Month: December 2016

The local chapter of the Salvation Army is looking to raise a lot of money in a short amount of time. Its ‘Red Kettle Campaign’ is over in five days and the El Paso chapter needs to raise $27,000 to meet its goal. During the holiday season, volunteers can be seen outside shopping centers and

Georgia led the nation this year in the number of inmates put to death, an anomaly that’s due at least in part to executions in Texas dipping into single digits for the first time in 20 years. With nine lethal injections in 2016, Georgia accounted for nearly half of the 20 executions nationwide. It was

Families of three patrons killed in the Orlando nightclub massacre are suing Facebook, Google and Twitter, claiming the gunman who killed their loved ones was radicalized through propaganda found through social media. The families of Tevin Crosby, Juan Ramon Guerrero Jr. and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Michigan. The complaint

Police say the man stabbed early Monday morning is now accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl. It allegedly happened shortly before 5 a.m. Monday morning at the residence at 131 N. Kenazo within the Whirlwind Townhomes apartment complex. Police officers called to the apartment learned a sexual assault had occurred and a man, identified

The location of El Paso’s downtown arena will take center stage again at tomorrow’s City Council meeting. There is now talk of changing the original location in Union Plaza which would have forced dozens of people to move out of one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. A group of residents and historians opposed the original

Riverside High School students taking engineering courses are part of a one-of-a-kind program with the University of Texas at Austin. The three-year partnership was created after Riverside’s physics teacher Sergio Estrada attended a STEM conference and sought out the pilot program offered by UT-Austin. Juniors and seniors have the opportunity to dual-enroll and receive the

We’ve got closures in West and South Central El Paso. Here’s what you need to watch out for. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Tuesday) – Lane closure on I-10 East from Mesa to Resler. 9 p.m. – 5 a.m. (Tuesday night – Wednesday Morning) – Loop 375 West (Border Highway) closed from US-54 to Park

A woman who admitted to El Paso Animal Services officers that she did not have the proper permits to breed or sell puppies, that she was selling underage animals, and that she had brought puppies into the U.S. from Mexico without claiming them to proper authorities, has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is warning about a fraudulent check cashing scheme. EPCSO and its bond and inmate trust section issue a yearly notice about the scam. A number of incidents have been reported over the years in which fake checks are produced using the sheriff’s office commissary bank number. Authorities said the

CLICK HERE TO STREAM NOW Good Morning El Paso, we are following the latest from Berlin as investigators try to determine whether the truck that plowed through a busy market was “an act of terrorism.” Plus the latest from Turkey and what the Russian president vows to do in response. Happening Today: city council is

PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO RETIRE “Bittersweet. Hate to leave. But it’s time.” That’s what El Paso County Public Works Director Pat Adauto said after being asked how it feels to retire. Monday was Adauto’s last County Commissioners meeting as the Public Works Director. She’s retiring after spending 40 years in public service, most of those

The New Mexico State Aggies overcame a 3 for 17 shooting performance from star Ian Baker en route to their ninth straight win, an 85-79 decision in overtime against UC Irvine Monday night at the Pan American Center. The Aggies (11-2) found themselves down early thanks to the hot shooting of UC Irvine’s Jaron Martin,

Christian McCaffrey, Stanford’s junior running back, will not play in the Sun Bowl and instead focus on training for the 2017 NFL Draft, Stanford announced Monday. “We understand this was a very difficult decision. Christian has not only been a great player, but a great teammate as well,” said David Shaw, Stanford’s Director of Football,

The city of El Paso’s contract with Redflex, the company that administers its red light traffic cameras, is set to expire in 2017. “We definitely think it is an asset,” said El Paso Police Department spokesman Darrel Petry adding, “if we continue to have the program and have the availability of moving the program forward,

Residents are concerned about a dangerous road in El Paso’s Lower Valley, following a deadly crash over the weekend. The crash happened after 1 A.M. Saturday on the 300 block of Pendale Road. Police say 24-year-old Daniel Pichardo was speeding when he lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree. Pichardo and his 21-year-old

Dona Ana Community College is cutting $1.7 million from its budget for the fiscal year of 2017. The cuts come in the midst of the state of New Mexico’s $600 million budget deficit. Here’s a list of what will be cut: All individual travel will be reduced from $1375 to $1000 per person. This is

The El Paso Water Improvement District 1 and the Federal government have reached a $5.4 million settlement with Comanche Trail Pipeline LLC over a new natural gas pipeline near San Elizario in the Lower Valley. In November, a judge ordered the company stop construction arguing it could endanger the area’s water supply. The government feared

Susan G. Komen announced Monday its El Paso affiliate will cease operations March 31, 2017. For more than 24 years, the organization helped raise funds for breast health treatment, screening, and educational services. The organization helped raise $4.6 million for the El Paso community, a news release states. “It is with heavy hearts that we

El Paso resident Jud Burgess filed a formal ethics complaint against El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and four city representatives over their participation in a closed door meeting with some of those opposed to the original proposed location of the Downtown arena. After Friday’s meeting, it was announced City Council would discuss a proposal to

ABC-7 will be at Tuesday’s City Council meeting where city representatives could vote to change the location of the soon-to-be-built multi-purpose arena. City Representative Cortney Niland says building the arena on the same site as the city’s Convention Center would save taxpayers millions of dollars. “We own that entire footprint,” Niland said, “We budgeted $20

Donald Trump surpasses 270 votes in Electoral College to formally win presidency. Texas clinched the Electoral College for Trump. The ballots of three dozen Texas presidential electors Monday put the billionaire over the 270 electoral votes needed to formally win the White House. All but two of the state’s 38 electors stuck with Trump. Among

President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president, the White House said Monday. Obama has been granting commutations at rapid-fire pace in his final months in office, but he has focused primarily

Major U.S. cities and counties are beefing up legal services for immigrants to help them fight deportation and avoid fraudulent lawyers in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and his hard-line immigration enforcement promises. Tapping local government funds to represent immigrants in federal proceedings provides an early example of the type of pushback the Republican

A gunman in a suit and tie shouted slogans about Syria’s civil war after he killed Russia’s ambassador to Turkey in front of stunned onlookers at a photo exhibition in the Turkish capital on Monday, according to an Associated Press photographer who witnessed the shooting. Police later killed the assailant, Turkish station NTV reported. Ambassador

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Columbus port of entry seized 1.6 pounds of liquid methamphetamine Sunday. The drugs were hidden inside the rings of Native-American style dreamcatchers, CBP officials said. “This is one of the most unusual smuggling episodes we have ever encountered,” said Robert Reza, CBP Columbus Port Director. “Smugglers

A former UFC fighter who has had trouble with the law has been arrested again. Court records show Cody East was arrested Sunday in Albuquerque before 4 a.m. on counts of false imprisonment and aggravated battery against a household member. He also faces charges of aggravated assault against a household member. Details of the arrest

Crews are going to be busy in west El Paso. Here’s what you need to look out for. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Monday) – Lane closure on I-10 East from Mesa to Resler. Noon – 2 p.m. (Monday) – Rolling closure on I-10 East starts at Sunland Park and goes to Porfirio Diaz. Won’t

It wasn’t even close at the Sun Bowl as the East All-Stars dominated the West from start to finish 52-8, Saturday at the Sun Bowl. Utah commit, and El Dorado Aztec Tyquez Hampton, shined with 2 touchdowns in the contest while Eastlake’s Keith Tarango-Lopez had 2 touchdowns of his own. But Lopez didn’t give himself

Vado residents are cleaning up after a roof ripped off a mobile home and smashed into another. It happened Saturday after high winds swept the borderland. Residents say a woman who is 5 months pregnant and has a two year old son escaped her home after the roof flew off. The entire wall was ripped

Authorities say the deaths of a North Texas mother and her 3-month-old son have been ruled homicides after their necks were cut. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports (http://bit.ly/2gZp2yU ) the deaths of 36-year-old Shanna Vandewege and her son, Diederick, remain under investigation. Police say investigators are not specifically looking at any one person as a