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Filmed in glossy black and white, and adopting a non-judgmental vérité approach, director Carlos Alfonso Corral’s debut is a humanizing look at a small section of the homeless population in El Paso, Texas. “Dirty Feathers,” is a short, but thematically rich, film about those on the margins of society.

Ricardo González, known as Cepillín, has died at the age of 75. González died after entering intensive care yesterday for heart failure and pneumonia.

For job seekers in El Paso, Texas, one well-paid option is in law enforcement. The city sits on the U.S.-Mexico border and teems with officers from the border patrol, ICE, DEA, the Texas state police, the local police department and sheriff’s department. Plus there’s the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Marie Harmon, a leading lady of such 1940s Western movies at Nighttime in Nevada with Roy Rogers, The El Paso Kid with Sunset Carson and the 1947 film Gunsmoke, died Monday, Jan. 25 of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was 97.

Marie Harmon, a starlet in 1940s Hollywood who starred with Roy Rogers in Nighttime in Nevada and with Sunset Carson in The El Paso Kid, has died. She was 97.

The family of a 19-year-old soldier found dead in Fort Bliss, Texas last week said she had been sexually assaulted by another soldier a year before her death and was "ready to fight" for justice in her case.

Federal agents in Texas seized more than 100,000 counterfeit medical masks near the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this month -- a shipment that was intended for U.S. hospital workers on the East Coast, authorities said Wednesday.

COVID-19 test kits are being delivered by drone in an El Paso, Texas, pilot project that involves Walmart and Quest Diagnostics. KFOX14 reports that the pilot program to deliver testing kits to homes in El Paso started Tuesday.The drone deliveries are made to single-family homes within a 1.5-mile radius of a Walmart Supercenter in East El Paso.

A married couple in El Paso – both prosecutors whose work involved child support cases – were shot at their own home over the weekend, as investigators continue to piece together the details of the incident that happened in the city’s historic Manhattan Heights neighborhood. Authorities have yet to identify a suspect or release many details about the case, but Saturday marked the second fatal incident at the couple’s address in the last two years, according to El Paso Times.

Hate crimes in the United States last year rose to the highest levels in more than a decade, according to a new FBI report.

Inmates in Texas are reportedly being used to help the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s office handle the influx of bodies as coronavirus cases surge in the area. Several El Paso County inmates were spotted at the ME’s office on Saturday by a photographer with The Texas Tribune.The inmates were dressed in PPE gear and moving bodies into mobile morgues stationed outside the building.

A surge in coronavirus cases in one Colorado county has left contact tracers there strapped for resources and unable to complete contact tracing for all new cases, according to local health officials.  Health officials in El Paso County warned this week that a “high volume” of cases may prevent tracers from being able to “complete contact tracing for all positive COVID-19 cases.” Contact tracing efforts in some instances will be left up to residents who test positive, per officials.

A Texas appeals court temporarily halted a county judge's order Thursday that mandates the closure of non-essential businesses in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The request to the Eighth Court of Appeals was filed by state Attorney General Ken Paxton and restaurant owners, who sought to strike down portions of El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego's lockdown measures.

At least 10 temporary refrigerated morgue trailers were called in by officials in El Paso, Texas, on Monday as the city grapples with a new wave of coronavirus deaths, according to reports.  County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said that six morgue trailers had already been deployed as of Monday and four more were requested from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). They will be sent to local funeral homes amid demand for increased storage space.  Samaniego said coronavirus deaths in El Paso

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A female U.S. Army officer on Thursday became the second suspect arrested this week in connection with the death of an Army captain at Fort Bliss in Texas, according to reports.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hasn't traveled to Texas in months, but on Tuesday, his campaign will dispatch his wife, Jill Biden, to help boost early voting turnout in the Lone Star State. The Biden campaign announced that Jill Biden will make three stops in Texas, with planned events in El Paso, where she will be joined by former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke; Dallas and Houston, where she'll be joined by U.S.

Aarón Sánchez tells ET.The judge and El Paso, Texas, native began cooking at an early age, helping his mother, famed restauranteur Zarela Martinez, prepare traditional Mexican meals for her catering business and later Café Marimba.

https://t.co/UpXEYoFJAl"We say farewell to one of the greatest figures of Mexican comedy, until we met again, Manuel "El Loco" Valdés" – The Actors Association #Comedy #Comedian #ElLoco #ManuelValdes #Mexicohttps://t.co/Z7lIdDdYsbFull Obituary: El Paso Times

René Kladzyk, the artist, dancer, and journalist, will release True Romantic, her new album as Ziemba, on September 25. The record marks something of a change for Kladzyk, who usually treats her music as one part of a multi-disciplinary project — creating "worlds incorporating architectural influences, theatre performances, set design, aesthetic framings and color theories," as Liz Pelly writes in her notes for the album.

Joaquin Castro Just over a year ago, a gunman drove more than 600 miles to shoot and kill people because he viewed Latinos, who have lived in El Paso long before the U.S. was even founded, as invaders.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gael García Bernal will don the mask and the tights of Cassandro, an independent feature from Oscar winning and two-time Emmy nominee filmmaker Roger Ross Williams.Cassandro tells the true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rises to international stardom after he creates the “exotico” character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre,” and in the process upends not just the macho wrestling world

Omar Rodríguez-López is what you’d describe as a mercurial musician. Alongside Cedric Bixler-Zavalad, throughout the 90’s and too little of the subsequent 00’s the guitarist made-up 50% of the magic dust sprinkled upon El Paso’s At The Drive-In.

Khalid is hitting the dance floor in a new music video designed to get fans up and moving while they self-isolate.

The highly anticipated Rage Against the Machine Public Service Announcement reunion tour has been postponed due to fears over the spreading COVID-19 pandemic.

By Peter Debruge, Variety.com

Last summer, even before the public had gotten a chance to see it, humans-hunting-humans thriller “The Hunt” became a target for pundits on both sides of the gun control debate, when a pair of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, prompted critics to consider the media’s role in glorifying violence. In response, Universal ripped director Craig Zobel’s movie from its original Sept.

Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions has ruled the box office when it comes to the horror genre in recent years, so when “The Hunt” cancelled its planned September 2019 release, it was a major shock.

On July 31, 2019, Universal released a trailer for ‘The Hunt’, and people were pissed.

Coachella 2020 headliners Rage Against The Machine will hit the road this spring for a world tour with Run The Jewels. The Public Service Announcement tour begins March 26 in El Paso and continues across the United States and to Canada, and Europe.

After announcing a string of reunion shows, Rage Against the Machine have unveiled a full tour, as Rolling Stone notes. Featuring support from Run the Jewels, they kick things off next month in El Paso, Texas and currently wrap up in Krakow, Poland in September.

It’s a new year and Ozuna is ready for a new round with his Nibiru Tour. The Puerto Rican star has confirmed the dates for his third consecutive run throughout the United States.