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 ...
It was a busy, hot, Saturday morning when word started to spread about what was happening at Walmart. El Pasoans throughout the city were just starting their day or running errands. “As I made my ...
The morning of Aug. 3, 2019, started as a routine Saturday at University Medical Center of El Paso and Del Sol Medical Center. Until 10:39 a.m. That moment, where the first call came into 911 ...
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 ...
William Englisbee embodies the quiet strength of the city he calls home. “Every day’s a struggle,” Englisbee said at Evergreen Cemetery East, where he was paying respects to his mother. Angelina Maria Silva de Englisbee ...
El Paso Matters retraces the events of Aug. 3, 2019, through the eyes of the Walmart store manager, a surgeon, a congresswoman, the head of an El Paso nonprofit and a funeral director. Morning, Aug. ...
By Joe Moody There isn’t an El Pasoan anywhere who can’t tell you where they were and how they felt on Aug. 3, 2019, after the massacre at the Cielo Vista Walmart. I was at ...
Visual markers are a powerful tool for framing our city’s response to the mass shooting on Aug. 3, a way to express shared outrage, pain, and hope for a better future. Standing in front of ...
United Way of El Paso County has extensive experience in crisis, which it brought to bear after the Aug. 3 mass shooting last year. The unprecedented attack on Latinos where 23 people were killed by ...
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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 ...