El Paso County News

El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday banned the sale and use of aerial fireworks in all unincorporated areas in the county as the drought index in El Paso is the highest in Texas.

This week's fugitive featured in Manhunt Monday goes by two different names and is charged with two different crimes.

El Paso county commissioners Monday banned some aerial fireworks known as sticks and fins in the unincorporated areas of the county due to the severe drought in the borderland.

A bill that would have granted the county power to zone land around the Tornillo Port of Entry likely is doomed, El Paso legislators said last week.

El Paso County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man for crashing and allegedly driving drunk with a child in his car.

New Mexico State Police has issued a Silver Alert for an elderly man from Texas who may be headed to Albuquerque.

On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a bill that allows counties to hire medical examiners licensed in other states while they apply for a license to practice medicine in Texas.

Two men were arrested during a traffic stop early Monday in San Elizario after El Paso County sheriff's deputies found a small amount of cocaine and one of the men kicked a window of a patrol car, officials said.

A quick look at voter turnout numbers for Saturday's election may scream voter apathy, but Gregory Rocha, a political science professor at University of Texas, El Paso, told KFOX14 the numbers are actually fairly standard for a local election.

Political newcomer Jim Tolbert led the nine-person race in the City Council District 2 race in early voting with 20.16 percent of the early votes reported today by the El Paso County Elections Office.

El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar's office is rolling out Movies by the Lake, a two-movie series designed to attract more families to the park at 6900 Delta.

El Paso County Elections employee Ruben Gamez, left, goes over the items in the bag given to precinct captains like Isela Lerma.

On Wednesday, postal carriers left paper bags in our mailboxes to announce the annual NALC food drive.

El Paso County sheriff's detectives arrested a man who posed as a police officer during a home burglary Wednesday in Tornillo.

Early voting numbers are in for Saturday's local elections in El Paso County. Between May 29 and the end of early voting Tuesday, 23,482 people voted.

El Paso County sheriff's deputies arrested 12 people suspected of driving while intoxicated during the weekend, officials said Wednesday.

The Texas Education Agency asked federal investigators to look into two more El Paso County school districts after internal audits by the two districts revealed irregularities similar to ones found in the El Paso Independent School District cheating scheme.

The 84th annual Southwestern International Rodeo, a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association sanctioned event, will return to the El Paso County Coliseum.

Mayor Art Franco of Anthony pleaded guilty in court Tuesday morning to charges of tampering with a government document following an arrest last September.

State senators are urged to follow the lead of the Texas House and pass a bill to require needed financial transparency of El Paso County school board trustees.