Sierra Blanca News

Lincoln County is losing Don Franklin as warden of the county jail in Carrizo-zo, managed by Emerald Companies.

It's been 18 years in the making and planning, but it finally appears the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will have a state-sanctioned facility for low-level radioactive waste.

Community service has given Eagle Scout Brian Kelly a sense of purpose.The 18-year-old Horizon City resident was recently awarded the Eagle rank, the highest in the Boy Scouts.

No one has heard from Riverside High School art teacher Gustav Erick Djerf since he vanished from the desert 37 days ago.

A Mexican woman and her 12-year-old son were the beneficiaries of a coordinated search by law enforcement officers in Hudspeth County Thursday, September 10.

An art teacher from Riverside High School disappeared Monday from a campsite in Hudspeth County near the Rio Grande.

Border Patrol Marfa Sector Press Release August 7, 2009 MARFA, Texas - Agents of the Alpine and Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Stations seized 1,298 pounds of marijuana in three separate incidents Wednesday and Thursday, August 5 and 6. Just after midnight on August 5, an eighteen-wheeler driven by an El Paso man pulled into the Sierra Blanca ...

Border Patrol Marfa Sector Press Release August 7, 2009 MARFA, Texas - Agents of the Alpine and Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Stations seized 1,298 pounds of marijuana in three separate incidents Wednesday and Thursday, August 5 and 6. Just after midnight on August 5, an eighteen-wheeler driven by an El Paso man pulled into the Sierra Blanca ...

Ranchers in the Sierra Blanca area complain that federal agents keep opening the ranchers' gates allowing their livestock to roam free.

Less than 48 hours after a four year old boy was struck by gunfire while attending his grandmother's birthday party in LB's Wrigley area, LBPD announced that a "Be on the Lookout" notice it transmitted resulted in the arrest of a 46 year old LB resident...in El Paso, TX.

A woman found dead in Juarez earlier this week was from the El Paso-Sierra Blanca area, family members said Thursday.

A California man is pleading with U.S. immigration officials not to deport his pregnant wife to an island country in the Pacific Ocean.

Federal contractors are busy this week putting the finishing touches on five miles of border fence in Hudspeth County.

It was a dream car in 1970. Today it is a car of dreams. The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 was one of those muscle cars that every car-crazy person dreamed of owning back in the day.

The closing today of the Planned Parenthood Center of El Paso brings to an end a long, controversial history filled with changing sexual mores, women's rights and advances in contraception.

Planned Parenthood services will no longer be available to residents of El Paso and Sierra Blanca, officials announced Friday.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News egarcia@cbs7.com June 11, 2009 MARFA, TX - The Presidio County Jail in Marfa is in the process of shutting down because the county can't afford to run it.

Cody B. Harper and Larry P. Adams Jr., both of Abilene, recently graduated from the Texas Department of Public Safety's Training Academy in Austin.