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Some Texans Return to Homes Charred by Wildfires

IVAN, Texas - With calmer winds giving firefighters a chance to get a handle on a few massive Texas wildfires Saturday, some residents returned to their homes - or what was left of them - in communities ravaged by the blazes. Gary Glasscock, who owns a 300-acre ranch near Possum Kingdom Lake, found his ranch house and...

Hot, Dry Weather Stokes Raging Texas Wildfires

FORT WORTH, Texas - Firefighters on Sunday continued battling out-of-control wildfires scorching nearly 400 square miles across the state, including a West Texas blaze that narrowly missed a historic frontier Army cavalry fort and one of the world's leading astronomical research facilities. A fast-moving wildfire had...

3 Teens Killed in Mexico, 2 of Them US Citizens

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday. The boys were killed at 4:22 p.m. Saturday while looking at cars in a dealership in the city across the border from El...

Record Number of Americans Killed in Mexican Border City

(Nov. 2) -- Four U.S. citizens were murdered in separate attacks in Ciudad Juarez this weekend, pushing the number of Americans killed in the Mexican border city to a record high, according to U.S. officials. U.S. State Department officials told the El Paso Times that at least 35 Americans died of unnatural causes in...

Cross-Border Gunshots Hit El Paso City Hall, Prompt Letter to President Obama

After seven bullets believed to have been fired from the Mexican town of Juarez hit El Paso's City Hall on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wrote a letter to President Barack Obama demanding "action." No one in El Paso was hurt in the shootings, which Abbott blamed on Mexico's warring drug cartels. His letter...

Background on El Paso, Texas

El Paso is the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. According to the 2010 census the city's population is 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States.

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