Vinton News

With the recent announcement that an egg production facility in Berino would be closing next year, resulting in the loss of 64 jobs, we were a little surprised to learn of local opposition to plans to relocate a meat processing facility to the community.

Mike Rosales has been named the 2009 Outstanding Ex for El Paso High School. A 1961 graduate of the school, Rosales is also a graduate of UTEP with a business degree.

A special animal task force comprised of El Paso animal control officers and El Paso county sheriff's deputies converged on West El Paso Wednesday.

Justices of the Peace in El Paso County have a lot of responsibility as judges of smaller crimes, and they said their job can require a lot of driving.

A 46-year-old woman confessed to shooting and killing her mother and step-father, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the El Paso Times.

Right now, a judge and county constable work out of a cramped building, across the street from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office westside location in Vinton, Texas.

The monthslong search for a site where the county government could build offices to serve Northwest El Paso is over.

John E. Murphy, Acting U.S. Attorney, announced that in El Paso this afternoon, 21-year-old Julio Adrian Martinez was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison in connection with the kidnapping of a 15-year-old Vinton, Texas, girl on September 23, 2008.

One man was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from Vinton, Texas.

A man accused of kidnapping his underage girlfriend last year was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday, the same day the victim was due to give birth to their child.

Residents of the village of Vinton, Texas can pick up sandbags at Vinton's City Hall Tuesday.

Over the weekend, Sheriff's Deputies had a walk-in at the Vinton station in regarding a kidnapping.

Voters in outlying municipalities in El Paso County cast ballots in sometimes contentious races on Saturday in Horizon City, Anthony and Vinton.

Man killed in rollover in West El Paso Council votes to accept proposed Asarco clean-up plan EL PASO COUNTY -- Deputies arrested a man who allegedly pointed a double-barreled shotgun at a driver in Vinton, Texas, officials with the El Paso County Sheriff's office said.

El Paso County Sheriff's Deputies arrest a man for allegedly kidnapping his estranged wife and child, then taking them to Juarez.

Early voting results show that two incumbent mayors in outlying communities were ahead of their challengers.

Almost three years have passed since the 2006 floods destroyed the homes of dozens of families in Vinton, a town north of the El Paso city limits in far West El Paso County.