Month: April 2017

WACO, Texas (AP) – Officials say upcoming trials related to the 2015 Central Texas gunfight involving rival motorcycle gangs that left nine people dead, 20 others hurt have effectively been put on hold due to a separate federal case involving one of the gangs. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2ofL31E ) state District Judge Matt Johnson

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Two teenage boys have been arrested in the beating death of a 62-year-old woman during a burglary in Torrance County. Court documents indicate the youths ages 16 and 17 were arrested in the April 6 killing of Deborah “Debbie” Michele Zeutzius of Edgewood. Her husband found her dead in a backyard

Two people were injured in a rollover crash Saturday in Central El Paso. A white compact car and a small red SUV collided about noon at the intersection of Gateway South Boulevard and Trowbridge Drive. The the SUV ended up on its roof. The victims were taken to a hospital, though their injuries are not

Two top drug traffickers have been killed in pre-dawn shootouts Saturday with federal force in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas, authorities reported. The Tamaulipas security spokesman’s office says the men were killed in separate confrontations, which left highways littered with burned-out vehicles. Julian Loisa Salinas, better known as “Comandante Toro,” was killed in

Aaron Jones, UTEP’s all-time leading rusher, is just a few days away from possibly hearing his name called in the NFL Draft. The draft will begin on Thursday in Philadelphia. But on Friday Jones was at Spirit of 66 as fans and friends wished him well before he leaves for the draft. Jones admitted he

For the third time this month a local college basketball coach is leaving the Borderland. This time, it’s NMSU women’s head basketball coach Mark Trakh. Trakh is headed back to Southern California to coach the USC Trojans for the second time, the school confirmed. He coached USC for five years from 2004-2009. Trakh joins former

At least three sets of human remains were found inside a Mesilla Park home on Wednesday, officials with the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office said. Detectives were called to the 1000 block of Conway on Tuesday when a man, Conrad Robbins, was cleaning out the house and found a box containing what appeared to be

The El Paso man accused of murdering his mother was arrested Friday in Southern New Mexico. ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom has learned 31-year-old Fernando Alonzo Alarcon was arrested at 1:30 pm on Afton Road in La Mesa, New Mexico. Alarcon was driving the silver Jeep Liberty mentioned by El Paso Police. The vehicle apparently

The Sunland Park Police Department has hired several new officers, including a new deputy chief. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, the department’s new officers were introduced. Officers Christopher Loyd, Gerardo Reyes Jr., Joseph Means and Andres Morales took the Oath of Office. Deputy Chief, Mark Tarantino, who was formerly with the department, was also sworn

The campaign treasurer for mayoral candidate Dee Margo has filed an ethics complaint against rival mayoral candidate, David Saucedo, with the Texas Ethics Commission. Local tax attorney Oscar Ornelas argues Saucedo should be removed from the ballot. He’s alleging Saucedo’s campaign violated numerous municipal and Texas election code laws, and conducted impermissible fund raising. When

Three of the eight candidates for El Paso mayor will face off in a televised debate Sunday on ABC-7 “Xtra.” The decision to invite only three candidates has drawn the ire of other candidates, including Jaime O Perez, who staged a protest in West El Paso a few blocks from the ABC-7 studio. Perez and

Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino has opened a new hotel. “The Hotel” is located at 1202 Futurity Drive in Sunland Park. The Hotel features 78 rooms and six suites with views of the racetrack and provides upscale accommodations. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Friday after 13 months of planning and construction. Owners tell Abc-7 the

A run of legal defeats over its voting laws means Texas could risk becoming the first state forced back into federal oversight since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of the Voting Rights Act four years ago. The justices’ 2013 ruling struck down a provision in the 1965 law that required Texas and

Police Friday identified 62-year-old Jill Thompson as the woman killed when her car rolled out of the driveway and struck her. It happened shortly before 10 am April 20, 2017. Police officers were dispatched to the report of an injured woman on the 5000 block of Wild Bill Lane on the city’s East Mesa. Officers

Young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children can “rest easy,” President Donald Trump said Friday, telling the “dreamers” they will not be targets for deportation under his immigration policies. Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, said his administration is “not after the dreamers, we are after the criminals.” The president,

An hours-long SWAT standoff at an apartment on Solano Drive resulted in the arrest of a man suspected of punching a police officer. Police said the suspect, which had already eluded officers once, tried to escape through a crawl space in an apartment’s ceiling. 29-year-old Ruben Trujillo, of the 1600 block of La Fonda Drive,

The ear-splitting explosion from America’s “mother of all bombs” has been followed by calculated silence about the damage it inflicted. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday he does not intend to discuss damage estimates from last week’s use of the military’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State stronghold in Afghanistan. The April

Gunmen killed the leader of Mexico’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party in the southern state of Guerrero, authorities said. The killing prompted Guerrero’s governor to cut short a trip to the United States aimed at convincing cruise ship lines that the state’s flagship resort, Acapulco, is safe enough to bring their ships back for visits. Some

As expected, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is maintaining a massive cash advantage ahead of his 2018 re-election race, with a total of more than $5.2 million in the bank. That war chest total comes after he raised more than $1.7 million among three allied groups during the first quarter of 2017, according to campaign finance

Antonia Catalan maneuvers her gray SUV around potholes in the dirt roads where rural South Florida meets the swampy Everglades. She’s looking for a man who’s in the country illegally. She puts on her reading glasses and grabs a crumpled piece of paper with the address of a nursery that grows palm trees for Miami’s

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor made Time magazine’s list of the top 100 most influential people in the world for 2017. O’Connor became a justice in September 1981 and retired in 2006. O’Connor was born in El Paso and graduated from Austin High School in 1946. Austin named its criminal justice magnet

The University of Texas at El Paso is surprising 236 high school seniors at over 40 local schools. The scholarships are made available through UTEP’s Scholars Excellence Program. The university said recipients are selected based on their SAT test scores, grade point average and student ranking and leadership skills. The scholarships will be available to

A man allegedly barricaded himself at an apartment complex in Las Cruces during an hours-long SWAT standoff. Authorities said they took the suspect into custody just before 5 a.m. on Friday. A Las Cruces Police Department spokesman told ABC-7 it started at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Police said officers were serving an arrest warrant and

It’s safe to say that tornado season is in full effect. As of April 12th nationwide there has been 536 tornadoes. The top three states: Georgia-104, Texas-69, and Missouri-60. This does not include one of several tornadoes that affected the Texas panhandle. The town of Dimmitt, Texas was right in the path of a severe

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The Chihuahuas jumped out to a 5-0 lead Thursday night at home against the Tacoma Rainiers but allowed six unanswered runs to fall 6-5 in 10 innings. Chihuahuas pitcher Dinelson Lamet struck out a team-record 13 batters in just 5 1/3 innings. That total is also a new career high for Lamet. Lamet struck out

A representative with the Homeless Coalition of El Paso told ABC-7 it sought help for the man who barricaded himself inside a home during an eviction notice Wednesday morning. The house is located near the intersection of Graham Court and Raynolds Street in Central El Paso. El Paso County sheriff’s deputies and deputy constables responded

Whelton Richardson might be a first-year varsity head basketball coach at Santa Teresa, but he’s learned from the best along the way. Richardson takes over a Desert Warriors team that won the 2012 4A state title under the guidance of the late Bob Haack. Haack certainly left his mark on the world of basketball in

The Texas House has approved a bill seeking to raise from 17 to 18 the age at which offenders automatically enter Texas’ adult legal system. Thursday’s vote sends the proposal by Houston Democratic Rep. Harold Dutton and several bipartisan co-sponsors to the state Senate. A Senate version of the bill is pending in committee but