Sparks News

With the year 2010 on the horizon, the Census Bureau will soon start counting heads in this country.

Some East El Paso County residents hope that a newly created animal control service will finally rid their neighborhoods of stray dogs.

The county government is getting its own crew of dog catchers and horse wranglers.

City Rep. Emma Acosta holds the microphone as retired attorney Jesus B. Ochoa, left, speaks in favor of a public option during a meeting on health care earlier this month at Burges High School.

Fans are lining up for the Britney Spears concert with Kristinia DeBarge and Jordin Sparks set to open for the pop star at 8 p.m. at the Don Haskins Center.

El Paso will get $143,000 for a flood control project under an appropriations bill passed by the Senate on Thursday, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announced.

El Paso will get $143,000 for a flood control project under an appropriations bill passed by the Senate on Thursday, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announced.

Socorro residents continue to see flooding in the area that prevents them from leaving their neighborhood.

Sheriff's deputies foiled an alleged plot to bust a convicted felon out of a correctional facility near Sparks and Horizon City.

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.