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Learning a life lesson from John the hitchhiker Abe Villarreal It was about five years ago, the day after Christmas, and I was racing to get back to Silver City from a trip to visit family in Tucson. I had an obligation that afternoon so I was going as fast as the law would allow. Just as I was turning onto the last highway leading into Silver City, I noticed a man walking on the right hand side of the road. He didn’t have his finger out in the air, he was just walking. Something inside me t...

Celebrity by Shoba Rao Premium Content Subscriber only Prince Philip reportedly thought Harry and Meghans tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey was "madness", a royal biographer has claimed. The Duke of Edinburgh is reportedly said to have thought "no good would come of it" and regretted his grandsons decision to quit the royal family. Royal biographer Gyles Brandreth has claimed Prince Philip thought the interview was "not the right thing, either for the c...

El Paso Times Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Lindsay Fox, an emergency doctor who last worked at a hospital in Newark, New Jersey, saw as many as 100 COVID-19 positive patients come through her department in a shift. During the height of the pandemic, she would walk past a refrigerated truck full of dead bodies every day. HILLSBORO, N.M. – For much of 2020, it was as though the pandemic raging across the globe never existed in this 144-year-old hamlet at the base of...

A small New Mexico town’s journey through COVID reaches a milestone: Vaccination day Mónica Ortiz Uribe, El Paso Times Video: Rural New Mexico resident has a change of heart over COVID-19 vaccine Replay Video UP NEXT HILLSBORO, N.M. – For much of 2020, it was as though the pandemic raging across the globe never existed in this 144-year-old hamlet at the base of the Black Range mountains in southwest New Mexico. At least that’s how it might have appeared to an outsider v...

A brief COVID-19 scare creates an unexpected opportunity for a rural New Mexico town to come together for the first time in a year.

Valentines Day snow covers El Paso as winter storm hits Borderland region Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times El Paso woke up to a snowy Valentines Day on Sunday as snow continued to fall throughout the day in the Borderland. A winter weather advisory for the El Paso-Las Cruces area is in place until 5 a.m. Monday advising of snow, freezing temperatures and wind gusts of up to 35 mph.  The wind chill could drop temperatures to the teens and single digits Monday morning in higher ele...

(Staff Press Photo by Makayla Grijalva) While the Silver City snow melted by midday Monday, Pinos Altos saw much heavier snowfall that lasted well into Monday afternoon. The storm that moved through Grant County on Sunday night was just a preview of what was to come Monday night through today. According to Joe DeLizio of the National Weather Service in El Paso, “the Silver City area received anywhere from half an inch to an inch, depending on exactly where in the surrounding area. Downtown Si...

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