Socorro News

A man wanted on a warrant for sexual assault was found hiding under insulation in an attic, Sheriff's deputies said today.

The City Council has tinkered with what it wants out of a new blue-ribbon committee on regional parks, but delayed naming any members to it.

Former fugitive Ricardo Ordonez was arrested Tuesday morning. Ordonez was wanted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office in connection with sexual assault.

A San Elizario man killed last month was a convicted "coyote" who was the leader of a local immigrant-smuggling ring, federal documents revealed.

The Housing Authority of the City of El Paso is requesting bids for Martin Luther King Apartments roof replacement, ARRA-10-R-0006, Nov.

Want to root for the home team? It will cost you at Montwood High School, one of a handful of public schools in the area that charge students to attend pep rallies.

Can you put a dollar amount on the value of school spirit? Apparently ... yes. Students at three of the four high schools in the Socorro Independent School District -- El Paso County's third-largest district -- are asked to pony up a dollar to attend pep rallies.

Socorro police officers aren't getting their hopes up, but they could be getting a raise.

Eliot Shapleigh has pulled off perhaps El Paso's funniest political con ever -- or at least since State Rep.

A 29-year-old woman died late Wednesday after she was driving on the wrong side of a road and crashed head-on into another car in the Lower Valley, a police spokesman said.

Joe Alvarez was named Socorro High School's new head baseball coach today. Alvarez has been with the program since 1999, starting as a junior varsity coach, then moving to a varsity assistant coach under head coach Chris Forbes.

A convicted child molester who had not registered as a sex offender could have been preying on young people at a Socorro church, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.

El Paso police continue the investigation into a shooting early Sunday morning. It happened at the Value Place Hotel on Gateway West before 5 a.m. Police said a 26-year-old woman was shot in the chest area, and was taken to University Medical Center.

City of Socorro police officers could be getting a $5 pay raise this year in the hopes to recruit and retain more officers.

Trumpets blared, saxophones roared and drums boomed as 27 high school bands marched across the field Saturday at the Socorro Activities Complex.

Trustees of the Socorro Independent School District voted Friday to shift $19.6 million in bond money away from voter-approved projects and instead add resources to two new schools.

Administrators of the Socorro Independent School District are proposing to shift away from $19.6 million in construction projects that were approved by voters five years ago.

When it comes to milestones, your child's first steps can't be beat. One day she's standing against the couch -- maybe sliding along it -- and the next she's toddling hesitantly into your waiting arms.

Five things to do this weekend. Southern New Mexico State Fair & Rodeo: El Paso's own, The Iveys, perform at the fair tonight at 9 p.m. Popular country band Eli Young Band performs at 10 p.m. Check out the rest of the fair festivities - including goats, tigers and fried pickles - from 8 a.m. to midnight today and Saturday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Texas Department of Transportation and the city of Socorro are still working on expanding a major traffic artery in the county area.