El Paso News

Gay-rights proponents protested outside a Chico's Tacos restaurant in El Paso, TX, on Friday after media reported that five men were ejected from the restaurant because two of them were seen kissing.

By conventional wisdom, El Paso, Texas should be one of the scariest places in America.

"As time goes by, you start to really understand life when you have the death of a friend, somebody close to you," says Akon, the R&B crooner performing today at the Don Haskins Center.

El Paso's "chubby robber," the "Village People robber" and the "golf robber" were taken out of circulation Thursday with the arrest of a 45-year-old man, authorities said.

Just weeks after a police raid on a gay club in one Texas city left a patron with life-threatening brain injuries, another Texas city is embroiled in controversy after gay men were kicked out of a restaurant -- and local police took the restaurant's side.

Electric trains traveling at 150 mph could one day connect El Paso to Albuquerque and Denver if a proposed high-speed rail corridor gets money from the federal government.

The retail cost of gasoline across Texas has fallen to $2.41 a gallon. AAA Texas on Friday reported the average price at the pump was down 8 cents from one week earlier.

A former FBI agent is charged with illegally selling guns and lying to federal authorities.

New Mexico, Colorado and Texas are applying for federal funds to study the viability of a high-speed rail system from El Paso through New Mexico to Denver.

Members of El Paso City Council on Thursday told Police Chief Greg Allen they were unhappy with the Police Department's handling of an incident were two gay men were kicked out after kissing each other at a Chico's Tacos restaurant.

A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe Calderon's drug war.

Detectives interviewed neighbors and friends of a 39-year-old man found dead in his apartment Wednesday afternoon in Downtown El Paso.

A grand jury did not believe that El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia assaulted one of his principals.

The man accused in the beating death of his landlord in April was indicted Monday by a grand jury, court records show.

Las Cruces police are searching for a suspect after the victim of a shooting Sunday died.

A stolen car was intentionally set on fire in West El Paso early this morning, a fire spokesman said.

An Alamogordo man and woman are dead after being found shot inside a home. Police detective Dusty L. Collins says 27-year-old Maximiliano Griego was pronounced dead inside the residence Sunday, and 34-year-old Mary Gutierrez died after being airlifted to Thomason Hospital in El Paso, Texas.

Rosi Casas, community youth development coordinator, sits in the bleachers at Skyline Optimist Park in Northeast El Paso, where Casas hosts a softball league for at-risk teens.

A five car crash on Monarch Pass Sunday morning kills two people. It happened just before 10 am between Gunnison and Salida.

An El Paso man was killed early Monday morning when he was hit head-on in a construction zone on U.S. Highway 62/180 south of Carlsbad, according to New Mexico State police.