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Feb 20 2024
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Girl dead, boy hospitalized after being trapped in sand hole in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
MIAMI - A young girl is dead and a boy is at a local hospital Tuesday night after being trapped in a sand hole in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. It happened in the area of 4424 El Mar Drive. Images from Chopper 4 showed the sand hole surrounded by cones on the beach and police yellow tape. Fire Rescue officials said the boy remains at Broward General Medical Center after a six-foot deep sand hole
CBS News (Online)
Feb 22 2024
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Texas Attorney General Moves to Shut down Catholic Migrant Shelters
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued a volunteer-run network of Catholic migrant shelters based in El Paso, Texas, aiming to revoke the organization’s nonprofit registration. The lawsuit comes after Annunciation House moved to delay handing over documents about its clients to the attorney general. Paxton’s office said it had demanded Annunciation House records because of the organization
ChurchLeaders.com
Feb 21 2024
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Orgs unite in San Juan to educate residents on controversial immigration laws
SAN JUAN — The El Paso-based Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) visited the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday to help spread information about new immigration laws and to call for an end to Operation Lone Star. BNHR was joined by members of La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), ARISE Adelante, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Border Workers United — known collectively as Frontera
MyRGVNews
Dec 17 2023
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Two U.S.-Mexico rail crossings in Texas to be shut down because of migrant surge
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. officials are halting freight train operations across the U.S.-Mexico border at two locations because of a surge in migrant traffic, the El Paso Times reports. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency will temporarily suspend the freight crossings at Eagle Pass and El Paso — the No. 2 and No. 3 international gateways in Texas — as of 8 a.m. local time on Monday, Dec
Trains.com
Feb 21 2024
Fact Check
Were there 169 'terror watchlist' arrests at the US southern border in 2023?
In fiscal year 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 169 encounters with individuals identified as “potential matches” in its Terrorist Screening Dataset at the U.S.- Mexico border. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View this fact brief on El Paso Matters.
Gigafact
Feb 18 2024
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Man, woman found dead at UCCS campus identified
Colorado Springs police have released the names of a man and woman found dead Friday in a dormitory room on the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus. Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, and Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, were autopsied and identified by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office on Saturday, according to a Sunday news release from the Colorado Springs Police Department.
Colorado Springs Gazette
Feb 20 2024
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Suspect arrested in Colorado Springs university shooting that killed Pueblo woman, Parker man
A University of Colorado at Colorado Springs student has been arrested following an alleged double homicide in a campus dorm room on Friday, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, Michigan, is suspected of two counts of first-degree murder. One of the two people killed in the alleged murders was a 26-year-old woman from Pueblo. The two victims
The Pueblo Chieftain
Feb 22 2024
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Paxton sues to shut down faith-based migrant shelters
AUSTIN (RNS)—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued a volunteer-run network of Catholic migrant shelters based in El Paso, aiming to revoke the organization’s nonprofit registration. The lawsuit comes after Annunciation House moved to delay handing over documents about its clients to the attorney general. Paxton’s office said it had demanded Annunciation House records because of the
Baptist Standard
Feb 22 2024
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Young Girl Killed After Sand Collapse At FL Beach ID'd: Reports
Authorities identified the young girl as Sloan Mattingly, the outlet reported, adding Mattingly and her family were visiting Florida from Indiana. Emergency crews responded around 3 p.m. to El Mar Drive in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, where they first found the 9-year-old boy buried up his chest in sand, Sandra King, a spokesperson for Pompano Beach Fire Rescue, said. The boy's condition was unknown
Patch.com
Feb 14 2024
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Turkey’s Erdogan to discuss Gaza war with Sissi in 1st Egypt visit since 2012
CAIRO, Egypt — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday on his first visit since 2012, sealing a thaw in ties between the regional heavyweights. Erdogan was welcomed at Cairo airport by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and the two men exchanged a handshake on the tarmac, live footage of his arrival showed. Erdogan, an outspoken critic of
The Times of Israel