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Experts say working with informants risky business

As police pieced together the details of the contract killing of a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant-turned-U.S. informant, a surprising connection emerged: their chief suspect was an informant himself.

40 years for soldier in Fort Bliss beating death

A soldier was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in military prison after pleading guilty to fatally beating another soldier with a baseball bat at Fort Bliss.

Ex-Army nurse pleads guilty in hepatitis C case

A former Army hospital nurse accused of infecting more than a dozen patients with hepatitis C pleaded guilty Tuesday to assault and theft.

Police say soldier's husband stabbed, raped her

A Fort Bliss soldier's husband kicked her in the face, stabbed her and raped her before abducting her from her off-post apartment last week and taking her to Las Vegas, police said Monday.

Bodies of 2 missing US soldiers are found in Iraq

For more than a year, Gordon Dibler held out hope that his stepson, Army Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, would return home from Iraq. Then military officials delivered the grim news that the body of Fouty and another soldier captured during an ambush south of Baghdad had been found.

Suspicious package detonated at Army post in Texas

Army officials say a suspicious package that had been found near a gate to Fort Bliss and detonated wasn't dangerous.

Texas Army base raises its drinking age to 21

This military base in the far West Texas desert stood as the last Army post in America where if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you were old enough to drink a beer.

Soldier, Wife Accused of Killing Toddler

A Fort Bliss soldier and his wife were arrested Tuesday on charges of killing a 2-year-old girl in their care and seriously injuring her older brother while their military parents served overseas.

Airman at Fort Bliss Died of Hantavirus

An airman who was training at Fort Bliss for deployment to Iraq died of a deadly virus linked to rodents, an Air Force official said Tuesday.

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A Soldier's Eye in the Sky - Hovering Drones, Sensors, & Rockets in a Box
Source: The New York Times

...the new drones, made by Honeywell, are designed to hover over a crucial spot on a battlefield like helicopters, instead of flying in a wide circle.

Some Businesses Concerned About New Mall At Fort Bliss
Source: Fox News, KFox14

EL PASO, Texas -- It may just be dirt on the ground now, but soon there will be a new mall and entertainment complex in it's place. Friday Fort Bliss broke ground Freedom Crossing, a new, $100 million shopping mall on post.

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