Month: February 2017

A Texas Senate panel shrugged off 16 hours of sometimes tearful pleas and defiant opposition to approve a “sanctuary cities” proposal that would withhold grant funding from local jurisdictions that don’t hand over immigrants already in custody for possible deportation. A 7-2 vote around 12:45 a.m. Friday from the chamber’s powerful State Affairs Committee sends

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has been named the Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year following a remarkable season in which he went from 3rd stringer to guiding the Cowboys to the #1 seed in the NFC. Prescott’s contributions on the field following Tony Romo’s pre-season injury helped the Cowboys tie a franchise-record 13-win season.

Plan your Friday commute ahead of time, don’t get caught in traffic! OVERNIGHT CLOSURES: Jan 31-Feb 2 Last morning Friday: I-10 West will be closed at the Resler exit. I-10 East left lane closure from Mesa- Resler. I-10 East will reduce to one lane from Sunland Park to Asarco. I-10 East Executive center on ramp

The UTEP men’s basketball team continued its remarkable turnaround Thursday night at the Haskins Center, beating UAB by a final of 63-59. The Miners have now won five of their last six after posting a 12-game losing streak earlier in the season. UTEP trailed by nine at the half but managed to outscore the Blazers

UTEP remembered one of its all-time great players tonight, the late Jeep Jackson, whose sudden death at the age of 23 during a Fort Bliss charity basketball game in 1987 cast a shadow of sadness on one of the greatest eras of Miner basketball. Friends, family, and teammates gathered on the floor of the Don

From the GO-10 project on I-10 to the El Paso streetcar project Downtown, there is a good chance you will run into construction traffic one way or another. Construction and traffic accidents are not always to blame for traffic jams. Sometimes, drivers themselves are responsible as a result of a phenomena known as “hysteresis.” When

Three well-known El Pasoans made the trip to the Texas state Capitol in Austin Thursday to voice their concerns on Senate Bill 4- a bill targeting so-called “sanctuary cities.” Hundreds attended the Republican-controlled state Senate’s first hearing on the issue. El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar, county commissioner David Stout and immigration attorney Carlos Spector

Concern over refugee treatment following President Donald Trump’s travel policy has some Muslims across the country, and here in the borderland worried about their future. Thursday, ABC-7 spoke with the president of the Islamic Center Radwan Jallad about what he’d like to see happen in the community. Jallad is from Damascus, Syria and moved to

Don’t turn a blind eye: that’s what security officials are urging from the public when it comes to border corruption. The Federal Bureau of Investigation held a news conference to raise awareness when it comes to agents on the border and corruption. The FBI said there are 1,200 miles along the Texas -Mexico border. There’s

Texas Republicans have begun their push to ban so-called “sanctuary cities,” an issue Gov. Greg Abbott has declared one of his “emergency” issues for the state. The Republican-controlled state Senate held its first hearing on a bill Thursday. The meeting in the stately chamber was disrupted several times by demonstrators singing songs or directing jeers

In order to fix New Mexico’s budget crunch, Governor Susana Martinez is slashing $46 million from local school district reserves. The governor had previously called those reserves “slush funds.” Now, schools in Las Cruces say they’re paying the price. Last week, the Las Cruces Public School District Superintendent Dr. Gregory Ewing told ABC-7 they were

The U.S. Marshals Service is looking for two wanted fugitives, said to be members of the Barrio Azteca gang, with a violent criminal history. Both fugitives should be considered armed and extremely dangerous, officials said. 33-year-old Jose Zapata and 46-year-old Jose Alfredo Morales are wanted on charges originating out of New Mexico for discharging their

New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels is warning criminal cases will be dismissed if funding for juries is not approved soon. Daniels reacted Thursday to Governor Susana Martinez’s veto of emergency court funding for the judiciary. The justice says money will run out to pay jurors in early March without new funding, shutting down

The Republican-controlled House on Thursday took its first steps toward strengthening gun ownership under President Donald Trump, moving to scrap a requirement for background checks for disabled Social Security recipients mentally incapable of managing their own affairs. The regulation, issued in the final months of President Barack Obama’s term, is one of a handful congressional

Warning that religious freedom is “under threat,” President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates from the pulpit. “I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution,” Trump said

Hundreds gathered at a vigil for Rogelio Franco on the Montwood High School campus. The 22 year old was shot and killed outside of an eastside bar over the weekend. Franco was known to his friends and family as RJ. He was shot multiple times outside Barfly at 11335 Montwood Dr. late Saturday night. A

The Texas Board of Education on Wednesday voted preliminarily to ease – but not completely eliminate – state high school science curriculum requirements that experts argue cast doubt on the theory of evolution. How evolution is taught in America’s second-largest state has been a point of contention for years, and the issue isn’t yet settled.

Punxsutawney Phil made his weather prediction Thursday morning, after emerging from his sleep.The furry rodent “predicted” six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow that means, according to Groundhog Day tradition, six weeks of winter. Last year he nailed it when he didn’t see his shadow, Phil has had a spotty record, predicting the

Say goodbye to Good Morning El Paso using this desk. Our brand new set will make its debut right now! From 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m., we’ll have all your news, along with weather and traffic and updates. You can watch it all on our website’s live stream at http://www.kvia.com/livestream

The Las Cruces Police Department is investigating a shooting that sent two men to the hospital. It happened Tuesday night on the 1400 block of Wyoming in the southern part of the city. The ABC-7 New Mexico Mobile Newsroom learned from police officials that one of the men who was shot was airlifted to University

We have seen a lot of closures this week and more have been added to the list, be sure to plan ahead of time. OVERNIGHT CLOSURES: Jan 31-Feb 2 overnight I-10 West will be closed at the Resler exit. I-10 East left lane closure from Mesa- Resler. I-10 East will reduce to one lane from

The UTEP football team inked 17 student-athletes during National Signing Day on Wednesday. The Miners finished the 2016 season with a poor 4-8 record, so UTEP is hopeful the new 17 signees will help create positive change. The biggest recruit of all was Americas running back Josh Fields. Fields finished last season rushing for 2,477

New Mexico State announced the addition of 25 signees to the team on National Signing Day, including three players with ties to El Paso and Las Cruces. Head coach Doug Martin said the focus this year was on recruiting junior college players and those who could immediately help out on the defensive side of the

Rogelio Franco Jr. and the man accused of shooting and killing him, Moises Galvan, knew each other from high school and had argued in the past, a complaint affidavit obtained by ABC-7 states. Galvan and Franco got into a verbal argument near the patio area of Barfly, a bar located at 11335 Montwood in East

President Donald Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his pick for Supreme Court nominee Tuesday night to fill the seat once held by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. At 49, Gorsuch, a Denver-based judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, would be the youngest justice to hold a seat in the Supreme Court.. As a cautionary

Police identified the man shot and killed in Las Cruces Tuesday as 29-year-old Christopher Mendoza. Mendoza was unresponsive when police officers arrived at the residence at 1404 Wyoming Avenue at about 7:30 pm January 31, 2017. Paramedics transported Mendoza to Mountainview Regional Medical Center where, shortly after arrival, he was pronounced dead. Investigators have identified

The district attorney told ABC-7 Wednesday he never received a copy of a cell phone recording Mayor Oscar Leeser told reporters and police he took the day he and the husband of a former City representative got into a heated argument inside a West El Paso restaurant. The mayor not only told ABC-7 he recorded

President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop “bad hombres down there” unless the Mexican military does more to control them itself, according to an excerpt of a transcript of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press. The excerpt of the call did not make