Month: January 2014

The Dodgers are the most exciting team in baseball and they have thousands of fans in El Paso, like Cesar Lopez. “There’s a wide variety (of fans in El Paso), Rangers fans, lots of Dodgers, Yankees fans … but for the most part, there are a lot of Dodger fans in El Paso,” Lopez said.

El Paso Police are investigating a fiery car wreck in Northwest El Paso at 2:30 a.m. near the outlet mall at Trans Mountain and South Desert. South Desert was closed overnight for several hours as police and fire crews worked on the wreck. According to police scanner transmissions, a woman drove her blue Chrysler off

They’re called container homes, built from steel shipping containers, and over the objections of some, the first one in El Paso is currently being built in the middle of a West Side neighborhood. The home is located in the 6200 block of Fiesta Drive, off of Balboa and just south of Mesa Street, where storm

Moments before ABC-7 Anchor Paul Cicala took a plunge into the refreshing waterfall behind him, around a 90-minute drive from El Paso, he eagerly shouted: “Next time you are that borderland resident who angrily proclaims, ‘There’s nothing to do around here’ … Well, think again! Be positive, and truly treasure and take pride in the

It’s been 14 years since El Paso city said it would work to transform into a “no kill” shelter.But last year alone, Animal Services put down a recording breaking number of animals. The issue came up at Wednesday night’s Animal Services Advisory Committee meeting. Animal activists in attendance said El Paso is behind the times.

Local officials said Wednesday the state had denied funding for a bike share program, while a state Spokeswoman said that was not the case. The Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority was slated to move forward with the bike share program but instead announced the lion’s share of the funding, which the RMA was counting on,

Star basketball recruit Isaac Hamilton has filed an appeal to UTEP’s denial to release him from his National Letter of Intent. UTEP received the appeal on Monday, Aug. 12 and has 10 business days to send a written response. The fall semester begins Aug. 26. Hamilton and his family had asked UTEP coach Tim Floyd

The City of El Paso’s Ethics Commission will evaluate how to penalize city officials and employees who conduct city business on personal electronic devices or accounts. City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution that requires all City employees, volunteers and elected officials to forward any email, text message, or instant message to their city email,

It’ll get easier to navigate downtown on foot, according to some city officials. City Council on Tuesday approved a pedestrian pathway which will connect the Union Plaza entertainment district to the Arts Festival Plaza, where the History Museum is located. The pedestrian route will also have a way to get to the convention center and

As construction for El Paso’s new ballpark continues Downtown, the team’s owners have announced how seats will be allocated and how much the tickets will cost. Tickets range from $504 for one season in the upper reserved zone to a little more than $2,300 per year on a three-year-deal with seats on the club level.

El Paso County leaders are applying pressure to get a multimillion-dollar project back on track. Sunlight Enterprises was awarded a $7.5 million contract to renovate the El Paso County Sportspark last year. During Monday’s county commissioners court meeting, county leaders said that the project had fallen behind schedule. Commissioners discussed the project behind closed doors

Patrick “Pat” Abeln will fill the vacant El Paso Commissioners Court Precinct 4 seat, according to a tweet by County Judge Veronica Escobar Monday afternoon. The commissioner’s seat was left vacant with the death of Dan Haggerty in late June due to cancer. Haggerty served on Commissioners Court since 1995. Escobar said at a news

El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar made waves with the county’s long-standing ambulance services contract Monday. Life Ambulances has held an ambulance services contract for El Paso County since 1983. Traditionally they sign three-year contracts. In 2012, they approved a single year contract.Escobar referred to the contract as “evergreen,” and questioned whether it was a

A woman has been taken to the hospital after driving her car off a levee between Loop 375 and Del Valle High School. The incident happened just before 1 a.m. Monday morning, at the same time a football practice was going on at the high school. Some of the players who witnessed the crash say

The Gila National Forest is just about a two hour drive from the borderland. It’s a beautiful forest that El Paso and Las Cruces residents have been vacationing and hiking in for decades. Paul Cicala continues his series of “things to do in and near El Paso” and continued his quest to prove the “angry

A man is in the hospital with serious head injuries after his car was hit a police vehicle. Investigators said Sunday morning a police officer was traveling eastbound on North Loop, with the emergency lights on. The officer was on his way to help another. At the same time a silver Nissan was merging on

Sunday morning a man is stabbed in his own home by a stranger. El Paso Police said it happened in central El Paso on the 4000 block of Trowbridge. The victim, Joel Garcia, says he left his back door open while bringing in some items. He was then confronted by a stranger lurking inside the

A railroad accident early Saturday morning left a truck in shambles and a wanted man on the run. El Paso police officers responded around 7 on Saturday morning to reports of a train hitting a truck in northeast El Paso. When officers arrived, they discovered that a cargo train had hit a truck along the

Weeks have gone by, but not much has changed in the hearts of El Paso’s Upper Valley residents near Esmeralda Park. Construction continues along Artcraft road. El Paso Electric is constructing electrical poles and the people who live nearby aren’t happy. “It’s not just. They say they told us and they didn’t — it’s not

It was an emotional memorial in Las Cruces. Friends and family of Lisa Cash gathered in front of her home to share memories Friday. Police said Richard McIntyre shot and killed Cash, who was his sister-in-law, before killing himself. Cash left behind a family and many in Las Cruces who loved her. Cash’s friends, family

It’s being touted as a game-changer for cross-border trade with Mexico. But it’s not in Texas, it’s in New Mexico. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Chihuahua Gov. Cesar Duarte held news conferences on both sides of the border today to announce creation of a new 70,000 acre binational community in Santa Teresa and San

Chris Craig, the former UTEP basketball player who posted on the Internet about end of the world prophecies and allegedly called himself an “Islamic Jihadist,” was arrested by Price City, Utah police Thursday. Price City police told ABC-7 he was arrested at his wife’s apartment for a misdemeanor drug possession warrant, and while being arrested,

A former UTEP basketball player who caught the attention of law enforcement for his inflammatory blogs was in El Paso for months, until recently. ABC-7 learned Chris Craig was living in northeast El Paso until about a month ago. Craig allegedly made threats against the Catholic and Mormon churches, and Craig spent much of the

Jim Darnell is not a stranger to dealing with the NCAA. He estimates he’s represented 15 to 20 players and coaches in cases with the NCAA over the years. Most cases have ended up in his client’s favor. The Manziel family announced Thursday that they hired El Paso-based attorney Darnell to represent Johnny Manziel, the

The downtown jail is one step closer to being mold-free. Three months ago El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles told the county a mold issue had arisen in the downtown jail. Since that initial news broke, four floors of inmates have been sent to jails outside of the county’s system. Years ago a deal was

Johnny Manziel’s family has hired an El Paso, Texas, attorney with experience in NCAA matters as the Heisman Trophy winner reportedly faces an investigation into whether he was paid to sign autographs. The Manziel family said in a statement Thursday that Jim Darnell would be representing the Texas A&M quarterback. “I can’t say much,” Darnell

Twenty-one anomalies were found at Socorro Independent School District. One of which the district is taking very seriously. Although the issue isn’t illegal, it could be unethical. It’s called the EIE regulation, created in 2007 by Superintendent. Dr. Sylvia Atkinson. She’s now assistant superintendent for support services at Brownsville ISD. The EIE regulation allowed the

Auditor Dr. Pam Padilla found no evidence of the Socorro Independent School district of falsifying grades or manipulating credits after reviewing thousands of transcripts. Yet four Socorro administrators have been on put leave effectively immediately They are Pat O’Neill, assistant super of administration; Dr. Cynthia Lopez, assistant superintendent of secondary education; Rebecca O’Neill, assistant superintendent

It’s unclear when and if the City of El Paso is going to release controversial emails of former and current city representatives that dealt with the baseball stadium. The emails were requested by ABC-7 and other government watchdogs through the Open Records Law. The emails dealt with City business but were sent from personal devices.