A security company and a temporary employment agency say El Paso City Council candidate Shawn Nixon owes them more than $280,000 from bad checks and unpaid invoices from this summer. Nixon’s campaign has faced repeated ...
U.S.-Mexico border travel restrictions have not only affected lawful cross-border activity, but also illicit border crossings, including smuggling operations. Borderwide drug smuggling arrests of U.S. citizens have increased 47 percent this fiscal year. Since March ...
Note: This story has been updated with the deportation being completed Monday night, and with comments from an ICE spokeswoman and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. A woman who alleged she was assaulted by two ...
El Pasoans were reminded of the grave risks of cross-border smuggling when seven people died in a car crash on Paisano Drive on June 25 after the driver allegedly fled the Border Patrol during what ...
El Paso Matters is exploring the efficiency of the El Paso misdemeanors court system and is asking community members to share their stories. If you have struggled with a long misdemeanor process or paying fines ...
The El Paso County Public Defender’s Office has been roiled in recent weeks by what many in the office saw as an effort to reprimand two attorneys for saying the county wasn’t doing enough to ...
By Veronica Carbajal The El Paso County Courthouse is now the Enrique Moreno County Courthouse. This is absolutely perfect. Enrique loved El Paso and it was in that courthouse that he changed thousands of people’s ...
Three detainees at ICE’s El Paso Processing Center say they were sexually assaulted or harassed by guards, and their attorney is calling for an investigation. “The terrors of detention at our local El Paso ICE ...
In the past several weeks, El Paso’s music and arts scene has experienced a rapid and radical transformation, as large numbers of survivors have spoken out publicly about widespread sexual assault and a culture of ...
UPDATE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Wilmur Gomez’s lawyer, Linda Corchado, late Thursday that it has no plans to move him from its El Paso detention facility. An ICE spokeswoman said Friday that Gomez “remains ...
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 ...
By Kyle Monticone On Aug. 3, 2019, Katherine “Kat” Ramirez was supposed to be sleeping in. Her niece, Savannah Applezoller, age 10 at the time, asked if she would go with her to sell aguas ...
El Paso, like the rest of the United States and much of the world, is deeply imprinted with a legacy of racist ideology. Long before a white supremacist marched into a Walmart to massacre innocent ...
“But what about Hitler?” People often ask this when I tell them I’m totally against the death penalty. For the past year, El Pasoans who oppose capital punishment have been asking, “But what about Patrick ...
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 ...
By Rosemary M. Marin As our great country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and a push for racial justice continues to make headlines, common messages such as “Black and Brown” and “Tu Lucha Es Mi ...
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 ...
Public outcries on racial issues have been on the rise with renewed questions around buildings and landmarks honoring Confederate soldiers. In El Paso, debate has rekindled about a statue honoring Spanish conquistadors. Artist John Houser ...
Murals are popping up across the country to honor Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who went missing in April while stationed at Fort Hood. Her dismembered remains were later found in June. Now, El Paso, home ...
Early on the morning of July 8, a woman was found by Border Patrol agents with a severe head injury, just north of the border wall in New Mexico. Scant information is available regarding her ...
By Octavio Arturo Dominguez and Brian Livingston On March 13, Gov. Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster in Texas due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Shortly thereafter, defense attorneys across El Paso county began ...
Thomas “T.J.” Johnson’s African-American family moved to El Paso from the Midwest in the 1980s, when he was a teenager. He graduated from Andress High School and spent two years at UTEP in the early ...
Child advocates are seeing troubling trends in reported cases of abuse since the COVID-19 pandemic reached El Paso in mid-March. Texas Abuse Hotline calls show that during the months of March, April and May, the ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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By Jordyn Rozensky Margo is a survivor. For years, as her mental health was adversely impacted, she survived persecution and torture. For making her best efforts toward survival, the U.S. government charged Margo with a ...