Month: April 2012

A conference call is underway between City and Top Rank Boxing officials to try and get the WBC championship match back at the Sun Bowl. The Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Andy Lee fight was scheduled for the Sun Bowl on June 16 before it was canceled by the University of Texas System chancellor for

A U.S. Air Force sergeant and his wife have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to the 2007 death of their infant daughter. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 27-year-old Peter John Zayas and 30-year-old Sophia Monique Zayas were arrested Tuesday. They made their first appearance in federal court in Las Cruces

The Dallas-based truck driver who crossed into Mexico from El Paso with a cargo load of more than a quarter-of-a-million rounds of ammunition has not been charged, according to officials in the Mexican federal prosecutor?s office. Normally, suspects are charged within 48 hours of their arrests, they say. Mexican authorities say they are still gathering

The Dallas-area trucker imprisoned in Mexico has a lawyer making strides to expedite his release from El Paso. ABC-7 is the first to confirm that El Paso attorney Carlos Spector is working on behalf of Demco Express shipping company driver, Jabin Bogan. Bogan was arrested by Mexican customs agents on April 17, after crossing the

Springtime in El Paso means windstorms and lots of blowing dust. This year has been an especially dusty year, even for the borderland. So far, five days have been rated ”hazardous” by the air quality index. Three of those days were so high they were off the charts. “The dust levels that were measured at

The Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Andy Lee fight could be staying in El Paso, thanks to the efforts of City of El Paso officials. Although it is not a done deal, it appears likely the fight will stay in El Paso, according to sources close to the boxing match. The fight was originally scheduled

Police are investigating a deadly accident near Colbert Elementary in west El Paso. The body of a man was found inside a crashed Nissan X-Terra SUV near Resler and Black Ridge shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday. A police spokesman tells ABC-7 it is unclear if the driver died as a result of injuries sustained in

April 26, 2012 Popular fighter Julio Csar Chvez Jr. of Mexico and Andy Lee of Ireland were scheduled to duke it out for the WBC world middleweight championship in Sun Bowl Stadium on June 16 – but, as of now, that much-anticipated event will not be happening. University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa decided

Likes the “Terminator” films were right and we should worry about the machines taking over. Coca-Cola has created vending machines that have been installed in Southeast Asia that will give you a free can of soda when you give the machine a hug. No word on what Pepsi machines will do when you hug them.

County Commissioner Anna Perez and Parkhill Smith and Cooper (PSC) will present the Sportspark renovation design during Commissioners Court at 9:30 a.m. Monday. at the County Courthouse. Big League Dreams Inc. was originally set to renovate the Sportspark but negotiations broke down in 2008 because the cost was going to be $6 million more than

El Paso took a tremendous punch when a scheduled championship boxing match between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Andy Lee was canceled Tuesday morning. The fight was canceled because of heightened security issues, according to the University of Texas System’s public affairs office. Fans attending a news conference for the boxing match on Tuesday at

El Pasoans are grasping to find the reason behind the cancellation of a big boxing match at the Sun Bowl between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. And Andy Lee scheduled for June 16. Tuesday, University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said the Sun Bowl was not the appropriate venue, after a risk assessment for the

The list of allegations from the latest internal investigation performed at the El Paso Independent School District could likely fill an entire book’s pages. On Tuesday afternoon, interim superintendent Terri Jordan took to the EPISD podium at the district?s headquarters and spoke for more than 10 minutes highlighting the issues that appear to have plagued

The Canutillo Independent School District released a statement Wednesday in light of strong accusations against the record of its superintendent, Dr. Damon Murphy. Murphy spent four years as an associate superintendent at the El Paso Independent School District before becoming the current superintendent of the Canutillo ISD in 2010. The accusations against Murphy were made

Las Cruces Police arrested a teenage boy accused of raping a young relative multiple times over the course of at least one year. Eugene A. Ramirez Jr., 17, has been charged with nine counts of criminal sexual penetration in the first degree, and one count each of kidnapping and incest. Police said the alleged assaults

El Paso’s FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark A. Morgan said there is no known credible, vetted or specific threat to the fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Andy Lee at the Sun Bowl. Morgan, along with El Paso’s mayor and city manager and other local leaders, spoke at a news conference in an

Comedian George Lopez will perform in El Paso on June 15 at the Abraham Chavez Theatre. Tickets go on sale at Ticketmaster locations and at www.ticketmaster.com at 10 a.m. Friday, April 27. Tickets are $48.50 and $60,50.

The Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Andy Lee boxing match set for the Sun Bowl on June 16 was canceled by the University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa on Tuesday. Read below for the reactions of city, local, and border leaders. El Paso City Manager Joyce Wilson This morning Deputy City Manager David

The El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame will induct its 2012 class at 6:15 p.m. today. The hall of fame has been established to honor those athletes, both men and women, who have in their athletic fields of endeavor brought great credit upon themselves and El Paso County. The induction ceremony will be livestreamed at

El Paso Mayor John Cook to hold a news conference regarding fight cancelation at 4 p.m. Mayor Cook, along with City Council and City officials, will be sharing the most up-to-date information in regards to the City’s actions in response to the announcement that the WBC world middleweight championship fight will not be held at

The city of Las Cruces gives residents a little extra push to pay their red light camera traffic tickets on time. According to the spokesman for the city, Udell Vigil, they will shut off city-owned water, sewage, and gas for those who have unpaid traffic citations from red light cameras. City officials said violators owe

El Paso Independent School District interim superintendent Terri Jordan said she is deeply troubled by an email by former associate superintendent Damon Murphy that directly showed his attempt to wrongfully hold students in the ninth grade. Murphy is the current superintendent of Canutillo Independent School District. In the Aug. 12, 2008 email from Murphy to

A 40-year-old El Paso man was arrested Monday morning after he allegedly broke into his ex-wife’s Lower Valley home to demand she drop previous charges of family violence assault, according to El Paso police officials. Felipe De Jesus Gomez, of the 12000 block of Ranaldi, entered his ex-wife’s home by breaking a window and allegedly

Crime victims in need are getting a break from state lawmakers. Several organizations offering crime victim services were worried their state funds could soon be slashed dramatically due to a budget shortfall in the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund, or CVC fund. That shortfall has since been addressed, according to state representative Dee Margo.

El Paso Mayor John Cook is fighting mad with the University of Texas System Chancellor after the decision was made to pull the June 16 boxing match between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Andy Lee from the Sun Bowl. “That’s a bunch of BS,” Cook said. “What, are they going to cancel the Sun Bowl

El Paso police officials have told ABC-7 that investigators believe a man found dead in a Northeast El Paso parking lot killed himself. It was around 1:45 Tuesday morning when El Paso police were called to the Chili’s restaurant on Transmountain Rd. near U.S. 54. Police say the manager found a body behind the restaurant,

In August 2009 there were 78 child drownings in Texas and five were in El Paso. Each year 250 children under the age of 5 drown in swimming pools. This does not include near drownings where children suffer permanent impairment as a result of their accident. The El Paso Drowning Prevention Coalition is dedicated to

ABC-7 reached out to all the candidates vying to represent Texas’s 16th Congressional District. We wanted to get their take on President Bill Clinton’s visit to the borderland in support of U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes. We were not able to reach all the candidates, but three of them did stop by the ABC-7 studios. Their

Francisco G. Cigarroa has been chancellor of the University of Texas System since February 2009. On Tuesday morning he canceled the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Andy Lee June 16 fight at the Sun Bowl. Boxing promoter Bob Arum said the UT System cited “security concerns” for the cancelation. Cigarroa, a Mexican-American pediatric surgeon from

Vanessa de la Via joined the ABC-7 news team in November 2011. Born and raised in Miami, she grew up watching the local news and videotaping herself ?reporting live? from her backyard during hurricanes. This passion for news led her to attend magnet programs for broadcast news throughout middle and high school. At a young