Month: March 2011

It’s shaping up to be a grueling session for the Texas legislature. Lawmakers are dealing with a projected 27 billion dollar state deficit, several painful budget cut proposals and no easy fixes. Saturday morning State Senator Jose Rodriguez held a District Advisory Committee meeting at the Ysleta Independent School District’s central office. It was open

A scary situation in Socorro after a woman reported to police that she had been carjacked Thursday Morning. The woman said she was driving when her child, who was in the backseat, when he somehow got out of his car seat. When she pulled over to secure the child, she told police a thin and

UTEP Men Seeded Third in 2011 Buick Conference USA Basketball Championships EL PASO, TEXAS ? The UTEP men?s basketball team (23-8, 11-5 C-USA) has earned the no. 3 seed in the 2011 Buick Conference USA Basketball Championships, set for March 6-9 at the Don Haskins Center. The Miners tied Tulsa (18-12, 11-5 C-USA) for second

Day 17: An empty fridge means I’m eating fast-food for dinner. So let’s draw up some rules, shall we? It happens to the best of us. You have a ridiculously long day at work. You come home, starving, and open the fridge. Nothing. Do I want to go to Wal-Mart and spend an hour and

Jerry Zamarripa, an Onate High School football player, was laid to rest Friday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, west of Las Cruces. Zamarripa died Feb. 26, nearly a week after a blow to the head left him brain-dead. “He always brought everybody up when everybody was down,” Juan Flores, a close friend, said. Family and friends

Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared Thursday a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. Eager to show signs of a productive partnership, Obama and Calderon agreed to a phased-in plan that would authorize both Mexican and U.S. long-haul carriers to engage in

The El Paso Police officer who opened fire during a short chase Thursday morning is the same officer who shot a man near an East Side McDonald’s last year, according to police officials. The officer was identified as Jorge Gonzalez, a six-year veteran of the force. It was last April when Gonzalez, who was off-duty

ABCNews Celebration turned to tragedy Thursday night at a Michigan high school when 16-year-old Wes Leonard collapsed on the basketball court after scoring the game-winning shot in overtime, helping his team clinch a perfect season. Leonard’s game-winning layup, which earned two of his 21 points that game, led the undefeated Fennville Blackhawks to a 57-55

They’re El Paso’s finest but ABC-7 has learned the officer accused of sexual assault while on duty failed his initial police entrance exam. Turns out, he was one of many who didn’t pass. “I’m having our training division look at the hiring of this individual as an error to begin with,” El Paso Police Chief

Day 16: It’s all downhill from here, right? I’m past the halfway point and I have to say, I’m pretty proud of myself. I’ve been victorious (for the most part) in my epic battles with my sugar cravings. I’ve lost 5 pounds and gained a ton of energy. I even stopped drinking sodas as an

A car wash will be held at held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 6 at Families and Youth Inc., 1320 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Proceeds raised will go towards raising money to cover medical and funeral expenses for Jerry Zamarripa, the Onate High School football player who was buried March 4.

The man accused of trying to run over an El Paso police officer and rolling his SUV while fleeing the scene Thursday morning once worked as an FBI informant and is reportedly fairly positive he could have prevented the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Elie Assaad, 38, was arrested Thursday evening shortly after being

El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen’s supplemented DWI task force began its sixth week of operations Thursday. The supplemented task force began it efforts on Thursday, January 27, 2011. The sixth week operations that began Thursday night resulted in five individuals being arrested and charged with DWI, one other arrest, 47 hazardous citations, and 59

UTEP vs. SMU game will be shown live on Time Warner Cable’s Texas Channel 24 at 1 p.m. MST Saturday. Miner fans can also watch UTEP games anytime on EP On Demand Channel 831 on Time Warner Digital Cable.

ABCNews Charlie Sheen has revealed that he’s partly Jewish. The actor, who has been accused of anti-Semitic remarks aimed at “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre, told an interviewer that he is Jewish on his mother’s side of the family. “Here’s where it gets confusing ? we don’t know who her father is

LAS CRUCES, N.M. ? New Mexico State head football coach DeWayne Walker announced Friday morning that offensive coordinator and quarterback coach Mike Dunbar has retired after over 25 years in coaching. ?Obviously we are disappointed that coach Dunbar has retired,? Walker said. ?We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. I will

Ubisoft has released the first video trailer for its upcoming video game, Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Watch the trailer here. In the trailer, the main police officer talks about how people used to kill for gold and now kill for “money, drugs and guns.” He goes on to call the cartels the new outlaws

Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ruben Jauregui is asking the public to avoid the south bound lanes of the Bridge of the Americas. Agents manning a southbound traffic checkpoint around 1:30 this morning had to deploy newly installed metal barricades to prevent a motorist from evading their checkpoint. Thanks to the barricades the suspect was

ABCNews A California woman literally held on for her life, gripping the hood of her husband’s car for 35 miles as he sped along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph. The woman tried to stop her husband Christopher Carroll, 36, from driving while he was allegedly in the middle of a drug binge,

Police are investigating what led to a shooting and a rollover during a routine traffic stop early Thursday morning. It happened shortly before 4 a.m. on the UTEP campus. Police spokesman Darrel Petry told ABC-7 that’s when an officer tried pulling over the driver of a black SUV as the driver exited I-10 West at

EL PASO, TEXAS — UTEP shot 59.6 percent from the floor, including 76.2 percent in the second half, and received 77 points from its seniors on “Senior Night” in snapping Marshall’s five-game winning streak with an 82-74 victory on Wednesday at the Don Haskins Center. The Miners (22-8, 10-5 C-USA) are tied for second place

BOYS 3A FABENS 61 PAMPA 67 FINAL BOYS 5A FRANKLIN 54 NORTH CROWLEY 61 FINAL

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State women’s basketball team fell 73-65 to Idaho inside the Pan American Center Thursday evening. NM State built an early lead but Idaho used a pair of runs in each half to distance the visitors from the home squad. The Vandals went on a 10-0 run midway through

TULSA, OKLA.- Junior forward Gloria Brown notched her third straight double-double (14 points, 11 rebounds) while also blocking six shots to help the UTEP women?s basketball team topple Tulsa, 65-62, in overtime in the regular-season finale for both squads inside the Donald W. Reynolds Center Thursday evening. Brown?s final blocked shot of the game was

Ten Roman Catholic bishops from Texas and Mexico have gathered in El Paso to discuss various issues affecting the church, including border violence. Other items to be discussed during the three-day meeting include issues of border security, violence, discrimination, and human rights violations against immigrants, according to the Catholic News Service. This is the Sun

Notre Dame’s visit in December set off a frenzy in the Sun City which had their followers, fans and alumni thrilled to see the Fighting Irish on the Sun Bowl field. The game sold out in a matter of hours and Notre Dame gear and souvenirs flew off store shelves. But now it’s the college

A final goodbye will take place Friday in church and on television. Funeral services for Jerry Zamarripa, the Onate High School football player who died after an alleged viscous attack with a golf club, will be broadcast for his peers, who have the option to watch it at school. “It’s still going to be very

ABC-7 has reported on how the El Paso Independent School District is dealing with potential job cuts thanks to budget issues. So how are some of the other local districts faring? Socorro ISD Superintendent Dr. Xavier De La Torre said his district is actually in decent financial shape given the uncertainty in the Texas Legislature

It’s been 15 days since I’ve started my sugar detox to break my bad eating habits. My fat-day pants that became my everyday staple jeans are fitting more loosely. I can fit back into my everyday, regular jeans, though an ample muffin-top will keep those in my drawer a few more weeks. In terms of

Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old who was named police chief of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in Mexico in October, has sought asylum in the U.S. after reportedly receiving death threats, according to Mexican media reports. The reports state she may have crossed near or around Fort Hancock in Hudspeth County, Texas. The criminology student was named