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Inmates in Texas are reportedly being used to help the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s office handle the influx of bodies as coronavirus cases surge in the area. Several El Paso County inmates were spotted at the ME’s office on Saturday by a photographer with The Texas Tribune.The inmates were dressed in PPE gear and moving bodies into mobile morgues stationed outside the building.

A surge in coronavirus cases in one Colorado county has left contact tracers there strapped for resources and unable to complete contact tracing for all new cases, according to local health officials.  Health officials in El Paso County warned this week that a “high volume” of cases may prevent tracers from being able to “complete contact tracing for all positive COVID-19 cases.” Contact tracing efforts in some instances will be left up to residents who test positive, per officials.

FILE PHOTO: Cars wait in line at a coronavirus testing site at Ascarate Park on October 31, 2020 in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Cengiz Yar/Getty Images) AUSTIN, Texas - Texas has become the first U.S.

At least 10 temporary refrigerated morgue trailers were called in by officials in El Paso, Texas, on Monday as the city grapples with a new wave of coronavirus deaths, according to reports.  County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said that six morgue trailers had already been deployed as of Monday and four more were requested from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). They will be sent to local funeral homes amid demand for increased storage space.  Samaniego said coronavirus deaths in El Paso County showed no signs of slowing down, El Paso's KFOX-TV reported. Jacob Newberry puts on new PPE at the COVID-19 state drive-thru testing location at UTEP in El Paso, Texas on Oct.

Texas became the first US state to surpass a million coronavirus cases as the country battled a third wave of new infections and recorded over 100,000 infections three times in less than a week.

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With daily cases reaching new heights and increased hospitalizations straining local response efforts, the United States today passed the 9-million COVID-19 case mark.

KDVR.Isaiah Elliot was reportedly seen flashing a toy gun on the screen during his art class, and his teacher informed the school’s principal about the incident.The student was suspended for five days and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office was called to conduct a welfare check before the boy’s parents were notified.“If her main concern was his safety, a two-minute phone call to me or my husband could easily have alleviated this whole situation to where I told them it was fake,” said Isaiah’s mom, Dani Elliott.According to the KDVR, the toy gun was black and green with “Zombie Hunter” on the side.In a sheriff’s report obtained by KDVR, the teacher “said she assumed it was a toy gun but was not certain.”Isaiah’s parents were able to view the

The toy gun was neon green and black with an orange tip featuring the words on the handle: “Zombie Hunter.” (Photo illustration) A 12-year-old boy in Colorado reportedly got a five-day suspension for flashing a toy gun across his computer screen during an online art class, according to a report.The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said although the teacher thought it was a toy gun, authorities still did a welfare check on Isaiah Elliott without parental notification.“It was really frightening and upsetting for me as a parent, especially as the parent of an African-American young man, especially given what’s going on in our country right now,” Curtis Elliott, Isaiah’s father, told KDVR.Related: FEMA says it will no longer pay for face masks,

EL PASO, Texas - A march and memorial for the victims of last year’s mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, was held outside the store on August 3, local reports said.The event commemorated the August 3, 2019, massacre in which a gunman killed 23 people and injured at least 20 more.Crosses bearing the names of each of the 23 people killed were carried from a nearby park to the Walmart, according to El Paso Times reporter Briana Sanchez.

Man charged in El Paso shooting that left 22 dead appears in U.S. federal court  Her father, David Johnson, was shielding his wife and granddaughter when a gunman who authorities say was targeting Latinos at a crowded Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso fatally shot him and 22 other people.

Omar Rodríguez-López is what you’d describe as a mercurial musician. Alongside Cedric Bixler-Zavalad, throughout the 90’s and too little of the subsequent 00’s the guitarist made-up 50% of the magic dust sprinkled upon El Paso’s At The Drive-In.

LORDSBURG, New Mexico - A U.S. Border Patrol agent on duty in a remote part of New Mexico was found dead last week, federal authorities confirmed Saturday.The body of the agent, identified as Johan Mordan, 26, was found “unresponsive lying on a trail” during a search that was launched after Customs and Border Protection officials lost communications with him, KVIA-TV of El Paso, Texas, reported.BORDER PATROL AGENTS CATCH 2 ESCAPED COLORADO PRISONERS IN ARIZONAAn autopsy will determine the cause of death, CBP officials said.Border Patrol agent Johan Mordan, 26, was found dead Thursday on a remote trail in New Mexico, authorities say.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The rampage at a Virginia Beach city government building was the latest in a string of high-profile mass shootings nationwide, between the high school killings in Parkland, Florida, and the Walmart massacre in El Paso, Texas.

Researchers, including those from the University of Texas at El Paso in the US, conducted genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus and its similar variants in animals, and confirmed that its closest relative is a coronavirus that infects bats.

Just one month after the coronavirus pandemic caused Rage Against the Machine to postpone their reunion tour with Run the Jewels, the band announced a number of rescheduled dates on Friday (May 1).

For the last three years, Rose McGowan has been at the forefront of Hollywood's #MeToo movement, and now the multimedia artist plans to reshape her art with her debut album Planet 9, landing on streaming platforms Friday.The 46-year-old actress/activist finds the signature sound of her utopian world from her childhood named Planet 9, which coincidentally shares the title of the planet two researchers discovered in Pluto's absence back in 2015.