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Former girlfriend of imprisoned EPISD superintendent resigns her position at Canutillo ISD
Pamela Fierro, the executive director of curriculum and instruction at Canutillo Independent School District, has resigned her position. Fierro's resignation comes after KFOX14 obtained Freedom of Information Act documents regarding her work history and her qualifications, and after internal and Texas Education Agency audits revealed she couldn't answer several questions ...
Neighborhood in danger from Monday's brush fires has no fire hydrants
For many people, the neighborhood of Santa Teresita in Santa Teresa, N.M., would be a perfect place to live, but residents tell KFOX14 Monday's brush fires that threatened their homes opened their eyes to a problem -- the neighborhood doesn't have any fire hydrants as far as the eye can ...
Arrest affidavit: Jose Castanon, 22, beaten to death during drug deal
KFOX14 has obtained the arrest affidavit for the three suspects accused of killing 22-year-old Jose Castanon in his home early Friday morning, a killing police have described as a drug deal gone bad. In the affidavit, police say that 22-year-old Ricardo Macias, 21-year-old Sonia Bautista, and 18-year-old Brianna Garay went ...
Reaction to Westboro Baptist Church plan to protest Fort Bliss memorial for 5 fallen soldiers
Borderland residents react with anger and disgust after the highly controversial Westboro Baptist Church announces it will be protesting Wednesday's memorial service for five Fort Bliss soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan. WBC posted the following statement on its website: (Language warning) "If you sign up to be a part ...
New Socorro mayor, council members sworn in
The city of Socorro started a new era Thursday night as two new City Council members and a new mayor were sworn into office. Thursday evening was the city's first council meeting since a judge ruled that former city representatives Jesse Gandara Jr. and Willie Madrid had illegally extended their ...
Jesse Gandara Jr. to receive trial by jury for animal cruelty charges
Former Socorro city councilman Jesse Gandara Jr. will be receiving a trial by jury after Judge Monica Teran granted his attorney's request to have one at a pretrial hearing Thursday afternoon. As KFOX14 previously reported, Gandara was arrested on animal cruelty charges after El Paso County Sheriffs Deputies raided his ...
Forbes report lists El Paso as fourth-worst in nation for college grad salaries
A Forbes magazine report lists El Paso as the fourth-worst city in the nation for college graduate salaries. Forbes used data from Payscale.com to rank the 100 largest metropolitan areas from 1-100 in terms of highest to lowest median salaries for people with bachelor's degrees. El Paso's median salary for ...
Mayor who pleaded guilty to felony hasn't resigned, refuses questions
Anthony, Texas Mayor Art Franco did not resign his position at Tuesday night's town council meeting, and instead, dodged all questions from the media, slipped out a back exit and drove away. Reports had been circulating that Franco would be resigning after he pleaded guilty to a felony, stemming from ...
Long-time Anthony town council incumbents voted out of office
Two long-time incumbent town council members in Anthony, Texas have been voted out of office and replaced by newcomers. Unofficial election results show that Luis Vela, a 14-year incumbent, lost to Jose G. Garcia by 15 votes, and 16-year incumbent Demetrio Cuellar lost to Joanna Rivera by 178 votes. But ...
UTEP professor: 2013 election numbers are huge improvement despite turnout
A quick look at voter turnout numbers for Saturday's election may scream voter apathy, but Gregory Rocha, a political science professor at University of Texas, El Paso, told KFOX14 the numbers are actually fairly standard for a local election. According to the El Paso County Elections website, there are 357,837 ...
Leeser, Ortega talk election results, runoff for mayoral seat
After Saturday night's unofficial election results were tallied, mayoral candidates Oscar Leeser and Steve Ortega had two very different reactions. "It's incredible, I'm excited, I'm at a loss for words," Leeser said. "The numbers obviously aren't as high as we would've liked them to be," said Ortega. Unofficial results show ...
Police arrest four men in copper wire theft operation
Four men accused of several copper wire thefts across the borderland are behind bars after police arrested them in a sting operation. Police said the men tried to strip copper wire from an electrical box, but they didn't realize police were watching everything they did through a surveillance camera. Vicente ...
Update: 2 more arrests made in Dona Ana, El Paso counties drug sweep
Twenty-nine people living in Dona Ana and El Paso counties face federal drug trafficking charges; 24 of them were arrested in a massive drug operation early Wednesday morning. Residents of Anthony, N.M., say they woke up to sounds of explosions and saw helicopters with search lights and law enforcement swarming ...
Eastside club accused of not paying karaoke contest winners
Two women contacted KFOX14, alleging that an eastside club never paid them when they won a karaoke contest that was sponsored and hosted by the club. Dolores Fuentes and Deanna Vasquez told KFOX14 that they won first and second place in the contest at 15Ten Ultra Lounge in East El ...
5 Fort Bliss soldiers killed in Afghanistan
The names of the five Fort Bliss soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Saturday have been released. The soldiers were on patrol in Kandahar province when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb. The following soldiers have been identified by Army officials as those who were killed in the explosion: Army Spc. ...
City ordinance to make street solicitation misdemeanor crime, up to $500 fine
El Paso City Council has approved and implemented a rewritten version of a past ordinance meant to remove aggressive solicitors from the streets. The new ordinance makes it a crime to solicit from within 15 feet of a street median or corner, and would also make it illegal for drivers ...
Local school district compared to national on student specialty groups
After a widespread cheating scandal rocked several school districts in El Paso, KFOX14 reached out to a teacher's association from Los Angeles Unified School District to ask them about their standardized testing policies, and how they compare to the Sun City. Most of El Paso's cheating schemes had to do ...
President of El Paso's future AAA baseball team confident it will succeed
The president of the the AAA baseball team that will call El Paso home in spring of 2014 sat down with KFOX14 and talked about why he believes the team will be successful. Alan Ledford, the president of MountainStar Sports Group, thinks that the team will do much better in ...
Contest opens to name El Paso's new Triple-A team
Borderland residents will now be able to help pick the name of the AAA baseball team that will be calling downtown El Paso home by this time next year. MountainStar Sports Group president Alan Ledford told KFOX14 that the company is launching a contest in which local residents will be ...
Local women react to new morning-after pill regulations
Starting Monday, teenage girls as young as 15 will be able to buy the morning-after pill, known as Plan B, over the counter. As of right now, girls have to be at least 17 years old to buy the pills, but the Food and Drug Administration approved a change on ...
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