Month: February 2015

The Thomas Randolph Rey Family Immigration Center is facing some controversy before officially opening it’s doors. The facility is now called the El Paso Unity Center, and the benefactor, Mamie Salazar-Harper said it was time for a new change. “We wanted to make this a project El Paso could hang its hat on and El

A new immigration center has officially opened in the Borderland. The Thomas Randolph Rey Family Immigration Center aims to temporarily house unaccompanied immigrant children who have crossed the border in the past weeks. The immigration center is set to house nearly 80 children at a time. Organizers refurbished what used to be the West Texas

It’s been over a year in the making, but the brand new Fire Station 5 will be officially opening later today. The ribbon cutting and open house will give residents a look inside the new consolidated station. The station was built with a budget of $4.2 million with an expected completion date of November. Fire

State health officials early Wednesday announced another Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worker is sick with Ebola, and has been put in isolation. Her name and job duties haven’t been released. She joins a nurse, Nina Pham, who contracted the virus while also caring for Thomas Eric Duncan. Duncan died Oct. 8. Emergency responders in hazardous

A new downtown Walgreens store is the first El Paso location where the pharmacist sits in front of the counter.“Versus the other pharmacies were in the back and we don’t have so much of a direct contact with the patients,” said pharmacist Delora Pineda. The store opened Friday morning at the corner of Oregon Street

The final parts of a completed Loop 375 around El Paso are nearing the start of construction. ABC-7 has new details about changes in the design and what kinds of tolls you’ll end up paying to drive on it once completed. Starting early next year, the $600 million-plus Border Highway West Extension Project will connect

We’re learning more about a motor failure that stranded dozens of people at the top of the Wyler Aerial Tramway Sunday night. Thirty one people, including six in the tramway gondola itself had to be brought down both sides of south Mt. Franklin just after 6 p.m. ABC 7 has learned that it was all

According to Mayor Oscar Leeser 2014 was a great year for the El Paso economy. Thousands of new businesses registered this year with County Clerk’s Office. Leeser said this is the product of the city’s new business-friendly initiatives. Hillside Coffee on El Paso’s Westside officially opened its doors this summer. Hillside’s ownership group says El

A new abortion center is set to open its doors in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Sept. 15. The Texas company is opening an abortion clinic to help increase access near West Texas amid a restrictive new law. The new Texas law, known as House Bill 2, bans abortions after 20 weeks, requires abortion doctors

Around 9 Sunday morning El Paso Police headquarters received a call about a family fight on the 4400 block of Jon Cunningham in northeast El Paso. When officers arrived, the suspect refused to come out, forcing S.W.A.T. and Crisis Management teams to move in. The suspect eventually relented and was arrested for assault.

Police shutdown a portion of Fred Wilson near Alabama at around 11:40 Monday night. Police and SWAT teams were on the scene for several hours before clearing out at around 1:00 on Tuesday morning. We are still working with police to get more information on the incident, and will update the story with more details

Police shutdown a portion of Fred Wilson near Alabama at around 11:40 Monday night. Police and SWAT teams were on the scene for several hours before clearing out at around 1:00 on Tuesday morning. We are still working with police to get more information on the incident, and will update the story with more details

ABC-7 continues to learn more about the victim of a murder suicide earlier in the week. El Paso Police say 30-year-old Frank Aparicio was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound behind a store in the Lower Valley. Police say Aparicio shot a El Paso Police officer Mike Garcia on Monday night, then murdered 61-year-old

Police raided a home in Northeast El Paso Friday morning. The ABC-7 Round the Clock news team was on the scene when special weapon and tactics officers were nearby. Officials said a search warrant was obtained, and that it was part of a burglary investigation that began last month. According to police, the search was

El Paso Police say the man stabbed in the parking lot of a Northeast Circle K has died. It happened early Tuesday morning on the 10700 block of Dyer. Police say 23-year-old Ian Jones got into a fight with another man. EMS crews found him with no signs of life and he was later pronounced

A man is dead after he was involved in a rollover accident in Northeast El paso. According to officials the incident occurred on US 54. A portion of the highway was closed for several hours after following the late Saturday night crash from Diana to Hondo Pass. Officials said the driver, a man, was thrown

Five years probation and a $5,000 fine. That is the punishment handed down by a federal judge against former EPISD administrator Myrna Gamboa. Gamboa pleaded guilty to charges she conspired with former superintendent, Lorenzo Garcia, to inflate the district’s state and federal accountability scores. The scheme made it seem like campuses in the Priority School

It’s being nicknamed City Hall Two, and the John Mulligan building the city’s IT and engineering staff will be housed in is almost complete. “John Mulligan got on a boat in Belfast more than a hundred years ago and ended up in El Paso,” said city spokesman Martin Bartlett. Mulligan put his simply-styled architecture stamp

The plan of an El Paso couple to have a backyard wedding with a fenced-in altar was nearly scrapped.Rachel Carver and fiance Army Captain James Moreno bought a home in Manhattan Heights, one of the city’s historically designated neighborhoods, last fall.The couple has been making improvements on the historic house over the past year, where

Residents at Mountain View Healthcare Center, located on the 1600 block of Murchison in Central El Paso, are back in their rooms following an early morning fire. Flames broke out around 3:00 a.m. Wednesday. Investigators believe one of the heaters in the room caught fire. Residents and staff were evacuated safely; they were were allowed

MountainStar Sports group, owner of the Triple-A baseball team the El Paso Chihuahuas is making a play at bringing Major League Soccer to the Borderland as well. Thursday’s announcement officially launches a set of initiatives to show the level of public support for an MLS team in our region. According to a statement released by

Prosecutors officially charged Eduardo Estrada Garcia with First Degree Murder on Monday. He spent more than a decade on the run in Mexico after allegedly killing a Chaparral woman. Authorities in Mexico, where Estrada Garcia was in custody for nearly a year, extradited the accused murderer to New Mexico last week. Prosecutors say he killed

Update: Prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their cases in the trial of Edgardo Flores trial. Jurors could begin deliberating as soon as Friday morning. Previous Story A witness testifying in the trial of Edgardo Flores told the jury he is “99 percent sure” it was a state trooper who ran a red light, not the

City council was scheduled to sign off on a tax incentive deal with Douglas Steel Supply on Tuesday. It didn’t and the tone wasn’t as enthusiastic as last week when the California-based company announced it wanted to set up in the Butterfield Trail Industrial Park and create 55 jobs over the next five years. “I

A 51-year-old Dona Ana County man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to kill an El Paso Electric customer Thursday morning. Paul Williams Jr., of the 9700 block of Hondo Road, is charged with one count of attempted murder and two counts of battery upon a peace officer after he also allegedly

El Paso Police have charged two men with criminal attempted murder after they were allegedly involved in an armed robbery and fired multiple shots at the victim. The El Paso Police Department’s Gang Investigations Unit learned that early morning on Feb. 1, 2015 the 22-year-old male victim was approached by two men as he exited

The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office announced it booked wanted alleged murderer Eduardo Estrada-Garcia after extraditing him from Mexico. The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office worked with the U.S. Marshals Service, the United States Department of Justice and the Mexican government to bring Estrada-Garcia back to New Mexico to face an open count of murder

Jan. 15 Update: M.J. McFarland, an El Paso high school football standout, is transferring to UTEP from the University of Texas at Austin, a reliable source has told ABC-7. McFarland told the media he was transferring from Texas and would pick another school by the end of the week. UTEP officials confirmed with ABC-7 Thursday

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency responsible for securing U.S. ports of entry and international borders is accepting applications nationwide until January 22nd for border patrol agent positions in Arizona, South Texas and West Texas/New Mexico. To apply for border patrol agent positions, applicants must have an active USA Jobs account and complete

El Paso,TX- Edgardo Flores will have to serve 6 months jail time on nights and weekends. That’s on top of the three years probation for the 2012 car wreck that killed State Trooper Javier Arana. A judge gave Flores a three-year suspended sentence meaning Flores will do jail time at nights and weekends for 6