Prison for 3 ex-El Paso Paso Corp. traders in natural gas false reporting, fraud cases
Prison for 3 former El Paso Corp. traders HOUSTON — Three former El Paso Corp. traders are going to prison over their efforts to manipulate the price of natural gas by reporting false data. Asarco sites to be cleaned up with $1.8B in settlements with federal, state regulators
Asarco sites to be cleaned under $1.8B settlement Family injured in Texas natural gas pipeline explosion files lawsuit
Family hurt in Texas pipeline explosion files suit Business groups in Mexican border city gripped by violence call for UN peacekeepers to help
Mexico border city groups call for UN peacekeepers 3 injured, homes damaged in Texas natural gas line explosion; flames visible for 20 miles
3 injured, home destroyed in Texas gas line blast El Paso 3rd-quarter profit plunges 87 percent on lower natural gas prices; dividend slashed
El Paso posts big 3Q profit plunge, cuts dividend El Paso Corp. slashes quarterly dividend by 80 percent, announces cost-cutting measures
El Paso slashes dividend to conserve cash HOUSTON — Natural gas producer El Paso Corp. on Tuesday slashed its dividend and announced several other measures to save or raise cash. AP IMPACT: Expanding US-Mexico border mission into drug war, ICE mishandles informants
AP IMPACT: Immigration agents mishandle informants TX authorities free Mexican rights advocate after holding him for protection he didn’t requestEL PASO, Texas — Immigration authorities released a Mexican human rights official Wednesday, after detaining him last week as an asylum seeker even though he had not sought U.S. protection, his attorney said. Mexican human rights official in US immigration custody doesn’t want asylum, lawyer saysEL PASO, Texas — A Mexican human rights official who has publicly said he feared for his life has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities as an asylum-seeker — even though he doesn’t want American protection, his lawyer said. US customs agents detain Mexican human rights activist apparently for his own safetyEL PASO, Texas — A Mexican human rights official is in U.S. customs detention, apparently for his own safety, after he reported 170 instances of Mexican soldiers allegedly torturing, abusing and killing innocent people in Chihuahua. Critics: Perry sending elite Texas Rangers to border to handle burglaries, not drug violenceMcALLEN, Texas — Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas. Superintendent tells Mexican residents attending US schools: Prove Texas residency or leaveDEL RIO, Texas — Students living in northern Mexico have skirted residency requirements to attend U.S. public schools for generations, but when the superintendent in one Texas border town got word that about 400 school-age children were crossing the international bridge each day with backpacks but no student visas, he figured he had to do something. Mexican soldiers detain man for multiple homicides in drug-plagued border cityCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Soldiers have arrested a man suspected of killing 18 people in a series of attacks this year in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Body with severed arms found in Mexico border city identified as Texas man kidnapped from homeEL PASO, Texas — A body found with its severed arms crossed and placed on its chest in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was identified by authorities Wednesday as a Texas man kidnapped from his home. Mexican officials blame drug treatment center killings on violent cartels preying on patientsCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Neighbors mopped blood from the sidewalk outside a drug rehabilitation center Thursday, cleaning up the carnage after gunmen lined up patients against a wall and then riddled them with bullets, killing 18. All 7 astronauts on space shuttle mission are parents, have 20 children among themCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — All seven astronauts on space shuttle Discovery’s mission are parents, and they have 20 children among themselves. Experts: Using informants risky, but ICE could have kept closer eye on man charged in hitEL PASO, Texas — As police pieced together the details of the contract killing of a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant-turned-U.S. informant, a surprising connection emerged: their chief suspect was an informant himself. 3 El Paso teens, including US soldier, now charged in cartel shooting set up by US informantEL PASO, Texas — Three teenagers, including a U.S. Army soldier, are charged with capital murder for their roles in the contract killing of a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant who was also cooperating with U.S. authorities, police said Wednesday. El Paso boy, 16, is 4th to be arrested in shooting death of Mexican drug cartel informantEL PASO, Texas — Police arrested a 16-year-old boy on a capital murder charge Wednesday in the shooting death of a Mexican drug cartel official who also was a government informant. Drug cartel lieutenant in Texas targeted by fellow informant for talking to US authoritiesEL PASO, Texas — After his Juarez cartel boss was arrested in Mexico last year, Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana left town — taking refuge in a high-end El Paso neighborhood. Police: Man accused of orchestrating hit of alleged ICE informant was himself an informantEL PASO, Texas — A man accused of hiring a U.S. Army soldier and another man to kill a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant who was cooperating with U.S. authorities was himself a government informant, police said Tuesday. Napolitano: Heightened enforcement to prevent drug violence from spilling in from MexicoHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced $30 million in federal grants Tuesday to prevent drug-fueled violence from spilling into the United States from Mexico, heralding it as the latest of several moves in recent months to bolster border enforcement. Police: US soldier was triggerman in paid hit on Mexican cartel member who was informantEL PASO, Texas — An 18-year-old U.S. Army soldier was the triggerman in a paid hit on a Mexican drug cartel figure who was also an informant for the U.S. drug enforcement agency, police said Tuesday in announcing the arrests of the soldier and two alleged coconspirators. US soldier, 2 others charged with killing senior Mexican cartel member who was an informantEL PASO, Texas — An 18-year-old U.S. Army soldier and two other men have been charged with capital murder in the contract killing of a midlevel Mexican drug cartel official who was also a U.S. informant. Authorities say 3 arrested in shooting death of Mexican drug cartel informant in TexasEL PASO, Texas — Three men were arrested Monday night in the shooting death of a U.S. drug informant in front of his home this spring, authorities said. 5 bodies, 1 headless, found in van parked in northern Mexican border city across from El PasoMEXICO CITY — Five bodies, one of them headless, were found in a van in the border city of Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday, a day when a prominent U.S. senator blocked some aid to Mexico over alleged human rights violations by soldiers and police fighting violent drug cartels. APNewsBreak: Officals say Juarez lieutenant killed on US soil was informant working for fedsEL PASO, Texas — The eight bullets that leveled Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana outside his home just doors from the city’s police chief were fired at close range and left little doubt about their message. Federal appeals court upholds prison term for drug smuggler shot by border agentsEL PASO, Texas — A federal appeals court has upheld the prison term for an admitted drug smuggler wounded in a controversial shooting by Border Patrol agents. Feds ask court to block potential release of evidence in anti-Castro militant caseEL PASO, Texas — Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to block the potential public release of “sensitive” evidence in a perjury case against an aging anti-Castro Cuban militant who once worked for the CIA. |