Month: February 2014

ABCNews An undertaker in Beverly Hills was driving a dead body to a funeral Monday when she died on her way to the ceremony. The woman, whose name was not released by Beverly Hills police, was founded “slumped over” in the driver’s seat of the hearse around 3 p.m., according to the Associated Press. Police

Quality water was Francisca Pavia’s dream 20 years ago. She went door-to-door collecting signatures in 1995 for a project that will become a reality this fall. “I’m very thankful, very happy,” Pavia said. Pavia said construction in two colonias in Canutillo, Schuman Estates and Mayfair Nuway, will be completed by November or sooner. For the

Many nursing students at Doa Ana Community College are left wondering if they’ll be able to get jobs after the college lost its accreditation. On Monday, the main office at the Health and Public Services building was filled with frustrated students wondering if they’d wasted years of studying and hard work to get a degree

A feel-good story and a photo opportunity left Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton with a broken nose. Stanton practiced Monday with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and ran drills with their practice squad. In one of the drills, Stanton went up for a rebound against the Mercury’s Nakia Sanford and came down with a broken nose. He

A man Las Cruces Police suspect of using a baseball bat to start a fight with an ex-friend was instead beaten with the weapon and subsequently charged for initiating the attack. Carlos M. Cooper, 37, has been charged with one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, a third-degree felony. Shortly after 2:30 a.m.

In an effort to give Downtown shoppers a break and retail and cultural activities a boost, the City of El Paso is waiving all parking meter fees during the upcoming Texas tax-free holiday weekend. The City’s International Bridges Department, which oversees the parking meter program, will offer free parking at all parking meters from 7

A law enforcement officer attacked as he brought an eviction notice to a house near Texas A&M University was among three people, including a shooter inside the home, killed by gunfire Monday. A 65-year-old man also died, while three other law enforcement officers and a 55-year-old woman were wounded, in the shootings at an off-campus

UTEP Police and Administrators face a very realistic scenario: guns, blood and hostages. It was only a test, but was it too soon? “I would hate to think that if we delayed it by a week or a month and we didn’t practice, we didn’t exercise, and something did happened — I couldn’t live with

Sometimes, you just have to dance. And that’s what Lamar Holmes did recently in a local parking lot. Only his dance moves have gone viral on the Internet. A passerby secretly used a cell phone to record Lamar as he danced in the parking lot. Lamar is seen in the nearly four-minute video twerkin it

The Powerball jackpot has grown to $305 million for Wednesday’s drawing. The prize grew after no one matched all six numbers in the multi-state lottery drawing Saturday night. The winning numbers were: 4, 13, 39, 46 and 51. The Powerball was 1. Although no one hit the jackpot, several people made out nicely. Five Powerball

ABCNews Just over 24 hours after Rep. Paul Ryan was tapped for the vice presidential slot on the Republican ticket, President Obama today welcomed the Wisconsin congressman to the race, branding him the “ideological leader of Republicans in Congress.” Addressing donors at a campaign fundraiser on the south side of Chicago, Obama slammed his rivals’

Aug. 13, 2012 Update: The driver of the motorcycle was identified as David Mulno of Tewksbury Massachusetts. Mulno was wearing a motorcycle helmet and protective jacket prior to being thrown off his motorcycle after failing to negotiate a curve, according to El Paso County Sheriff’s officials. Aug. 12, 2012 story: Part of Trans Mountain Road

On Tuesday, El Paso City Councilapproved the purchase of two buildings to relocate City Hall. The El Paso Times building will be purchased with an $11 million price tag and the old Union Manufacturing building for $2.3 million. So what will that do to the businesses near those buildings? There’s a lot of buzz about

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Republican vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan that would remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending. In the campaign to come, Republicans will present economic solutions

Animal Rescue League employeeswere shaken after finding the burned remains of multiple animals in their dumpster. ABC 7 Reporter Ashlie Rodriguez explains. “When I went to pick up the trash can, there was pieces of dog inside the trash,” said Animal Rescue League staff member Janette Velasquez. Velasquez was taking out the trash yesterday afternoon

Doa Ana County Sheriff’s investigators have arrested a Chaparral man and charged his common-law wife after two children in their home allegedly tested positive for cocaine, according to sheriff’s officials. Enrique Gutierrez, 29, and Dometilla Rosales, 41, each face two counts of negligent child abuse after investigators say an 11-year old boy and a 2-year-old

The El Paso Police Department is asking City Council to sign a contract with G4S Secure Solutions to provide prisoner booking, transportation and watch services for the police department. The item will be discussed at the Tuesday, Aug. 14 City Council meeting.If approved, El Paso Police officials said G4S will provide highly trained and vetted

by John Wayne Ferguson Until recently, beer drinkers who took their time to read the labels on their bottles or cans may have encountered some head-scratching fine print concerning Texas. Underneath the name of Brooklyn Brewery’s Brooklyn Lager, for instance, was the note “In Texas, malt liquor.” Even closer inspection would reveal that the word

ABCNews Shanyna Isom has consulted every possible specialist, including a doctor in the Netherlands, but she still as no idea what is wrong with her. The 28-year-old beautician and former University of Memphis law student has developed a condition so severe, fingernails grow from the hair follicles all over her body. “Black scabs were coming

The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents and Chancellor Kent Hance on Aug. 10 approved construction of a building on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) El Paso campus to house the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing’s Traditional Bachelor of Science Degree and Second Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is urgently seeking the public’s help to identify a suspected child pornography producer and rescue at least two underage victims.This week, HSI’s Child Exploitation Investigations Unit’s Victim Identification Program obtained a “Jane Doe” arrest warrant in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Last year, the city of Las Cruces received 7,735 calls from alarms, according to Lt. Kevin Renn. Renn said that of those calls, 7,679, or 99.2 percent, were false. Police Chief Richard Williams told ABC-7 when an alarm call comes in, at least two officers are dispatched to the scene. With the vast majority of

By Ashlie Rodriguez Drunk-driving suspects can refuse Breathalyzer tests, but they’ll be forced to give blood if a new initiative is passed. The El Paso District Attorney’s office is encouraging law enforcement agencies to adopt the “No Refusal Initiative” as soon as this fall. At age 11, Virigina Gonzales was thrown through a car window

A fire rips through a home in San Elizario, Texas.The family is left to sift through the rubble. It happened Friday afternoon on the 1500 block of Paseo Del Convento. Firefightersbattled the blaze for more thanfour hours. There was ammunition going off in the home. “In the morning, I was working on my small engines

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An El Paso man convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 19-month-old child has received an execution date. Rigoberto Avila Jr. faces lethal injection Dec. 12 in Huntsville for the February 2000 beating death of Nicolas Macias. Testimony showed the child was one of two he was babysitting in February 2000 while the children’s mother was attending

ABCNews The CEO and founder of Papa John’s pizza wants investors to know that when the president’s health care law takes effect, the price of pizza is going up with it. According to “Papa” John Schnatter, the cost of providing health insurance for all of his pizza chain’s uninsured, full-time employees comes out to about

The city has put El Paso’s old streetcars up for sale, even as it moves forward with plans to bring streetcar service back to Downtown. The classic Art Deco-style cars are remnants of the city’s once bustling Downtown. They are also the most desirable vintage cars of the 20th century, according to experts. But the

Men can legally challenge the paternity on the grounds of fraud, mistake or misrepresentation following the 2011 amendment to Chapter 161 of the Texas Family Code, according to an article in the Fort Bliss Monitor. The new law enables a man who has previously been named as the biological father of a child in a

Two months after he was viciously attacked on the MacArthur Causeway by the so-called Miami Zombie, Ronald Poppo succinctly summed up the events that captured the country’s attention in an interview with the CBS affiliate in Miami. “He attacked me,” Poppo said of Rudy Eugene. “He just ripped me to ribbons. He chewed up my