Month: January 2014

A Honda Odyssey minivan rolled over Tuesday afternoon on I-10 near Fabens in the same area where five people were killed riding in the same model vehicle on Monday morning. There also were eight people in each vehicle and both rollovers happened due to a tire blowout. All eight people in the Tuesday rollover walked

Summertime in El Paso is a time when families enjoy outdoor festivals together. It hasn’t been all fun and games for organizers of the Ysleta Mission Festival. On July 14, during the weekend long festival, El Paso police say 44-year-old Jesus Manuel Ayala was caught with more than 400 imposter tickets for the event. A

Police found a 67-year-old man in the middle of a Lower Valley road Sunday morning. This marks the second possible hit-and-run collision this weekend. The accident occurred on the 600 block of Zaragoza, just south of the intersection of Zaragoza and North Loop. According to officials, the collision happened just after 5 a.m. Police said

Police said they are still searching for a vehicle that may have hit a man and fled the scene in East El Paso Saturday morning. A 19-year-old man was found unconscious near the intersection of Montana and Lee Trevino, police said. According to officials, they believe he was hit by a silver car. A mirror

Thousands of dollars worth of construction equipment continues to push mounds of dirt in Tornillo, Texas. A multimillion dollar port of entry project is nearing a completion date slated for mid-2013 on the American side. While the Mexican government is slated to finish the other half of the port of entry at the same time,

Anthony, Texas mayor Art Franco was arrested by Texas Rangers Friday afternoon for allegedly tampering with government records, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. He was arrested at Anthony’s Town Hall at about 1:45 p.m. and booked into the El Paso County Jail. Court records show Franco’s indictment was filed on Sept. 21 and

The West Nile virus continues to grip the state and our city. Early this week, the deadly virus took the lives of two El Pasoans, an elderly man and a young man. We’ve seen the stories in our newscasts. West Nile virustaking the lives of our borderland residents, five so far. For the most part,

Improper use of prescription drugs in the U.S. is rampant. The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that more Americans abuse prescription medication than heroin, cocaine and hallucinogens combined. It’s that fact that fuels RX Take Back Day, an event created by the DEA to encourage Americans to go through their medicine cabinets for any old or

Update: El Paso and the Sun Bowl stadium will not host the Oct. 12 match between Mexico and Guyana, according to Jorge Vasquez, Executive Director of Special Events for UTEP. “They prefer to play on a natural grass and we respect that,” Vasquez said. The Sun Bowl has artificial turf on its field. “We are

An El Paso police officer was assaulted Tuesday afternoon in Central El Paso. The attack unleashed a manhunt for several suspects in the area. Police say the officer was attacked by at least three males. He suffered serious injuries, by said they aren’t life threatening. Witnesses say the men looked Hispanic in their late teens.

Job seekers lined up well before the doors opened to the Judson F. Williams Convention Center at 9 a.m. Tuesday for the largest job fair in the city. The 10th annual Get Hired job expo, organized by the Upper Rio Grande Workforce Solutions, is taking place at the convention center until 6 p.m. Organizers expect

The tax hike is called a 5 cent raise. Two pennies will pay for the $110 million worth of bonds passed earlier this year by Commissioners. Two additional pennies will go towards salary increases for county employees. The final portion of the raise, one cent, will go toward a fund to lower the county’s dependency

What are the odds? A woman attending her first ever Aggies football game in a crowd of 25,000 people was hit by a bullet. Patsy Bejarano, 57, told ABC-7 maybe it happened for a reason. Days after getting hit by a bullet in the thigh, Bejarano is laughing and walking, all with the help of

A recent audit of the Emergency Services District No. 2 in El Paso county turned up several issues. On Monday, County Commissioners were expected to make a move to request both ESDs to use their power to provide more guidance on volunteer fire departments in their districts. Right now, the county has no direct control

Authorities have made three arrests in an August double-homicide that occurred next to a canal in Socorro. Each face a capital murder charge. According to a sheriff’s news release, 32-year-old Eddie Noriega, 43-year-old Luis Rodriguez and 33-year-old Juan Cornejo we arrested last week without incident at various locations within El Paso County. Noriega is being

The nearly 15-percent tax hike approved Monday by County Commissioners is being called a five-cent raise. Two cents will pay for the $110 million worth of bonds passed earlier this year by El Paso County Commissioners; another two cents will go toward salary increases for county employees; and the final cent will go toward a

A shooting in El Paso’s Lower Valley sent two men to the hospital Sunday night, but so far police have no suspect. The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. on the 7700 block of Hermosillo near Giles. Police tell ABC-7 the two men were outside the home when someone opened fire. We’re told, one man was

Who gets the body? Exactly two months after the death of actor Sherman Hemsley, the dispute over his body and estate heads to an El Paso courtroom for the first day of a bench trial. Hemsley’s will is being contested by Richard Thornton, in Philadelphia, who claims to be the dead actor’s half brother. According

A fan was injured by a bullet at the New Mexico State University vs. New Mexico football game in Las Cruces Saturday night, according to NMSU officials. Police said the fan, a woman in her 50s, was hit in the leg by a bullet. The woman was in the South seating section of Aggie Memorial

Officials now say four cars were involved in the accident that sent 14 people to the hospital. According to police, the collision happened just after 11 p.m. Friday on the 9700 block of Alameda Avenue. Police believe a driver lost control of their vehicle, starting a chain reaction that pushed down to Inglewood Drive. EMS

Two months ago the plans for City Hall didn’t extend beyond office work, and meetings. Now, there is a plan to demolish the building and build a downtown ballpark. It seems like a stretch, but the recent sighting of traffic equipment around downtown is connected. When you create a stadium, you also create waves of

It wont be long before the Insights Science Museum has to shut its doors. Insights has officially gotten their eviction notice.They willhave to vacate the building early next year and board members for the museum are feeling some frustration. “I don’t want to see us close our doors,” said Aaron Velasco, president of the board

El Paso will get its Downtown baseball stadium and a team will start playing in it in 2014 barring a successful legal challenge. Mayor John Cook did not exercise his power to veto City Council’s decision on Tuesday to build a ballpark on the current site of City Hall. Cook made the announcement about his

Another celebrity has been arrested in Hudspeth County, Texas. According to TMZ.com, Fiona Apple was arrested on Wednesday when her tour bus made it’s way to the Sierra Blanca checkpoint. The website reports that the 35-year-old singer was arrested for possession of marijuana and is currently being held at Hudspeth County Jail. Past notable names

The bases are loaded, it’s the bottom of the 9th inning and Mayor John Cook is at the plate. Will he or won’t he veto Tuesday’s 4-3 City Council vote to tear down City Hall and build a ballpark? At this point, it looks like Cook’s decision on whether or not to save the building

Horizon 19-year-old Angie Gomez was sentenced Wednesday afternoon to two years in prison but the judge suspended that and sentenced her to five years probation in a plea deal. If she breaks her probation she will be sentenced to two years in prison. Gomez had been charged with one felony charge of theft of property.

Endeavour is more than just a space vehicle to Ginger Kerrick. She considers her a friend. Kerrick, a NASA flight director, got to know Endeavour very well and see all of its systems up close as she prepared to lead Mission Control for STS-126 before it launched in mid-November 2008. “It was great,” El Pasoan

Space shuttle Endeavour has landed in Houston for a one-day stop on its trek west to retirement in a California museum. The shuttle, atop a modified jumbo jet, touched down Wednesday morning on a runway near NASA’s Johnson Space Center at Ellington Field. Hundreds of people cheered wildly during the landing and an earlier fly-by.

If there wasn’t already enough pressure on City Council’s decision to build a ballpark, the Pacific Coast League put a bit more them on Tuesday. Josh Hunt, a member of the MountainStar Sports Group, read an email from the PCL to City Council Tuesday stating that the sale, transfer, and relocation of the Tucson Padres

After a marathon City Council meeting, El Paso will get its Triple-A baseball team if Mayor John Cook does not veto council’s decision in the next five days. Cook told ABC-7 he would not decide what he was going to do until Wednesday. City Council voted to approve the building of a ballpark on the