Month: February 2017

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is visiting the Rio Grande valley for a firsthand look at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Trump administration steps up immigration enforcement and prepares to ask Congress to pay for a border wall. It’s the first time the Wisconsin Republican has visited the border, and protests have been announced to

The Trump administration will revoke federal guidelines telling public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity, a government official said Wednesday. The decision, not yet announced, would be a reversal of an Obama-era directive issued in May requiring public schools to grant bathroom access even if the

An Alamogordo animal shelter has been awarded $90,334 in damages in a settlement against Dona Ana County, a court document states. Animal Village of New Mexico is led by Sunny Aris. A court document obtained by ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom states Aris was asked to pick up nearly 70 animals at two locations in

A man from the far eastside of El Paso county is charged with Capital Murder after the death of a baby girl. Deputies say the incident began Monday when a female infant from the 13,000 block of Allemande Road was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Allemande Road is on the far eastside of

Overnight closures 9pm-6am North desert boulevard from Mesa will be closed. I-10 East Sunland Park ramp will close. 9pm-6am I-10 East Resler ramp closed. Loop 375 closed at Santa Fe until march 20th. Eastbound and Westbound from St Vrain St. to Eucalyptus St. 03/14) Overnight El Paso Street Car closures (six weeks): 9 pm-5 am

5A Girls Round Three (Regional Quarterfinals): Amarillo 79, Burges 53 Final 6A Boys Round One (Bidistrict Round): Americas 71, Midland 47 Final Frenship 49, El Dorado 41 Final Odessa Permian 54, Coronado 42 Final Amarillo Tascosa 72, Pebble Hills 67 Final 5A Boys Round One (Bidistrict Round): Burges 55, Hanks 44 Final Chapin 65, Del

Examining a tragic shooting death on the U.S. border with Mexico, a divided Supreme Court on Tuesday puzzled over the rights of foreigners to sue in American courts. The case involving a Mexican teen slain by a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s gunshot, which traveled across the border, elicited questions about how a ruling could affect

While some Borderland school districts are seeing a decrease in enrollment, the Socorro Independent School District is adding hundreds of students every year. Thomas Eyeington, the district’s chief operations officer, said the district plans on building a new elementary school with leftover funds from a $297 million bond measure that was passed in 2011 to

The Department of Homeland Security explained the Trump administration’s plan to improve border security and immigration enforcement. The memos released by DHS outline the construction of a border wall and an “aggressive plan to deport undocumented immigrants.” Any immigrant who is in the country illegally and is charged or convicted of any offense, or even

In a 6-1 vote, the Las Cruces City Council voted Tuesday to support a resolution expressing opposition to President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The resolution, crafted by Mayor Pro Tem Greg Smith, contends a border wall would harm the area’s economy by hurting its relationship with Mexico. It

The Sunland Park Police Department is getting a new police chief as it deals with the fallout from an audit stating it lacks integrity, City Manager Bob Gallagher said. Gallagher told ABC-7 an internal audit conducted by an outside firm revealed evidence had been lost in cases and information had been leaked to other sources

ABC-7 received an email from a viewer in Central El Paso asking about a huge storm water project in the area off Alabama Street. A nearly $4 million improvement project for the Kentucky Dam started earlier this month. The retention ponds at the center of the project are located near the corner of Kentucky and

Metropia Inc. teamed up with the City of El Paso to search for technological pioneers interested in exchanging GPS data from an app for cash. Tania Chozet, Metropia Inc. community manager, said the process “is very simple,” and an added bonus for people who cross the El Paso-Juarez border on their daily commute from 6

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can’t cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that launched Republican efforts across the U.S. to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider. An injunction issued by U.S. District Sam Sparks of Austin comes after he delayed making decision

The Washington Post has published a feature on El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke. “(He) has long believed that the closer you get to the Mexican border, the less you fear it,” the article states. “O’Rourke isn’t naive about the violence that plagues parts of the city. Still, he maintains crime is not the only story

Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation – including people simply arrested for traffic violations – under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration. Any immigrant who is in the country illegally and is charged or convicted of any offense, or even

TRAFFIC UPDATE: All freeway lanes are now open – east and west. ORIGINAL TRAFFIC ALERT: All freeway lanes are closed at I-10 West and Missouri due to a “traffic related emergency.” West-bound Traffic is backing up to Cotton. All freeway lanes are closed at I-10 East and Schuster. Traffic is being diverted into the Downtown

A four-year veteran with the El Paso Police Department arrested on a sexual assault charge had previously been disciplined for texting a woman while on the job, police records obtained by ABC-7 state. Earlier this month, Brian Michael Lujan was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting three victims and visually recording them while on-duty,

Police arrested a man suspected of injuring his two-month-old son, hospitalized with three fractured ribs and multiple hemorrhages. Christopher Jacquez, 18, of the 9500 block of Butterfield Boulevard, is charged with two counts of “Child Abuse Resulting in Great Bodily Harm.” Las Cruces Police were dispatched to a medical call involving an infant boy at

The Subway employee who reported an armed robbery last week is the person who actually planned the crime and conspired with two relatives to stage the incident, Las Cruces Police said. Detectives learned the 26-year-old woman, no longer employed by the restaurant, arranged with two relatives to stage the armed robbery at knife-point in order

The Las Cruces Public School District is getting ballistic shields to protect its security guards. Officials say the district is the first in the country to do so. While LCPS hasn’t seen a recent spike in violent incidents, officials say its better to be safe than sorry. The shields are made with similar material police

Overnight closures 9pm-6am I-10 East Resler ramp closed. Loop 375 closed at Santa Fe until march 20th. Eastbound and Westbound from St Vrain St. to Eucalyptus St. 03/14) Overnight El Paso Street Car closures (six weeks): 9 pm-5 am I-10 East and west left lane closures to be expected for the next six weeks in

Sixty feet and the U.S-Mexico border separated the unarmed, 15-year-old Mexican boy and the U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed him with a gunshot to the head early on a June evening in 2010. U.S. officials chose not to prosecute Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. and the Obama administration refused a request to extradite him so

When it comes to getting stuck in traffic on the way to and from work, Los Angeles leads the world. El Paso took the 473rd spot out of 1,064 cities in the world. Drivers spent 16 hours in congestion in 2016. But in Los Angeles, drivers spent 104 hours each driving in congestion during peak

CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE STREAM Live now on Good Morning El Paso: The case of a teenager who was killed by a border patrol agent here in the borderland goes to the U.S. Supreme Court today. We have the details. Las Cruces officials taking a vote to oppose the proposed border wall. And a

5A Girls Round Three (Regional Quarterfinals): Canyon 68, Andress 46 Final 5A Boys Round One (Bidistrict Round): Andress 70, Canutillo 46 Final Bowie 76, Horizon 68 Final/OT 4A Boys Round One (Bidistrict Round): Clint 63, Midland Greenwood 48 Final Monahans 73, Mountain View 38 Final

A center to help people suffering from a mental illness cost Dona Ana County $2 million, but eight years after it was envisioned and four years after it was built, the building is still vacant. ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom spoke with Susan Campbell, an employee at Mesilla Valley Community of Hope. You’d never notice

Bishop Mark Seitz, along with other bishops in the Southwest and in Mexico, are denouncing the skeleton folk saint known as ‘La Santa Muerte’ — or ‘Holy Death.” “It’s really in a sense an anti-saint,” Seitz said. “When we pray and ask for the intercession of saints, we’re asking them to help us be all

Teddy Sanchez, the Canutillo man who El Paso Police say hit and killed a woman by Cathedral High School last Wednesday, struck and killed a pedestrian 17 months ago. Police say 65-year-old Marguerite Caruthers was not using a crosswalk and walked right in front of Sanchez’s truck. 17 months ago, Sanchez struck and and killed

Streets across El Paso were shutdown on Sunday, and the main form of transportation was on foot. Hundreds participated in the Springfoot Marathon, Half-Marathon and 5K — and one family chose to commemorate the life of a loved one during their trek. “I know that my nephew RJ was very athletic and I know that