Month: July 2014

Weather will be hot for this time of year the next few days. Highs tomorrow will be 89 and we should stay in the upper 80s through Saturday. A bit of a cool down for Sunday behind a front. Slight rain chance Sunday at 10%. Winds should not be much of an issue although we

A new Northwest El Paso hike and bike trail will soon be named in honor of a woman who lost her life after a hit and run several years ago. In October 2010, Elizabeth Hernandez was hiking along Transmountain near Resler with a friend before she was hit and killed by a car. In a

Las Cruces Police arrested a who allegedly forced an adult relative to submit to sexual intercourse. Oscar Chavira, 45, is charged with one count each of criminal sexual penetration and battery against a household member. According to police, Chavira and the woman had been drinking alcohol together late Sunday evening when Chavira apparently fell asleep.

The Texas Board of Education is considering a proposal to add a Mexican-American studies course as a statewide high school elective. Proponents say the move would give students a deeper understanding of their state, where Hispanics make up 51 percent of public school students and which was once part of Mexico. Critics dismiss the proposal

The investigation is continuing into the cause of Monday’s derailment in Canutillo. Train accidents/derailments are not unheard of in El Paso County, which includes Canutillo. According to a Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis from Jan. to Dec. 2013 there were five train accidents in El Paso County – including one collision, three derailments

Investigators are trying to figure out what started a fire at a home in Socorro Monday night. It began around 9 p.m. near the intersection of Ernest and Passmore Road. No injuries were reported.

The Sunland Park CIty Council met Monday evening in a special session to discuss whether or not they want to terminate the new city manager’s contract. Vernon WIlson has been on the job for less than three months. Wayne Sowell from the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration says the city of Sunland Park

El Paso has a relatively small mobile food market compared to other cities like Austin. But now, City Council is considering expanding the possibilities for food trucks and vendors downtown. For a long time, food truck and other street food vendors in the city have had a difficult time getting off the ground. But if

April 8, 2014 Update: Las Cruces Police are still investigating, but believe that just after noon Monday that 32-year old Jesus Rojas shot and killed 30-year-old Bridgette Dominguez before turning the gun on himself. Dominguez had three children with Rojas, and was pregnant with a fourth. The couple and their children had been living at

A massive plume of thick, black smoke was visible for miles in West El Paso Monday afternoon. The fire that is the source of the flames appears to have begun when a freight train derailed in the Upper Valley. It happened shortly after 1 p.m. near Doniphan and Talbot (Transmountain). A witness at a neighboring

Police arrested a teenage boy in connection with a deadly stabbing outside a house party last month in Far East El Paso. The 16-year-old boy is charged with murder and is being held at the Juvenile Probation Department. He is accused of stabbing and killing 19-year-old Julian Galvan during a fight in the early hours

One person has been taken to University Medical Center after a shooting at a Northeast El Paso motel. It happened around midnight Monday at the SuperLodge Motel on the 9400 block of Dyer. The victim is expected to survive. Police have not said if there are any arrests.

He was a police officer who went undercover as a Ku Klux Klan member in the late 1970s. Before his book about the operation is released next week, the man raised in El Paso told ABC-7 what it was like. Sergeant Ron Stallworth is not a man you would expect to be a member of

The Texas Department of Transportation tells ABC-7 that interstate ten between Artcraft and Transmountain will be closed for a part of Sunday. The freeway will be closed in both directions. I-10 will reopen Sunday night at 6 pm.

Evangelical Pastor Franklin Graham is in the borderland for the Festival of Hope and thousands of El Pasoans filled the UTEP campus to hear the preacher speak Saturday. Once the gates opened Saturday afternoon, people couldn’t wait to hear christian bands, eat some snacks, mingle and ultimately worship. The Greater El Paso Festival of Hope

UTEP battled back from 18 points down only to have Tyler Scaife convert a coast-to-coast lay-up with two seconds left to lift visiting Rutgers to a 56-54 win in the WNIT Championship contest at a sold-out Don Haskins Center Saturday afternoon. The Scarlet Knights (28-9) led 34-16 with 18:41 to play in the game but

A jury believed the man who says he shot and killed his own friend out of self-defense. The jury acquitted James Bogart Friday of second degree murder, meaning Bogart is a free man. The first trial ended in a mistrial in December. Bogart’s future is still unclear because there was also a tampering with evidence

El Paso police are investigating a crash in West El Paso after a driver plowed through a fire hydrant, light pole and slammed into a rock wall. It happened around 2:30 Friday morning just south of the intersection of Executive Center Boulevard and Mesa Street. Police say the driver was southbound on Mesa St. Pieces

Gunfire during an altercation outside a West Texas motel has left one man dead and another wounded. Odessa police say the shootings happened early Thursday in the parking lot of a Studio 6 motel. Cpl. Steve LeSueur (luh-SWEER’) says nobody has been arrested as investigators try to determine what sparked the deadly disturbance. LeSueur identified

Army Spc. Ivan A. Lopez, the soldier accused of shooting and killing three people on Fort Hood, was previously stationed at Fort Bliss for two years, according to ABC News. At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Fort Hood Lt. Gen. Mark Milly confirmed that Lopez was stationed at Fort Bliss before transferring to Fort

The soldier who killed three people before committing suicide in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were slain in 2009 had shown no recent risks of violence, authorities said Thursday. The shooter, identified as Ivan Lopez by Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security

El Paso Police have released the name of the 27-year-old man killed in a traffic collision on U.S. 54 early Thursday morning. The man is John Steven Colon of Heywood, California. Police say that at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Colon was driving a white Impala north on U.S. 54 in the right late, allegedly at

The Sun City turned shades of brown today when the strong winds rolled through. There was no escaping the wind in the borderland on Wednesday. All over town, the weather was relentless. “I wasn’t expecting the weather to be as windy as it is. I even wore a dress, and now it’s … I mean,

Newspaper Tree, a non profit online news publication, is asking for the public’s help so staff can continue creating investigative and long form journalism in the borderland. Thursday night from 6-8 p.m. the organization is hosting a rent party in downtown El Paso. The digital news and culture publication runs on tax-deductible donations. Publisher E.

The University of Texas at El Paso women’s basketball team won Wednesday night against South Dakota State University in a final four game, with a score of 66-63. That means they’ll be hosting the championship game Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at the Don Haskins Center against Rutgers University. Fans started lining up at the

Tip-off for UTEP’s WNIT final four game isn’t until 7 p.m. but as of 3:20 p.m. there was already a line waiting to get in. The game sold out at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday. Capacity is 12,000, not 12,222 as has been the myth for years. It is the first sellout of a UTEP women’s basketball

A woman was hit by a Dona Ana County Sheriff’s deputy patrol car Tuesday night and later died at the hospital. ABC-7 has confirmed with New Mexico State Police that her name is Natividad Nunez. She was 44 years old. State police say the deputy, whose name has not been released, hit Nunez with her

A man and woman are recovering after being stabbed during an altercation at a Northeast El Paso motel. El Paso police were called to the Colonia Motor Hotel on the 8600 block of Dyer around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night. When they arrived, they found a 29-year-old man with stab wounds and a woman in her

Former UTEP golfer Roger Sloan defeated Derek Fathauer in a playoff on Sunday to win the Nova Scotia Open, a PGA Tour event in Halifax, Novia Scotia. Sloan rolled in an eight-foot par putt on the first playoff hole after shooting an 11-under-par 273 (67-65-71-70) in the tournament. Fathauer fired rounds of 70, 66, 71

Three New Mexico State women’s golfers were named Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars recently announced by the WGCA. Freshman Camille Orito, junior Laura Barron and junior Paige Darwin met the requirements to earn a spot on the team. The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent