Month: February 2011

The killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and wounding of another in Mexico highlights the risk for American officials helping with Mexico’s crackdown on organized crime under increasing cooperation between the two countries. Special Agent Jaime Zapata, on assignment to the ICE Attache in Mexico City from his post in Laredo, Texas,

HS Girls Basketball State Playoffs – Area Round: Class 4A (Thurs. Feb. 17): Burges vs. Canyon High at Andrews HS at 5:30 pm El Paso Time. ———————————————————————————————————————————- HS Girls Basketball State Playoffs – Area Round: Class 5A (Friday, Feb. 18): Franklin vs. Arlington Bowie at Midland Christian HS at 4:30 p.m. El Paso Time. Class

Late Tuesday afternoon 02-15-2011 at approximately 5:15 PM, Strike Team Deputies observed what appeared to be a narcotics transaction in the paring lot of a store in the 11000 block of Pebble Hills, according to El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputies. Deputies followed a male subject to a residence in the 3400 block of Red Sails.

A dangerous dog investigation is underway after a dog bite has left an El Paso girl with stitches and scars. Her mother is upset because city animal officers didn’t immediately take the adult boxer away. The woman whose daughter may be scarred for life said she’s concerned for her children’s safety. But Animal Services officials

O.J. Simpson’s been an afterthought since he went to prison, but a report today that he was brutally beaten by skinheads in his prison cell has him back in the media spotlight. The National Enquirer, which gained noticeable sports cred when they broke the Tiger Woods scandal, reports that Simpson was “beaten unconscious in a

The City of El Paso on Tuesday waived the plumbing permit fee for 90 days for residential work/repairs, setting the fee at zero dollars instead of the usual $72. Those who paid a plumbing permit fee to have their plumbing repaired before El Paso City Council waived the fee on Tuesday, Feb. 15, will not

ABC-7 has received complaints from a viewer about the condition of the fields at the Westside Sports Complex, which is only about two years old and cost the city about $5 million dollars to build. It’s located near Transmountain Road and Interstate 10, behind Canutillo High School and El Paso Community College’s Northwest Campus. “These

Heart-shaped, metallic, pink or red. Those popular Valentine’s Day balloons may look harmless, but El Paso Electric officials told ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom, if one touches a power line, the interference can shut down an entire substation, which is exactly what happened in Las Cruces Monday evening. The interaction is similar to sticking a

El Paso City Council decided on Tuesday that regular residents will not investigate the service interruptions local utilities dealt with during this month’s freeze. City Rep. Steve Ortega had proposed a three-member citizens commission investigate El Paso Electric, Texas Gas Service and El Paso Water Utilities. In his proposal, Ortega wrote that the residents must

After years of waiting, Northeast El Paso residents will soon see construction on the tail-end of Loop 375. The Texas Department of Transportation will extend the highway to the other section of Loop 375 on the west side of U.S. 54 on Transmountain Rd. “This is to build a four-lane freeway from U.S. 54 just

ABCNews The public radio program “This American Life” went on the air this weekend claiming to have unearthed the notoriously closely guarded secret formula for Coca-Cola. “I am not kidding,” host Ira Glass said at the top of the show, rustling the paper into his microphone. “One of the most famously guarded trade secrets on

ABCNews The video was difficult and upsetting to watch. As Serene Branson, a young and healthy-looking CBS Los Angeles reporter, delivered a live report from the red carpet of the Grammy awards Sunday night, her speech suddenly became slurred and incomprehensible. She appeared increasingly worried and aware that something was wrong while she was on

The El Paso Electric Co. has submitted a report to the Texas Public Utilities Commission on the weather event that caused eight of its local power generators to go down due to below freezing temperatures. Because local power generation was lost, EPE depended on electricity from out of town to supply El Paso and EPE

Manatee County (Florida) Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a man who beat an 81-year-old Franciscan nun on Valentine’s Day after she gave him a drink of water, according to a report by WTSP-TV in Florida. Investigators say Sister Nora Brick is recovering at Manatee Memorial Hospital. The search is on for suspect 51-year-old Eliseo Ortiz.

ABCNews Sometime tonight between the roses, the Champagne and the chocolates, couples across the U.S. and elsewhere will sit down to an intimate Valentine’s Day dinner, stare soulfully into each other’s eyes and perhaps take a moment to ponder a perennial question: Can this mad, mad love last? Whether they’re in the heady throes of

Las Cruces police say a man who died over the weekend might have been heating water on his stove when his clothes caught fire. Police say 80-year-old Ismael Lujan Sr. had severe burns on his body when he was found Saturday afternoon on his kitchen floor. Police spokesman Dan Trujillo tells the Las Cruces Sun-News

A 29 year-old man was found dead in a Lower Valley RV Friday morning. Investigators with the El Paso Fire Department think an early morning fire may have been to blame. Firefighters were called out to the scene on the 7900 block of San Jose at around 6:30 a.m. The RV was parked dangerously close

Plumbers are in high demand after the deep freeze El Paso experienced earlier this month. El Paso Water Utilities officials estimate that 15,000 to 20,000 pipes burst in homes across the city. With the high demand for plumbers, some customers say the dramatic increase in rates is price gouging. Homeowner John Evans said he had

El Paso Electric officials said there has been a power outage in Las Cruces since about 5 p.m. Monday in the Central/Downtown area. The cause was mylar balloons released in the area that got tangled up in wires. There are about 2,000 customers without power. Crews are working to restore power to area the area,

Luis Matos, the grandfather who survived a Northeast house fire that killed his wife and three grandchildren, has died according to the medical examiner. Matos, 72, died on Friday. It was around 1:30 a.m. Jan. 28, 2011 when flames tore through a home on the 10100 block of Wolverine Drive. Five people were trapped inside

Anheuser-Busch is providing 2,156 cases – or more than 51,000 cans of drinking water – for use by families affected by a compromised water supply in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The water left the company’s brewery in Cartersville, Ga.on Friday night and is scheduled to arrive around 10 a.m. this morning at the local Budweiser distributor,

The woman who allegedly twisted off her daughter-in-law’s nipple has been formally charged with aggravated battery against a household member with great bodily harm, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. Amelia Love Oveide, 46, has not been arrested on the charge. She was indicted on the third-degree felony by a Doa Ana County grand jury Thursday.

The UTEP men’s basketball team doubled their votes in the coaches poll from four to eight but lost their only two votes in the Associated Press poll. Check out AP poll here. Check out coaches poll here.

Correction: Originally this report had a different school that was on lockdown based on information from district and police officials Riverside Elementary in Sunland Park, New Mexico in the Gadsden Independent School District was placed on lockdown this afternoon. Sunland Park Police and school district officials refused to elaborate on reason for lockdown but said

In an on-going fight to protect the health and safety of its community, the City of Socorro has asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to revoke Horizon Regional Municipal Utility District’s permit to discharge wastewater. The petition, was filed today, Monday, February 14, 2011. Technically, it’s based on Horizon’s failure to provide legal notice

El Paso police officials said a man shot in Juarez Sunday morning managed to escape across the border. According to police, Border Patrol agents found the man around 11:30 a.m. near La Hacienda on the 1700 block of Paisano. Officials said he was taken to an El Paso hospital. The man’s name has not been

Fire dispatch said a fire broke out in an RV shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday morning in the Lower Valley, killing a man inside. The blaze started in an RV that was parked next to a home in the 7900 block of San Jose. Emergency call takers said the fire was contained, but did spread

El Paso wasn’t the only southwestern city to suffer major plumbing and water problems as a result of a cold snap earlier this month. According to the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson’s water demand during its four-day stretch of freezing temperatures went from 76 million gallons on Wednesday to 111 million gallons on Thursday, as leaks

Mexican researchers are predicting the violence-plagued border city of Juarez will be home to an estimated 8,500 orphans by the end of the year, according to a report by UPI. The Autonomous University of Juarez made its estimate based on a computer model that also projected 5,000 homicides in Juarez this year, the El Paso