Month: December 2014

A 64-year-old woman drowned Monday morning when she became trapped in her car in a ditch. El Paso Police identified her as Constance Manzanares of the 9100 block of Roanoke in Northeast El Paso. ABC-7 spoke to Manzanares’ daughter, who said she worked at Providence Memorial Hospital and was on her way to work in

El Paso Water Utilities will be adding valves to a pipeline, which will affect 1,100 homes in northeast El Paso Monday night from 7-10 p.m. The affected homes are bordered by Kenworthy Street and Fairbanks Drive. Although water won’t be shut off completely, it may be difficult to do things that require higher volumes such

AnAmerican Patriots protest scheduled to take place in El Paso has been cancelled. In an email obtained by ABC-7, protesters claim that the “threat of mass violence to attendees, along with very suspicious activity on the Facebook site.” ABC-7 tried locating protesters at their designated meeting locations, but didn’t find any. The group, American Patriots,

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It’s beginnning to look a lot like Christmas in the Borderland. Below is information on the El Paso Christmas tree lighting ceremonies. Watch online athttp://bit.ly/1vZbun1on desktop computers. Saturday in El Paso Annual Celebration of Lights Downtown with the program starting at 4:30 p.m., including entertainment, and the tree lighting at 5:55 p.m. The lighting will

Saturday, Dec. 6 marked the 79th annual evolve Federal Credit Union Celebration of Lights. Each year — the organization Candlelighters of El Paso selects a child battling cancer to flip the switch, lighting the city’s Christmas tree and the downtown decorations. The special child this year is Hugo Barraza, 5. ABC-7 caught up with Barraza

Antonio Escalante’s trouble with the law prompted ABC-7 to ask if there should be stiffer laws for repeat DWI offenders. One man who’s been through the courts believes so. After being arrested three times for driving while intoxicated, the most recent time four years ago, Mike Francis decided to stop drinking. “When my wife picked

Las Cruces police say law enforcement officers are in a standoff with a man who is believed to be armed and who had been the subject of a pursuit on Interstate 10. Police spokesman Dan Trujillo says New Mexico State Police chased the vehicle on eastbound I-10 Friday morning. He says police then stopped it

Here are the setlists for One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer Tuesday in Glendale, Arizona. For a review of the show, go to Arizona Central at http://bit.ly/1uI8KdF For complete coverage of El Paso’s One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer concert, go to http://bit.ly/1uI8KdF One Direction Arizona set list Midnight Memories Little Black Dress Kiss

Carlos Antonio Holcombe has been indicted on four charges. Holcombe, 43, is the man El Paso County Sheriff’s investigators say took a 12-year-old girl from the Horizon High School parking lot in late August. Holcombe was indicted on one count of aggravated kidnapping and three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Aggravated sexual

NMSU encourages fans to arrive early, tailgate with friends, family, and fellow fans and enjoy the Aggie Football experience. The following tailgating procedures establish the rules and regulations for tailgating activities on campus. We expect attendees to treat fellow fans, NMSU property, and game management staff with courtesy and respect at all times. The following

Las Cruces Police arrested a couple for allegedly cutting down and stealing a large canopy that covered bleachers at a city park. Orrin J. Hechler, 36, of Las Cruces, and 31-year-old Karisa Arroyos, who has addresses in Las Cruces and T. or C., N.M., were arrested early Friday morning near the baseball fields on Hadley

It’s been a year since Juan Cabrera was chosen to be the superintendent of the El Paso School District. At Tuesday’s meeting, the board of managers evaluated both his performance and contract. The board chose to extend his five-year contract by one year, with no salary changes. He will serve five more years with district,

With threatening skies in El Paso, there is always concern about flooding in the Central area of town. That’s where the Stormwater Utility recently broke ground on the new Magnolia Pump Station – at the corner of Magnolia and Texas, where El Paso has seen heavy flooding in the past. During Storm 2006, El Paso

Here are the services information for Gilberto Juarez, who was killed in a rollover crash near I-10 and Yarbrough Saturday night. Viewing is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Rosary is at 7 p.m. at San Jose Funeral Home on Pelicano. Funeral will be at about 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart in Downtown

A car wreck overnight is to blame for a power outage in Las Cruces that affected about 3,000 El Paso Electric customers. The crash happened around 1:30 a.m. near the intersection of Missouri and Boutz, police said. The driver took out a fence line and electric pole on the 1700 block of Locust. One vehicle

A vehicle crashed into a Las Cruces Dollar Tree store on Sunday, injuring a 58-year-old woman in the store. The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries to a leg and was transported to an area hospital. Las Cruces Police say that a 52-year-old Organ, N.M., man was in a 2000 Mercury sedan and attempting to reverse from

The following information is from FirstLight Federal Credit Union regarding a weekend outage. UPDATE Sept. 16 : The limit for debit cards has been increased to $500 at an ATM and $500 on PIN based transactions. You can also use your debit card as a credit transaction, and funds availability will be based on the

The UTEP Miners beat the NMSU Aggies at the Sun Bowl on Saturday. The final score was 42-24. During the first quarter, both teams scored seven points. However, UTEP took the lead during the second quarter scoring 14 points and the NMSU Aggies only scoring 3 because of a field goal. Neither team scored in

The Beats and Eats festival at Ascarate Lake started a little after 11 a.m. Saturday. The name of the festival pretty much sums it up. 25 local vendors served up interesting foods like watermelon pizzas and fruit tacos. Nineteen artists were expected to deliver sounds on two stages. One stage boasted a 100,000-watt sound system

What if your favorite queer and pop icons were reimagined… as My Little Ponies? This is the concept behind Finnish artist Mari Kasurinen‘s collection of “My Little Pop Icons,” a series of My Little Pony-inspired individual pieces that collectively create a nuanced body of work. Kasurinen’s inspiration for the project stems heavily from the digital

The El Paso Independent School District took exception to ABC-7’s story Thursday night about a second grader who wandered away from Lundy Elementary School. Friday afternoon, the district issued a news release saying the school has reviewed existing safety procedures, instituted new ones like head counts and a buddy system for bathroom and water breaks

A shooting inside a west side Detroit home left one man dead early Friday and led to the death of a woman who was in a car that wrecked following the gunfire, police said. Four other people were wounded in the shooting sometime after midnight. Some who were at the house had attended a vigil

An El Paso man was killed in Reeves County in a traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon. KWES-TV in Midland-Odessa reports that the accident happened on I-20, about nine miles west of Toyah. Santos Ontiveros Avalos, 58, of El Paso, was driving a 2000 Saab 9E with his hazard lights on after seeing smoke coming from

Surprise! U2 just put out a new album, and the renowned rock band is giving it away for free to iTunes users. U2 made the unexpected announcement Tuesday at Apple’s unveiling event in Cupertino, California. All customers with iTunes accounts could download the 11-song “Songs of Innocence” for free Tuesday afternoon. There was much speculation

Northeast El Paso could soon be getting some changes to the current flood zones. During Monday’s city council meeting, Northeast City Representative Carl Robinson brought up the status of work being done to prevent flooding in Northeast El Paso. It consisted of two different items on the council agenda. Alan Shubert, who is an engineer

September is National Hunger Awareness Month. According to the organization El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, one in seven El Pasoans has turned to a food bank for assistance over the last year. Fifteen percent of those people are veterans. ABC-7 got a look at a food pantry that is exclusive to veterans. “We give fruit, vegetables,

Below are incidents that occurred on UTEP property on game day on Sept. 6, 2014 when UTEP played Texas Tech at Sun Bowl Stadium. Minor in Possession of Alcohol. Occurred on Sept. 6 at 11:07 p.m. in Sun Bowl Stadium Three individuals were ejected from the football game for consuming/possessing an alcoholic beverage while under