Month: January 2018

Fort Bliss officials said Friday that work will continue as normal at the United States Army base if the government were to shut down. The public affairs office at Fort Bliss said that military personnel on active duty will continue in a normal duty status but will not be paid until Congress appropriates the funds

A humanitarian-aid group is claiming that water jugs placed near the United States-Mexico border in southern Arizona were destroyed by U.S. Border Patrol agents. The Tucson-based group, No More Deaths, released a video Wednesday that showed Border Patrol agents dumping and kicking water jugs. No More Deaths said its workers placed over 31,600 1-gallon water

The woman arrested for DWI twice in three days was also in possession of cocaine, police officials said. Jessica Garcia, 34, was first arrested the morning of Saturday, January 13, 2018. Police officers in El Paso’s Lower Valley were checking on a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road on the 8500 block of

Although the government won’t actually close if Congress fails to pass a spending bill by Friday at midnight, there’s plenty that won’t get done if hundreds of thousands of federal employees are barred from working until Washington agrees on a budget plan. In the event of a shutdown, U.S. troops will stay at their posts

Andra Cobb was frantic when she called for help, telling an emergency operator that a helicopter she was riding in with her father, longtime partner and others had crashed in a remote part of New Mexico and that she was watching her “family burn.” Police released 911 recordings Friday from the crash near the Colorado-New

El Paso deputies say a telephone tip leading to a traffic stop, helped arrest two men who allegedly had possession of marijuana and controlled substances. Deputies searched the vehicle at the intersection of Dyer and Sierra Vista on Thursday, January 18 and found one pound of high-grade marijuana, commonly know as “Kush”. Further investigation led

The case of a 27-year-old woman who was violently killed in 2016 in her Northeast El Paso home remains open. It is alleged that a man entered the home on September 9 at 1:57 am and shot and killed Maria Rodriguez, while children were in the home. Rodriguez was also known by friends as Magda

The case of a 27-year-old woman who was violently killed in 2016 in her Northeast El Paso home remains open. It is alleged that a man entered the home on September 9 at 1:57 am and shot and killed Maria Rodriguez, while children were in the home. Rodriguez was also known by friends as Magda

Border Patrol agents patrolling the border near the Fabens area found the body of an unresponsive man at about 10pm Thursday, a Border Patrol spokesperson said. A unit with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office took over the investigation, the Border Patrol said. The spokesperson was not able to confirm if the unresponsive man was

Advocates for an award-winning journalist trying to win asylum in the United States because he says he received death threats in Mexico accused U.S. immigration officials Friday of unjustly detaining him based on a disputed 1999 incident. An attorney for Emilio Gutierrez Soto said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are trying to discredit the

Customs and Border Protection officers Thursday seized 2.3 pounds of heroin and 1.8 pounds of methamphetamine allegedly strapped to the body of a teenager. The seizure was made just before 7 p.m. when the 18-year-old man entered the El Paso Port of Entry from Mexico. Officers allegedly discovered something wrapped around the man’s torso and

Texas; unemployment rate rose slightly in December to 3.9 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday. Nationwide unemployment last month at 4.1 percent. The Texas jobless rate in November was 3.8 percent, according to the state labor agency. Amarillo and Midland areas had the lowest unemployment in Texas during December at 2.5 percent. The Beaumont-Port

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), flu season here in the Borderland and the rest of the United States is roughly from October to April, the coldest 7 months of the year. So why does the flu peak in winter? A 2014 study in the Journal of Virology found that the spread of

Organizers of the Neon Desert Music Festival announced Friday that this year’s festival will once again take place on Memorial Day weekend in the heart of downtown El Paso. Early bird general admission, VIP and platinum tickets are now on sale for the two-day festival, which will be held Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May

Recent assaults by tactical teams on prototypes of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico indicate their imposing heights should stop border crossers, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the rigorous assessment told The Associated Press. Military special forces based in Florida and U.S. Customs and Border Protection special units spent three weeks trying

It’s a he said-he said thing. Donald Trump once promised to be “very restrained” on Twitter – “if I use it at all.” He thought campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was an “excellent guy” – until Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. The president backed Republican Roy Moore in the special election

Countering China’s rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are now the U.S. military’s top national security priorities, outpacing the threat of terrorism, the Pentagon said Friday. A new national defense strategy says that competition with China and Russia has threatened America’s military advantage around the world. And it will require increased investment to

Three members of a Dallas family who beat a pregnant teen and stomped on her belly until she miscarried have been sentenced to prison. The Dallas Morning News reports that the now-19-year-old victim was eight months pregnant when she attacked in 2013. She reported the attack in 2015. This week, 47-year-old Sharon Jones was sentenced

Texas is again observing “Confederate Heroes Day” as a state holiday after recent failed attempts to change the name and avoid calendar conflicts with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Friday marks the 45th year that Texas has observed the holiday. It comes following a year of heightened protests and criticisms across the country over Confederate

Fans of live music are in for a treat. Tickets for three different musical acts coming to El Paso this spring go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Chicago is headed to the Plaza Theatre on March 28. According to the news release announcing the sale, Chicago was inducted into the 2016 Rock and Roll

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has signed legislation to ensure that nurses from at least 25 other states can work in New Mexico and vice versa. The legislation was enacted Thursday within hours of a midnight expiration deadline for a previous licensure compact. The new compact adds criminal background check

There is a crash on I-10 East and Executive that is blocking the left lane of traffic, there is no shoulder in the area so I-10 East is down to just two lanes. Take Mesa to avoid this area.

I-10 West closed at Executive 9pm-6am Paisano drive entrance ramp to I-10 East to close Mesa right lane closure North Desert to Osborne Paisano closed at Sunland Park, right turn to I-10 East still open I-10 West closed at Airway and Yarbrough US-54 closed at Hondo Pass to Transmountain

Amazon has narrowed the list of cities that are candidates for its second headquarters. The list, released Thursday morning on its website, includes 20 major cities. El Paso is not one of them, but other cities in Texas made the cut. Cities in New Mexico are also not included in the list. Here are the

For decades, visitors to the El Paso International Airport have been greeted by a green lizard carpet. That will soon change. “We were doing the renovations and adopting a new color scheme. We felt that it was the right time to start transitioning out,” director of aviation Monica Lombrana said. The carpet – installed in

The NMSU Aggies were happy to finally be back home Thursday night. After 37 days away from the comfort of the Pan American Center, the Aggies treated the home crowd to a 75-62 victory over WAC rival Seattle. The win improves NMSU’s overall record to 16-3 and they remain a perfect 4-0 in WAC play.

Reimagine I-10, that’s what the Texas Department of Transportation is calling a study it’s conducting in order to improve the interstate so many of us use. TXDOT officials presented the study to the city’s Planning Commission Thursday. “Reimagine I-10 is a corridor study that will help us identify how we can fix I-10, how we

A man who killed his mother in 2007 could be set free and ABC-7 has learned it’s something prosecutors, his family and his own attorney don’t want. At the time of the deadly shooting, Justin Quintana admitted to gunning down his mother, Susan Kuchma, with her own service weapon. Kuchma was a New Mexico State

District Attorney Jaime Esparza announced Thursday he will not prosecute the former El Paso mayor, three former city representatives and current city representative accused of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. “The District Attorney’s Office is declining to prosecute these cases due to insufficient evidence of criminal intent,” Esparza said in a statement emailed to

UPDATE: El Paso Police say the missing girl has been found “safe and unharmed.” ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Investigators with El Paso Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons (CAP) Unit are looking for a 12-year-old girl who ran away from home and is believed to be in danger. Kristina Tomblin was last seen at 1:00 pm on Thursday,