Marquez News

Senior members of the Texas House were high-fiving Wednesday night after they and the state Senate simultaneously passed bills that seemed a break a bitter impasse over the state budget.

CBS 7 News Robert Guaderrama rguaderrama@cbs7.com May 15, 2013 PERMIAN BASIN, TX - Law enforcement from across west Texas are paying their respects to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

Efforts to gather data and develop recommendations to reduce the use of solitary confinement in Texas jails and prisons seem to have withered this session in the face of opposition from officials who oversee those facilities.

Some El Paso legislators said they believe the recently ousted El Paso school board might have used taxpayer money to lobby against state reforms even after its removal became official Tuesday.

Twenty-two people were arrested on drug trafficking and other charges Wednesday during an early morning raid around the New Mexico border town of Anthony, federal officials said.

Residents of a small New Mexico border town woke to the sounds of helicopters, bangs and screaming as federal and local agents conducted an early morning sweep.

A little boy from Marquez, who was born with one of the rarest chromosomal disorders in the world, needs your help.

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.

Students who have been up since 5 am seemed giddy, excited to listen to the president who is expected to promote increased student exchange programs that likely will include the University of Texas system.

Two members of the El Paso native mother-daughters trio of "Muy Bueno: Three Generations of Authentic Mexican Flavor" cookbook and muybuenocookbook.com fame will make an appearance from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Costco, 6101 Gateway West.

Betty Hill Boatwright, 71, of Livingston, died just after 3:30 p.m. Thursday when the 2010 Ford she was driving collided with a 2003 pickup truck on State Highway 7, about a mile and a half miles east of Marquez, the Department of Public Safety said Friday The DPS trooper who investigated the accident said the Ford was westbound on Hwy.

One woman is killed after two vehicles collided in Leon County Thursday afternoon.