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 against the English team. You can watch the U.S. vs. England game right here on ABC-7, Saturday, June 12. Coverage begins at 11:30 a.m., with the game beginning at 12:30

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. took on one of the best teams in the world, and one fan said it’s okay if locals here in the Borderland aren’t big into soccer yet because the

By ROBERT MILLWARD AP Soccer Writer JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A joyous day for South Africa. A not quite perfect result. South Africa gave up the lead on a goal by Mexico’s Rafael Marquez in the 79th minute and settled for a 1-1 draw Friday before 84,000 horn-blaring fans, whose euphoria over the start of the

DALLAS (AP) – U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is publicly patching things up with her former rival, calling Gov. Rick Perry the “personification of Texas” and urging voters to re-elect him for another four years. The two duked it out in a bruising GOP primary that ended with a resounding Perry victory in March. At

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Boise State University has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference in 2011. Boise State, currently a Western Athletic Conference member, would become the Mountain West Conference’s 10th member. The move would be effective July 1, 2011. Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson says BSU was invited to join

The El Paso School District is defending itself against allegations from State Senator Eliot Shapleigh. The state senator is asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate EPISD, saying the district found ways to make some students “disappear” on TAKS testing day in order to bring up campus scores. Shapleigh says he has nothing to

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 canal gate, sending water gushing into their homes. Residents want someone to pay for the damage. “I was so angry!” Guadalupe Solis says she came home after dinner

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 favorite teams. Managers at Academy Sports in West El Paso say they’ve already seen a spike in sales, especially for U.S. and Mexico jerseys. “About two weeks ago,

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 innovations designed to help the military reduce its dependence on foreign oil. One of the visitors was an electric Hummer that will begin testing at Fort Bliss later this year. David

El Paso County commissioners will decide next week whether certain aerial fireworks will be allowed outside El Paso city limits this July Fourth. But Mother Nature really makes the call. In accordance with state law, the decision is based entirely on the county’s drought index, an assessment of how dry the air is, and how

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 heading to work. Hundreds packed into places like Hooters and The Brew to catch the soccer action on television. “I took the day off; I waited 40

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 World Cup is a welcome escape for Juarez, with the matches uniting fans on both sides of the border. Fans crowded El Paso bars at breakfast time to cheer for Mexico,

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 shooting, which took place in just 10 minutes, happened shortly before 11 p.m. when 20 to 25 men in seven vehicles showed up at the Faith and Life center. 15

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 Union at 9305 North Loop around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 21st. The man, who was wearing a surgical mask over his face, had a black semiautomatic handgun.

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer EL PASO, Texas (AP) – A federal official tells The Associated Press that the FBI has opened a civil rights probe as part of the investigation into the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent at the international boundary with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The

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 the rug to improve standardized test scores. In fact, he’s now asking the federal government to investigate what he calls a “national scandal.” Shapleigh made his allegation against district officials clear

A grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia indicted alleged drug kingpin Edgar Valdez-Villareal, known as “La Barbie”, on charges of supplying cocaine to the eastern U.S. from Mexico over a two-year period. “La Barbie” and four other defendants were charged with importing and distributing thousands of kilograms of cocaine across the border from 2004 to 2006.

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. Angie, entered 7 – 11 store in Central El Paso Thursday morning and allegedly grabbed a 20-pound-bag of ice that he then threw

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 be able to save lives. Printed on the waistband and in constant contact with the skin is an electronic biosensor, designed to measure blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs.

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 investigation told ABC-7 that Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka was a well-known juvenile smuggler. In addition to having a long rap sheet, he was also on El Paso’s juvenile smuggler’s list

Dozens of law enforcement officers took part in a nationwide operation to halt drug traffickers. The roundup was headed by the Drug Enforcement Administration, but officials with the agency remained tight-lipped about the details of the investigations. “All of the police cars were here and the people were out of their homes,” said one resident

Violence in Juarez has claimed the life of a widely respected musician. Friends said carjackers attacked 77-year-old guitarist Aquiles Valdez Ortiz in late May. He died this week. Former students and fellow musicians said it’s a devastating blow. “When he walked into a room – if you didn’t know him, you wanted to get close

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 says the 25-year-old woman early Thursday saved a younger daughter by lowering and then dropping the 4-year-old from a second-story window. The girl was unharmed. Hernandez says the cause

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 General Eric Holder did talk about it Thursday. “Well, I’ve only seen a bit of the tape; I’ve not seen it in its entirety, but that would be something that will

An El Paso family on vacation survived a whitewater rafting accident outside Denver. The accident happened along the Clear Creek river. According to park officials, the family missed their pullout location and hit some rocks. Everyone on the raft was thrown into the water, and a 13-year-old girl ended up on the other side of

New Mexico State University Police are looking for 38-year-old Ismael Zambrano Chavira in connection with a stabbing that took place Thursday morning on campus. At about 7 a.m., NMSU Police received a report of a stabbing that had just occurred in the parking lot of greenhouses located in the Arrowhead Research Park on the south

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 members shows some of them are living on this side of the border, in our neighborhoods. The D-E-A spent nearly two years zeroing in on cartel suspects in the U.S. With

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 recent shooting death of a Mexican teen by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Payan teaches border studies, Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexico relations on the U.S.-Mexico border. On Monday, a U.S.

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 and alleys of Jurez’ poorest neighborhoods. In the past 28 months this city of 1.5 million, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, has recorded 5,200 murders. Even though Jurez

Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 2,000 people in a 22-month investigation targeting Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the United States, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The probe, called Project Deliverance, focused on the transportation of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana along the Southwest border. Sixty nine people were arrested in the Western District