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News Articles: El Paso

A person reacts during a hearing for Patrick Crusius, the Walmart mass shooter, at the Enrique Moreno County Courthosue in El Paso, Texas, April 21, 2025.

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  • National

El Paso Walmart shooter receives rebuke and forgiveness as he gets 23 life sentences

Victims and families of the people who died in the 2019 attack offered impact testimonies as trial ends. "I have no more room for hate in my heart," said Yvonne Gonzalez, who lost her parents.

April 23, 2025
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By:
  • Aaron Montes
An image taken from a video shows ambulances and rescue team staffers outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday.

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  • World

39 migrants are dead, 29 injured after a fire at an immigration facility in Mexico

At least 39 migrants are dead following a fire Monday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the U.S. border. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the migrants started the fire out of despair.

March 28, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson,
  • Bill Chappell,
  • and 1 more
An asylum-seeking migrant woman from Peru in a wheelchair is escorted through the border wall to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States in El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 21.

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  • National

The future of migrants in El Paso remains uncertain as border restrictions continue

Migrants have traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to the Mexican border in a search of a better life. Many are turning themselves over to U.S. border authorities and seeking asylum.

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Jim Urquhart
Migrants walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to US Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on December 13, 2022. (Photo by Herika Martinez / AFP)

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  • National

A Texas mayor has declared a state of emergency over migrants crossing the border

The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community's ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Mexican border.

December 18, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
An inmate from the El Paso County detention facility prepares to load bodies wrapped in plastic into a refrigerated temporary morgue trailer.

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  • National

El Paso Issues New Curfew As 'Perfect Storm' Approaches With Arrival Of Holidays

The new curfew for El Paso County, Texas went into effect just after midnight Wednesday and runs through Monday. The judge who issued the order said it was "not as rigid" as he wanted.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
A low-level inmate from El Paso County detention facility works loading bodies wrapped in plastic into a refrigerated temporary morgue trailer in a parking lot of the El Paso County Medical Examiner's office on Tuesday.

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  • National

El Paso County Posts Job Opening For Morgue Workers As Virus Death Toll Mounts

"The Morgue Attendant will be provided maximum PPE, will be tasked with physically moving bodies, and will require the ability to lift between 100-400 lbs. with assistance," the job listing states.

November 20, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Health care workers at the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston on July 2.

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  • Health

Texas Surpasses 1 Million Coronavirus Cases, According To Johns Hopkins University

The state is the first in U.S. to reach the grim benchmark as the nation faces a widespread surge in infections.

November 11, 2020
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By:
  • Reese Oxner
Cars wait in line at a coronavirus testing site at the University of Texas at El Paso Saturday. As El Paso reports record numbers of active coronavirus cases, the Texas attorney general sued to block local shutdown orders.

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  • National

El Paso, Texas, Gets 4th Mobile Morgue As COVID-19 Deaths Rise

A spike in cases recently led El Paso's county judge to impose a shelter-in-place order closing many nonessential businesses. The Texas attorney general has sued to block that order.

November 02, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Cars line up for coronavirus tests at the University of Texas at El Paso on Oct. 23. The city has seen a surge in cases, prompting a judge to issue a shutdown of nonessential businesses.

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  • National

El Paso County Judge Orders Shutdown Of Nonessential Businesses

The judge's order calls for the closure of hair salons, gyms and restaurant dine-in services. The Texas attorney general says the judge has "no authority" to impose the shutdown.

October 30, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Cars line up Friday at a coronavirus testing site at the University of Texas at El Paso. The area has seen a surge in cases in recent weeks, and a two-week curfew is now in effect in El Paso County.

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  • National

El Paso, Texas, Judge Issues 2-Week Curfew To Stem Surge Of COVID-19 Cases

The judge said he was "left with no choice" but to impose a countywide curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. He noted El Paso County has seen a 160% increase in its positivity rate in the last three weeks.

October 26, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
A woman leaves flowers at a makeshift memorial at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.

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  • News

'Anger, Anguish' And 'Cohesion': Updates From El Paso in the Wake of Mass Shooting

President Donald Trump is headed to both Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, Wednesday in response to the recent mass shootings in the two cities. Along...

August 07, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott

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  • News

On Second Thought For Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019

About two dozen Georgia counties and cities are involved in one of the largest civil trials in U.S. history. They’re some of about 2,000 local...

August 07, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Jake Troyer ,
  • and 5 more

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