Month: July 2014

With the new ballpark drawing thousands Downtown, finding open dates to hold summer festivals in that area has become a balancing act. Before the…

The El Paso City Plan Commission voted by 4-3 vote Thursday to recommend that City Council approve plans for a new condo subdivision on Crazy Cat…

The Riverside (Calif.) County coronor has released the names of the four people killed in the bus crash near the Arizona-California state line early…

El Paso Police are investigating the vandalism of two billboards overnight that included messages and hanging mannequins. An El Paso Polcie spokesman…

Police say one person is in the hospital after being stabbed in central El Paso late Wednesday night. The victim is expected to survive. The incident…

Now that temperatures are climbing into the 90s and beyond, you can be sure that water and electric bills will rise along with them. But ABC-7 went…

The legal fight between the City of El Paso and the Texas Department of Transportation over the Lincoln Center took a dramatic turn on Wednesday,…

May 2014 story: ‘Smucker’ hosts breakfast for thousands of Fort Bliss soldiers, families Thousands of Fort Bliss soldiers and their…

An El Paso-Los Angeles Limousine Express bus that left El Paso for Los Angeles crashed on I-10 early Wednesday morning, killing four onboard. The…

On Tuesday a 22-year-old Las Cruces man accused of severely injuring his girlfriend’s one-year-old son in 2011 was sentenced to five years…

An Arizona sheriff’s deputy — originally from El Paso — recently killed himself after an encounter with Phoenix police. ABC-7 has…

Back in 1979 a piece of legislation called the Wright amendment was put into place by a Fort Worth congressman named Jim Wright. The Wright…

El Paso City Council voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to hire Tommy Gonzalez as the City’s second city manager in its history. Gonzalez is…

Travis Kirchner, the man convicted of murdering his 81-year-old mother in 2011, was found dead early Sunday morning in his jail cell at the Boyd unit…

Early childhood education is meant to prepare children for kindergarten by teaching social skills, classroom behavior and the early stages of basic…

As County taxpayers are paying the most per capita in the State for the El Paso County jail system, Commissioners are exploring how to reduce costs.…

El Paso’s City Council held a special meeting Monday afternoon after a city representative asked for clarity and assurances that the council…

President Obama is using his executive authority to designate the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks region as a national monument. He has the authority to…

Seventy-five percent of the 16,000 teachers evaluated under a new system called NMTEACH Educator Effectiveness system earned a rating of effective or…

A new pedestrian pathway expected to improve access to the Downtown Ballpark was supposed to be completed by the end of spring. But the $6.5 million…

El Paso County will now attempt to revive its Vamonos Vanpool program in order to continue receiving about $2 million in other rural-transit grants.…

A man in in the hospital after his scar slammed against a TXDOT vehicle Monday afternoon, causing the freeway to be shut down. El Paso county…

El Paso firefighters responded to a partial roof collapse downtown at 216 Oregon St., near the corner of Oregon and Overland Monday morning. El Paso…

El Paso police say they’ve taken into custody a man believed responsible for a precautionary school evacuation. Students at Dowell Elementary…

Democratic and Republican Party Runoff Election (Tuesday, May 27, 2014) Election Day will be Tuesday, May 27, 2014 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.…

A family of four on the far east side lost their home Sunday evening. It was the second fire of the day in El Paso County. It happened on the 3500…

Large plumes of black smoke filled the air in central El Paso Sunday afternoon. The fire broke out at a water treatment plant near the intersection…

El Paso Police officials were notified that a missing man they were looking for over the weekend had been located. Police officials were contacted by…

TxDOT will begin the initial phase of the demolition of the Lincoln Center by the end of the month, according to spokesman David Glessner. The first…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operation officers seized 299 pounds of marijuana Thursday. The drugs were seized at three…