Month: March 2012

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has weighed in on the trade of Tim Tebow to the New York Jets from the Denver Broncos. ?I think the Denver Broncos treated him shabbily,” Robertson said on his television show. “He won seven games, he brought them into the playoffs, for heaven sakes. I mean, they were a nothing

A grant-awarding event held Thursday was small. There couldn’t have been more than 40 people, but the number of lives the Border AIDS Partnership is saving, can be in the thousands. The organization works in conjunction with the Elton John Aids AIDS Foundation. One of the many things the partnership does is help smaller organizations,

Starting next week the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and End-of-Course (EOC) exams will commence at elementary, middle, and high schools across the state of Texas. It?s the new age of standardized testing, with STARR replacing the old Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test. Starting Monday, third through ninth graders

ABCNews Inner-city women who breathe powerful airborne pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons while pregnant are more likely to have children who develop behavioral problems by the time they reach school age, researchers report. The findings bolster what’s known about the influence of prenatal conditions on later health. In recent years, scientists have found that in

The high and low points of one of the greatest seasons in UTEP basketball history occurred just days apart in March of 1992. On March 14, BYU’s Kevin Nixon sank a 54-foot shot from beyond halfcourt, lifting the Cougars to a 73-71 victory over the Miners in the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference

In the city of El Paso, hundreds of children and youth are under foster care. Now, a $17,000 grant from Texas CASA will allow CASA El Paso to streamline the court processes and improve conditions for these children. Most of them have been abused or neglected by their parents, and are in dire need of

The warmup continues today as high pressure builds across the Southwest. This will allow temperatures to climb to near 80 today, but we should stay in the 70s. If that’s not enough for you, expect 80 degree readings to return by tomorrow and the rest of the weekend! Some breezy conditions return next week, but

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office is saying that pop star Whitney Houston drowned in her hotel room tub on Feb. 11, NPR reported. USA Today reports the coroners listed the cause of death as: “drowning and effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.” They add: “…The toxicology report adds that “Cocaine and metabolites

ABCNews “Just setting up my twttr,” Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent from a service that no one had heard of exactly six years ago. It was the first tweet, or 140-character message, to ever be sent on Twitter. Twitter hasn’t changed all that much since Dorsey fired off that tweet at 3:50PM on March 21,

Five guys and a goat. It sounds like the name of a TV sitcom. But it’s actually a group of committed Chicago Cubs fans hiking nearly 2,000 miles across the country for two causes: To raise money for cancer research and to break the Cubs’ Curse of the Billy Goat. Legend has it that Billy

ABCNews This early burst of warm weather across the country is a reminder that summer, and peak driving season, is looming. But with gas prices already ticking over the $5 a gallon mark for regular, families are feeling the pinch in their budgets more than ever. GasBuddy.com lets users report and view fuel prices in

ABCNews Freud warned about the unresolved Oedipal complex in boys: Sons who couldn’t break free from a smothering mother’s clutches were doomed to be sexually confused — or even homosexual. Even Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatric guru of the 1950s and 1960s, advised that mama’s boys might grow up “precocious, with feminine interests.” But now,

The New Mexico Tourism Department is vowing to never agin use “ethnic descriptors” in its casting specifications for campaigns after a controversial ad surfaced. Veronica Valencia, director of marketing and communications for the Department, said that’s a break from industry standards. The change comes on the heels of controversy surrounding a recently released casting call

The warmup begins today as temperatures will climb back to the 60s and continue to climb the rest of the week. This is thanks a high-pressure ridge building back up in the Desert Southwest, bringing more sunshine along with warmer, drier air from Mexico. After today, temperatures will return to near and above average on

El Paso– Three Cathedral High School athletes have signed commitment letters to conitnue their playing careers at the collegiate level. Joshua Tovar signed to play football at Valley City University while Jonathan McKay and George Don Martin III are persuing baseball after graduation. The left handed Martin signed at Ivy League’s Columbia University in New

According to ESPN reports, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton has been suspended for the entire 2012 NFL season without pay due to the bounties paid out for big hits. Payton was set out to make $7.5 million this upcoming season. Former Saints defensive coordinator Greg Williams, who’s now with the St. Louis Rams,

Officials with HBO and the boxing promotion company Top Rank are in El Paso Wednesday, surveying the Sun Bowl as a venue for a sporting event that would draw tens of millions of viewers worldwide. But the status of the June 16 World Middleweight Championship fight is in doubt with Martin Murray being forced to

The turmoil in Sunland Park continues to grow in ways that would rival the best Hollywood scripts. Last month, a mayoral candidate was secretly videotaped getting a topless lap dance from a woman in an alleged effort to extort him and get him to drop out of the race. Then his rival, mayor pro tem

ABCNews Finnish cell phone maker Nokia has filed a U.S. patent application for a magnetic vibrating tattoo that could wirelessly connect to a mobile device and alert users of phone calls, texts and battery status?all via vibration. The apparatus comprises ?a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring

We will still be dealing with wind chill factors throughout the night as lows drop to the mid 30’s. However, the warm-up begins tomorrow as we reach the mid 60’s with clear skies and breezy conditions. The breezes continue into Thursday and highs will surpass the norm for this time of year as they hit

Tired of big outdoor concerts skipping the Sun City? That could all change soon with the arrival of a new massive, outdoor portable stage, one that’ll turn the El Paso County Coliseum parking lot and other areas of town into a concert venue for tens of thousands of people. The reason a lot of bands

At about 11:22 a.m. Tuesday, El Paso Fire Dept. fire crews were sent to a house fire in the 9800 block of Everwood in East El Paso. Fire crews saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the left side of the home when they arrived. More than 20 firefighters and seven units responded to the

Season tickets for the 2012 UTEP football season, including the opener versus Oklahoma, will go on sale Tuesday (March 20). The UTEP Season Ticket Office is located in Brumbelow Building Room 109 and can also be reached by calling (915) 747-6150. The Miners will host the perennial national power Sooners for the first time on

Oleg Kirichek, the leader of a research team at the Isis neutron beam facility at the United Kingdom’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, had an unpleasant shock last week. One of his key experiments, designed to probe the structure of matter, had to be cancelled ? because the facility had run out of helium. The gas, used

A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, shaking central and southern parts of the country and swaying buildings in Mexico City. Plaster fell from ceilings and windows broke in the center of the capital, but the president said there were no immediate reports of major damage. The initial quake in Guerrero state was followed

By Robert Gray / El Paso Inc. Staff Writer El Paso has received national recognition for having one of the safest bus systems in the country. But that?s changing, as more and more city buses are getting hit, or hitting other vehicles, and in some cases, people. Each year since 2009, the number of accidents

Old man winter went out with a bang this year as El Paso dealth with strong winds, hail and rain on the last day of the season. “It was really scary because the weather completely changed in a second,” said Manuel Martinez. Martinez had been riding the bus when a sudden downpour of hail pummeled

This week?s MANHUNT MONDAY Most Wanted Fugitive is a woman who has eluded authorities seeking to capture her so she may begin to serve her 20 year prison sentence. The target has been identified as ROSA MARIA ARROYOS (48) of El Paso, TX . FEBRUARY 2009 In February 2009, ROSA MARIA ARROYOS was arrested for

After yesterdays high winds and dust storm, today is looking much better with slight rain chances and cooler temperatures. Wind gusts will hover around 40 mph, but will not be anywhere near the 66 mph wind gusts we had yesterday. There is also the possibility of snow in the higher elevations, including the Southern Sacramentos

It’s being called the first of its kind. County Commissioners approved a new capital improvement plan Monday by a 4-0 vote that will help replace or repair some of the county’s aging infrastructure over the next five years. No projects have been approved yet, but the plan puts the process in place to get capital