El Paso district uses stadium lights to deter vandals

This June 5, 2015, file photo shows the Puskas Ferenc Stadium in Budapest, Hungary. The stadium is one of the main possible venues of the 2024 Olympic Games. For some reason, four cities submitted bids this week to host the 2024 Olympics, turning in glitzy presentations filled with all sorts of highfalutin ideals and delusional financial goals. But, as Rio is learning and nearly every other Olympic city has shown, the only winners of this race will be the three that lose.
This June 5, 2015, file photo shows the Puskas Ferenc Stadium in Budapest, Hungary. The stadium is one of the main possible venues of the 2024 Olympic Games. For some reason, four cities submitted bids this week to host the 2024 Olympics, turning in glitzy presentations filled with all sorts of highfalutin ideals and delusional financial goals. But, as Rio is learning and nearly every other Olympic city has shown, the only winners of this race will be the three that lose.

EL PASO, Texas-School officials in an El Paso district where high school stadiums are getting new artificial turf are keeping the stadium lights on at night to deter thieves and vandals.

The action is a response to a fire set May 18 to a patch of newly installed turf at Hanks High School. The district's security chief, J.R. Martinez, says the lights make it easier for security guards and provide better images for security cameras.

Images showed two boys on the Hanks field that night setting the fire. They got away as an officer tried to put out the blaze.

It's among seven Ysleta high schools getting artificial turf - at a cost of $14 million - as part of a bond issue voters approved last November.

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