Month: January 2014

A Chihuahua state police unit specializing in crimes against women, along with Mexican immigration agents, conducted a prostitution raid in Downtown Juarez Thursday night. Investigators specifically looked at several massage parlors in the area. Officials say the raid failed to uncover evidence of prostitution involving illegal immigrants from Central America or underage women. About 18

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) – Tim Floyd was getting plenty of attention before the Battle 4 Atlantis even started, for all the wrong reasons. A good win certainly put him in a more cheery mood. McKenzie Moore led a balanced attack with 19 points and UTEP moved into tournament semifinals with a 78-70 win over

The pushing, the shoving and all the madness that comes with Black Friday was nowhere to be found early Friday morning at Best Buy located at the Fountains at Farah. Shoppers were rushing to get to the store, not for the specials, instead to get out of the frigid Friday temperatures outside. Inside Best Buy,

El Paso Police are looking for a man that stole a large amount of cash from a Mission Valley Restaurant. Officials said a man took an envelope containing money to a restaurant called the Lunch Box on October 29. The restaurant is located at 667 N. Carolina. The man then accidentally left the envelope at

Black Friday is still two days away, but some shoppers just can’t wait — and retailers are taking full advantage. But there’s still hope for family time this Thanksgiving. The champ is in the red corner: family meals. But there’s a dangerous challenger in the green corner: killer deals. So what do you do if

The County of El Paso does not have an adequate grip on its budget because the auditor oversees it and Commissioners reactively approve a budget every year, according to County Commissioner Vince Perez. Other Commissioners though, like Carlos Leon disagree with Perez’s assertion that Commissioners are not properly policing the budget. ABC-7 through an open

A man and a 3-year-old boy were injured in a mauling by a dog Thursday afternoon on the 1400 block of Chelsea in Central El Paso. The boy, with serious injuries, had cuts to his head and ear and is now recovering at University Medical Center. The man’s injuries were not as serious.

For the ninth year in a row, there will be a Thanksgiving Celebration at the Downtown Convention Center. The hope this holiday season is to feed as many as 5,000 people. But for the first time in memory, the main Salvation Army location on at 4300 East Paisano has decided not to host a Thanksgiving

Two people were sent to an El Paso hospital after an accidental shooting at the Border Patrol checkpoint at Sierra Blanca. Rusty Fleming, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office, said that at about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday a 30-year-old man and his 27 or 28-year-old girlfriend arrived at the checkpoint and were sent to secondary inspection.

The City of El Paso is encouraging shoppers who are out and about the day after Thanksgiving to take advantage of special adoption fees at the City’s Animal Services Shelter, and take home a new furry friend. On Friday, November 29, all of the shelter’s “Virtually Irresistible Pets” (V.I.P.s) will be available for adoption at

UTEP officials announced Tuesday that boy band One Direction will play at the Sun Bowl on Sept. 19 as part of its “Where We Are 2014” stadium tour. “Baby, you light up my world like nobody else,” go the lyrics to one of their songs. “The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed.”

The County of El Paso in fiscal year 2013 is expected to pay $2 million more for indigent defense than the year prior and the unprecedented increase has one County Commissioner questioning the indigent defense system and the quality of defense offered to those who can’t afford a lawyer. When a person is arrested and

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke has reported possibly violating ethics laws after participating in Twitter’s public stock debut, and the financial disclosures of another Texas congressman has been questioned by a newspaper investigation. O’Rourke, a first-term El Paso Democrat, bought $2,600 worth of Twitter shares earlier this month when the social network made Wall Street’s most

Mid-morning Nov. 27, 2013 Update: Statement from FirstLight Federal Credit Union: FirstLight Federal Credit Union has confirmed that systems have been up and running since yesterday at 5:00 p.m. and regular operations have returned to all branch and online services. “Computer systems that experienced a major hardware failure on Monday evening that continued until Tuesday

The Chapin High School football team returned home Monday to a multi-school welcome gathering, after slick roads claimed the life of a player’s father on the way to the Saturday game in Amarillo. It was an outpouring of support, as a very large extended family began the healing process. “We had had something happen to

El Paso Electric’s plan to build a power plant in east El Paso County will have one less obstacle. County leaders voted unanimously to withdraw its status as an “intervenor” in EP Electric’s permitting process with the Texas Public Utility Commission. EP Electric has plans to build a power-generating station in Montana Vista near Montana

Late Nov. 25, 2013 Update: Two Borderland families are dealing with the sudden loss of loved ones. The Bowie and Chapin High School football teams are back in El Paso. Both teams returned Monday afternoon without two players who lost relatives during this weekend’s inclement weather. Chapin senior Elijah Perales lost his father, Hector Perales,

Editor’s note: The Bowie-related crash happened on the way home from the game, not on the way to the game as the reporter says in the video. Two El Pasoans were killed in separate crashes this weekend while en route to or from high school football games out of town. The father of a Chapin

Boy band One Direction is set to bring its 2014 stadium tour to El Paso. The band will perform at the Sun Bowl Stadium on Sept. 14, 2014. The North American stadium tour was announced Sunday by Live Nation and reported by several entertainment websites. The announcement featured the band members posing in jerseys of

A strong winter storm closed roads and contributed to numerous traffic accidents over the weekend. Interstate 10 was closed overnight in Hudspeth and Culberson Counties, just east of El Paso County. The New Mexico Transportation Department reports I-10 East is closed in both directions from Las Cruces to the Texas state line. Motorists traveling will

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that poverty is at its highest level in almost two decades. The Convoy of Hope drove eighteen-wheelers onto the El Paso County Coliseum grounds filled with clothing and food for those who needed help. However, there was a problem early on. Some miscommunication lead to people being told they had

With the wintry weather sweeping through the Borderland Saturday, the cold temps and possible snow in the forecast could are make for undesirable conditions for just about anyone. ABC-7’s Jerry Najera reports on few reminders for us. Road conditions may become unsafe overnight. Take extra caution if you run into slippery or even icy roads.

Jenna Farrey is expected to be extradited from Michigan to El Paso on Dec. 3, an El Paso County Sheriff’s official told ABC-7 Friday afternoon. El Paso County Sheriff Commander Paul Cross told ABC-7 they have 10 working days – which would be Dec. 5 – to pick her up but that they planned on

Fifty years have passed since John F. Kennedy was gunned down in the streets of Dallas. Kennedy had made his way to Texas to mend political fences, instead he’d leave in a body bag. Days later Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused shooter, was killed himself in the same city. Both ended up at Parkland Hospital,

One man is dead and one man injured after a fight at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday in Las Cruces. Las Cruces police say that the fight happened between the two homeless men happened behind a building being renovated into a K-Bob’s restaurant in the 1600 block of S. Valley Dr. Near the intersection with Boutz.

It’s hard to top First Lady Michelle Obama but 12-year-old El Pasoan Danashiya Pritchard may have done just that with her speech. Danashiya gave a speech Friday at the White House Friday to open the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Ceremony. The ceremony was held in the East Room with

Blake Farrey, the 19-month-old big brother of the late Jackson Farrey, was in child protective custody in Michigan on Thursday, according to Child Protective Services. Child Protective Services will first try to link Blake up with a relative, a spokesman said. His parents are from St. Charles, Ill., so that’s a likely starting point. CPS

Jeffrey Farrey’s court appointed attorney said his client is as much a victim as the couple’s baby, Jackson. High-profile defense lawyer, Joe Spencer, in an exclusive interview with ABC-7 on Thursday, said Jeffrey Farrey is “distraught” and “disappointed.” “He’s lost a child,” said Spencer. Jeffrey Farrey, 22, is on suicide watch at the El Paso

ABC-7 has learned more about the mother of 5-month-old Jackson Farrey, who was found dead on Wednesday in Orogrande, N.M. Jenna Farrey was in court Wednesday in Delta County, Mich. She waived her extradition hearing, making it easier for El Paso Police to bring her back to El Paso to be jailed. On Thursday ABC-7