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800x600   El Paso County Attorney José R. Rodríguez announced today the sentencing of a Landscaping Contractor accused of 3 charges of Deceptive Business Practices.             On Thursday November 16th in County Criminal Court #1 Gerardo Rangel, doing business as ...

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  El Paso County Attorney José R. Rodríguez announced today the sentencing of an individual found guilty of dumping restaurant grease into a storm drain located next to El Paso City Hall.             On November 6, 2006 Lorenzo Chavez, Jr., employed by Chavez Plumbing and Sons, pled ...

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Members of the El Paso County Attorney's Domestic Violence Unit will offer an educational awareness seminar about dating violence to more than 600 Americas High School students. The seminar called "Dating Violence: Awareness, Prevention and Reporting" is offered through out the year to hundreds of local middle and high school ...

  "I am very concerned about the problem of teens trying to bring drugs into the U.S. I believe the best way to fight this problem is to balance education, through community outreach programs, with vigorous prosecution of serious juvenile cases. This is why our office has made strong efforts to educate the teens in their schools ...

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  Members of the Texas Border Coalition approved this morning in San Antonio the 2007-2008 Border Health Legislative Agenda drafted by El Paso County Attorney José R. Rodríguez, as Chair of the TBC's Border Health Committee.              The legislative ...

The Texas Senate Committee on International Relations and Trade will conduct hearings aimed at strengthening state law that prevents the creation of new colonias lacking basic water/wastewater infrastructure. The hearings come in response to recent proposals to water down existing colonias ...

High-tech trash, including old computers, televisions and cellular phones, might be causing environmental problems in El Paso. According to the EPA, circuit boards and batteries contain toxic materials such as mercury and hexavalent chromium. Despite that, there are very few federal and state regulations regarding the disposal of household ...