Month: November 2017

El Paso businessman William D. “Billy” Abraham told ABC-7 Tuesday he is optimistic his legal battle with musician Juan Gabriel’s son, Ivan Aguilera, will soon be resolved. The El Paso Inc. reported in July a Florida court ordered Abraham to pay Aguilera $1,035,347 for a concert Aguilera’s father played at the Don Haskins Center in

Police officers arrested a woman accused of punching a 14-year-old girl who allegedly got into a fight with the woman’s daughter, police officials said. The alleged assault happened at a bus stop Monday morning. Brandy Nicole Tapia, 32, is charged with one count of child abuse and one count of contributing to the delinquency of

Authorities have confirmed that former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died in a small plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference that Halladay’s ICON A5 went down about noon Tuesday near Holiday, Florida. The sheriff’s office marine unit responded

A tuition and fees forum is planned at UTEP Tuesday to address potential price increases, according to school officials. The University of Texas System Board of Regents authorized UT System academic institutions to pursue potential increases for the next two academic years, 2018 through 2020. In a bid to promote transparency, UTEP officials invited students,

El Paso Police are investigating a pedestrian crash involving several vehicles which sent one person to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, EPPD tweeted late Monday night. I-10 westbound was completely closed at Lomaland as police investigated but area is back open. The crash happened around 9 p.m. Monday. This is an ongoing investigation. We will

Texans head coach Bill O’Brien confirmed reports Monday that the team has been considering signing quarterback Colin Kaepernick in light of Deshaun Watson’s season-ending injury. “You know, Colin Kaepernick is a good football player,” said O’Brien. “He hasn’t played football in a while. But, you know, these things are discussed daily, and they’ll continue to

Catherine Berry, an Ascarate Elementary School counselor, was killed over the weekend in a UTV accident, officials with the Ysleta Independent School District confirmed. Berry had been with YISD for 10 years and served the past two years at Ascarate Elementary. The school’s principal, Claudia Ureño-Olivas, described Berry as a passionate person who enjoyed helping

(AP) – A man dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in what the governor called the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history. The dead ranged in age from

Horizon City police officers were called to the parking lot behind an ATT store located at Horizon Blvd and Darrington road a little after ten last night on a person down call. When officers arrived they found an unresponsive male on the ground. The man appeared to have been shot. He was taken to Del

El Paso firefighters, police and Emergency medical technicians worked for more than an hour this morning to extricate a driver from inside an overturned SUV in Northeast El Paso. Witnesses at the scene told ABC-7 the lone driver was heading east on Salem when for some unknown reason he lost control of the vehicle, hit

Montwood 49 Pebble Hills 46 FINAL Socorro 15 Eastwood 64 FINAL El Dorado 42 vs. Americas 10 FINAL Franklin 28 vs. Coronado 35 FINAL Chapin 27 Burges 24 FINAL Austin 14 Andress 34 FINAL Bowie 29 Irvin 32 FINAL El Paso 0 Jefferson 22 FINAL Eastlake 51 Ysleta 0 FINAL Hanks 17 Del Valle 39

The UTEP Miners traveled to Murfreesboro, Tennessee on Saturday for a Conference USA match up against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. The Miners entered the game at 0-8, still in search of their first win of the season, while the Blue Raiders wanted to lock up their 4th win of the season and get another

The San Elizario Eagles proved once again that when it comes to cross country, they are the best in the state of Texas. The UIL cross country meet was held in Round Rock, TX on Saturday. The San Elizario boy’s team was the team to beat in 4A and for the 4th straight year the

Saturday afternoon family and friends gathered to remember Magaly Mendoza and her two daughters Andrea Garcia and Paulina Ortega. The three died after an apartment fire in 2015 but Mendoza’s family is using their loss to educate others on fire safety. To this day it’s still heartbreaking for Mendoza’s family to remember the bright young

Investigators say there was no foul play in the death of a person in East El Paso. Officials have ruled it a suicide. El Paso Police were originally investigating a suspicious death Saturday afternoon. Police dispatch tells ABC-7 they responded to reports of a person jumping off of the Loop 375 South off-ramp around 3

El Paso police have identified the man shot and killed by police Friday afternoon.. Investigators say officers responded to a family violence assault call in the 3800 block of Mountain in Central El Paso Friday around 1pm. Information was relayed to responding officers that a male wielding a machete was allegedly assaulting his wife. When

Officials have ruled the deaths of NASCAR driver Ted Christopher and an 81-year-old pilot in a Connecticut plane crash an accident. The medical examiner’s office said Thursday the September deaths of 59-year-old Christopher and the plane’s pilot, Charles Dundas, were caused by blunt trauma. A toxicology report was turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A New Jersey man who told a 911 operator that demons made him shoot his girlfriend to death inside their apartment this summer has been indicted on murder charges. Daniel Torres Jr. also faces animal cruelty and weapons counts in the indictment handed up by Mercer County grand jury. The 39-year-old Hamilton man is accused

Tonight’s edition of the War of the Week features the Montwood Rams taking on the Pebble Hills Spartans.

The cases involving Historian Max Grossman and the City of El Paso have been transferred to the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth, Texas. The Order to Transfer the cases was issued November 2, 2017. The Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso has three justices. The Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth

The Texas Department of Transportation is looking to improve traffic in Northwest El Paso, as the area experiences a boom in business. The area is seeing increased development in businesses, homes, medical facilities and entertainment. Transmountain Partners is planning to build a massive new mall and entertainment complex, which is currently under construction. Megachurch Abundant

Two El Paso Police officers were involved in a shooting as they investigated a domestic disturbance. Police said the shooting was reported at 1:15 pm after officers responded to investigate a family fight on the 3800 block of Mountain in Central El Paso. The officers were advised one of parties involved in the family fight

Police identified the motorcyclist killed in Thursday night’s wreck as 19-year-old Benjamin Sanchez. Special Traffic Investigators determined Sanchez was “traveling at a high rate of speed” as he was riding north on the 2000 block of Saul Kleinfield. Sanchez struck a curb and crashed, police said. The teenager was transported to Del Sol Hospital, where

The first Tarahumara concert pianist in history will play in the borderland this weekend. Romeyno Gutierrez was born and raised in the Copper Canyon, also known as the Sierra Tarahumara. It’s located in the Southwestern part of Chihuahua. Romeyno is from the Tarahumara community of Retsachi. | Photo by Jesus A. Rodriguez. The Tarahumara, or

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott can play in Sunday’s home game against Kansas City while a federal appeals court considers a challenge to his six-game suspension. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City issued a one-page order Friday temporarily blocking a lower-court ruling that cleared the way this week for

El Paso Electric has reached a settlement agreement on how its rates will go up each month.They will implement these new rates by January 2018.The proposed settlement states that EPE’s Texas residential customers will see an average bill increase between $3.50 to less than $5 per month due to winter and summer rates. While that’s

The consulate general of Mexico together with the El Paso Museum of Art unveiled an altar in honor of Dia de los Muertos. “We Mexicans, we cannot separate the life without the death and that’s why we celebrate a very deeply rooted Dia de los Muertos,” said Richard Andes Licanda, deputy consulate general of the

Scores for games played on Thursday, Nov. 2: Franklin 28, Coronado 35 Final El Dorado 42, Americas 10 Final Centennial 47, Oñate 7 Final

El Paso’s economy is trending in the right direction and The Borderplex Alliance, an organization focused on economic development in the region, firmly believes the success of El Paso’s economy is linked to the success of Las Cruces and Ciudad Juarez. An economic indicator report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in September

The City Council this week voted against submitting a matching-funds grant application to enhance pedestrian and vehicle safety for the streetcar project. “When we actually start testing the trams on the line there are things we think we need to add to it.,”Sun Metro Director Jay Banasiak said during the council meeting. He suggested adding