El Paso County (Texas)

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A West Texas teenager has been accused of faking cancer and collecting about $17,000 in donations. Police say 18-year-old Angie Gomez of Horizon City has been charged with theft by deception. Detective Liliana Medina says...

Texas Tribune Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, is the latest lawmaker to say it: A $4 billion shortfall in state financing does not have to mean teachers lose their jobs. At the end of the legislative session, Ogden, told his colleagues in the Senate that...

Texas Tribune In a state that bans same-sex marriage, it would seem to be easy to know who can legally marry. Texas county clerks will tell you it is not. A two-year-old state law says a court order recognizing a sex or name change is acceptable for...

A 21-year-old man and his 14-year-old girlfriend were arrested Thursday on suspicion of fatally stabbing the girl's grandparents in their Rosemead home, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies found Jack Dell Benzer, 70, and his wife, Susan Diane Benzer, 64,...

Following the fatal strangulation of a 10-month-old boy in Texas, federal safety officials on Thursday announced the recall of more than 400,000 infant play yards sold by a Chicago company. Meanwhile, an embarrassed Oak Brook-based RC2 Corp. admitted...

Lorenzo de la Torre Torres was on the cusp of death. Drug cartel hit men had pumped the deputy police chief with more than 20 bullets, and slightly wounded his boss, after a wild car chase in Nuevo Casas Grandes, the Mexican city the two were supposed to...