Sparks News

Workers from the El Paso County Water Improvement District and others channel rainwater Monday into an irrigation ditch along Coker Road east of Socorro.

When the rain came down Sunday, it poured. 'There was a big rain,' said Emilia Marmolejo, who lives in Canutillo.

A second suspect has been arrested in the execution-style killings of two brothers outside a Socorro bar, El Paso County sheriff's deputies said Friday.

To Bill Sparks, building a food pantry in Fabens has been an exercise in good deed -- one especially important because so many migrant farm worker families find themselves living from season to season in the agriculturally-based Lower Valley community.

Gregg County XTO Energy will drill the M. W. Evans Well 3H and Meadows Gas Unit Well 3H in Willow Springs Field to 17,000 feet.

The County's sheriff's office is looking for a convicted sex offender who allegedly left the halfway house located at 1700 Horizon near Sparks.

Sparks are flying over an awkwardly delivered high-five in El Paso. The misfire came last week when school superintendent Lorenzo Garcia was giving principals high-fives while celebrating state test scores.

Two families were displaced Tuesday afternoon after a pallet fire completely destroyed their mobile homes.

The Horizon and Socorro fire departments are fighting a fire that spread to two homes in Sparks, a sheriff's spokesman said.

A late-night fire leveled a mobile home in Sparks and posed a threat to neighboring homes Wednesday night.

A 6-year-old child suffered life-threatening injuries after being thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Sparks, El Paso County Sheriff's deputies said Monday.

The city's Pet Care-A-Van mobile clinic will offer free spay and neuter services at five East Side locations the rest of April.

The Lower Valley now has additional help for treating mental illness now that El Paso Mental Health and Mental Retardation has begun conducting free mental health evaluations through a mobile unit in several ...

County Commissioners on Monday asked the Texas Legislature to look into possible restrictions that would prevent the sale of fireworks within two miles of residents living in unincorporated communities in El ...

Volunteer firefighters from Horizon were called to a mobile home on Jeremiah Drive in the community of Sparks about a mobile home fire at about 3:30 on Monday afternoon.

Roaming dogs shows pet overpopulation Once again, dogs roaming the streets of El Paso County have attacked two citizens.

After two pit bulls attack two women in Fabens last week, the newly elected El Paso sheriff's sets up a meeting with Animal Control to talk about those issues.

A 25-year-old man was arrested and charged with the burglary of a Sparks home in East El Paso County early Friday morning, according to a Sheriff's Office news release.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is seeking tips in a suspected arson at the Sparks Community Center.