Month: July 2017

The legal battle between the City of El Paso and those defending the Duranguito neighborhood continues after a judge declared a mixed ruling Tuesday afternoon. “As to the City of El Paso’s requested relief, the City’s requested relief is granted in part and denied in part,” Judge Amy Meachum said. She ruled the expenditure of

Good news for El Paso travelers as an old friend comes back to the Sun City. Today the city along with Frontier Airlines announced non-stop flights from El Paso to Denver. The flights will run 4 days a week with connections available to other cities nationwide as well as to Latin America and the Carribean.

The City of El Paso is closer to obtaining a judge’s decision on whether it has the authority to build a new multipurpose performing arts and entertainment venue in the Duranguito neighborhood or not. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE HEARING To the judge’s surprise, attorneys for the City on Monday also asked the judge to

Texas State troopers have determined after further investigation that the possible kidnapping in Hudspeth county they were investigating this past weekend was not a kidnapping as initially reported. Investigators were able to arrest two individuals and charge them with alleged trafficking of human beings. 27 year old Mikhail Jordan King and 18 year old Keinangela

A 10-year-old boy from a drug-ridden Miami neighborhood apparently died of a fentanyl overdose last month, becoming one of Florida’s littlest victims of the opioid crisis, authorities said Tuesday. But how he came in contact with the powerful drug is a mystery. Fifth-grader Alton Banks died June 23 after a visit to the pool in

A New Mexico man is facing charges after police say he threatened to pull a gun on a taco shop employee for giving him the wrong order. The Los Alamos Monitor reports that Lex Norman Deines was arrested Sunday following a heated exchange with an employee at Rigoberto’s Taco Shop near one of the nation’s

Flabbergasted. Lt. Scott McKee, with the Springfield Police Department, told KVAL-TV in Eugene, Oregon that’s how one of his officers felt after learning a woman allegedly drove through a busy intersection towing a small wagon tied to the back of her car. Riding in the wagon: her two children! 27-year-old Alana Donohue was towing two

The New Mexico Department of Health is investigating a confirmed case of wound botulism in a 48-year-old man from Doña Ana County. The patient is an injection drug user and the suspected source of infection is either a soiled skin injection site, contaminated injection devices or contaminated heroin. The man is currently hospitalized. In 2016,

Investigators with the police department’s Crimes Against Persons and Gang units arrested four suspects in connection with a drive-by shooting in Central El Paso. The shooting happened shortly before 9 pm Sunday night. Police said 27-year-old Tony Calhoun, 32-year-old Jennifer Levy, 53-year-old Jeanette Jackson and 21-year-old Melissa Jackson worked together in an attempt to kill

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I-10 west closed at Sunland Park I-10 West closed at Viscount Paisano closed from Supr 1966 to San Antonio Day Time Closures: 9am-3pm I-10 right lane closed from Sunland Park to Buena vista El Paso Street car closures: Long term closures Paisano Drive closed to traffic between Chihuahua street and El Paso. Pasiano Drive closed

Around 9,000 people in Las Cruces are reported to be without power, according to the El Paso Electric Outage Map. The first of the outages was reported around 12:16 a.m., and more have spread throughout the city. A majority of the outages are reported near Lohman Avenue and Solano Drive. El Paso Electric told ABC-7

Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock has submitted her resignation as executive director of the Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley. Vesco-Mock’s last day will be Thursday, August 10, 2017, according to a news release. Vesco-Mock was the first executive director hired to run the facility after Doña Ana County and the City of Las Cruces took

On Monday, UTEP seniors Will Hernandez (guard) and Alvin Jones (linebacker) were named to the 2017 Preseason Conference USA Football Team. For Hernandez, this is his seventh preseason honor so far (Outland Trophy, Athlon Sports All-American, Athlon Sports All-C-USA, Dave Campbell’s All-Texas Team, Phil Steele’s All-American and Phil Steele’s All-C-USA teams). Hernandez has started all

The first International House of Pancakes opened in Toluca Lake, California in 1958. IHOP is celebrating its 59th anniversary Tuesday July 18th and it is marking the occasion with a delicious treat: 59 cent pancakes! That’s right! On Tuesday, you can get a short stack of three pancakes for 59 cents. IHOP says the offer

A judge in Austin is expected to make a decision on the City of El Paso’s right to move ahead with a Downtown Arena project in the Duranguito area of Union Plaza. ABC-7 will stream the second day of testimony Tuesday beginning at 8:15 am. In case you missed it, we heard from five different

Families in Socorro are still digging themselves out after heavy flooding in the area over the weekend. Those hit the hardest live along Coker Road, just South of Interstate 10 access roads and new development in Horizon City, which some residents point to as the reason for all the water. ABC-7 looked into the issue

Las Cruces police officers shot and killed a 52-year-old man who officers believed was barricaded inside a car. Shortly before 11:30 a.m. Monday, July 17, Las Cruces Police were dispatched to the report of a suspicious person on the 1700 block of Rio Grande St. The caller told dispatch the suspicious person was possibly armed

City health officials said they have a second case of West Nile Virus in East El Paso. The patient is a man in his early 50’s who does not have any underlying medical conditions and is currently recovering at home. The first case of West Nile Virus confirmed this season was in May. That case

The billions of dollars that Texas has spent on border security in recent years will no longer include a lengthy Texas National Guard deployment. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday Guard members who remain on the U.S.-Mexico border will begin taking federal orders this month. “I am grateful that the federal government and Congressional

The face-off that’s been brewing since last October between the City and those who oppose the construction of an arena in the Duranguito neighborhood is underway in Austin. The biggest issue during opening statements Monday morning was the wording on the ordinance voters approved. The City of El Paso spent the majority of opening arguments

A 21-year-old woman was struck by several rounds during a drive-by shooting in Northeast El Paso. The shooting happened July 16, 2017 on the 3800 block of Hayes at 8:48 pm, police said. A preliminary investigation revealed a group of people drove by and discharged a firearm at several people outside a home. The woman

A jury has acquitted the woman accused of driving drunk and killing a man, court records show. Phylicia Pierson was charged with intoxicated manslaughter, manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the Jan. 2017 crash. Police said Pierson was driving on I-10 west near Lomaland when she hit a vehicle driven by Morgan

Las Cruces police officers shot and killed a man barricaded inside a car after an officer shot him Monday afternoon. Shortly before 11:30 a.m. Monday, July 17, Las Cruces Police were dispatched to the report of a suspicious person on the 1700 block of Rio Grande St. The caller told dispatch the suspicious person was

The El Paso Police Department’s Special Traffic Investigators responded to a fatal crash in East El Paso Sunday night.shortly before 9pm. Investigators say 35 year old Jaime Arizaga was driving his 2014 Yamaha motorcycle along George Dieter at a high rate of speed when he failed to negotiate a curve and struck the median. The

Garth Brooks says he’ll pony up for a Hawaiian honeymoon for a Texas couple who got engaged at his concert in Oklahoma City. WFAA-TV reports Drew Bargsley proposed to Chelsea Townsend while Brooks was playing his hit “Unanswered Prayers” on Saturday night. The singer got wind of the commotion and asked the Dallas-area couple about

Several Texas counties have found a way to profit from working with federal immigration officials in tracking and detaining immigrants who are living in the country illegally. Eight counties have joined a federal program that allows sheriff’s deputies to become certified immigration officers. Four of those counties – along with six others not in the

The face-off that’s been brewing since last October between the City and those who oppose the construction of an arena in the Duranguito neighborhood is underway in Austin. CLICK HERE to watch the hearing live. The biggest issue during opening statements Monday morning was the wording on the ordinance voters approved. The City of El

Officials with the city of Las Cruces announced Monday they will reallocate funds toward the municipal court system. In total, the city will reallocate $147,000 to hire a city attorney and additional support staff, said Stuart Ed, the Las Cruces city manager. “What we found was a lot of our cases were going to Magistrate

A 70-year-old Army veteran has been fired from a Houston-area Home Depot after trying to stop suspected shoplifters from taking thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise. KTRK-TV in Houston reports that Jim Tinney says he was fired last month from the store in Pearland. Tinney says he was trained to not confront shoplifters and knows