El Paso

The Texas city of El Paso, which sits on the border with Mexico, has become one of the worst COVID-19 hotspots in the nation, with over 81,000 positive cases. NBCLX talked to locals battling the crisis, including El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego and Dr. Zeinab Mohammad, about what they’re experiencing on the ground.

The National Guard has been mobilized to El Paso, Texas, to help work in overflowing morgues as the state battles a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. Chris Babcock, the editor in chief of the “El Paso Herald Post” joined LX News to report from what is being called “ground zero” in the battle against COVID-19 at the Texas-Mexico border.

Across the city, more than 1,000 people per day are testing positive and the city’s major hospitals are overrun with severely ill and dying El Pasoans. Hundreds of health care workers have flown into El Paso to pick up shifts from exhausted doctors and nurses and to staff tent hospitals erected in parking lots.

The Texas National Guard has sent a 36-member team to El Paso to assist morgues in the border region with the number of dead as a result of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.

A record surge in coronavirus cases has pushed hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the metropolitan area of 3 million people

El Paso, Texas, is turning its convention center into a field hospital and asking residents to stay at home for two weeks after the city recorded a roughly 200 percent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations in less than a month, officials said Sunday.

El Paso is marking the anniversary of a shooting at a crowded Walmart by remembering the 23 people killed.

A man accused of shooting scores of people at a Texas Walmart last summer was indicted Thursday on new federal hate crime and gun charges following the death of another person injured in the attack.

Prosecutors say the man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more at a Walmart in Texas is expected to be reindicted Thursday as he faces another murder charge in the mass shooting that targeted Mexicans.

A man pleaded guilty in connection with a West Texas ring that smuggled rare living rock cacti, a plant that wildlife officials say are a protected species.

A man shot in the Aug. 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart died after months in the hospital, raising the death toll from the attack to 23, according to a hospital official.

“Smuggling can be a dirty business even when it involves cleaning supplies,” Customs and Border Protection said.

NFL offensive tackle Greg Robinson was being held Wednesday in a Texas jail on a pending drug distribution charge from a federal agency, records show.

Police are releasing the name of a 25-year-old arrested after he allegedly stabbed a child while she was in the play area at a McDonald’s restaurant in El Paso, Texas

The man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with federal hate crimes.

A person who was seen on surveillance video saving a baby during last year’s mass shooting at a Walmart in Texas that killed 22 people has been identified as a then-homeless man who was living in a makeshift camp near the store, police said. Surveillance footage showed a man carrying a baby to safety, but the man’s identity remained...