Month: July 2015

For 7-year-old Kaitlyn and 5-year-old Kiera May, Wednesday evening’s trip to Peter Piper Pizza was very special. Their father, Maj. Christopher May who has been on duty for nine months was going to pay them an unexpected visit. “It’s really tough. It’s like a piece of you is missing and you kind of have to

A trip to Austin to hammer out a deal to settle the $100 million University Medical Center says El Paso Children’s Hospital owes it was all for nothing. Getting details on what went wrong is not easy. “We’re all held under a strict confidentiality clause by the courts,” Children’s CEO Mark Herbers told ABC-7. Mediation

from our new mexico mobile newsroom. a chapter in a las cruces home invasion trial is almost over. what the jury decided in just a matter of hours. / “”and we want to preserve th mission. we are all in this to preserve the mission, umc, children’s,” -mediation fails again and everyone is being ordered

houses to stores. but not everyone is outraged over items .. some feel memorialize atrocities or the people behind them. abc-7’s iris lopez asks — is the outrage selective? nats sound: protests “take it down” a symbol of slavery for some — a reminder of soldiers’ sacrifice for others. you won’t find the confederate flag

The El Paso Health Department only has to track down 17 more students who were possibly exposed to tuberculosis. As of Wednesday afternoon, 146 had been tested. This comes after someone at Frank Macias Elementary had active TB, potentially exposing the entire second grade. The department’s staff will continue to contact those that haven’t been

El Paso County is set to launch a new bus route Wednesday morning that will take riders through the historic Mission Trail. The Office of County Commissioner Vince Perez said it is expected to offer an alternative form of transit to 85,000 residents. It also offers tourists and residents a chance to tour the trail

The El Paso City Council is still grappling with ideas on where to install restrooms near the delayed San Jacinto Plaza. Council has considered installing restrooms at San Jacinto twice before. Both times it concluded it was too expensive, with estimates running in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Currently, the city is looking for

The mediation between the El Paso Children’s Hospital and its landlord and creditor, University Medical Center, has failed. After three days of court-ordered mediation, Children’s Hospital CEO Mark Herbers issued this statement Tuesday evening: “Tonight, we are saddened to announce that formal mediation between El Paso Children’s Hospital and University Medical Center has failed. While

An emotional night Tuesday in El Paso’s Upper Valley. Students, teachers and parents at Lincoln Middle School remember a life cut too short. Ballons released in honor of 14-year-old Peter Garza. He was inside his family’s SUV when it rolled over on I-10. Peter, his little brother Jesse, his mother Stephanie and Peter’s older sister

Trampoline parks are popping up all over the country, even here in El Paso. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released that more than 83,000 people were injured on trampolines in 2013, with close to 95,000 the previous year. The commission also reports from 2000 to 2009, 22 people were killed while using them. In

the mediation between the el paso children’s hospital and university medical center has failed. the two hospitals were unable to come to an agreement — so that means it will be up to a judge to try to resolve the dispute in court. this was the third failed attempt at mediation. the children’s hospital recently

new developments in the children’s hospital bankruptcy case. mediations did not work out for umc and children’s. so the question is, what’s next? the fate of a man accused of breaking into a las cruces home and getting into a fight with the man who lived there will be in the hands of a jury

valley. a memorial was held for 14- year-old peter garza. peter was inside his family’s s-u-v when a tire blew out causing it to roll several times. it happened sunday on i-10 just outside ft. stockton. his mother — older sister and his 11- year-old brother were also killed. peter’s father and his 6-year-old sister