El Paso News

El Paso Mayor John Cook is holding his monthly open door meeting Wednesday. The mayor's door is open to the public from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. You have the chance to bring any concerns you have on the 10th floor of City Hall.

Trudy Trafton illuminated our lives with simple words. Trafton loved bending our ears with her "musings" about life, as an El Paso Times guest columnist.

Karla Fuentes is a young artist with an interesting canvas -- tennis shoes. At the suggestion of her boyfriend, a couple years ago, Fuentes hand-painted a pair of tennis shoes and gave them to him as a Christmas present.

The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

Arnett Moultrie scored 25 points and Claude Britten added 19, both career highs, as Texas-El Paso defeated Arkansas State 82-56 Saturday night.

Corey Dlask, who plays father duck Drake, rehearses with Ceci Schlesinger, who plays mother duck Ida, in the El Paso Playhouse production "Honk!" The musical runs through Dec.

Men of Mobile, we have been insulted! It seems some Webzine called TotalBeauty.com has deemed us number five among the eight ugliest cities in these United States when it comes to dudes.

The El Paso County Health Department said two individuals have died from the H1N1 virus.

Customs and Border Protection agents said they found dangerous pests at the El Paso and Santa Teresa ports of entry on Tuesday and Wednesday.

El Paso blogger David Karlsruher hit a touchy subject and for that he's the subject of a lawsuit -- what we consider a frivolous lawsuit.

Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez say four of state police officers have been killed and two others injured in two separate attacks.

UPDATE: The phone number the health department released this morning to make a vaccination appointment was wrong.

The federal government is seeking $1 million from three people, including a Customs and Border Protection employee, who were arrested on bribery and smuggling charges, U.S. attorney's office officials said Thursday.

A tanker truck carrying 9,200 gallons of propane rolled over in Far East El Paso, according to El Paso County sheriff.

County ethics commission Chairman Stuart Leeds on Monday filed a defamation suit against online columnist David Karlsruher, who wrote in a blog posting that the ethics panel leader was planning a witch hunt against his political adversaries.

This is one of the nation's top job-performing cities, according to a study released Wednesday.

The long-running dispute between Eastside bar owners and nearby residents will continue with an independent mediator.

A lawsuit has been filed recently that could provide us with entertainment for quite some time. In a blog post on Nov. 11, local blogger David K. expressed worry about why the Ethics Commission was being rushed along. David K. expressed his belief they were being rushed so the "witch hunts" could begin, comparing ethics commission chairman Stuart Leeds (pictured above right) with Salem Witch Hunt leader Cotton Mather (pictured above left).

County ethics commission Chairman Stuart Leeds on Monday filed a defamation suit against online columnist David Karlsruher, who wrote in a blog posting that the ethics panel leader was planning a witch hunt against his political adversaries.

The U.S Postal Service has spiraled downward, reporting a huge loss net loss for the 2009 fiscal year, and with the loss may come some changes to the way you get your mail.