El Paso News

Fort Bliss and El Paso said goodbye to its native commander son and hello to a new leader with proven combat chops on Thursday.

A shooting Wednesday night turned out to be 23-year-old man who accidentally shot himself in the hand, an El Paso police spokesman said Thursday.

The cost of the Downtown ballpark could be going up by about $10 million if the El Paso City Council approves a contract amendment on Tuesday.

A former employee with a local home health provider is accused of stealing a ring from the 45-year-old daughter of an elderly client, then pawning it.

Eight of the 15 fastest-growing U.S. cities and towns for the year ending July 1, 2012, were in the Lone Star State, according to population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Popular events funded in part by the city's KickstART Downtown program, such as Neon Desert Music Festival, will be eligible to reapply for assistance past three years after the City Council today removed the restriction.

"My family and I are very excited to come home, and have an opportunity to serve the community we love," Hayes said, who also is a UTEP graduate.

U.S. officials on Wednesday said their intelligence indicates that the Sinaloa and JuA rez drug-trafficking organizations are active in the JuA rez region, and that a recent spike in drug violence in JuA rez can be attributed to cartel disputes.

A U.S. district judge granted several requests by a defendant in a federal sex-trafficking case, including adding a lawyer to his defense team, hiring a private investigator's services, and obtaining the names of unindicted co-conspirators, court records show.

El Paso County, for now, is not violating the Texas Constitution and can continue to provide health benefits to the domestic partners of its employees, a district court judge ruled on Tuesday.

About 500 people will attend the May 30 event at the ballpark construction site where the former City Hall building stood.

The Associated Press 5/21/13 El Paso, Texas- Military officials have identified the third Fort Bliss soldier killed recently in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device.

CBS7 News 5/21/13 EL PASO, Texas -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers working at the El Paso port of entry seized 207 pounds of marijuana Monday.

Looks like Texas wins out as the most family-friendly state in the nation, according to real estate site/blog Movoto.

El Paso police arrested a man they said stabbed a woman in the leg Tuesday morning.

"Bordertown" is a movie inspired by the murders of the women of Juarez in Mexico.

More than a dozen fire crews from DoA a Ana County and across the state line in El Paso are working to keep a brush fire near Santa Teresa from spreading as the wind carries embers in El Paso's Upper Valley.

A state district judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed against City Manager Joyce Wilson and city Reps.

El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday banned the sale and use of aerial fireworks in all unincorporated areas in the county as the drought index in El Paso is the highest in Texas.

The El Paso Fire Department was called at about 12:02 a.m. to the apartment on the 2100 block of Howze.