Month: August 2011

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage follower he took as a bride in what his…

A lightning-caused wildfire has burned 3,000 acres of grass in rugged and steep area in Tom’s Canyon 15 miles west of Carlsbad. Crews have not…

Investigators assigned to the El Paso Police Department?s Internet Crimes Against Children unit arrested a 74-year old El Paso man on suspicion of…

Foreign nationals in New Mexico are being selected — at random — to validate their driver’s licenses and prove the identification…

A group has turned in a petition to the city to try to preserve the land around the Texas Department of Transportation’s $85 million freeway…

Officer?s assigned to the Northeast Regional Command Center stopped Patricia CARRERA driving a gray, 2000 Honda Accord with an expired Motor Vehicle…

A man shot his stepson with a rubber projectile using a 12-gauge shotgun Monday a home on the East Side, police said. Officers responding to a…

El Paso Times Editor Chris V. Lopez announced his resignation to employees Tuesday afternoon. An editor in the newsroom referred ABC-7 to a story…

Most Mexican cities that saw their federal anti-crime grants suspended earlier this week will qualify for the money once they show they are trying to…

A conservative Republican group formed last year to woo more Hispanics to the GOP will hold its second conference in Albuquerque next month. The…

(mug req: 331p) Man Arrested for Sexual Relationship with Teenage Girl A 27-year-old Las Cruces man has been charged for having a sexual relationship…

Former Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is running for the U.S. Senate and says he can be a voice for the country’s poor and middle class. Sanchez…

ABC-7 continues to dig deeper into the case involving Dr. Lorenzo Garcia, once the head of El Paso’s largest school district. Garcia is…

County Judge Veronica Escobar said public money meant for events that create tourism may be going to the wrong place. The Hotel Occupancy Tax, often…

University of Texas at El Paso President Diana Natalicio received Fort Bliss’ Christiaan Petrus Fox Citizen of the Year Award during the annual…

The University of Texas at El Paso received a $260,000 grant to study liver cancer to develop better methods of prevention, detection, diagnosis and…

Thousands of rounds of ammunition seized from a local pawnshop, investigators said, has become evidence in an ammunition smuggling investigation. The…

While the national economy is struggling, New Mexico’s economy may be booming. Construction on a Union Pacific rail hub began Monday morning in…

Three nights of hard rain had left the infield floating in water as the Renegade Sprint Car Series worked on rolling in the racing surface. Joining…

The skies did not look promising around the El Paso Speedway Park as dark clouds dropped rain all around as the Renegade Sprint Car Series set to…

This week?s Most Wanted Fugitive is an individual sought for a violent sexual assault on a woman last Thursday morning 08/04. The target is…

XHIJ, ABC-7’s media partners in Jurez, report a Mexican municipal police commander was gunned down in his patrol truck around 7:45 a.m.…

An affidavit exposes brand new details about the mother who decided to shoplift at a local Albertson’s with her 13-year-old son. The affidavit…

Sweltering may have reached a new record last month, as Oklahoma racked up the country’s highest monthly average temperature ever. That’s…

Miss El Paso USA 2008, Lorena Tavera, has been accused of shoplifting at the Sunland Park Mall Dillard’s store. Police said Tavera took a $69…

1:52 p.m. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. On Friday, we learned that the United States received a downgrade by one of the credit rating…

Violence and looting spread across some of London’s most impoverished neighborhoods on Monday, with youths setting fire to shops and vehicles,…

All in for Conference USA EL PASO, TEXAS- The El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau is pleased to announce the unanimous decision of the County…

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Police arrested a man they say beat and choked his girlfriend to the point of losing consciousness on several occasions. Police said 21-year-old…