El Paso animal advocates say a new Texas law banning chains or heavy weights as restraints on outdoor dogs is a step in the right direction, but enforcement will be critical. The Safe Outdoor Dogs ...
Seizures of fentanyl by the Drug Enforcement Administration within the city of El Paso rose 456% between the fiscal years 2020 and 2021 — from 32 kilograms to 178 kilograms — and El Paso DEA ...
CIUDAD JUÁREZ — U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar signed an agreement with mayors of six cities in Chihuahua, with the goal of preventing violent crime, building citizen trust in Mexican police forces and reducing ...
Officials have seized massive quantities of illegal narcotics at El Paso ports of entry since the beginning of December, part of an ongoing trend of heightened drug flows into the United States and rising deaths ...
What was supposed to be a routine search by Mexican National Guard troops is under investigation after an 18-year-old U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Ciudad Juárez. Juan Carlos Medina died near the Paso ...
More than a decade after the most violent years of Juárez’s drug wars, “international attention is not focused on Juárez anymore. Yet the drumbeat of thousands of people killed every year continues,” said UTEP anthropology ...
Family violence cases and sexual assaults have reached their highest levels since at least 2018, according to nearly four years of data from the El Paso Police Department. So far, 2021 has topped the numbers ...
At the start of the pandemic, law enforcement and domestic violence hotlines the world over saw a surge in family violence. This year, incidents of domestic and sexual violence have continued to rise in El ...
Seizures of fentanyl and overdose deaths caused by the potent narcotic have skyrocketed in El Paso, as in much of the nation. But along with the rise in a very real public health crisis has ...
Over the past two decades, the El Paso Police Department has paid Robert Taylor more than $1 million as a consultant and trainer. But a federal judge earlier this year said city lawyers could not ...
The number of serious crimes reported to El Paso police in 2020 declined by 18% compared to the previous year, continuing a remarkable trend, the FBI reported this week. Violent crime reported to police — ...
Revelations of an alleged antisemitic motive to a gruesome crime in El Paso have carried painful impacts for El Paso’s Jewish community, local Jewish leaders say. Almost a year passed before an arrest was made ...
It took nearly a year for an arrest to be made in the gruesome shooting of an El Paso couple in their home on the edge of Memorial Park in Central El Paso. Georgette Kaufmann, ...
El Paso County sheriff’s deputies will navigate more than 80 acres of rugged land near the Socorro Student Activities Complex in an effort to reduce criminal activity that has plagued the area. The move comes ...
A somber procession of El Pasoans carried 23 black crosses, each stenciled with the names of people lost two years ago. Balloons were released as each of the victims’ names were read out. There were ...
The federal and state cases against the gunman accused of killing 23 people and injuring dozens more at an El Paso Walmart face ongoing delays with no trial dates set in either jurisdiction. At the ...
Days before its official unveiling on Tuesday, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego walked through the healing garden planted to honor the victims of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting. Since the hate crime that took ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg In 1913, a Russian Jew named Mendel Beilis was accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire, in a notorious trial known as the “Beilis affair.” Despite lacking any ...
Texas carries out more executions than any other state — by a long shot. More than 570 people have been executed by the state of Texas since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death ...
Fireworks and festivities of Fourth of July are around the corner, but dry and hot conditions make the El Paso area a potential tinderbox. Personal fireworks are banned within El Paso city limits, but are ...
Multiple bills aimed at police reform introduced during Texas’ 87th Legislature failed to gain traction. while bills aimed to maintain police funding and to protect officers were signed into law. An El Paso City Council ...
For more than two decades, women have been raped, disappeared and killed in frightening numbers in Ciudad Juárez. Mothers and other relatives of the women have engaged in activism to make sure they aren’t forgotten ...
In the aftermath of the August 2019 shooting that left 23 people in El Paso dead, area lawmakers were cautiously optimistic that the rampage, one of the worst in Texas history, would spur Texas Republicans ...
Child advocates have seen changes in the ways cases of abuse have been reported to authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when the majority of children haven’t returned to schools for in-person learning — ...
By Isabela Baca When talking about teen dating violence, I keep hearing statements like “It’s normal, everyone does it” and “It’s a new generation, don’t be too reserved.” However, I believe it is important to ...
By Sandra Nevárez García One in three! This is the number of youth, throughout the United States, who experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse while in a dating relationship. These abusive relationships often are unseen ...
District Attorney-elect Yvonne Rosales has told dozens of attorneys and staff that they will be out of a job when she takes office Jan. 1. The attorneys handling the prosecution of the Walmart mass shooting ...
As El Paso has suffered one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, local jails and immigrant detention facilities have also struggled to control the spread of the virus among prisoners, detainees and staff. ...
Tito Anchondo met with President Donald Trump in the days after his brother and sister-in-law were killed in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart. The president and first lady Melania ...
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By Beto O’Rourke Two years ago today a Texas man killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso. In the manifesto he published shortly before the murders he wrote that he’d come to repel ...