Month: January 2014

The owner of the 3 Legged Monkey bar and the current lease holder of the shopping center where the bar sits found themselves in bankruptcy court Thursday. A bankruptcy judge will determine if the city’s agreement to purchase a controlling interest in the hawkins plaza will be approved. If that sale is ok’d, Patriot Place

Update: Nov. 16, 2012 afternoon: El Paso Police said the investigation revealed that Rogelio Sepulveda was operating a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle north in the center lane of the 3500 block of Lee Trevino when he was struck from behind by a 2012 Ford Focus driven by Albert Romero. The impact threw Sepulveda forward and then

A rush to lend money led to a series of bad loans handed out by El Paso County. Whether it’s Horizon City, or far west El Paso, you won’t find any of the 17 businesses that El Paso County gave a total of more than $600,000 to in 2007. Instead, you’ll find empty storefronts. “There

When President Barack Obama greets congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, an elaborate set of postelection rituals will be complete. Yet divided government’s ability to attack the nation’s economic woes is no clearer now than it has been for months. Eventually, something’s got to give in a country where voters are weary of

The El Paso chapter of the Salvation Army is still seeking turkeys for Thanksgiving. Salvation Army’s John Martin said they have received 104 of the 150 turkeys needed since it was announced they needed more turkeys on Wednesday, Nov. 14. They are still taking donations at 4300 Paisano.

Ex-El Paso County Commissioner Willie Gandara Jr. was sentenced Nov. 14 to 6 1/2 years in federal prison on drug-related charges. He also has to pay a $300,000 fine. He was taken into custody and family members cried as they told him they loved him. Gandara Jr. pleaded guilty in August to operating a Lower

The leader of the School-Board-created task force meant to help the El Paso Independent School District following the cheating scandal of its former Superintendent, sternly demanded the Board take responsibility and apologize for the illegal acts of its former leader. Jimmy Vasquez stood with all the members of the task force behind him as he

Election Day is over, but one race in southern New Mexico is still left without a winner. The candidates for the state representative of District 37 are in an exact tie after a final count of more than 12,000 votes. District 37 includes neighborhoods in East Las Cruces, on the East Mesa and in the

Cases of parvo and distemper have been popping up all over El Paso at an alarming rate. Dr. Bernie Page, the head of El Paso Animal Services, said that is not the only concern surrounding the emergence of the canine diseases. “We are seeing a new strain — several new strains, as a matter of

Many of us find ourselves sharing our traffic frustrations through Facebook and Twitter, especially when a wreck appears to be non-serious. In El Paso, one wreck on the freeway could cause back up for hours. Monday morning, a five-vehicle wreck on Interstate 10 halted the morning rush extending the back up five miles. For a

A one-month old baby boy is still in critical condition, and his teenage mother recovering after they were hit by a car overnight. We don’t know what the woman was doing pushing her son in the stroller — but what we do know? Police returned to a house they say is related to the hit-and-run,

For the last 12 weeks the El Paso Police Gang Task Force, US Marshals and other federal law enforcement officials have been hunting for alleged gang members and sex offenders. Teams from 5 to up to 40 men, working all hours of the night, searched the streets of El Paso County looking for people with

El Paso County Judge Patricia Chew ruled Friday afternoon that actor Sherman Hemsley’s will is valid. Flora Enchinton-Bernal is listed as the sole beneficiary of Hemsley’s estate in the will Hemsley signed in June, about a month before his death on July 24 from complications of lung cancer. The judge’s ruling means that Hemsley’s estate

A water adventure park could be heading to the current site of Cohen Stadium. City Manager Joyce Wilson Thursday said a private company had approached the city with a proposal to build the water park in the Northeast El Paso site. Wilson said the water park could co-exist with the stadium because the land is

For years, patients in New Mexico with certain health conditions have used medical marijuana as a treatment. Now one psychiatrist is fighting to get post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) off the list of qualified conditions. On Wednesday the state board of health heard both sides of the argument at a meeting in Santa Fe. There are

With election day on Tuesday watch ABC-7 Xtra from Sunday night which featured bond and baseball stadium critic, Stephanie Townsend Allala and Rick Horrow, the consultant who helped draft the bond projects and who’s working with the PAC trying to pass the bonds. Click on the video above to watch Xtra. To find out more

Several months have passed since the El Paso County Commissioners began taking steps to have a larger role in selecting Emergency Service District commissioners. ESD No. 2 has two new commissioners: Pam Padilla and Jerry Knotts. While the two were only appointed in June and sworn in over the next two months the Commissioners are

In 2010, El Paso County Commissioners voted to fire Paul Shrode. Since that time, no one has held a permanent chief medical examiner position with the county. Juan Contin, a former chief medical examiner who was fired by El Paso County once before, held the job contractually before being given an “interim” tag. After years

Did they make him an offer he couldn’t refuse? El Paso attorney Marco Delgado is accused of laundering more than half-a-billion dollars for the Milenio cartel. Delgado was arrested on Friday and was in court Monday afternoon as Judge Norbert Garney read Delgado the charge. A source close to the investigation said Delgado had been

96,189 voters decided to cast their ballots between Oct. 22 and Friday, according to El Paso County Elections Office figures on Monday. While nearly 25 percent of El Paso’s 383,995 registered voters took advantage of the 18 stations and three mobile units available for early voting, the numbers lag behind 2008 statistics. County records show

El Pasoans have approved all three quality of life bond propositions that were on the Nov. 6 ballot. Proposition 3 was the most controversial of three propositions and would determine who would pay for the Downtown ballpark – El Pasoans or visitors to the city through the Hotel Occupancy Tax. Proposition 3 passed 86,327to 56,381

El Paso police arrested three individuals for various drug offenses on Monday. An investigation at the 3400 block of Hamilton in Central El Paso led to the arrests. At the residence, 53-year-old Vernard Massey was found in possession of 31. grams of cocaine, police said. In addition, police said 14.4 grams of cocaine were found

Fresh off a season-opening 20-point victory over Oral Roberts, the UTEP basketball team (1-0) will hit the road for the first time on Thursday at No. 12 Arizona (1-0). Fox Sports will have national coverage of the game with Justin Kutcher (play-by-play) and Marques Johnson (analyst) calling the action at 8 pm MT. (Editor’s Note:

A man was taken to University Medical center after being shot early Sunday morning, police said. Around 1:30 a.m. police said theywere called to the 5700 block of Trowbridge on reports of a shooting near the Golden Nugget Bar in Central El Paso. Once at the scene, the Officers found that a 35-year old man

“Was it expected? In some ways yes,” EPISD Interim Super Intendent Vernon Butler told ABC-7. The resignation made everything easier for both parties. “Rather than go through long issues and battles sometimes employees in any organization it’s in their best interest,” said Butler. Myrna Gamboa was a Title One director. Title1 is a program that

A Las Cruces mother and her son are dead after a crash on Highway 70 in Las Cruces on Wednesday. Another woman was airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso. Las Cruces Police spokesman Dan Trujillo told our New Mexico Mobile Newsroom this is the sixth fatal crash on Highway 70 this year. Trujillo

It may not be built yet, but a group of paranormal investigators say El Paso’s downtown ballpark will end up being haunted. That’s if the ghosts that supposedly reside in the Insights Museum decide they don’t want to move out. Whether or not there are such things as ghosts, there are some grim facts which

Hazmat teams responded Tuesday morning to a situation near Doa Ana County Industrial Park at 2500 Airport Road in Santa Teresa, N.M. that occurred shortly after 8 a.m. MDT. Shortly after 2 p.m. New Mexico State Police requested a civil-support team from the New Mexico National Guard to deploy to the Doa Ana County Industrial

El Paso Independent School District Interim Superintendent Vernon Butler has accepted the resignation of former Bowie High School principal Jesus Chavez. Earlier this month Chavez had asked the school board to consider giving him his job back but they unanimously denied his appeal. Chavez was reassigned from being principal of Bowie High School to working