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News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Manhunt Monday suspect Ricardo Zuniga

The game between the Oklahoma University Sooners and the Stanford University Cardinal at the scenic Sun Bowl, just yards from the U.S.-Mexico border, is set for Dec. 31. The last smattering of tickets sold today, Olivas said. "I guess we’re getting some pretty good national attention," he said.

Sen. Eliot Shapleigh told the El Paso Times today that he plans not to run for any elective office in 2010.

News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.

News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.

News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.

News about the Sun Bowl and Juarez from across the country and around the world.

The bookstore example, some have argued, is one that accurately reflects why cities on the Texas-Mexican border are often afflicted with a reputation of being a black hole of talent where escape is necessary in order to prosper.

El Paso was ranked top on the Forbes list "Cities Where Americans Are Getting Richer".

Voters in a few scattered districts — 12 or fewer — can expect to see real contests in House races. Only one senator — Eliot Shapleigh of El Paso — is leaving, and the race to replace him is becoming almost sedate.

After keeping his promise to fight for El Paso, State Representative Joe Moody filed for re-election today and said he aims to get even more done next year in the Texas House.

News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Megan Castillo

News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Megan Castillo

News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top.

News about the Sun Bowl across the country.

Nuances aside, two schools of thought stand in perpetual conflict. One argues giving students a "zero" or another very low grade, either on assignments on entire marking periods, makes it impossible, mathematically, for them to catch up...

"The environmental cleanup trust fund established today marks the conclusion of the state’s lengthy, concerted effort to secure funding for environmental remediation at ASARCO’s 100-year-old El Paso smelter,” said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. “

“It is common for my family to hear shootouts, and we have been witnesses to murders,” Espino wrote in his open letter to the Mexican president. “We know people who were executed. Our friends have been kidnapped. Even my own home was raided by soldiers.”

El Paso holds no. 33 spot.