Month: November 2011

El Paso police arrested three people after SWAT team officers raided a Lower Valley home about 6:20 a.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of Bucher, near El Paso Community College’s Valle Verde Campus. Neighbors reported hearing explosions in the area. A police spokesman said the noise was that of flash grenades used by officers to

NMSU psychology professor sees automated cargo delivery in the future October 31, 2011 WRITER: Tonya Suther, 575-646-6233, suther@nmsu.edu CONTACT: Igor Dolgov, 575-646-2298, id@nmsu.edu A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying drones and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. These guidelines will

Numerous fires at El Paso recycling plants over the past four years, including one back in September, led city council Tuesday to approve a new set of rules for the dozens of plants in our area. The fires have been hard for El Pasoans to miss. The plumes of toxic smoke can be seem for

If you were to go outside today and be asked what month it was, you would think it’d be September, right? Not the case, of course. On this first day of November, temperatures will be climbing into the mid 80s along with sunny skies and breezy conditions. The record high today is 84, which was

A man was shot and killed at a large Halloween party Tuesday morning in Far East El Paso, deputies said. El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call of a shots fired during a fight about 1:20 a.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of Jamin Place in the El Paso Hills area. When

A 57-year-old man was hospitalized after driving his Jeep off of the road and down into an arroyo. The crash occurred Tuesday morning at Resler Drive and Resler Ridge. A special rescue team was called in to get the man out. Emergency crews said the man is expected to be recover. The man, who was

A man struck up a conversation with a woman before snatching her purse and fleeing, police said. Investigators said 20-year-old Felipe Rojas Jr. approached the victim and engaged her in a conversation before grabbing her purse and running away with it about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of First Street in Downtown El

Due to economic circumstances, three more cafes that offer coffee and refreshments at El Paso Public Library branches will shut down starting Tuesday, city officials announced. The libraries are looking for other ways to provide patrons with coffee, soft drinks and other refreshments. Those options will be in place as soon as possible, officials said.

ABC-7 has uncovered documents that show some employees at William Beaumont Army Medical Center are getting bonuses so generous, some wonder whether they are symptoms of nepotism. It centers around the Department of Family Medicine headed by Dr. Melissa Molina. According to the documents unveiled by the I-Team, in June of 2010, Molina promoted Kimberley