Month: October 2016

City Council approved a resolution supporting an initiative to establish a law school in El Paso. LULAC, the League of Latin American Citizens, argues it’s time the border was better served by getting more legal expertise in the community. “Anybody who wants to go to school from El Paso has to go to Baylor,” said

A crash on I-10 West at McRae is currently blocking the left lane and causing major delays. Emergency crews are en route. Avoid the left lane if you are on I-10 West. Get on I-10 West at Hawkins to avoid delays.

A young mother is making every effort to create a lifetime of memories. Brenda Hernandez, 34, has been battling cancer since 2013. What began as breast cancer has since spread to her bones, skull and liver. Doctors say time is running out as she continues to fight the aggressive cancer. Her dream was to take

You’ll want to look to the sky Sunday night to see the first of three “supermoons” that will close out 2016. Sunday night’s supermoon carries extra significance. The moon reached its closest point, or perigee, at 8 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. MT. It will be followed by two other supermoons on Nov. 14 and

A crash on I-10 East near Copia is blocking the right lane and exit ramp. Police are currently on scene. TxDOT says the crash is scheduled to clear at 8 a.m. Use Piedras exit as alternate route.

El Paso County Commissioners voted Monday morning to expand the county’s anti-smoking policies. In a 4-1 vote, commissioners effectively banned smoking on all property the county owns, including parks, parking lots and pools, and all parts of the property around county buildings. The policy will go into effect Jan. 1, 2017. Precinct 1 Commissioner Carlos

The city of El Paso is working to update the Downtown Master Plan as it works to develop strategies for parking, historic preservation, and new development. In 2015, the city hired a Dallas-based consultant team to identify issues that need to be addressed in an action plan. In recent years, downtown El Paso has experienced

City Council Tuesday will be asked to approve an area Downtown to build a new voter-approved $180 million arena, going as far as authorizing the power to use eminent domain. Efforts to buy properties have started in the identified two block area just south of the Convention Center, bordered by San Antonio, Santa Fe, Leon

The New Mexico Activities Association has reversed its decision to have the Oñate High School football team forfeit four victories for letting an ineligible player play several games. LCPS confirms to ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom the decision came down shortly after Noon Monday. The district said it won its appeal. “The NMAA board’s decision

Born and raised in El Paso by parents who promoted her artistic talent since she was from five years old, and pursuing her dream to major in art, Susan Eisen enrolled in art metals as a Bachelor of Fine Arts Student. Her love for design, soldering and cutting metal, forming sheets and wires into jewelry,

Two Texas school districts are not following a new law designed to reduce the number of students who end up in truancy courts, an alliance of advocacy groups claimed on Monday. In complaints filed with the Texas Education Agency, Disability Rights Texas, Texas Appleseed and the National Center for Youth Law accused the El Paso

A federal jury has found Samuel Velasco Gurrola guilty in a murder-for-hire plot involving his wife and her family, the defendant’s defense attorney said Monday. Velasco Gurrola was found guilty on three counts of “conspiracy to kill in a foreign country,” three counts of “conspiracy to cause travel in foreign commerce in the commission of

More is riding on the battle for Mosul than the recapture of the Islamic State’s main stronghold in northern Iraq. Also on the line is the Obama administration’s theory extremists can be defeated in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere without American ground troops doing the fighting. For more than two years, the administration has stuck to

Some Texas troopers will give up patrol cars and instead ride school buses in a child safety effort. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the plan is part of National School Bus Safety Week, which began Monday and runs through Friday. It’s illegal in Texas to pass any school bus that is stopped and

Authorities say they haven’t ruled out future charges against “Democracy Now!” reporter Amy Goodman from her coverage of a protest against construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey says the case is still “under review.” Judge John Grinsteiner on Monday refused to sign off on

The Dallas Cowboys’ dynamic rookie duo is showing no signs of slowing down. Quarterback Dak Prescott beat the Green Bay Packers’ depleted secondary through the air. Running back Ezekiel Elliott wore the defense down on the ground. Prescott threw three touchdown passes and Elliott pounded away at the Packers for 157 yards on 28 carries

Hugh Jackman’s posts on social media are fueling speculation the plot for the third, and possibly final, Wolverine movie partly takes place in our region. The Internet Movie Database describes the premise of “Logan” as “set in the future of 2024, Logan and Professor Charles Xavier must cope with the loss of the X-Men when

A senior State Department official asked for the FBI’s help last year to change the classification level of an email from Hillary Clinton’s private server in a proposed bargain described as a “quid pro quo” that would have allowed the FBI to deploy more agents in foreign countries, according to bureau records released Monday. The

Sheriff’s officials say a 2-year-old girl has been shot and killed at a mobile home in West Texas. The Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responding to a 911 call Sunday found the girl’s body at the home in San Angelo. The office statement sent Monday doesn’t name the girl or detail the circumstances

FirstLight Federal Credit Union, an El Paso/Las Cruces based financial institution for over sixty years, has introduced new online banking features for its members. Popmoney® lets FirstLight members make payments and transfer funds electronically to individuals or businesses from their mobile devices or computers. FirstLight Purchase Rewards lets members earn rewards just by using their

I’ve been the emcee for ‘Dance for Kids Sake’ several years now, but Saturday’s duties got me away from the podium and on the dance floor! I’ve been asked to dance as part of the program, but I’ve been too shy – I am shy sometimes – and have always said no! Saturday night, Mayo

State police officers arrested Robert Mondrian-Powell, 57, of Nambe, New Mexico, and charged him with an open count of murder in connection with the killing of 67-year-old Elvira Segura. The Office of the Medical Investigator identified Segura as the woman found dead at 25A Arroyo Nambe Street in Nambe, New Mexico, a community north of

China has launched a pair of astronauts into space on a mission to dock with an experimental space station and remain aboard for 30 days. The Shenzhou 11 mission took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northern China at 7:30 a.m. (2330 GMT) Monday aboard a

Over 160 former Las Cruces High School students served in the Vietnam War. Four of them died in combat. On Sunday, they were remembered during the Las Cruces High School class of 1966 50th reunion. The ceremony held at Veteran’s Memorial Park started with the national anthem as former class mates stood together saluting. Then,

U.S. Marshals are looking for an inmate who walked away from La Tuna early Sunday morning. This is just over two weeks after two other inmates walked away from the same prison. It’s unclear if the previous two were found. Michael Alan Castro was discovered missing from the minimum security federal prison camp around 12:45

The El Paso Diocese is running a census this weekend to see how many people are going to church and where. The El Paso Diocese hasn’t had a census since 2008, and a lot has changed in the local churches since. It’s these numbers that may decide if priests need to be shuffled around or

A murder suspect from Arizona evaded capture by fleeing to Mexico. An off-duty officer spotted the suspect in a vehicle in the Northeast and called officers who began to look for the suspect. The suspect led police on a car chase down Railroad Drive onto US-54 and ended at the Bridge of the Americas. Officers

Elephant Butte Dam officially turns 100 years old Sunday and officials are celebrating with everything from tours to a fireworks show and pie-eating contest. Neal Brown operates Elephant Butte Lake’s three marinas and the Dam Site Recreation Area. Brown tells the Albuquerque Journal it’s fitting to celebrate the dam’s centennial because the structure has had

A North Texas man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to aiming a laser at a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter. The DPS aircraft traced the laser to Austin Lawrence Siferd. The 24-year-old Cleburne man was arrested after the crews of eight commercial airliners flying near Dallas-Fort Worth

San Antonio’s police chief has disciplined 23 officers who donned Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” caps while on duty and in uniform. The officers were seen in a Trump campaign video wearing the red caps on Tuesday after escorting the Republican presidential candidate to and from a San Antonio fundraiser. In a statement Friday,