Month: December 2016

Concerns over concussions in youth sports has led the University Interscholastic League, the governing body of public high school sports in Texas, to team up with a medical center to track brain injuries. With more than 800,000 public high school athletes in the state, including tens of thousands in the Borderland, the hope is to

El Paso County Commissioners Monday heard from staff passing on concerns from residents living around an old quarry site and unincorporated land often used as a hangout for recreational shooting. Red Sands, the area in question, is just off Montana Avenue east of the Montana Vista colonia. Jose Landeros, senior policy advisor for Precinct 3

High school students in the Sun City are now studying material written by their teachers. A team of 100 curriculum writers spent months writing and editing digital-core content aligned with state standards for the “PowerUp Laptop Initiative.” “We had a team of teachers who work on each subject area to look at, with their expertise,

The man killed in an industrial accident over the weekend was a former New Mexico State University football player, ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom has learned. Monday, detectives with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department said the explosion that killed 30-year-old Joe Suder was an accident. It happened shortly after Noon Saturday on the 6300

The fire that killed a 68-year-old Las Cruces woman was accidental and electrical in nature, investigators said. Neighbors called 911 shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, after seeing smoke coming from the home on the 1100 block of Circle Drive. Firefighters arrived and extinguished the fire within 15 minutes. Police said firefighters found Mary

A Tennessee Santa Claus says a terminally ill 5-year-old boy died in his arms after he gave the child a present in the hospital. The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports Eric Schmitt-Matzen, who does about 80 events a year as Santa, was asked a few weeks ago to visit the dying boy. Schmitt-Matzen says he gave the

A coalition of national advocacy groups has sued to block Texas’ soon-to-be-implemented rules mandating the burial or cremation of fetal remains. The lawsuit filed Monday by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights is the latest legal battle in a state whose tough anti-abortion laws were already largely voided this summer by the U.S. Supreme

Parishioners of one lower valley church were up before sunrise to pay homage to the Virgin Mary Monday morning. Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church was one of several parishes to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe. December 12th commemorates the day the Virgin Mary appeared before Juan Diego, who was canonized as a saint in

The newly-formed Neighborhood Action Team will begin addressing the vacant building problem in the Mesquite Historic District Monday. The team, consisting of city staff, will make a presentation before Las Cruces City Council. It comes after residents expressed their concerns over the buildings, which have been the target of thefts and fires. Nearly 200 homes

The Texas attorney general is criticizing a school district’s decision to remove a portion of a poster that included a biblical verse recited by Linus in the film “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Attorney General Ken Paxton says in a statement the so-called Merry Christmas law adopted in 2013 means schools can’t “silence a biblical reference

The top Senate Republican said Monday that Congress will investigate a CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the November election on behalf of Donald Trump, an intelligence conclusion that the incoming commander in chief has called “ridiculous.” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that an inquiry would be conducted by the Senate intelligence panel. Two

The explosion that killed a 30-year-old man over the weekend was an accident, detectives with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department said. It happened shortly after Noon Saturday on the 6300 block of Weisner Road, north of Highway 70. A shop owner called 911 after an employee was injured while trying to inflate an oversized

Maybe instead of looking at what the Cowboys have been doing to the rest of the league, NFL teams should look at what the Giants did to the Cowboys this season. And who knows, maybe what New York could do again should they meet in the playoffs. Dallas’ offense ripped through nearly every opponent during

Here’s a look at your road closures for Monday and Tuesday morning. Noon – 2 p.m. (Monday) – Rolling closure on I-10 East starts at Sunland Park and goes to Porfirio Diaz. Won’t be completely closed. 3 a.m. – 5 a.m. (Tuesday) – Rolling closure on I-10 East starts at Sunland Park and goes to

CLICK HERE TO STREAM LIVE Good Morning El Paso. This morning we are following the latest on terror attacks across the globe. Plus, we are # LIVE with Denise Olivas in the lower valley for the Celebration of the Virgin Mary. We are also following the latest from the President-Elect’s comments that have angered China

Hundreds hiked up ‘A’ mountain Sunday for the Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The sacred pilgrimage is held once a year in Las Cruces. People from across the region make the 6 mile journey from the village of Tortugas all the way up ‘A’ mountain. For many, like the Ortiz family, it’s a tradition

Behind a season-high 26 points from Ian Baker and double-doubles from Eli Chuha and Jemerrio Jones, the NM State men’s basketball team defeated Battle of I-25 rival New Mexico 84-71 inside a raucous Pan American Center on Lou Henson night. The win also gave NM State its first victory over UNM at home since Dec.

Donald Trump on Sunday called a recent CIA assessment of Russian hacking “ridiculous” and says he’s not interested in getting daily intelligence briefings – an unprecedented public dismissal by a president-elect of the nation’s massive and sophisticated intelligence apparatus. Trump’s remarks come as key congressional Republicans joined Democrats in demanding a bipartisan investigation into the

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – This week, Texas will launch what state officials say is the nation’s largest effort to track brain injuries among young athletes. The University Interscholastic League, Texas’ governing body for public high school sports, is partnering with the O’Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center for the project, from which they

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – An Albuquerque man accused of trying to hire someone to severely beat his ex-wife is out of jail. KOB-TV says a judge allowed Christopher Tapia post bond for $50,000 cash or surety Saturday. Tapia was ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor while his case is pending. New Mexico State Police

HOUSTON (AP) – A wee-hours fender-bender on a Houston freeway led to a deadly confrontation that left a man shot dead. Houston police say the incident happened shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday near downtown Houston on U.S. 59/Southwest Freeway near the Spur 527 split. A woman called 911 to report her husband had just shot

An electrical outlet overloaded with Christmas lights caused a fire in Northeast El Paso, according to officials. It happened before 6 P.M on the 4800 block of Junction Ave. When fire crews arrived, they found heavy smoke and fire coming from the side of the home. Firefighters then began to search for people inside, but

Turkey declared a national day of mourning, launched a full investigation and began to bury its dead Sunday after twin blasts in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium. The twin car-and-suicide bombings Saturday night near the Besiktas stadium enraged top officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who vowed to

A man who was 16 years old in 2011 when three members of an El Rancho family were killed with a pickax has been convicted in a retrial of murder and other crimes. District Court jurors on Friday convicted 22-year-old Nicholas Ortiz in the killings of Dixie and Lloyd Ortiz and their special-needs adult son,

City officials have hung bags of condoms and information about safe sex from trees at an Austin park, but did so without informing their agency bosses or the parks department. The Austin American Statesman reports that authorities in Walnut Creek Park took down the bags Thursday, considering them litter – unaware they were part of

Family an friends are mourning after a house fire claimed the life of an elderly Las Cruces woman. It happened shortly after 7 a.m. Friday morning on the 1100 block of Circle Drive in central Las Cruces. The woman who died in this fire was 68 years old. A longtime friend told ABC-7 she lived

Dona Ana County Sheriff’s officials say a man was killed in an industrial accident Saturday. It happened shortly after 12 P.M.on the 6300 block of Wiesner Road in Las Cruces. Sheriff’s officials tell ABC-7 a man in his 30’s was trying to inflate a tire when an explosion happened, killing the man instantly. Officials couldn’t

Hundreds of El Pasoans gathered at UTEP’s Centennial Plaza Saturday morning to march for immigrant rights. It’s been 68 years since the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declaring everyone in the world had some shared values that would be protected. Some people hoping their own immigration stories would push others to

Police are investigating a string of robberies that happened minutes apart in West El Paso Saturday. The first robbery happened at the Supreme Laundry on the 6900 block of Westwind at 9:41 A.M. The second robbery happened at 7204 Mesa at 9:50 A.M. It’s unclear what was taken and if the robberies are related, but

A grand jury has indicted a man accused of molesting a girl under the age of 13. 57-year-old Gerald Chavez was indicted on one count of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and two counts of criminal contact of a minor. Investigators say Chavez molested the girl between April and November of this year. The