Month: August 2017

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested the driver of a tractor-trailer allegedly carrying 23 undocumented immigrants and more than 200 pounds of pot. The driver’s passenger was also arrested on criminal charges Wednesday on I-10 East near the city limits. The federal agents allegedly found 18 adult males and two unaccompanied juvenile males in the

While the Las Cruces Public School District does have rules that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the district does not have a set bathroom policy to accommodate the needs of transgender students. “I think what we have found is that our method is a one-on-one approach with the families,” said Jo

The high school students are from nine local school districts: El Paso ISD, Ysleta ISD, Socorro ISD, Gasden, Anthony, Fabens, Canutillo, San Elizario and Tornillo. It’s part of the “Go Sí El Paso” project. According to Time Magazine, in 2014 El Paso had the fourth worst literacy rate in the U.S. To address the issue,

The Latest on what organizers are calling a Free Speech Rally in Boston that some people fear actually will be a white nationalist event similar to the one in Virginia last weekend (all times local): 5 p.m. A self-described white nationalist says he was contacted by a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force

It has been a week since a 12-year-old girl was found brutally murdered and police in the Nashville area have yet to make an arrest. Yhoana Arteaga was murdered inside the mobile home where she lived and police believe the girl may have known her killer. A detective told WKRN in Nashwille it was “the

New Mexico State University will debut its original craft beer Thursday, becoming only the fifth university to do so. “Pistol Pete’s 1888 Ale” was created in collaboration with Bosque Brewing Co., a New Mexico-based company. The beer is named after NMSU’s mascot and the year the university was founded. “As alumni and most of our

El Paso radio personality Michael “Buzz Adams” Whitt will not be able to host the Buzz Adams Morning show on 95.5 KLAQ after he was injured in a motorcycle wreck Wednesday August 16, 2017. The radio station said Adams will be out indefinitely. It posted the following statement on its website: “Wednesday evening, Buzz Adams,

A senior police official in Spain’s Catalonia region says the van attack that killed 13 people in Barcelona is “connected” to an explosion the night before in a town south of the city in which one person died and injured several more. Police Major Josep Lluis Trapero also gave the nationalities of the two suspects

The lengthy Las Ramblas promenade where a van plowed into pedestrians Thursday is a tree-lined walkway that starts in a huge plaza and ends near Barcelona’s harbor. It’s filled with cafes, restaurants, stalls selling everything from souvenirs to flowers, the city’s famed opera house and a baroque palace. It stretches 1.2 kilometers (0.7 miles), with

Men’s basketball teams from several U.S. universities, including Oregon State, Clemson and Arizona, were in Barcelona, Spain, when a van drove into pedestrians Thursday in a historic district popular with tourists but school officials said the players and staff were safe. Oregon State assistant coach Gregg Gottlieb posted to Facebook: “We are all luckily ok.

Authorities in Drain, Oregon arrested a man accused of calling the Dona Ana County Clerk’s Office and threatening to blow up the building. Samuel R. Gilpin, 35, of 12545 Upper Smith River Rd. in Drain, was extradited to New Mexico and charged with making a bomb threat. On Friday July 28, 2017, an employee with

An Army colonel has been temporarily suspended from command of a unit stationed in Texas after she was arrested in southern New Mexico and accused of driving while under the influence. ABC-7 has confirmed Col. Shana Peck was arrested Aug. 11 after allegedly driving off a road near an intersection in New Mexico’s Otero County.

EL PASO LIBRARIES The El Paso Public Library invites the public to celebrate the total eclipse of the sun at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 21, at three library branches: Armijo, Dorris Van Doren and Jose Cisneros. WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT A partial solar eclipse will be visible on August 21 at White Sands. Join

Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday weighed in on the renewed debate over Confederate monuments in Texas, saying that removing them “won’t erase our nation’s past, and it doesn’t advance our nation’s future.” Abbott’s statement follows deadly violence that broke out Saturday at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where participants were protesting the proposed

Authorities arrested a man and awoman in connection with the murder of an Alamogordo man whose body was found in Mesilla. Last week, Doña Ana County Sheriff’s detectives identified Bryanna Terry, 19, as a person of interest in the murder investigation of 18-year-old Dakota Lunceford. Terry is believed to have been in contact with Lunceford

An SUV crashed after all four occupants overdosed on heroin in North Carolina. The same day, a man in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, grabbed the steering wheel after his grandson lost consciousness while driving. Police in the city of 30,000 responded to 11 other overdose reports that day, including a woman who crashed her car just before

Even as a new Texas law targeting so-called sanctuary cities remains in legal limbo, police chiefs and sheriffs are making changes to comply, rewriting training manuals and withdrawing policies that prevented officers from asking people whether they’re in the United States illegally. The law, known as Senate Bill 4, goes into effect Sept. 1 unless

Las Cruces Police arrested and charged a man accused of entering the Oñate High School campus with a BB gun. Joel Alfaro, 28, is charged with a fourth-degree felony count of unlawful carrying a deadly weapon on school premises. Tuesday, a security officer at Oñate High noticed a man wearing a hoodie and acting suspicious

The former city manager of Sunland Park told ABC-7 he is shocked and saddened after he was fired during Tuesday night’s city council meeting. Bob Gallagher confirmed with the ABC-7 New Mexico Mobile Newsroom councilors voted 4 to 1 to terminate his contract. “I was surprised, sadly,” Gallagher said. “Surprised and shocked.” Gallagher, a former

Police say a fight in West El Paso ended with the victim and the alleged attacker wounded. It happened Wednesday, August 16, 2017 on the 3900 block of Emory. Police say Gerardo Almanza, 25, met with the victim, only described as a 45-year old male, at a residence on Emory just after 2 PM. A

New Mexico State police say 64 year old Lyle Wells of Las Cruces lost his life early Wednesday morning in a motorcycle accident . Investigators say Wells was riding his motorcycle northbound on Interstate 25 near mile marker 30 by Rincon when he lost control and crashed. The impact killed the rider who investigators say

The Clint Independent School District is four days into the new school year, but many of its students are already preparing for a career post-high school. CISD is made up of 11,800 students with four high schools, four middle and junior high schools and six elementary schools. The four high schools are Clint, Mountain View,

Temperatures will be warmer than normal for August– but nice today. The dry conditions will end Friday as moist unstable air moves back into the region. The forecast will be, mostly sunny, and warm today. Thunderstorms remain in the forecast through the middle of next week.

(AP) – President Donald Trump has abruptly dismantled two of his White House business councils, an apparent attempt to manage his increasing isolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. With corporate chieftains fleeing, Trump took to Twitter to explain the exodus on his own terms. “Rather

I-10 East closed at Sunland Park I-10 West closed at Sunland Park 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

El Paso Independent School District teachers gathered at the district’s Gene Roddenberry Planetarium to learn how to teach their students the science behind the 2017 eclipse and how to watch it safely. The district’s first day of school is Monday — the day of the eclipse. “We are encouraging every principal, every teacher to allow

Change can be a good thing, and for Kavika Johnson, change has been pretty good. The former Mayfield High School quarterback changed positions during the spring. He’s now a wide receiver for UTEP. “If me moving to wide receiver is going to help us win championships, then I’m for it,” Johnson said. “It’s not about

On Wednesday El Paso hosted the U.S./Mexico Border Summit, with keynote speaker Ana Navarro, the political strategist and CNN commentator. She was expected to speak about NAFTA and trade between the U.S. and Mexico, but that changed. The outspoken Navarro said she felt compelled to speak about the events of the past few days that

As Texas cracks down on improper student teacher relationships, the means of communication and penalties against teachers will change. Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 7, which aims to crack down on relationships across the state, into law. According to Abbott’s office, the law ensures that teachers who engage in an inappropriate relationship with a

A 29-year-old confirmation teacher was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child, aged 13 to 16, and one count of selling or giving alcoholic beverages to a minor, the district attorney’s office announced. The charges against 29-year-old Jesus Luna-Armenta, of Vado, New Mexico,