Month: January 2011

On Jan. 16, 1991, Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm and started the mission to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. Fort Bliss had a role in the Persian Gulf War with the deployment of Patriot Missile batteries in gulf countries. Patriot Missiles were used to intercept inbound SCUD missiles fired by Iraq. Check

A case of apparently sticky fingers has one man in trouble with El Paso police. Noe Rodriguez, 23, has been charged with burglary of a vehicle after police said he took items from a car that didn’t belong to him early Saturday morning. Police said officers were conducting an investigation at the Celina Apartments in

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)-Troy Gillenwater scored 18 points and Gordo Castillo scored 17 to lead New Mexico State to a 78-53 victory over San Jose State on Saturday. Freshman guard Christian Kabongo added 14 points for the Aggies, who shot 47.5 percent from the floor and 11-of-26 (42.3 percent) from 3-point range. Keith Shamburger led

EL PASO, TEXAS — Julyan Stone dished out five assists to become the Conference USA career leader, and UTEP held Rice to one point in the first eight and a half minutes of the second half on its way to a 66-43 demolition of the Owls on Saturday night at the Don Haskins Center. UTEP

It’s the city council battle that’s spilling into the streets of El Paso. Protesters picketed a Barnes and Noble in West El Paso Saturday afternoon as the book store held a book signing event for author Tom Brown. Brown is the controversial pastor at the center of the voter-approved ordinance that aimed to take away

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)-Troy Gillenwater scored 18 points and Gordo Castillo scored 17 to lead New Mexico State to a 78-53 victory over San Jose State on Saturday. Freshman guard Christian Kabongo added 14 points for the Aggies, who shot 47.5 percent from the floor and 11-of-26 (42.3 percent) from 3-point range. Keith Shamburger led

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)-Troy Gillenwater scored 18 points and Gordo Castillo scored 17 to lead New Mexico State to a 78-53 victory over San Jose State on Saturday. Freshman guard Christian Kabongo added 14 points for the Aggies, who shot 47.5 percent from the floor and 11-of-26 (42.3 percent) from 3-point range. Keith Shamburger led

El Paso police are looking for the man they said tried to rob a convenience store in east El Paso. It happened at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday at the Circle K in the 11800 block of Pebble Hills Boulevard. Investigators said the suspect threatened the clerk with a knife or cutting instrument, demanded money, then

El Paso Police are searching for the man they said robbed a local mobile phone store. It happened just before 2:30 p.m. Friday at a Cricket Mobile Phone store in the 1400 block of North Zaragoza Road. Investigators said the suspect started asking about the phones, then pulled out a gun, pointed it at the

Chihuahua state police are searching for a man they said was involved in the kidnapping and killing of a Juarez doctor last year. Authorities have released a picture of the suspect taken from surveillance video. Officials have not released the man’s name. The body of Dr. Jose Alberto Betancourt, 57, was found dumped on the

ABCNews Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle attributed to his predecessor John Paul II today and the Vatican announced that the Polish pope will be beatified on May 1. Beatification is step towards sainthood and the ceremony is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people to Rome, especially people from John Paul II’s Polish

U.S. Federal Judge Frank Montalvo is best known in El Paso for presiding over the corruption cases of several public officials and in recent months he has helped spread the anti-corruption message internationally. In Nov. 2010, Montalvo participated in the 14th annual International Anti-Corruption Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. He was a panel member in the

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction on a voter-approved ordinance meant to take away the health insurance of gay and unwed partners of El Paso City employees. Judge Frank Montalvo on Thursday ordered the city not to implement the vaguely-worded, potentially unconstitutional initiative, until he makes a final ruling, expected to come in

El Paso homebuyers can qualify for affordable mortgages, down payment and closing cost assistance. The El Paso Housing Finance Corporation is making $15 million available to homebuyers. Those involved said now is the time to buy a house because the clock is ticking. “If you have the right credit score and if you’re buying a

MEMPHIS, TENN.- Senior Ashley Milian registered a double-double (15 points, 11 rebounds) while Dietra Caldwell (17 points) and Anete Steinberga (13 points) also reached double figures in scoring to help lead the UTEP women?s basketball team to an emotional 60-55 triumph at Memphis Thursday evening. The effort by the Miners (10-5, 2-1 Conference USA) halts

Attorneys for the family of 15-year old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Gereca will officially file a lawsuit against the United States government and several other entities, including the United States Bureau of Customs and Border Protection on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. Gereca, who was allegedly throwing rocks toward Border Patrol agents, was standing on the Mexican

Brace for the worst: You may be a Virgo, scientists say. There are many newspapers and websites that promise to tell your fortune, detailing where the planets were when you were born and what their future movements suggest about your future. It’s called astrology, and whether or not you believe in the signs of the

The Department of Defense announced on Thursday the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Jan. 12, in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. Killed were: Sgt. Omar Aceves, 30, of El Paso, Texas. Spc. Jarrid L. King, 20,

She was just one month away from taking the field for her first collegiate softball game, but instead of making plans to go see her play, the family of Chapin High School graduate Belinda Hernandez spent this week planning her funeral services. On Monday, Belinda, or ‘Bee,’ as she was affectionately known, died suddenly from

A New Mexico State university faculty member is helping improve the lives of villagers in Afghanistan through his role in the erection of a windmill in a village in Afghanistan. Craig Runyan, NMSU extension water resource specialist, traveled to Afghanistan to install irrigation systems as part of the NMSU-led Afghanistan Water, Agriculture and Technology Transfer

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State women’s basketball team dropped its conference home opener 65-46 to Nevada after the Wolf Pack broke open the game in the second half inside the Pan American Center Wednesday night. Nevada, who led 30-27, ran away from NM State in the second half outscoring the Aggies 35-19

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)-Troy Gillenwater scored 13 points in 18 minutes to help New Mexico State to an 82-64 victory over Hawaii on Thursday at the Pan American Center. Junior point guard Hernst Laroche added 14 points and five assists, Christian Kabongo scored 12 and Gordo Castillo scored 10 for the Aggies, (9-9, 3-1 Western

Hudspeth County, Texas Sheriff Arvin West confirmed a Hudspeth County road crew came under fire Thursday morning from gunmen in Mexico. Sheriff West told ABC-7 that around 10:30 a.m, Thursday a road crew was repairing a part of Indian Hot Springs road, just east of Neely’s crossing in Hudspeth County along the US-Mexico border when

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested a 68-year-old woman for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. CBP officers arrested Concepcion Bertha Montoya of El Paso for allegedly trying to smuggle 38.90 pounds of cocaine with a street value of $1,244,800. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents took custody and

The Gomez family is reeling from not one, but two devastating losses. They lost their loved ones in a crash after the car they were in slammed into a school bus. “It’s tough when you lose one, but when you lose two, it’s infinitely more enormous,” said Daniel Amor, the victims’ relative. Jennifer Gomez, 17,

NEW ORLEANS, LA. ? Randy Culpepper tallied 26 points to become the no. 2 scorer in Conference USA history as UTEP knocked Tulane from the ranks of the C-USA unbeatens with a 69-58 victory on Wednesday. Culpepper passed USF?s Altron Jackson (2,017 points) on the league scoring list. With 2,027 points, he trails only former

You probably don’t think of doctors and lawyers as partners. But a new program for infants has them working together at University Medical Center. An attorney is now part of the health team at UMC, meaning nurses and doctors can write a prescription to patients for legal help. “Our goal is to keep them out

Omar Salgado, a 17-year-old forward on the U.S. Under-20 team, has been selected by the expansion Vancouver Whitecaps with the first pick in the Major League Soccer draft. Salgado, who is 6-foot-4 and weighs 170 pounds, spent 1 years with Chivas Guadalajara, then signed with MLS and was loaned to Vancouver for three months last

Following the passage of Arizona?s S.B. 1070, sports teams, musicians, private companies and even government entities have instituted boycotts Arizona. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Aizona) responded to the boycotts by writing letters to government entities, including the City of El Paso, to say the boycotts were misdirected. Read what Gifford wrote about the boycotts here.

Former NFL star Lawrence Taylor pleaded guilty Thursday to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute, misdemeanor charges that carry no jail time but require him to register as a sex offender. The 51-year-old ex-linebacker, who led the New York Giants to Super Bowl titles in 1987 and 1991, will serve six years probation. “She told