Socorro News

Jurors on Wednesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for the murders of his former wife and her friend.

Keeping a promise to regularly visit all of his farflung constituencies, U.S. Rep.

Jurors deliberated just two hours this morning before sentencing a man to three years in prison for a fatal wreck last year.

Soon after his conviction Thursday for killing two Socorro teens last year, Mario Ruiz apologized to the teens' families but maintained his innocence.

Mario Ruiz, accused of running over and killing two Socorro teenagers last year, fled after the wreck, prosecution witnesses said Wednesday.

A mother and her 16-year-old son were the first to testify Tuesday in the trial of a man accused killing two young men in a crash last year in the Lower Valley.

I attempted to attend the UTEP basketball exhibition game. I loaded up the family, stopped at the ATM to make sure I had enough cash and headed across town to the Don Haskins Center.

Nobody knows children's books better than Margaret Barber. She never planned to own a bookstore, but for 19 years she has been the proud owner of The Bookery, located at 10167 Soccoro Road.

Across the centuries and decades, local and regional historians have debated the big question: Who were the first El Pasoans? Obviously, they were the Indians, although these were not necessarily the ancestors of present-day Indians.

A man wanted on a warrant for sexual assault was found hiding under insulation in an attic, Sheriff's deputies said today.

The City Council has tinkered with what it wants out of a new blue-ribbon committee on regional parks, but delayed naming any members to it.

Former fugitive Ricardo Ordonez was arrested Tuesday morning. Ordonez was wanted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office in connection with sexual assault.

A San Elizario man killed last month was a convicted "coyote" who was the leader of a local immigrant-smuggling ring, federal documents revealed.

The Housing Authority of the City of El Paso is requesting bids for Martin Luther King Apartments roof replacement, ARRA-10-R-0006, Nov.

Want to root for the home team? It will cost you at Montwood High School, one of a handful of public schools in the area that charge students to attend pep rallies.

Can you put a dollar amount on the value of school spirit? Apparently ... yes. Students at three of the four high schools in the Socorro Independent School District -- El Paso County's third-largest district -- are asked to pony up a dollar to attend pep rallies.

Socorro police officers aren't getting their hopes up, but they could be getting a raise.

Eliot Shapleigh has pulled off perhaps El Paso's funniest political con ever -- or at least since State Rep.

A 29-year-old woman died late Wednesday after she was driving on the wrong side of a road and crashed head-on into another car in the Lower Valley, a police spokesman said.

Joe Alvarez was named Socorro High School's new head baseball coach today. Alvarez has been with the program since 1999, starting as a junior varsity coach, then moving to a varsity assistant coach under head coach Chris Forbes.