EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he’s not aware of any “red flags” in the suspected El Paso gunman’s past and made no mention of taking major gun-control measures in Texas, where three mass shootings since 2017 have killed more than 50 people. Abbott, a Re...
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AUSTIN -- The major candidates in the race for governor have raised nearly $600,000 from El Pasoans. The Republican and Democratic primary elections will be March 2. Gubernatorial candidates had to file their latest campaign finance reports by midnight Friday. Republican Gov. Rick Perry, 59, ...
El Paso Fire Medical personnel arrive at the scene of a shooting at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP) EL PASO, Texas — Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a...
Lyndon B. Johnson and Gustavo Diaz Ordaz met in El Paso and Juarez to sign the Chamizal settlement border dispute. The federal government officially recognized the Ysleta Indian Community as a surviving tribe of American Indians and transferred all trust responsibilities to the State of Texas. ...
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a law (House Bill 1495) to help correct “unethical political behavior” at the local level. One key provision in the law requires political subdivisions to disclose the amount of money being spent to lobby the legis
El Paso, the sixth-largest city inTexasand the seat of El Paso County, is located in the far western part of the state on the north bank of theRio Grande, opposite the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez on the south bank. On April 30, 1598,Juan de Oñatetook formal possession of the ...
Rumor sends hundreds of migrants rushing for U.S. border at El Paso "They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications. Mar 13, 2023 Teen faces murder charge in shooting during Texas mall melee ...
The Texas governor published a letter to Biden on Tuesday, calling the strain on U.S. border communities such as El Paso "a catastrophe of your own making." "These communities and the state are ill-equipped to do the job assigned to the federal government - house the thousands of mig...
The incident outside the El Paso shelter also comes amid ramped-up efforts by Border Patrol to apprehend migrants on the streets of the Texas border city who evaded apprehension. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping on the city's streets because of depleted shelter space and because El Paso...