Month: January 2015

The last day of business at City Hall for the One-Stop Shop and the Development Assistance Center (DAC) will be Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The One-Stop Shop and the DAC are relocating to its new location at 811 Texas, effective April 1, 2013. All services/activities, in addition to Planning and Building Permits matters, will continue

The New Mexico State Aggies men’s basketball team will be leaving Tuesday morning for the NCAA tournament and fans are invited out to wish them well. The team is scheduled to leave at around 9:15 a.m. from the Pan American Center’s south parking lot but fans are encouraged to arrive at least 15 minutes before

The next two days will look fairly nice with temps in the mid and upper 70s. Expect a decent amount of sunshine with just some high clouds here and there. Winds kick up Thursday and Friday with gusts around 40 mph with some blowing dust and sand.

The New Mexico State Aggies men’s basketball team will be playing the St. Louis Billikens on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament. Not many people know what a Billiken is. Read all about what a Billiken is below: A national magazine for college-bound students recently tapped it as one of the

State lawmakers on Monday will hear testimony on a bill that would no longer require some counties to distribute mail-in ballots in languages other than English, unless they’re requested by voters. Download audio fileThis article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://www.texastribune.org/2013/03/18/lawmakers-consider-changes-bilingual/.

Wind looks a tad bit stronger for Saturday and Sunday with gusts around 40 mph with some spotty blowing dust late in the day towards the evening. Temps will be very warm Saturday with a record high temp of 88 degrees – old record is 84 set back in 1908. So a long standing record

The San Elizario Independent School District has released information this week on the final external review into enrollment and grade placement practices at San Elizario High School during the 2008-2009, 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. The district’s board of trustees requested the review on Dec. 12, 2012 as a result of several internal investigations completed

Morrissey on March 15 canceled the remainder of his North American tour, including his April 23 show in El Paso, due to medical reasons. Morrissey had postponed the sold-out El Paso date at Tricky Falls twice since November. He postponed several dates in late fall 2012 due to his mother’s illness. The singer has suffered

More El Paso educators connected with grade manipulation are to be demoted from administration positions to teachers. The board is not releasing the names of those being demoted. This comes after the results of the TEA’s external audit and the district’s internal audit which confirm that during the 2011-2012 school, and under former Superintendent Damon

Green Day played a sold-out show at Tricky Falls in Downtown El Paso on Wednesday, March 13. The concert, which lasted two hours, had several highlights – including singer Billie Joe Armstrong getting a young fan to jump from the balcony and crowd surf to the stage before the young man joined the band in

Las Cruces Police are continuing to investigate an early-morning motorcycle crash that claimed the life of a 25-year-old man who crashed into a friend’s vehicle at a high rate of speed. Wayne Andrew “Drew” Jaramillo was pronounced dead shortly after the crash that occurred at approximately 12:50 a.m. in front of his home, at the

Law enforcement in the El Paso area will partner together for a DWI Spring Break Operation. The operation will take place from 8 p.m. Friday through 4 a.m. March 23. The El Paso Police Department’s DWI Task Force, El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, and the Department of Public Safety will all be involved in the

The FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force, with the El Paso Police and Sheriff’s Department, have arrested a 57-year-old woman who allegedly arobbed a Bank of America on Wednesday, March 13. Candida Solorzano, who is unemployed, was arrested without incident at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday evening. The FBI followed up on numerous anonymous tips from the

What would you do to see Green Day in an intimate, 1,400-person club atmosphere in El Paso on Wednesday? One El Pasoan had her waist-length hair cut while another, well, he went to “Fear Factor”–type lengths for his tickets. The male fan, sporting a Green Lantern ring on his right hand, won a free pair

A very weak cold front is coming in tonight. Winds will come from the east – a bit more gusty of west side of town tonight. Nice weather continues for the rest of the week with sunshine and temps in the 70s and 80s. Wind picks up a bit Saturday through Monday with gusts around

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and the City of El Paso Animal Services Division are teaming up for a stray/loose dog roundup in east El Paso County on Wednesday, March 13 th . Starting at 8 a.m., the operation will focus on the impounding of unrestrained domestic/stray animals in the Montana Vista area of

Games are an important element in every culture around the globe. Simple games give structure to children’s playtime and help enforce basic social skills like courtesy, sharing, and taking turns, and more intricate games can help children hone their logic, strategy, and even mathematics skills. Through Game Design, its newest merit badge, the Boy Scouts

Several members of the USC basketball team brawled in Downtown Spokane Saturday night, according to witnesses in a report by KREM. Police are now looking into those claims after four people were sent to the hospital because of the fights. Witnesses list several basketball players who may be involved, but officers have yet to confirm

Green Day played its first concert since September in front of a sold-out crowd Sunday night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, Calif. The Calif. show, lasting about two hours, was the first of three club dates this week ahead of the band’s SXSW performance on March 15 and full-scale arena world tour starting at

Reorganization of the German Air Force means the overseas troops will leave a West Texas post after a relationship spanning nearly 60 years. The El Paso Times reported Monday that the German Air Force Command for the U.S. and Canada will close at Fort Bliss on Sept. 30. Col. Heinz-Josef Ferkinghoff said operations will be

Fort Bliss has suffered four preventable soldier deaths in 2013. The latest was two weekends ago. The soldier was assigned to 11th ADA Brigade and died after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in his off-post home. “We do not know if our fellow soldier intended to take his own life as the

DATAMARK, Inc., a leading provider of global business services to Fortune 500 companies and government organizations, announced today it has been selected by the State of New Mexico to begin work on a major document scanning project for the state’s Human Services Department. Over the course of the project, DATAMARK will transport approximately 100 million

On Sunday, Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Las Cruces Border Patrol Station arrested a man previously convicted of various sex offenses with a child and who had served two years of a three year prison sentence in Los Angeles, Calif. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Border Patrol agents were conducting immigration inspections onboard a Greyhound

On the last day to file, El Paso businessman Oscar Leeser and Jaime O. Perez both filed to run for mayor. Friday at 5 p.m. was the deadline for candidates to file to run in the May 11 election. Jaime O. Perez, the former El Paso County chief of staff, originally filed to run City

Putting a personal, household perspective on looming federal budget cuts article February 28, 2013 Feb. 28, 2013: Impact of sequester on Fort Bliss video March 01, 2013 Local economist: broken system, extreme partisanship led to budget crisis article February 27, 2013 Obama: ‘Dumb’ cuts inexcusable, unnecessary article March 01, 2013 Countdown to spending cuts: The

The Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam will be at the UTEP Sun Bowl Stadium this weekend. Only single tickets are still available for Saturday’s 7 p.m. event, while there are still multiple tickets available for Sunday’s 2 p.m. event. All tickets are $10, not including fees, and available at the UTEP Ticket Center, online at

More than 20,000 Green Day fans tried to buy tickets to the band’s March 13 concert at Tricky Falls at 10 a.m. Friday morning. The tickets sold out in minutes. The El Paso Times and El Paso 411 are reporting it sold out in 60 seconds but an ABC-7 employee was able to buy one

Four El Paso Indepdent School District trustee seats are up for election on May 11. Below is a list of the districts and the candidates running for each seat: District 1Rocio BenedictoBob GeskeOmar Villa District 3Alfredo “fred” BorregoSusie Byrd District 4Diane M. Dye District 5Joel F. BarriosJulian GonzalezJames LamonicaChuck Taylor

Demolition of the building that oncewasEL Paso Science Center Insights Museumhad been in the works for a while now, but until Sunday night, no specifics had been confirmed. Atipster cluedABC-7 in on the city’s plans this week, andABC-7 contacted city officials. ABC-7 didget an email from the city after the inquiry and although the tear

Cat owners in the Manhattan Heights neighborhood of central El Paso are keeping a close eye on their pets. The man who found a second dismembered cat on Monday near the intersection of Louisville Avenue and Louisiana Street spoke to ABC-7. “It gives me the creeps that someone in the neighborhood thinks it’s okay to