Month: August 2017

The jackpot for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing has increased to $700 MILLION with a cash value of $443.3 MILLION! Numbers will be drawn Wednesday night. If awarded, it will be the second largest jackpot in Powerball history, and the third largest among lottery jackpots in North America. The numbers drawn Saturday were 17, 68, 19, 43,

A complaint affidavit obtained by the ABC-7 I-Team states Border Patrol agents in Sierra Blanca suspected a truck driver was trafficking humans when they noticed the tractor trailer did not have a seal or lock. On August 14, 2017, 20 undocumented immigrants were found inside a tractor trailer at the Sierra Blanca I-10 Checkpoint Monday

A bit drier air will move into the Borderland today. However persistent low level moisture will fuel isolated thunderstorms. On Wednesday and Thursday an upper high over Mexico will drift north over the area, bringing in moisture and increasing thunderstorm coverage. With the increased moisture, some flooding will be possible. By Friday and Saturday, the

Anthony Independent School District is in the first week of class for all three of its campuses, an elementary, middle and high school. The district runs along the Texas border with New Mexico, across the Rio Grande. AISD, smaller community, has nearly 900 students that attend its three campuses. It recently was designated a District

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You might want to hold onto your eclipse safety glasses for a little longer. The next total solar eclipse will be seven years from now, and it turns out El Paso will possibly have a better view. That’s right, in 2024, the moon will once again cover the sun. This time, it will stretch from

People of all ages gathered across the borderland to view the partial eclipse. While we were not in the path totality, more than sixty percent of the sun was blocked by the moon at the eclipse’s maximum. ABC-7’s Kate Bieri reports from New Mexico State University where they used a telescope built by the late

El Paso City Council is getting closer to passing a 2017-2018 budget. At Monday’s special City Council meeting, representatives decided they would take a final vote on a tax rate of 0.803 at Tuesday’s meeting. That means a little more than 80 cents for every $100 dollars of property value. That number is up from

Former UTEP running back Aaron Jones says that midway through the 2nd quarter in Saturday’s game against Washington, Packers quarterback Brett Hundley turned to him and told him he would score on the next play. “Brett [Hundley] told me to get my head around quick and be looking for the ball out there. It’s coming

A municipal ID proposal has been voted down by El Paso City Council. Mayor Dee Margo broke a 4-4 tie vote. Reps. Michiel Noe, Henry Rivera, Sam Morgan and Cecilia Lizarraga voted no. Reps. Peter Svarzbein, Cassandra Hernandez-Brown, Claudia Ordaz-Perez and Alexsandra Annello voted in favor of funding municipal IDs. Rep. Annello placed the item

While many eclipse-watchers used solar glasses to view the phenomena, students at Jornada Elementary School in Las Cruces grabbed handmade crafts to get a glimpse of the once-in-a-lifetime event. “As an educator, I truly believe that children are just natural scientists,” said Irma Dominguez, who teaches second grade. “It’s very rewarding for me as an

A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit Monday against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university shifted blame away from her attacker toward her. The lawsuit filed in a Waco federal court on Monday alleges Baylor’s response to the attack violated federal Title IX laws against gender discrimination.

Once upon a time they were falling in love. A South Carolina couple has welcomed a baby girl whom they named for the celestial event that had millions across the country on the edge of their seats. Freedom Eubanks told The Greenville News she feared the labor pains she felt Monday were another false alarm,

The Diocese of El Paso announced on Monday Miguel Luna, a former priest, allegedly admitted to sexual misconduct with a young girl in the 1980s. The victim reached out to the diocese in November of 2016, and the Diocese conducted an investigation. “It is directly contradictory to the sacrificial love to which a priest has

A routine traffic stop led to the arrest of the Georgia truck driver accused of transporting 23 undocumented immigrants and more than 200 pounds of pot. The driver’s passenger was also arrested on criminal charges last Wednesday on I-10 East near the city limits. The driver of the semi truck, 44-year-old Comothial Harper, a U.S.

Sixty immigrants have been found in a load of ice-covered broccoli in a refrigerated trailer that was searched at a South Texas border checkpoint, federal officials said Monday. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection statement said nobody was hurt and the trucker was arrested at the Falfurrias checkpoint. Agents on Saturday opened the padlocked trailer

President Donald Trump squinted and pointed skyward before donning protective glasses to take in the solar eclipse at the White House. The president was joined by wife Melania, son Barron and top aides Monday afternoon to view the spectacle from the portico overlooking the South Lawn. The White House originally said Trump would watch from

A federal judge in Florida ruled a trial couldn’t be postponed just because one of the key witnesses – a federal agent – had travel plans to see the solar eclipse. In a droll, three-page ruling issued Friday, Judge Steven Merryday denied the motion filed by an assistant U.S. attorney. Recalling popular dialogue from the

Millions of Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century. “It was a very primal experience, it really was,” Julie Vigeland, of Portland, Oregon, said after

The University of Texas quickly removed statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures overnight from the main area of the Austin campus early Monday, just hours after the school’s president ordered they be taken down. University President Greg Fenves abruptly announced late Sunday that the statues would be removed, saying such monuments

The Democratic members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation have issued another plea to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to keep intact two national monuments on a list of sites being reviewed by the federal government. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Reps. Ben Ray Lujan and Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter to Zinke on

Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the midday sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century. WATCH LIVE RIGHT NOW: “Path of Totality” coverage from one of ABC-7’s sister stations It promised to

Thousands of students gear up for the first day of classes in the El Paso Independent School District Monday morning. There are nearly 60,000 students that make one of the largest districts in the city, along with 9,000 teachers, administrators and staff members. The district has 94 campuses across the city. With the start of

The solar eclipse later this month will be the most studied of all time, with some of the data collected coming from ordinary folks volunteering their time for science. Scientists say the eclipse will give us an unprecedented view of the solar atmosphere never seen before. CATE, the Continental American Telescope Eclipse, is an experiment

Americans with telescopes, cameras and protective glasses staked out viewing spots along a narrow corridor from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun for a magical couple of minutes Monday in what promised to be the most observed and photographed eclipse in history. WATCH LIVE: Eclipse coverage from ABC-7’s

M’Lynn Miller, 48, is comfortable with a .22-caliber handgun. And, and as she said, is getting better with a 9 mm, too. She has attained the National Rifle Association’s distinguished expert level in its first category. The Amarillo Globe-News reports she can’t speak for her other female shooters – yet she probably can – but

An NMSU team traveled nearly one thousand miles to release an eight-foot-tall balloon into the atmosphere to record the solar eclipse. “I just, I can’t wait,” said Dr. Paulo Oemig, who works with the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium. The balloon will carry a video camera to record the eclipse from an altitude of almost

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a tanker early Monday in waters east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca, and at least 10 sailors are missing. The Navy said five others were hurt. The USS John S. McCain sustained damage on its port side aft, or left rear, from the collision with the

As El Paso and its families grow more diapers need to be changed and one city rep is hoping to give families more places to safely and cleanly take care of their babies. District 6 representative Claudia Ordaz hopes to get public support and install baby changing stations in all public buildings around the city

The Albuquerque police chief has responded to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ threat to not give the city federal resources due to its detainment practices. Chief Gorden Eden wrote in a letter to Sessions that the city plans to participate in the U.S. Department of Justice program aimed at reducing crime, which Sessions threatened to