Month: May 2017

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agents nationwide are arresting more than 400 undocumented immigrants a day, an increase of nearly 38 percent over the same period in 2016, according to the agency’s latest data. As the number of immigrants facing deportation increases, so to does the backlog in immigration court. The federal building in Downtown El

Riverside High School is bringing back a program for students who want to pursue a career in education. The Socratic Institute is a four-year program that will essentially teach students to become educators and prepare them to lead a classroom. “When we started looking at all the demographics here and what we really needed in

El Paso Police say Diana Reyes, 60, is the woman struck and killed by a train in the Lower Valley. Police were called to the 9400 block of Roseway shortly before 2 am Friday. An investigation revealed the train, operated by engineer Hector Herrera and conductor Luis Pena, spotted Reyes on the train tracks. Herrera

El Paso Police say Diana Reyes, 60, is the woman struck and killed by a train in the Lower Valley. Police were called to the 9400 block of Roseway shortly before 2 am Friday. An investigation revealed the train, operated by engineer Hector Herrera and conductor Luis Pena, spotted Reyes on the train tracks. Herrera

Judge Patricia Chew decided to grant a “directed verdict” in the case involving the estate of late El Paso car dealer Dick Poe. A jury last Friday ruled in favor of Richard Poe II, the man fighting to reclaim the estate of his father. Chew granted the directed verdict after determining there was not enough

The camera hidden inside a family restroom at Cielo Vista Mall by an alleged peeping Tom was Wi-Fi enabled and appeared to be transmitting footage to a remote location, a complaint affidavit states. Jose Marquez, 28, the alleged peeping Tom, was arrested earlier this month and charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Invasive Visual

The Border Patrol agent stabbed in the eye outside a Far East El Paso bar has died, according to El Paso Police. Police said Hisaias Justo Lopez, 39, stabbed the off-duty agent, 30-year-old Isaac Morales, in the parking lot of the Union Drafthouse Bar on the 12000 block of Tierra Este. Police charged Lopez with

Hundreds of women were brought from Thailand to the U.S. and forced to be “modern day sex slaves,” according to an indictment that charges 21 people in what authorities called a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that used an elaborate money laundering scheme to conceal millions of dollars in earnings. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, builds upon a

Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 7 Thursday in an effort to crack down on inappropriate teacher-student relationships. Under the new law, teachers will lose their teaching certification and their taxpayer pension if they are convicted of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. The law will also punish administrators, superintendents and principals who fail

The El Paso Independent School District hosted its 6th annual Student Film Festival on May 19. This year, an unprecedented 850 students from EPISD and other school districts participated in the festival, submitting 325 films. The film submissions came from students in grades kinder through 12. Good Morning El Paso Anchor Stephanie Valle served as

The Sunland Park city official accused of embezzlement is also accused of sexually assaulting a girl. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Sunland Park Community Services Superintendent Chris Ruiz, 32, Wednesday May 24, 2017 and charged him with Embezzlement under $250 and Criminal Sexual Contact of a Child. Sunland Park City Manager, Bob Gallagher, told ABC-7 the alleged

Authorities in Southeast Texas say a high school principal submitted his resignation this week and then went to his pickup in the school parking lot and fatally shot himself. Forty-five-year-old Dennis Reeves resigned his position at Kirbyville High School on Tuesday and his body was found about an hour later. Kirbyville police Chief Paul Brister

Texas lawmakers have approved the hunting of feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons. Texas’ growing hog population causes millions of dollars’ worth of damage to crops every year. Texas has an estimated two million feral hogs. Their high breeding rate and lack of natural predators has seen their population explode The state already

Ten of the 15 fastest-growing cities with populations of 50,000 or more were spread across the South in 2016, with four of the top five found in Texas, according to new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Conroe, Texas, a northern Houston suburb, was the fastest-growing of the 15, seeing a 7.8

Jefferson / Silva High School is set to open its new stadium for the 2017-2018 school year. But before the Silver Foxes can take the field, the stadium needs a name. Name suggestions will be presented to the Board of Trustees. To submit a name, you will need to fill out the nomination form and

President Donald Trump praised the Philippines’ president for an “unbelievable job” in a fight against illegal drugs that has left thousands dead and drawn condemnation from American lawmakers, according to a leaked transcript of their telephone conversation last month. Trump’s discussion with Rodrigo Duterte is likely to reinforce the impression that Trump is sidelining human

A proposal to curtail the nation’s food stamp program would pinch families struggling to pay for groceries and ripple through other areas of the economy, including supermarkets and discounters, as people shuffle their budgets. President Donald Trump is proposing a roughly 30 percent reduction in the federal budget for the program formally known as the

Housing Secretary Ben Carson says poverty is a “state of mind.” In a radio interview Wednesday, the former neurosurgeon said parents need to instill in their children the “mindset of a winner.” “If you take somebody with the wrong mindset,” Carson says, “you can give them everything in the world and they’ll work their way

Though a judge deemed her mentally unfit to stand trial fourteen months ago, Jennifer Lampkin is still sitting in an Austin jail cell because there are no free spots for her at the state’s psychiatric hospitals. Lampkin, 35, has both intellectual disabilities and a mental illness, and without treatment, the court couldn’t reassess her competency

The Chapin softball team had a goal this season to make it past the area round of the playoffs after falling in that round last year. They’re now three rounds beyond that round so it’s safe to say they’ve accomplished that goal and then some. “Ending it early last year and losing in area, we

Melania Trump wore a veil to the Vatican on Wednesday to meet the pope, but no head covering a few days earlier to meet the king of Saudi Arabia, a religiously conservative country where most women cover themselves up from head to toe. Why the difference? The answer is a complicated mix of personal preference,

A standoff between Texas’ Republican-majority House and Senate over a modest school voucher program has killed a bipartisan, $1.6 billion plan to begin overhauling the troubled way the state pays for public education. The funding proposal sought to provide a roadmap to fixing school finance, an issue that the House has tried to address for

Benjamin Saminego Chavira is charged with one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor, according to court records. Chavira, of Mesilla Park, was booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center Tuesday. Court documents obtained by ABC-7 state Chavira inappropriately touched an 11-year-old girl while at a home on the 1800 block of S.

Police need your help finding the suspect who allegedly robbed a convenience store and assaulted the clerk the morning of May 19, 2017. The suspect, caught on surveillance camera, is described as an Hispanic man with thick hair, a mustache and a goatee. Police say he is approximately 5’5″ tall, with a medium build, weighing

Police charged and arrested three men in connection with an aggravated robbery at the 7-11 located at 4130 Hercules. Officers responding to the incident noticed a car leaving the scene from a side street and immediately pulled it over. When the vehicle stopped, two passengers allegedly fled on foot while the other two remained inside.

Tuesday’s second mistrial in the Tai Chan murder case had a lot of people asking questions about how the case unfolded. Chan, a former Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputy, is accused of murdering his partner Jeremy Martin after an argument at a Las Cruces hotel in 2014. The prosecution says Chan shot at Martin 10

A homeless man going through trash bins at Bowlin’s Gas Station near I-10 was struck in the eye by “bullet fragments” after getting into a verbal confrontation with two men, New Mexico State Police said. The shooting happened on Tuesday May 23, 2017 around 7:28 p.m. Police said one of the men fired a round

Detectives with the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office are looking for a missing 16-year-old boy who could be in danger without his medication. The boy “reportedly suffers from some mental challenges,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Relatives say Jorge Ceniceros was last seen at Gadsden High School on Friday, May 19. He

The student who collapsed in a playground Tuesday has died, according to Patricia Ayala, a spokeswoman with the Ysleta Independent School District. “It is with deep sadness that we confirm that a second-grade student at Eastwood Heights Elementary School collapsed on the playground during lunch on Tuesday,” a statement issued by the district states. “He

The FBI and Las Cruces Police are investigating an armed bank robbery. At about 9:40 a.m., two men entered the Bank of the West at 795 S. Telshore Blvd. Police said the suspects displayed handguns and demanded money from a teller, who handed over an undisclosed amount of money. Anyone with information is asked to