Month: April 2014

A former UTEP football player is joining a class action lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association — or the NCAA. Former tight end Kevin Perry joined several other players in a lawsuit asking for the NCAA’s limits on compensation to be thrown out. That compensation is in the form of an athletic scholarship, which

El Paso County will likely use funds from the 2012 bond project, and potentially vehicle registration fees, to fund phase two of the Manuel Aguilera Highway that will connect I-0 to Alameda Avenue, part of the comprehensive mobility plan. Officials said phase two of the project will cost about $17 million. The new Tornillo-Guadalupe port

Volunteers from World Mission Society Church of God lent a helping hand Sunday to keep Vinton beautiful. The mission of Keep Vinton Beautiful is to encourage Village of Vinton residents to take responsibility for the improvement of the community’s environment. Sunday, 20 people from a local church, took the time to literally paint the town.

The Mexican fisherman who says he survived more than a year in a small boat adrift in the Pacific flew back to Mexico.The Daily Mail reports the castaway went back to meet the family of his dead shipmate and give them a dying message.Jose Alvarenga met the family of his 23-year-old shipmate, Ezekial Rios, who

Western leaders are planning to move swiftly to punish Russia with economic sanctions. The move follows a secession referendum Sunday in Crimea. Residents there voted to join Russia. The U.S. and European Union say the referendum was illegal under the Ukrainian constitution and the vote was held under duress in a region crawling with Russian

New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies walked into the postgame news conference with a net around his neck, the latest trophy from a run of titles. No matter how many times the Aggies have earned a spot in the NCAA tournament, it never gets old. Daniel Mullings scored 18 points, Sim Bhullar added 14 and

We have issued a First Alert for Saturday. Winds will be the culprit. Gusts can be as high as 55 mph throughout the afternoon and evening. Sustained winds, however, will be from the Northwest between 10 and 25 mph.Temps for today look to be around 73 and 10 degrees cooler on Sunday. Saturday afternoon thousands

The NMSU Aggies Men’s Basketball team won the 2014 Western Athletic Conference title Saturday night. NM State went up against the Idaho Vandals at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. During the first half, the Aggies took the lead with 39 points. In the second period, the Aggies scored 38 points, while Idaho put up

Hudspeth County Sheriff’s dispatchers tell ABC-7 a single vehicle was involved in a rollover accident overnight on interstate ten. One person was confirmed dead at the scene. An elderly man and a child were reportedly transported to University Medical Center. Department of Public Safety tells ABC-7 the car was registered in Houston. The interstate remained

ABC-7 has been reporting, all charges have been dropped against a local pastor accused of trying to smuggle a woman across the border. Ciro Cruz was taken into custody earlier this week.Friday night he was back with his family. Thousands of people cross the border each day but for Pastor Cruz it was a border

You may not have a Warhol stashed away in your closet but antique experts say there are plenty of gems in the borderland still waiting to be found. You just have to know where to go. Antiques Roadshow will air the show’s three-part-visit to El Paso on PBS this week, but if you didn’t have

Violence brought Ciudad Juarez tourism nearly to a halt between 2008 and 2010, when more than 10,000 businesses closed their doors. Now it appears the violence is declining and commerce is improving, so El Paso’s sister city is doing its best to welcome tourists back. Juarez on Saturday will open its first-ever visitors center on

As a thank you from Conference USA for UTEP and El Paso hosting the C-USA Tournament, all fans will be able to get into the women’s championship game at 6 p.m. Saturday for free, a UTEP spokesman told ABC-7 First 2,500 attendees to the women’s game also will get a free hot dog. For men’s

UTEP Athletic Director Bob Stull told ABC-7 this afternoon that UTEP has put in a bid to play in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI). Stull said they also have put in to host a game. “I feel confident we’ll get it,” Stull said.

The UTEP women’s basketball team has been eliminated from the C-USA Tournament in a 84-70 loss to Southern Miss in the semifinals. UTEP’s Kayla Thornton had 21 points and became the school’s all-time leading scorer early in the game. UTEP can still be invited to a post-season tournament.

The state of New Mexico boasts a $4 billion-dollar-a-year agriculture business and many El Pasoans enjoy shopping at nurseries across the state line, bringing plants back home to gardens in the Sun City. What those Texas shoppers may not know is that in order for them to legally transport those plants into Texas they must

UTEP’s 2013-’14 season would have made a compelling reality show – if such a show existed. The Miners are still eligible for post-season play with the NIT and CBI as possible destinations Here’s a look a back at this season. Star Recruit Abandons Miners Sept. 13, 2013- ESPN.com and CBSSports.com are reporting that star basketball

Aaron Brown scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half and Michael Craig added 12 as Southern Miss advanced to the Conference USA tournament with a 64-56 victory over UTEP on Thursday night. Craig also grabbed 12 rebounds and the No. 4 seeded Golden Eagles (27-5) out-rebounded UTEP 45-28, including 20-7 offensive boards.

ABC-7 has learned Thursday afternoon that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has dropped a felony charge against Pastor Ciro Cruz, according to Cruz’s attorney Kenneth Del Valle. He was arrested at the Paso del Norte bridge Wednesday afternoon for bringing a person without documents across the border – a felony charge. Cruz is the pastor of

Some valuable NASA items used for the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium have been destroyed. The parts were stored at New Mexico State University. ABC-7 has learned NMSU employees with the Department of Facilities and Services were clearing the storage area in Wells Hall for space about to be renovated for classroom usage. Officials say

The City of El Paso has begun the process to condemn the Gateway Hotel and ultimately demolish it, City officials announced at a news conference Thursday afternoon. Officials with the City told ABC-7 earlier this week they’re pushing for the building to be condemned and ultimately demolished. The hotel has 90 rooms, 41 of which

Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs fired basketball coach Tony Barbee on Wednesday night, about two hours after the Tigers’ season ended with a first-round loss in the SEC tournament. Jacobs announced the decision shortly after the team left the Georgia Dome following Auburn’s 74-56 loss to South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference tournament. Barbee insisted

Austin police say that the two people killed when a suspected drunken driver crashed through barricade at the South by Southwest festival were a woman on a moped and a man on a bicycle. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference Thursday morning that officials’ initial report that two people on a

April 14, 2014 is the one year anniversary of the demolition of El Paso City Hall. Watch City Hall’s demolitions from different angles at http://bit.ly/1jF5d9P and http://bit.ly/1qWYclY Watch a time-lapse video of the ballpark’s construction where City Hall once stood by clicking http://bit.ly/1kYp3fQ courtesy City of El Paso/EarthCam. Click on media galleries under Related Content