid at least $1.7 million since 2016 to defend police officers and the city in four lawsuits stemming from the use of deadly force against people in mental health crisis, according ...
El Paso saw a decline in new COVID-19 cases for the first time in five weeks, though new infections remain alarmingly above previous peaks. But the number of new deaths announced shattered the previous weekly ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is seeking videos and other documents related to a June 25 crash that killed seven people in a car fleeing Border Patrol agents. “For too long, the Border ...
For the second consecutive week, El Paso County reported more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases. Announced COVID-19 deaths reached a new weekly high. Cases requiring hospitalization and intensive care continue to hit record new levels. ...
For the first time in a generation, national Democrats are targeting a general election presidential television advertisement at an El Paso audience. The Democratic National Committee on Friday began running an ad called “Wolves,” aimed ...
Bob Snead, an El Paso artist, actor and decorated war veteran who told the stories of Black soldiers of the frontier, died on Saturday. He was 84. A memorial service is planned for El Paso ...
It took El Paso County 100 days to record its first 4,500 COVID-19 cases. It took just 20 days to record the second 4,500 to push us over 9,000 total cases. We’re on a pace ...
Mass testing at El Paso County jails has revealed 174 COVID-19 cases among inmates, Sheriff Richard Wiles said Monday. The sheriff said 155 inmates at the Downtown jail have tested positive, along with 19 at ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis reached alarming levels in the past week, shattering the record for new cases and reporting 200 COVID-19 patients in hospitals for the first time. The number of COVID-19 infections reported in ...
El Paso County for the first time has gone over 1,000 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in a week, with two days in the week remaining. COVID-19 cases requiring hospital care and treatment in intensive care ...
Forty inmates and five detention officers have tested positive in recent days for COVID-19 at El Paso’s two county jails. Sheriff Richard Wiles said the infections appear to be happening in the community. “All of ...
The nationwide calls for criminal justice reform are having little if any impact on the Democratic runoff race for El Paso’s next district attorney. The two candidates, Yvonne Rosales and James Montoya, say they’ve been ...
El Paso County reached new highs for weekly COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations last week, creating a deepening public health crisis. Here’s our weekly look at El Paso’s data. Young adults People in their 20s and ...
El Paso County reported 233 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a new single-day high that indicates a deepening public health crisis. The number of people hospitalized with effects of the novel coronavirus also is nearing ...
El Paso County reported 175 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the week’s total through five days to 644. That’s the highest weekly number ever for El Paso. El Paso, which had never previously had ...
El Paso had one of its worst weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with a high in reported deaths, hospitalizations beginning to rise after more than two weeks of decline, and the number of new ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires nursing homes to provide weekly updates on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths among residents and staff. The most recent weekly update, through June 7, ...
An El Paso truck driver was arrested this week after he allegedly made threats on YouTube about shooting Black Lives Matter supporters, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Manuel Flores, 42, is charged with one ...
El Paso is seeing some positive indicators with COVID-19 as hospitalization numbers have shown a slow but consistent decline over the past two weeks. The number of new reported deaths was a five week low. ...
A West-Central El Paso nursing home that has had 126 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment to staff in the weeks leading up to the outbreak, employees say. Their ...
Our weekly update on COVID-19 data is below, but first we want to offer some concerns about the data as it is released by the city government. On Thursday, the city announced 197 new COVID-19 ...
El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz was returning from saying Mass at about 9:30 Wednesday morning when his cell phone rang. The caller ID said “restricted.” “The Holy Father would like to speak to you. What ...
El Paso’s average temperature last month was 79.5 degrees, tying for the second-hottest May on record. The only hotter May came in 1996, when the average temperature was 80.1. May 2018 also had an average ...
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Note: This column has been updated to include information that the state of Texas on Monday began providing information on COVID-19 infections at nursing homes, assisted living centers and state-run mental health facilities. Two things ...