The runoff race to determine who will preside over the 388th District Court, which has the power to determine outcomes in cases such as divorces, child custody and protective orders, has been wrought with negativity. ...
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 ...
This story has been updated with official identifications of six of the seven killed and two of the three injured. Two eyewitness accounts of the deadly car crash in Downtown El Paso conflict with what ...
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 ...
By Samuel Licón Kligman As a child, I was always fascinated by my father’s stories about his upbringing in the Deep South during the 1950s and 1960s. The stories that always grabbed my attention were ...
An El Paso man who has been allowed to stay in the United States under the Obama administration’s DACA program celebrated a Supreme Court decision Thursday that allowed the program to continue. But he also ...
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 ...
A cross-section of faith-based leaders provided a peace-filled presence between two divergent groups during competing protests last week about policing in Downtown El Paso. Faith Peace Keepers were present as several hundred protesters calling for ...
By Rick Carlos The author became an El Paso police officer in 1981 and served for six years. He shared a patrol car with another officer, Greg Allen, who today is chief of the El ...
By Diego Carlos I’m a teacher at Coronado High School. I teach world history and U.S. government. I’ve had some profound experiences with police and policing, starting as a child. My father was an El ...
Angela Kocherga interviewed Ron Stallworth about the current state of policing in the wake of global protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Stallworth is a law enforcement veteran and author of “Black ...
By Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other priests in a silent prayer for George Floyd holding a “Black Lives ...
Hundreds of protesters marched through Downtown El Paso Wednesday evening in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, denouncing police brutality and calling for the defunding of the El Paso Police Department. A second smaller demonstration, located ...
El Paso City Council members engaged in a heated debate Monday over police reform and the use of force by police officers at a May 31 protest. Some council members and El Paso residents suggested ...
More than 30 El Paso physicians took the knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds Friday morning, the length of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto the neck of George ...
El Paso journalist Robert Moore is among a group of investigative reporters who received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award on Thursday for a series of stories on the U.S. Border Patrol. Moore, the founder ...
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 latest rally to honor George Floyd and victims of police brutality ended peacefully despite moments of tension between law enforcement and protesters. The hours-long event Tuesday night, organized by a group called the ...
At Sunday night’s massive protest against the death of George Floyd, El Paso police used tear gas against attendees, as well as a weapon many in the community had not heard of until now, much ...
El Paso police say they fired tear gas and projectiles to break up a threatening situation at Memorial Park Sunday night, but protesters say police were responsible for the violence. More than 1,000 protesters took ...
A crowd of more than 1,000 marched from Memorial Park to the El Paso police headquarters on Sunday in a mostly peaceful but sometimes tense protest of the deaths of George Floyd and other African-Americans ...
This story has been updated with numbers as of Wednesday, May 20. At least 139 of El Paso County’s COVID-19 infections come from an outbreak at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail in Far East El ...
By Dr. Luis Fraga, Dr. Mark Lusk, Dr. Nicholas Natividad and Dylan Corbett The novel coronavirus pandemic is teaching us that who gets sick and who recovers often depends on vulnerability. We often think of ...
El Paso protesters are transforming their public action toolkit in response to COVID-19, finding socially distanced ways to express solidarity and pressure for change. A cacophony of car honks filled the air around the Immigration ...
In the winter of 1917, fear of a typhus outbreak prompted a quarantine policy along the United States-Mexico border. For over 40 years, this United States border quarantine mandated the forcible bathing of Mexican border-crossers ...
An asylum seeker from Nepal who has been force-fed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso for more than three months could be released from custody this week, his attorneys said. The asylum seeker, ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Protesters in Ciudad Juárez joined others across Mexico on International Women’s Day in marching to demand justice amid escalating violence against women and girls. About 500 demonstrators gathered at the Paso del ...
UPDATE: The trial for this lawsuit has been postponed because of COVID-19. District Judge Philip Martinez has said he will set a new trial date sometime after May 31. A jury should decide whether a ...
A 23-year-old asylum seeker from Nepal has not eaten voluntarily in more than 100 days and has been force-fed for most of the last three months, the latest and longest in a series of hunger ...
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By Neal M. Rosendorf Public symbols have political power. The statues that communities erect, the flags communities fly, the names communities inscribe on their buildings, parks, playgrounds, and pools, are never lightly chosen. They are ...