Month: December 2014

Court documents reveal what happened the night an east El Paso mother allegedly left her two year-old daughter overnight inside a hot car. El Paso Police say the mother was drunk and forgot about her and the girl died after being inside that hot car for 10 hours, Last week, police charged 25-year-old Daisy Mora

The El Paso Chihuahuas, and Minor League Baseball will make a special announcement at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon at Southwest University Park. Those in attendance will include: The Honorable Oscar Leeser, Mayor of El Paso Pat O’Conner, President and CEO of Minor League Baseball Branch Rickey, President of the Pacific Coast League Randy

Could your backyard hamburger or your abuelita’s chile rellenos use a little kick? Then you could be overdue for a quick day trip to Hatch, New Mexico for its famous chiles that offer the perfect amount of blacktop and spice. Chile season is in high gear and just about everywhere you look in Hatch you

A 23-month-old girl is still in the hospital tonight with serious injuries El Paso police say were caused by her mother’s boyfriend. The man accused, 27-year-old Jason Walters, is being held at the El Paso County Detention Center with a bond set at $75,000, according to a news release. Police have released little information at

The construction that was supposed close I-10 this this Sunday has been canceled due to weather, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. It was supposed to close from Porfirio Diaz and Schuster area Sunday morning and reopen Monday morning. The closure is now scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 17 – weather permitting.

–Visit www.acap.army.mil to learn more about employment opportunities aswell as local scheduled hiring events and career fairs. –Visit www.facebook.com/fortblissacap for current information on transitionand employment.

Want to free up some space and also lower your utility bill? Consider El Paso Electric for an easy rewarding and responsible way to dispose of secondary energy inefficient appliances. Why recycle? These are the top five reasons to participate: It’s easy. The only lifting required is lifting your finger to call 1-877-643-1956 or visit

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly tattooing a minor. Sheriff’s officials arrested Gerardo Marmolejo on Aug. 6, 2014 after the parents of the minor found out their daughter had gotten a tattoo without their permission. The 16-year-old went to Marmalejo’s home and got the tattoo in what the sheriff’s office

On Thursday, ABC-7 requested a document from the city of El Paso called a Schedule C. It contains all the proposed fee increases in the fiscal year 2015 budget. The 53-page document includes rates from every city department, such as Parks and Rec. Narrowing it down to fees that impact nearly everyone are: city waste

Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for medical care should be able to turn to private doctors almost immediately under a law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama. Other changes will take longer under the $16.3 billion law, which is the government’s most sweeping response to the problems that

Seeking to aid fellow Republicans in the November elections — and perhaps to bolster his own chances for a 2016 presidential run – Gov. Rick Perry has formed a federal political action committee. RickPAC, as the committee is called, will be able to donate money to the campaigns of Republican congressional candidates around the country.

With the Biogenesis scandal also involving high school athletes in South Florida, ABC-7 wanted to know what is being done in the Borderland to prevent youngsters from using performance enhancing drugs. “He is not a doctor, he is a drug dealer,” Miami DEA Special Agent in Charge Mark Trouville said of Biogenesis founder Anthony Bosch.

Major League Soccer Deputy Commissioner Mark Abbott talked to media Tuesday about league expansion and other topics. Abbott talked about Sacramento’s big push for an expansion team but also mentioned Minnesota and three other cities as expansion possibilities. “Las Vegas is a place I visited recently,” Abbott said in the MLS article. “There’s been a

Baseball fans will have a chance to take home a small version of an El Paso legend. The El Paso Chihuahuas and The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have partnered to mark UTEP’s Centennial Celebration on Thursday, August 28 with a special Don Haskins bobblehead giveaway. The bobblehead will be given to the

The Catholic Diocese of El Paso released the following statement in response to the arrest of Victor J. Reza. Reza is a member of the diocesan school board. “Anytime we hear of an allegation of sexual misconduct or abuse of a minor we are very concerned. Mr. Victor J. Reza is a member of our

El Paso’s newest city representative has taken her place on City Council. “I’m just so incredibly humbled and grateful that I’m sitting up here with the mayor and council,” Ordaz told ABC-7. Ordaz was sworn in Tuesday morning. She won last month’s special election to represent District 6, which covers parts of the Lower Valley

One of the country’s largest freight railroad operators is requesting permission from the federal government to adjust its operations in Texas because of violence on the Mexican side of the border, including the fatal shooting in May of a train yard worker in Ciudad Jurez. Union Pacific filed a request with the Federal Railroad Administration

Congress left towns and counties on the Texas-Mexico border hanging last week when itadjourned without sending a supplemental budget measure to the president. The local governments have used their own resources since last spring to care for thousands of undocumented immigrants flooding into their communities from Central America, and they had hoped Congress would reimburse

A Salvadoran national, who had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) since June 27, passed away Sunday at Laredo Medical Center in Laredo. Welmer Alberto Garcia-Huezo, 24, was declared dead on Aug. 3. Garcia-Huezo was apprehended June 25 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Border Patrol

Afternoon Aug. 4, 2014 Update: Facebook says Messenger asks for similar permissions that other messaging systems ask for and that some of the confusion about its permission requests comes from the language Android’s operating system uses to describe these permissions. App developers are not able to control how the permission requests are described. When a

El Paso Police’s Special Traffic Investigations believe that alcohol was a factor on the part of a man in a wheelchair who was struck and killed by a vehicle Saturday night. Police were called out to a traffic collision at Paisano and Eucalyptus just before 10 p.m. Saturday where they learned that 69-year-old Ignazio Borjas

The owners of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings are in discussions to invest in Sacramento’s minor league soccer team with the hopes of turning it into a Major League Soccer expansion team, according to a report in The Sacramento Bee. The Sacramento Republic FC debuted this year and has a season attendance of 118,107. Kings president,

Is it worth the money? That’s the big question surrounding the county’s program to house hundreds of federal inmates at the county jail. Staff with the human resources department told Commissioners Court today the program to house federal inmates brings in about $7.5 million per year, covering about 13 percent of the jail’s budget. That’s

The government said Monday it will soon close three emergency shelters it established at U.S. military bases to temporarily house children caught crossing the Mexican border alone. It said fewer children were being caught and other shelters will be adequate. A shelter in Oklahoma at Fort Sill is expected to close as early as Friday,

The 21st Annual Humane Society of El Paso Save-A-Life Telethon, sponsored by Mission Chevrolet, raised $ 115,620 on Saturday. But the giving isn’t over just yet. Check out the Chihuahuas jerseys auction, featuring the pup’s face, over at http://bit.ly/UXoues This auction is for non-game-worn jerseys.

Las Cruces Police have arrested a 25-year-old man they suspect of burglarizing a home Thursday. Police say Cesar Israel Herrera tried running from police and allegedly punched an officer several times before he was taken into custody. Herrera is charged with one count each of residential burglary; battery upon a peace officer; and evading or

Former UTEP and Auburn head coach Tony Barbee has joined the Kentucky men’s basketball staff as the special assistant to the head coach, John Calipariannounced Friday. He will take on an administrative role in operations formerly held by Rod Strickland, who left to become an assistant coach at the University of South Florida. Barbee was

The Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Board on Friday morning approved the giving the El Paso trolley project $97 million. The money will come from TxDOT funds in Fiscal Year 2015. State Rep. Joe Picket and Vinton Mayor Madeleine Praino voted no. Downtown El Paso’s city representative earlier this weeek said she’s offended by comments

The House has approved a $694 million bill to address the crisis of unaccompanied migrant youths arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The GOP legislation passed 223-189 late Friday on a nearly party-line vote. Last-minute changes won support from conservative holdouts who had forced GOP leaders to pull the bill from the floor a day earlier.

A federal jury has convicted a 28-year-old El Paso man of pointing a laser at a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter. Don Ray Dorsett, 28, faces up to five years in federal prison. Sentencing is scheduled for October 2, 2014, before United States District Judge David C. Guaderrama in El Paso. Evidence presented at