Local Stories for February 2012
Stories for Monday, February 27
Local property tax mistake leads to unnecessary tax notice
Some El Pasoans are receiving delinquent property tax notices after they paid taxes through a local escrow company, but the company says the city tax collector's office is to blame. Property taxes were due Jan. 31, but Rhonda Bridge, owner of Escrow Inc. in east El Paso, said her company ...
Stories for Sunday, February 26
History of controversy in Sunland Park
The recent extortion and conspiracy charges are only a part of the scandal surrounding Sunland Park in the last six months. Martin Resendiz has not resigned as Mayor of the city, but also hasn't attended city council meetings after he admitted to signing several city contracts to an architectural design ...
Stories for Thursday, February 23
Lady Miners sweep conference before season ends
The UTEP women's basketball team swept the C-USA regular season title tonight before the season officially ended with a 68-50 win over the SMU Mustangs. The Lady Miners started off Thursday night’s game against Southern Methodist University with a three point bucket and never looked back. The Miner’s lead the ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 22
Father warns other parents against school nurse
Chris Apodaca has had to take his sons to the hospital on multiple occasions, but his most recent trip caused him a fair amount of concern. Apodaca said he wasn't notified his 7-year-old son had fallen out of his chair and onto the floor because the student was dizzy, until ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 21
Anthony credit card statements show frequent travel and dining
A stack of credit card statements spanning from 2009- 2011 show frequent travel and dinning by the Anthony, Texas city council and mayor on the city's dime. The documents, obtained through open record laws, are visa credit card statements under the name of Art Franco representing the town of Anthony. ...
Stories for Sunday, February 19
Doña Ana County public meetings to discuss detention center, noise ordinance
The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners is holding four public meetings this week for residents to express their concerns about the Doña Ana County Detention Center. The series of two-hour meetings is designed first address the proposed noise ordinance in the county during the first hour, followed by a ...
Stories for Thursday, February 16
West Nile cure close to home
Dr. Manjunath Swamy is originally from India, spent twenty years working at Harvard, and now calls El Paso home-- He came strictly for the bugs. Swamy is working with a team of medical researchers at Texas Tech's Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso to find a cure ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 15
Daycare fighting huge fine all the way to due date
Ice Castles Too Learning Center has eight days left until the day care owes $40,000 towards a fine incurred from missing I-9 forms. In July of 2009, Alejandrina and Raul Delgado, owners of Ice Castles, were approached by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent asking about I-9 forms. I-9 forms ...
Stories for Sunday, February 12
Neighbors say lower valley couple didn't show any sign of trouble
While investigators performed a formal autopsy Sunday afternoon, residents of the Columbia Terrace apartments were outside placing flowers, candles, and balloons at the dented gate where a lower valley woman is accused of running down her husband early Saturday morning. Laura Patricia Juarez, 31, is charged with the murder of ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 7
UTEP newspaper accuses administration of playing favorites
The Prospector is accusing UTEP administration of playing favorites when it comes to punishing student athletes. After the student newspaper broke a story about two UTEP women's basketball players busted for having drug paraphernalia in their dorm, a student employee was fired for speaking anonymously to The Prospector, according to ...
Stories for Sunday, February 5
Fire crews respond to Central El Paso house fire
An elderly woman and a young boy escaped with their lives from a house fire in central El Paso Sunday morning. Fire crews responded to the home at 3208 Louisville around 9 a.m. Firefighters said heavy flames could be seen coming from one of the bedrooms. Fire Department officials said a 77-year-old woman and a ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 1
Freeze Anniversary: El Paso works to weed out dead trees
El Paso city is preparing to rip out nearly 100 palm trees that did not survive the sub-freezing temperatures that moved in across the borderland exactly one year ago Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the city said there about 520 palm trees planted in city medians and 15 percent were hit ...
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