Month: June 2010

The 2010 FIFA World Cup opened Friday with a match between Mexico and South Africa. On Saturday, it’s the Americans who will hit the field…

El Pasoans crowded local bars and restaurants to watch Team USA play England Saturday in the 2010 World Cup. Fans hooted and hollered as the U.S.…

By ROBERT MILLWARD AP Soccer Writer JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A joyous day for South Africa. A not quite perfect result. South Africa gave up the…

DALLAS (AP) – U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is publicly patching things up with her former rival, calling Gov. Rick Perry the…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Boise State University has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference in 2011. Boise State, currently a…

The El Paso School District is defending itself against allegations from State Senator Eliot Shapleigh. The state senator is asking the U.S.…

EL PASO, Texas – The weekend is off to a bad start for several people who live in a south El Paso neighborhood. Someone allegedly opened a…

From bars to shops and sporting goods stores, the month-long 2010 World Cup will be an economic boon, as fans spend money to show support for their…

It’s a rodeo of a different type. Fort Bliss held its first ever Renewable Energy Rodeo and Symposium June 8-9, showcasing new technologies and…

El Paso County commissioners will decide next week whether certain aerial fireworks will be allowed outside El Paso city limits this July Fourth. But…

Lots of people headed out to local bars and restaurants to watch the opening game of the 2010 World Cup – at about the time most would be…

By ABC-7’s Angela Kocherga Soccer fans were up early watching the first game of the 2010 World Cup, featuring Mexico and South Africa. The…

A massacre at a drug rehabilitation center in Chihuahua City left 19 dead and 8 injured late Thursday night. According to Chihuahua State Police, the…

Police need your help in finding a man who robbed a bank on May 21st. According to authorities, the man walked into the El Paso Employees Credit…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer EL PASO, Texas (AP) – A federal official tells The Associated Press that the FBI has opened a…

El Paso State Senator Eliot Shapleigh (D) isn’t giving up on his claim the El Paso Independent School district is sweeping some students under…

A grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia indicted alleged drug kingpin Edgar Valdez-Villareal, known as “La Barbie”, on charges of supplying…

El Paso Police have charged one man in a 2 a.m. robbery after the man used a bag of ice to steal beer. Christopher Ponce, 22, of the 1100 block of N.…

A team of U.S. scientists has designed some new men’s briefs that may be comfortable, durable and even stylish but, unlike most underpants, may…

New information has emerged on the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Two federal sources familiar with the…

Dozens of law enforcement officers took part in a nationwide operation to halt drug traffickers. The roundup was headed by the Drug Enforcement…

Violence in Juarez has claimed the life of a widely respected musician. Friends said carjackers attacked 77-year-old guitarist Aquiles Valdez Ortiz…

A residential fire in El Paso left a man and his 6-year-old stepdaughter dead and his wife with burns. El Paso Fire Department Lt. Mario Hernandez…

Neither the FBI nor the Border Patrol wanted to comment about the cellphone video showing a Border Patrol agent shooting a 15-year-old, but Attorney…

An El Paso family on vacation survived a whitewater rafting accident outside Denver. The accident happened along the Clear Creek river. According to…

New Mexico State University Police are looking for 38-year-old Ismael Zambrano Chavira in connection with a stabbing that took place Thursday morning…

Despite the violence raging in juarez…very little, if any spillover has come to El Paso. But a nationwide bust of thousands of alleged cartel…

Tony Payan, an associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso, has written a guest column for CNN.com regarding the…

Mexico’s Ciudad Jurez is one of the most violent places on earth. Drug gangs fight endless battles with each other and police in the streets…

Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 2,000 people in a 22-month investigation targeting Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the…