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Posted on December 17, 2009
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Police Blotter 12.21-23.09: Man arrested in hit and run; 2nd arrest made in theft case
Posted on December 21, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.
El Paso ISD Embraces Honest Grading, Sort Of
Posted on December 10, 2009
Nuances aside, two schools of thought stand in perpetual conflict. One argues giving students a "zero" or another very low grade, either on assignments on entire marking periods, makes it impossible, mathematically, for them to catch up...
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- Police Blotter 12.28.09: Manhunt Monday
- News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Manhunt Monday suspect Ricardo Zuniga
- Police Blotter 12.15-18.09: Suspect wanted for armed robbery, Most wanted woman caught at truck stop
- News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Megan Castillo
- Police Blotter 12.09.09: Home burglarized while teen hides in restroom, Crime Stoppers Family Violence
- News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Manhunt Monday suspect Felipe Madrigal.
- Police Blotter 12.01.09: Couple rescued from cold; crime stoppers family violence
- News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.
- El Paso ranked 2nd Safest City by CQ Press
- News Release from The City of El Paso--Texas
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Police Blotter 12.28.09: Manhunt Monday
Posted on December 28, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Manhunt Monday suspect Ricardo Zuniga
Police Blotter 12.15-18.09: Suspect wanted for armed robbery, Most wanted woman caught at truck stop
Posted on December 18, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Megan Castillo
Police Blotter 12.09.09: Home burglarized while teen hides in restroom, Crime Stoppers Family Violence
Posted on December 7, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Manhunt Monday suspect Felipe Madrigal.
Police Blotter 12.01.09: Couple rescued from cold; crime stoppers family violence
Posted on December 1, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.
El Paso ranked 2nd Safest City by CQ Press
Posted on November 23, 2009
News Release from The City of El Paso--Texas
Police Blotter 11.23.09: Manhunt Monday
Posted on November 23, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top
Police Blotter 11.16-18.09: Manhunt Monday Suspect captured
Posted on November 18, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.
Official Announcement Larry Medina for El Paso County Judge
Posted on October 29, 2009
“Just as I rose from the projects to become a successful businessman and elected public official, I want to help the community to rise above its recent history. I plan to lead all of El Paso County, including the city and smaller towns and communities to a successful and corruption-free future,” says Medina.
Police Blotter 10.28.09: Crime Stopper Family Violence
Posted on October 28, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.
Obama signs Armendariz courthouse bill into law
Posted on October 20, 2009
"This is a proud moment for the El Paso community and Hispanics around the nation." - U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes
Police Blotter 10.20.09: Crime Stoppers family violence
Posted on October 20, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.
Shapleigh will not seek re-election; Chavez, Rodriguez, maybe Cook and others interested
Posted on October 16, 2009
“In our family, public service is the highest calling. While other public service may lie ahead, I will not run for the Texas Senate in 2010.” -- state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh.
The Pecos Insurrection
Posted on October 12, 2009
How a private prison pushed immigrant inmates to the brink.
1.5 Million Immigrant Children Lack Health Insurance
Posted on October 12, 2009
The offspring of Mexican immigrants are three times more likely to not have health insurance than other children living in the US, according to the study, which also reported that 86 percent of the uninsured children are US citizens.
Adrian Pena, accused of bribing a county commissioner, indicted again on $19 million EPISD contract
Posted on October 9, 2009
Pena, who worked for contractor CF Jordan when he allegedly bribed County Commission Betti Flores for a vote and favors on the county's Downtown garage project, is accused of giving an EPISD trustee $13,000 in exchange for help with an unspecified $19 million project.
Former El Paso city official awaiting presidential appointment to IBWC
Posted on October 8, 2009
A former public works director for the city of El Paso, Ed Drusina, is in line to become the next commissioner of the troubled International Boundary and Water Commission.
Richard Pearson, El Paso's brash TV pioneer, dies at 71
Posted on October 8, 2009
Pearson, who was known for his sharp, colorful and sometimes outrageous on-air editorials, spent his career in El Paso as a radio personality, advertising salesman and manager and head of the two television operations.
The price of urbanization, growth: Redd Road extension revived
Posted on October 7, 2009
“This is a painful process that all areas are going through as they suburbanize and urbanize … and it will be no less painful in five or 10 years than it is today.” -- City Manager Joyce Wilson
Human rights advocates rally around Hickerson
Posted on October 6, 2009
“He has said, ‘I will not seek asylum; I want to confront my government, I want to seek safety for the people I defend, and for the institution that is supposed to defend these individuals engaged in no other activity other than trying to make an honest living in Mexico.’” - Carlos Spector on Gustavo De la Rosa Hickerson
Suspension of officer over newsmen's arrests may get Civil Service Commission review
Posted on October 5, 2009
Lawyer Fernando Chacon, a member of the city’s Civil Service Commission, wants the commission to review the Police Department’s handling of the case of Officer Raul Ramirez, who arrested two ABC-7 newsmen on the freeway in April.
Another bridge fight: city wants Redd Road extension back on the map
Posted on October 5, 2009
“They voted on the thing in May and everyone approved it. It pushed the Redd Road question to 2025, but its back on the agenda again five months later. It leaves us distrusting our City Council. How can they approve a plan and then come back and change it five months later?" -- Mary Frances Keisling, president of Save the Valley Neighborhood Association
Deindustrialization, drugs and recovery
Posted on October 5, 2009
A careful reading shows how much of the underworld activity moved from north to south, especially but not exclusively during the Prohibition Era, in contrast to the contemporary media stories of violence and mayhem threatening to spill across the US border from Mexico.
Police Blotter 10.05-07.09: Bank robber gets eight years in federal prison; 10th murder of 2009
Posted on October 5, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured, Manhunt Monday suspect.
Allegations of corruption at international boundary commission bring federal investigators after agency's whistleblowing lawyer fired
Posted on October 2, 2009
”On July 28, 2009, McCarthy reported to the Inspector General that IBWC officials had conducted secret surveillance of agency employees, altered official government records, made false reports to the Inspector General, manipulated payrolls, misappropriated funds, built substandard levees and operated unsafe dams and wastewater treatment plants."
