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Update: Judge, Justice of the Peace suspended
The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct has suspended District Court Judge Regina Arditti and Justice of the Peace Sissy Hernandez with pay, while District Court Judge Manuel Barraza remains suspended without pay.
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Santa's helpers at malls guarding against H1N1
Black Friday, the official start to the holiday shopping season, is less than a week away, but the threat of the H1N1 flu has Santa's helpers at one local mall taking extra precautions.
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Fire victim's friend: 'she was screaming and I could not help her'

'Quick-release' bars required in El Paso
Dona Ana County investigators say bars on the windows of a Chaparral mobile home where three people died in a fire kept the victims from escaping.
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City of EP: H1N1 vaccine to be available to select groups in Dec.
The City of El Paso's Department of Public Health will be offering the H1N1 flu vaccine during the month of December, but only by appointment.
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Alamogordo air service to continue

Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty in the murder of a Border Patrol agent shot eight times in head, neck and torso in July.
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Police: Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck
The pedestrian struck by a pickup truck Thursday in El Paso has died from his injuries, according to authorities.
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A look at El Paso area's unemployment numbers
The Texas Workforce Commission has released the latest employment numbers for the Upper Rio Grande Region.
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City loses revenue, hopes to bolster business

Associated Press - November 20, 2009 6:15 PM ET

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska ethanol plant is suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire last December that shut down the plant for weeks. Cornhusker Energy Lexington filed a federal lawsuit against Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission, claiming the loss of more than $1.8 million.

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) - An Austin man driving 1 of Miley Cyrus' tour buses was killed when the bus overturned on a highway in Virginia this morning. Virginia State Police say 53-year-old driver William G. Douglas was dead at the scene of the crash 40 miles south of Richmond, Virginia. Cyrus wasn't aboard the bus when the crash happened.

LAVON, Texas (AP) - Three people are dead and three others are hurt after an SUV and minivan collided on a rain-slick north Texas highway this morning. 3 of the four people in the minivan were killed. The crash happened on the western outskirts of Lavon, northeast of Dallas.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room tomorrow. Major Nidal Malik Hasan's civilian attorney, John Galligan, says military prosecutors notified him of their plans for the hearing at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.