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Ambrose: The path to violence control

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:52:04 -0400

By JAY AMBROSE - The killings in Chicago are easing up, thanks to special cop programs. That was the good news from The New York Times recently, although then, not many days later, there was another spate of deadly shootings, telling us that even though law enforcement efforts matter, lots of other things matter, too.

Railroad museum in El Paso needs new home

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:40:29 -0400

EL PASO, Texas - A railroad museum in West Texas has left a locomotive behind after being evicted in a rental dispute at a city-operated building.

Plea reached in cartel informant's shooting death

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:00:30 -0400

EL PASO, Texas - An ex-federal informant and Mexican drug cartel member has pleaded guilty to murder as part of an agreement with prosecutors for the slaying of a fellow cartel member and fellow informant.

Federal audit confirms cheating at El Paso schools

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:23:26 -0400

EL PASO, Texas - A federal audit confirms several schools in El Paso cheated on high-stakes accountability tests during the tenure of now-convicted superintendent Lorenzo Garcia.

Ambrose: Is privacy going poof in America?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:50:30 -0400

President Barack Obama is more right than wrong in his embrace of massive data collection to help prevent terrorist attacks, but watch out, fellow Americans. Privacy in our land is going poof, this particular program has potential for grave abuse, and here is an administration that too often wanders off the ranch as ideology urges it forward and incompetence says OK. - The program in question grew out of the George W. Bush-era Patriot Act that used to leave liberals trembling, and still affects some that way -- although not Obama. While once publicly anxious about the surveillance it permitted, he signed its reauthorization. He also accepted indefinite detention, grew lax on closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and continued sending terrorist prisoners overseas.

Trial for mother and son postponed until October

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:09:43 -0400

TOPEKA, Kansas - A Shawnee County judge has postponed the trial of a mother and son who are charged with killing the son's wife.

In May alone, 7 kids died in hot, locked cars, says a group...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:16:14 -0400

By SARAH HOLLENBECK - In May, seven children died across the country after being left inside locked cars, according an organization warning parents to be careful as the heat kicks in this summer.

US gives political asylum to Mexican journalist

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:47:44 -0400

EL PASO, Texas - U.S. government officials have granted political asylum to a Mexican newspaper photographer who fled his home state of Veracruz after unknown assailants killed his father.

Ambrose: Obama crosses bridge before coming to it

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:53:35 -0400

An 18-wheeler truck with contents reaching too high recently slammed into an overhead crossbeam on a bridge crossing the Skagit River in Washington state. The structure and two cars went splashing down, killing no one but leading to screams that we should immediately spend billions more on bridge safety. - I guess everyone forgot that President Barack Obama took care of the problem with his stimulus package passed in 2009. Or maybe it was just rhetoric.

Baylor alumnus gives school $35 million

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:02:52 -0400

WACO, Texas - A Baylor University alumnus has given the school $35 million to help build a new business school and football stadium.

Drug cases in South Texas often go unrposecuted, leaving...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:55:11 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - By MARK COLLETTE

Building of new US-Mexico border crossing stalls

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:58:41 -0400

TORNILLO, Texas - Jesse Grado walks cautiously past a welder whose work throws off a spray of brilliant sparks as construction crews lay slabs of concrete for a bridge over the Rio Grande. The leader of the project points to an empty void - the point where the six-lane span abruptly ends 30 feet above the river.

Ambrose: Apple didn't deserve congressional bruising

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:50:33 -0400

By JAY AMBROSE - Sen. Carl Levin, one of those liberal politicians leaving few harms unvisited as he does his big-government best to limit American possibilities, decided recently to beat up on Apple Inc., a business that helped pioneer a new computer age in this country and around the world. In its innovative quest for profits, it served us all far more than any current senator or bunch of them I can think of.

Scripps National Spelling Bee: Universities join newspapers...

Mon, 27 May 2013 16:50:38 -0400

By DON WADE - When what is now the Scripps National Spelling Bee began in 1925, it lacked, dare we say, the buzz it has today. No television, no Twitter and no way to know there would one day be a wildly popular movie, "Akeelah and the Bee."

Mental exam set for attorney accused of laundering

Sun, 26 May 2013 15:23:51 -0400

EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso lawyer and philanthropist accused of conspiring to launder $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel will undergo a mental examination before his trial.

NM senators want expanded hours for port of entry

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:58:15 -0400

SANTA FE, New Mexico - New Mexico's U.S. senators are asking the federal government for 24-hour daily operation of a port of entry at Santa Teresa, along the international border with Mexico.

Texas House remembers Sherman Hemsley

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:57:15 -0400

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Legislature has honored actor Sherman Hemsley, the man best known for playing the role of George Jefferson on The Jeffersons.

Las Cruces hits population milestone

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:05:00 -0400

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - Today's Las Cruces is very different from the one Carol Winnebago encountered when her family moved from Maine to the Mesilla Valley in 1958.

Ambrose: Regulatory bedlam? Yes, and it's growing

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:17:29 -0400

By JAY AMBROSE - A guy's walking across a college campus, sees a young woman, grins, winks and, even though he doesn't know her, says he'd sure like to take someone so beautiful out on a date. She's offended.