Month: June 2010

A southern New Mexico family has no place to call home after a fire torched their mobile home Saturday afternoon. The fire happened around 2 p.m. near Vado, prompting several area fire departments to respond to the blaze. According to officials, the fire displaced a family of five. Investigators said an electrical short may have

A person is dead after a car caught fire on I-10 early Saturday morning. The car rolled over on I-10 East and Kansas in Central El Paso around 1 a.m. According to El Paso Police, two people were riding in a car when the driver lost control. The vehicle rolled over, catching fire. Paramedics took

The National Civic League announced the winners of the 61st annual All-America City award during a celebration at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City. The National Civic League recognizes ten communities each year for outstanding civic accomplishments. To win, each community must demonstrate innovation, inclusiveness, civic engagement, and cross sector collaboration by describing

Fire crews went to battle Friday night with a massive warehouse fire in south-central El Paso. Investigators say the fire began around 8:41 p.m. at a trucking company on Delta and Coles. Flames were visible from blocks away as gray plumes of smoke filled the area. El Paso Fire Department Spokesman John Concha said a

The family of two of the boys injured in a deadly Ruidoso plane crash arrived in El Paso Friday night, coming in from Albuquerque. The boys, 12-year-old Kristopher Richey and his 16-year-old brother Alexander, are at University Medical Center, and both are still in critical condition. According to a close relative, Alexander was undergoing surgery

A woman who touched many lives was honored Friday at Fort Bliss. Carmen Loya, a foster grandparent on post, was hit and killed by a dump truck earlier in June. In a ceremony Friday, a chorus of kids’ voices sang in memory of a woman who made a big impact on base. 71-year-old Loya died

The kills started with a telephone call and often ended with a beheading, but they were all just jobs for the drug hitman, one of maybe hundreds that have scarred Ciudad Juarez’s streets. He now says the tortured faces of the dead haunt him. Recounting his 20 years as a hired killer, he says most

Workforce Solutions Upper Rio Grande has been activated by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to assist with the response to the damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Two staff and the mobile unit will be leaving Saturday morning and will be stationed in Cutoff, Louisiana starting Monday. “We are always

If you think you know what El Paso needs to move forward, now’s your chance to be heard. Thursday kicked off a series of charrettes – or planning meetings – on Sun City development. El Paso leaders say they want the public’s input on what they’d like to see happen around four key areas of

A new Senate bill, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman, proposes to give the president the authority “to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet,” according to CNET. The authority granted to the government in the bill, known as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), has been likened to

Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima, members of the Las Cruces city council and City Manager Terrence Moore met in closed session today to discuss limited personnel matters relating to Moore. According to Miyagishima, “City Manager Terrence Moore informed us that he would like to pursue other professional opportunities in 2011. This is a bittersweet day

The World Cup brings out soccer fans from all over the world. But there’s no question, here in the Borderland, on this side of the border, the allegiance is to Mexico and not the U.S. ABC seven viewer, Johnny Anaya writes, “Why do you guys make a big deal about Mexico’s soccer team? I thought

The Sporting News is predicting UTEP will have a winning season this year but still ranks the team at No. 77 in its list of top 100 college football teams for this upcoming season. Read The Sporting News’ breakdown of the team here.

Actress America Ferrera is engaged to former El Pasoan Ryan Piers Williams, CNN has confirmed. The two first met several years ago at the University of Southern California when Williams cast her in his student film about the murdered women in Juarez. She also recently starred in his film, “The Dry Land,” which was screened

Shakira will perform Wednesday, October 13th 8:00pm at the Don Haskins Center, according to UTEP’s Office of Special Events. Tickets are $6.50-$145.75, not including service charges, according to the Ticketmaster Web page for the concert. Tickets will go on sale 10am on May 21 at the University Ticket Center, all Ticketmaster locations, and online at

Authorities say a twin-engine Cessna plane that crashed Thursday morning at a regional airport in south-central New Mexico, killing five people onboard, was registered to an owner in Granbury, Texas. According to the Cleburne (Texas) Times-Review, the airplane took off from Granbury and landed in Cleburne to pick up additional passengers. New Mexico State Police

El Paso Police will soon be equipped with brand new assault rifles. They’re supposed to keep officers on par with increasingly sophisticated criminal trends. Officers just started training with the M4 assault rifles, which are bigger, more accurate, and if need be, they can go through bullet-proof gear. “It allows you to engage somebody and

Today wasn’t just any day for sports bars in the Borderland. It’s turned into one of the biggest business days of the year! Borderland bars and El Paso establishments were packed for fans watching Team Mexico beat France 2-0 in an important World Cup game. And tonight, on ABC-7, it’s the Celtics and the Lakers

Sun Metro joined public transportation systems nationwide to participate in the 5th annual National Dump the Pump Day on Thursday. Sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the 2010 National Dump the Pump Day is a day that encourages people to ride public transportation to save money, protect the environment, reduce our dependence on

A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported from Little Rock, Ark. to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. “It wasn’t labeled or packaged properly,” Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman, told the NBC affiliate in Fort Worth. “They called the local authorities.” Little

They were supposed to be in Italy gearing up for the first of four concerts. Instead, members of Coronado’s high school marching band are still here in El Paso – fuming, after their 10-day trip was canceled at the last moment. “I’ve never been there,” Coronado High School band member Victoria Teplitz said. “I was

The child who drowned Wednesday at his residence has been identified by Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Investigators as 10-month-old Jessie Garcia. Preliminary autopsy reports indicate there were no injuries of a suspicious nature. According to Sheriff’s Investigators, the mother of the child while washing clothes, left the room for approximately three minutes and when she

Fort Bliss Firefighters, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management personnel are monitoring a fire that began Monday during a live fire training exercise, according to Fort Bliss officials. As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, the fire has burned about 1,500 acres within an impact area on Fort Bliss’ Dona Ana Range, which is part

El Paso Police have charged 21-year-old Alejandro Salcedo of San Elizario with accident involving personal injury or death as a result of the traffic collision in which Manuel Mendoza died on May 23. Investigators have located and identified the1994 red Dodge Ram pickup operated by Salcedo that was involved in the collision. Salcedo fled the

Russ Chianelli, Ph.D.,an expert on oil spill cleanup efforts and the lead scientist during the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, will analyze the BP oil spill during a special seminar at the University of Texas at El Paso. The free event is scheduled for noon, Thursday, June 17 at the Centennial Museum, first floor, at

The El Paso Sheriff’s Strike Team says they’ve busted a burglary ring operating in Sparks near Horizon City. Deputies raided a home near Jeremiah Drive Wednesday afternoon, removing items they say were stolen during a string of burglaries beginning last November. The recovered property consisted of sofas, cabinets, chairs and even a barbecue grill. Investigators

Mississippi State’s 2010 signing class swelled by one on Tuesday with the addition of UTEP transfer Arnett Moultrie, 13th-year Bulldogs coach Rick Stansbury announced. After sitting out this upcoming season due to NCAA transfer rules, Moultrie will have two years of eligibility remaining beginning with the 2011-12 campaign. Moultrie had declared for the NBA Draft

At around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, a group of armed men gunned down four men and two women as they left a rehabilitation center in Juarez, according to XHIJ-TV Channel 44. The incident occurred outside the Clinica Integral de Rehabilitacion located in central Juarez. Witnesses at the scene told police the gunmen shot the victims then

After all the votes were counted, the results were overwhelmingly against the El Paso Independent School District’s tax proposal. 14,480 voters cast their ballot on election day and during early voting for the district’s tax ratification election. The results: 9,851 – or 68% – percent said ‘no’ to the tax hike. Only 4,6291 – or

The Children’s Hospital at Providence invites fans to celebrate the return of UTEP men’s basketball head coach, Tim Floyd, at a Tip-Off Party in his honor on at 6 p.m. today at Grace Gardens, 6701 Westside Dr., in El Paso. Admission is free and open to the public and all proceeds will benefit the March