Month: January 2014

Three bills created in response to the El Paso Independent School District cheating scandal are making their way to the governor’s desk. The…

ABC-7learned new information about the 22-year-old man killed at his home in Central El Paso. NeighborsABC-7 spoke withsaid the man police found…

Police arrested three suspects in El Paso’s fifth homicide of the year. Around 2 p.m. Friday police said 22-year old Jose Castanon was found…

Country music lovers shut down Main Street in Las Cruces for the first-ever country music festival. Hundreds of country music fans attended the first…

Some Bowie High School graduates are hoping to motivate current Bowie students to go to college. The Bowie Alumni Association has started a mentoring…

Three Fort Bliss soldiers died after an improvised explosive device attack Tuesday in Afghanistan, Fort Bliss officials said. Fort Bliss identified…

Children living at a Central El Paso apartment complex have been testing positive for dangerously high levels of lead in their blood. State…

Some educators believe border school districts are at an inherent disadvantage because of the high number of students who don’t know English…

UPDATE: UTEP street closures begin Monday morning. Construction crews have installed fencing in the center of campus to begin a year-long project to…

Art Franco is still the mayor of Anthony, Texas despite his attorney saying he would resign at Tuesday night’s meeting after pleading guilty to…

The clean up continues for the central El Paso building that was destroyed in a massive fire last week. Meanwhile, building owner Hector Barragan…

More people vote in West El Paso and in the Upper Valley, while Central and the Lower Valley lag behind in voter turnout. A new map on the county…

Good news came May 14 for civilian workers at Fort Bliss and other military facilities across the U.S. The Pentagon said it plans to furlough about…

The clothes, books and furniture left after-hours at Goodwill donation centers have always been an easy target for those with sticky fingers, but…

ABC-7’s I-team is confirming the name of the mother whose five-month-old daughter was left in an SUV and died, in a local high school parking…

Fireworks have been rare in El Paso County. In 2013, it could be much of the same. Earlier this year, there was concern from El Paso County Judge…

El Pasoan Eddie Garcia has a brand new college diploma and something most fresh grads don’t: a $25,000 gift from his university. During his…

The City of the Crosses is now part of the six-digit club. Sometime between July 2012 and April 1, the population of Las Cruces surpassed the 100,000…

Hyundai of El Paso president Oscar Leeser almost had it. Early voters took him beyond the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win the mayoral seat…

All the campaigns and all the support it takes to run an election can carry a hefty price tag. ABC-7looked up finances on both Oscar Leeser and Steve…

As election night 2013 came to a close, a familiar theme for years past surfaced. Voter turnout was down. Dating back to 2008, the average turnout in…

CITY OF EL PASO, PROPOSITION 1FOR (A FAVOR) 21381 50.02%AGAINST (EN CONTRA) 21365 49.98% CITY OF EL PASO, PROPOSITION 2FOR (A FAVOR) 20047…

With early votes released three of the four El Paso City Council district races appear headed for a runoff. A candidate needs 50 percent of the vote…

Oscar Leeser and Steve Ortega were the top two candidates in a crowded race for mayor and will head to a runoff in mid-June. Leeser had 21,724 votes…

EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Police Deptartment confirmed a 5-month-old baby girl was found in a locked vehicle in the parking lot of Riverside…

A political researcher said Joyce Wilson may play a factor in El Paso’s mayoral election. Wilson is El Paso’s first city manager, after…

Thursday night, Hector “El Pipo” Barragan went to bed expecting to wake up and head to mass Friday morning. Instead he was awoken in the…

Firefighters were called out to a massive fire at a central El Paso apartment building early Friday morning. The fire began just after 3:30 a.m. near…

A local bar owner has started a Political Action Committee to keep City Rep. Steve Ortega from being elected Mayor. The owner of the Three Legged…

A number of El Paso-area athletes have advanced to state in track and field. And, if you’d like to keep tabs on the borderland athletes suiting…