Month: June 2017

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I-10 West closed at Resler I-10 closed at Sunland Park I-10 East two right lanes from Executive to Schuster I-10 East at Raynor. Day Time Closures: 9am-3pm I-10 right lane cloed from Sunland Park to Buena vista I-10 West Sunland Park exit ramp reduced to one lane. Mesa:long term closure Jan 18th 6 am –

Former Burges standout KeAndre Bates seized a gold medal at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Nationals in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday in the long jump. On his sixth and last attempt in the finals, the junior recorded a jump of 26 feet, 5 inches to put him at the top of the leaderboard.

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops abruptly announced his retirement Wednesday, a stunning offseason move by the 56-year-old future Hall of Famer who led the Sooners to 10 conference championships and a national title in 18 seasons. Stoops was the longest-tenured active coach in major college football, taking the job at Oklahoma a day before Kirk Ferentz

The City of El Paso is moving forward with its plan to construct four new trailheads, creating better access to the Franklin Mountains. Several community meetings were held this week, unveiling the final designs for the projects which were approved by voters as part of the 2012 Quality of Life bonds. The trailheads would include

A Vista Middle School teacher is accused of embezzling more than $20,000 from the Mayfield High School Band Parent’s Association. Michele Ramsey, a past treasurer of the association, stepped down when the association’s bank accounts were audited. Ramsey allegedly reported she needed to pay an invoice to the Hubbard’s and White’s Music Stores in cash

The stepfather of the 25-year-old woman accused of abandoning her four-year-old son in Juarez for more than three months told ABC-7 the woman has two younger daughters now in the care of Child Protective Services. El Pasoan Jorge Gonzalez, who Ruby Gonzalez lived with for 14 years, said the two girls are approximately 18 months

The mosquito repellent you buy might not be doing anything at all, according to new research studies at New Mexico State University. The New Mexico Department of Health announced on May 17, 2017 yellow fever mosquitoes have already been identified in Dona Ana County. Stacy Rodriguez, laboratory manager for NMSU’s Molecular Vector Physiology Lab in

A New York City man has been convicted of fatally beating his girlfriend and her daughter with a hammer because he claimed the two were witches and had been casting voodoo spells on him. Forty-eight-year-old Carlos Alberto Amarillo, of Queens, was found guilty Wednesday of murder, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare

Canada’s defense chief announced Wednesday that the country plans to sharply increase its military budget following pressure from the Trump administration to bolster spending. Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said military spending will grow 70 percent to reach $32.7 billion Canadian ($24.1 billion) in a decade. That means Canada would spend about 1.4 percent of gross

Two property owners in Downtown El Paso have pulled demolition permits for five properties in the Duranguito neighborhood, the El Paso Inc. reports. The permits were issued May 24 for properties on Chihuahua and West Overland streets, the Inc. reports. Click here to read the entire article by Inc. Reporter Aaron Montes.

A lawyer is asking for a new trial for a Wisconsin man convicted in a case profiled in the “Making a Murderer” Netflix series. Attorney Kathleen Zellner filed a 1,272-page document Wednesday claiming Steven Avery’s conviction was based on planted evidence and false testimony. USA Today Network-Wisconsin reports Zellner contends Avery deserves a new trial

Attorney General Hector Balderas announced his office has filed a lawsuit against national discount retail chain Dollar General for false advertising, unfair trade practices, and environmental public nuisance. The retailer is accused of selling “obsolete motor oil” in New Mexico stores from 2010 until February of this year. Dollar General has 87 stores across New

A Las Cruces man is accused of manufacturing, distributing and possessing child pornography, police said. Police charged Larry A. Hawke, 59, of the 300 block of east Organ Avenue, with three counts of sexual exploitation of children. Investigators learned a special agent with the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office came across information that indicated Hawke

Dozens of inmates who couldn’t afford bail were set to be released from a Houston jail Wednesday after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that the county’s bail system unfairly discriminates against the poor. Harris County officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for an emergency order blocking the original ruling, which the

Police say a West Texas man tired of paying child support drove some 450 miles with the intention of killing his two young children and their mother. Beeville police Sgt. Greg Baron said Wednesday that 34-year-old Bryan Campbell of Odessa is being held in the Bee County jail on four counts of attempted murder. Baron

NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, hand-picking seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation’s next generation of spacecraft. The astronaut class of 2017 includes doctors, scientists, engineers, pilots and military officers from Anchorage to Miami and points in between. They’ve worked in

The nation’s premier immigration attorney conference is boycotting Texas because of the state’s tough, new anti-“sanctuary cities” law. The American Immigration Lawyers Association of attorneys who represent immigrants, announced Wednesday the cancelation of its 3,000-member conference in Grapevine, slated for 2018. The organization’s president, William Stock, said members “expressed their desire not to spend money”

The House will vote next week on Senate-passed legislation to make firing employees easier for the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs, as the department sought to push forward on initiatives urged by President Donald Trump aimed at improving care and boosting accountability. Testifying before a Senate panel, VA Secretary David Shulkin urged Congress to act

With television networks setting aside regular programming to mark the moment Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before Congress on the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election will be hard for most Americans to miss. CNN has already kept a “countdown clock” to the start of Comey’s appearance before the Senate

14 Loretto Academy students and six adults were in Paris during the attack outside the Notre Dame Cathedral, Sister Mary E. Boesen told ABC-7. The group arrived in Paris Tuesday and decided to visit Notre Dame. On their way back to their hotel, the group heard what appeared to be gunfire. Hundreds of people were

The toll roads on the Cesar Chavez Border Highway will soon be a thing of the past. Tuesday morning, the Camino Real Regional Mobile Authority voted to get rid of the toll lanes. Crews will start the process of removing all highway tolls as early as September 1, 2017. Drivers will continue paying tolls until

The UTEP Miners will appear on national television six times throughout the 2017 college football season. Conference USA released its TV schedule Wednesday. UTEP’s games against Oklahoma (Sep. 2 on Fox), Army (Sep. 30 on CBS Sports Network), Southern Miss (Oct. 14, STADIUM), Middle Tennessee (Nov. 4, beIN Sports) and North Texas (Nov. 11, ESPN)

House Bill 3287, which would impact the way larger locally-owned craft beer breweries do business in the state, is awaiting the signature or veto of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The legislation requires breweries that produce more than 225,000 barrels of beer a year to pay a distributor for any beer sold in a brewery’s own

An hours-long rolling gun battle at a northern Mexico penitentiary left seven dead and 13 injured, authorities reported Wednesday. Continuous automatic gunfire was heard late Tuesday at the prison in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the border state of Tamaulipas. The gunfire continued into the morning at the prison, which has been one of Mexico’s

Former FBI Director James Comey will say in his opening statement to a congressional hearing that President Donald Trump told him, “I need loyalty. I expect loyalty” during a January dinner, according to documents released a day ahead of his planned testimony. Comey is set to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee Thursday. His prepared

According to a report by the Business Insider, two Kmart stores in El Paso and one store in Las Cruces are closing. The locations listed are the stores located on 6375 Montana Avenue, and 411 N Zaragoza Road. In Las Cruces, the store located on 3860 N. Main Street. The closures are in addition to

A crash on I-10 East and Asarco is delaying traffic, take Mesa.

Transfiguration and love–these are a couple of themes you may see popping up around the city as artists seek to show their talent. Local artist Jeremiah Navarro will start work on a mural in Central El Paso called “Transfiguration.” Navarro says the piece is supposed to detail how a person’s heart can be transformed by

New Mexico’s Department of Health is conducting an environmental investigation after the discovery of this year’s first case of a human contracting plague. Health officials say a 63-year-old Santa Fe county man is currently hospitalized with the bacterial disease. Health officials are looking in the man’s home for ongoing risks and to ensure the health