Dr. Katie Ray checks on pregnant patient Reba Griggs at a rural community clinic in Marfa. Griggs spent the first half of her pregnancy traveling to hospitals three hours away in Odessa before transferring to Ray’s clinic. (Natalie Krebs)
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Community members mourn at the vigil for the death of 19 students and 2 adults during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 25, 2022. (Patricia Lim / KUT)
Campaign signs for the March 1, 2022 primary elections pictured in Alpine, Texas. (Carlos Morales / Marfa Public Radio)
Voters in the Big Bend and Permian Basin finalized their party’s nominees for a few local races, while incumbent Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian fended off a challenge in the GOP primary from oil and gas attorney Sarah Stogner.
Guadalupe Camacho Alvarez cries inside Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde while praying on Tuesday. Alvarez’s granddaughter was inside Robb Elementary School at the time of Tuesday’s shooting but survived. (Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune)
Families gathered at the city’s civic center to await news about their children following the elementary school shooting. Other residents processed their shock and grief in places of worship.
The Brewster County Courthouse in Alpine, Texas. (Carlos Morales / Marfa Public Radio)
On Friday, a judge approved a motion brought forward by a local prosecutor to dismiss the case against Jeff Leach that was first brought in 2020. The well-known business owner was accused of raping a woman in the spring of 2014, but Brewster County’s district attorney’s office recently decided there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue the case.
Margarito Hernandez stands at the place where his younger brother, Esequiel, was killed by camouflaged Marines while out herding his goats in 1997. (Annie Rosenthal / Marfa Public Radio)
On May 20, 1997, a Marine on a covert anti-drug operation shot and killed Hernandez, an 18-year-old Presidio High School student, who was herding his goats near his family home in the small border community of Redford. In their own words, Esequiel’s family and friends tell us how that day changed life along the river forever, and how they remember him now.
ORG XMIT: MRF101 FILE--Ezequiel Hernandez Jr., 18, shown in this 1997 high school yearbook photo, was shot and killed by a Marine conducting a drug surveillance operation with his unit along the Texas border Tuesday, May 20, 1997. According to officials, Hernandez opened fire on the Marines before he was shot. Hernandez's family maintains the teen-ager was simply moving his goats to better grazing.(AP Photo/Eric Gay) KILLED BORDER PATROL // Esequiel //
El noticiero semanal de Marfa Public Radio es un resumen de historias locales y estatales de la semana.
(Gabriel C. Pérez/Texas Standard)
The Tall City’s reliance on oil and gas makes it particularly vulnerable to high inflation.
Alpine residents picked Catherine Eaves for their new mayor, while Ector County voters rejected a proposed $398 million school bond. Click through for those and other results from the May 7 elections in West Texas.
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The newspaper recently reported that in 2021, one El Paso hospital treated an estimated 300 undocumented migrants who had suffered injuries after falling off border barriers in the region.
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El noticiero semanal de Marfa Public Radio es un resumen de historias locales y estatales de la semana.
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It’s a life-giving stream in a desert land, that for millennia has sustained human communities and creatures found nowhere else on Earth. The deep canyons it’s carved are among the most remote and spectacular places on the continent. Its great … Continue reading
Tuesday’s protest was one of several held throughout Texas, with similar demonstrations taking place outside federal buildings, town halls and capitols across the country.
