El Paso County News Archives

A clerk with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office is in police custody. El Paso Police arrested David Hererra, 25, Friday night for prostitution, possession of marijuana and for traffic tickets.

Criminals have helped save El Paso County taxpayers thousands of dollars. A Justice of the Peace awarded more than 2,800 gallons of gas to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

A federal judge in El Paso has thrown out bribery charges against a lawyer and a district clerk in a public corruption investigation.

Juan Carlos Ocasio, network manager with El Paso County, received the BizTech 2009 Tech Rock Star award from co-chairs Barbara Walker and Peter Cooper on Tuesday during the 11th annual BizTech Executive Luncheon at the El Paso Community College's Adminis trative Services Building.

Nine of the 10 seats on the county government's new ethics commission have been filled, and the defense attorney leading the panel said there could be many changes to the county's ethics code.

A woman who deputies said was smoking marijuana at a Black Crowes concert was arrested after she allegedly kicked a deputy in the groin.

Police on Wednesday arrested a man who allegedly shot and wounded a 13-year-old boy on Monday, and officers continued to search for four other suspects, said a police complaint affidavit obtained by the El Paso Times.

It's deja vu all over again as El Paso Mental Health and Mental Retardation goes to El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday pleading for desperately needed funding.

Researchers at the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living at The University of Texas School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus found the obesity prevention efforts in the El Paso region were the most effective in Texas in decreasing the prevalence of childhood obesity.

Back on Sept. 1, it became illegal in the state of texas to talk or text on your cell phone while driving through a school zone, but right now, it is still legal in all of El Paso County.

El Paso County sheriff's deputies need your help in looking for this week's Manhunt Monday.

Hours after State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh announced he would not seek reelection, names are circulating as to who will take his seat in District 29.

El Paso leaders should focus on getting workers trained in five growing industry clusters, and establish a stronger link between schools and businesses to improve its work force in the next five years.

A drug-sniffing dog found 31 pounds of marijuana inside bags of dog food Wednesday afternoon at the Bridge of the Americas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.

El Paso County Sheriff's Deputies said a man tried to escape arrest by running through the desert.

We congratulate Commissioners Escobar, Gandara, and Perez for voting on Monday to restore early mobile voting for 2010.

The El Paso Board of County Commissioners approved the acceptance of a $350,000 grant awarded by the United States Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women .

A Mexican human-rights investigator who has criticized the army's involvement in trying to control the violence in the state of Chihuahua charged on Tuesday that soldiers are behind some of the violence.

El Paso county government almost came to a screeching halt Monday afternoon, after a court order stopped commissioners from approving their budget for the next year.

El Paso County at law judge Javier Alvarez has been tapped to become the newest federal judge in El Paso, according to a Texas lawyers website.

In an effort to save some money, county commissioners canceled their contract with the city's animal control.

After complaints of illegal dumping from concerned residents who live near Desert Storm Road and Montana Avenue, an investigation led to an arrest of an east El Paso man.

District Attorney Jaime Esparza has dismissed a 4-year-old murder case against a former soldier just before he was to stand trial.

El Paso County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a child molester who travels to El Paso often.

A two-sport coach at Parkland High School has been suspended after being arrested last week for allegedly taking $20 from a student's wallet.

Sheriff's deputies on Friday identified the 15-year-old girl killed in a two-vehicle collision last night as Eliza Flores, an East El Paso County resident.

A 15-year-old girl was killed in a two-vehicle collision Thursday evening at the intersection of Montana Avenue and Krag Street in Montana Vista, an El Paso County sheriff's spokeswoman said.

El Paso County has eliminated nearly 50 positions in order to balance the budget for this fiscal year, which started on Thursday, but County Commissioners have also approved hiring people for 29 currently vacant positions despite a hiring freeze.

An El Paso police officer who arrested KVIA reporter Darren Hunt and cameraman Ric Dupont in a videotaped encounter seen nationwide acted unprofessionally and was given an 11-day unpaid suspension, officials announced Tuesday.