Month: January 2018

Patrick Gallagher became the new head of the Las Cruces Police Department this week after former Police Chief Jaime Montoya retired in December of last year. “Safety and security regardless of the size of the community has to be paramount,” Gallagher told ABC-7 on Tuesday. Prior to this new job, Gallagher served as chief of

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez was interrupted by immigration protestors during her State of the State address Tuesday afternoon in Santa Fe, N.M. According to the Albuquerque Journal, the interruption occurred at the beginning of Martinez’s speech when protestors began shouting from a gallery that overlooks the House floor. The demonstration was reportedly conducted to

Slate magazine editor in chief Jacob Weisberg claims porn star Stormy Daniels told him she began a year-long affair with Donald Trump in 2006. “Daniels told me she’d gone to Trump’s hotel room after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada in 2006. There they’d begun a sexual relationship, which continued for nearly

A new report says quality of life is low for children in New Mexico. The 2017 New Mexico Kids Count Data Book found more children are living in poverty, are without health insurance and living in single-parent household than a year ago. The report from the New Mexico Voices for Children ranked New Mexico as

From the outside, the brown-and-beige four-bedroom home looked fairly orderly. The couple who owned it had purchased the house new in 2014 and soon arrived in this Los Angeles suburb with their 12 children. They lived there quietly for at least three years and had another baby. Then on Sunday, one of the children jumped

A deal between President Donald Trump and Congress to protect young immigrants from deportation remained distant Tuesday, as House Republicans leaders shifted to a painful backup plan: crafting a stopgap funding bill that would merely delay the threat of an election-year shutdown. The focus on a budget Plan B – another temporary measure that would

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has decided to reconsider a key set of rules enacted last year that would have protected consumers against harmful payday lenders. The bureau, which came under control of the Trump administration late last year, said in a statement Tuesday that it plans to take a second look at the payday

Chelsea Manning’s high-profile bid for the U.S. Senate threatens to upend the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary. The former U.S. Army private convicted of leaking over 700,000 classified documents has an uphill battle to defeat Sen. Ben Cardin. But Manning’s international fame will almost certainly prevent the two-term senator from ignoring his primary challenger in the

President Donald Trump’s overall health “is excellent” and he did “exceedingly well” on cognitive screening designed to detect early signs of memory loss and other neurologic functions, the Navy doctor who performed Trump’s medical checkup said Tuesday. Ronny Jackson had issued a blanket declaration that Trump was in “excellent health” after last Friday’s exam and

Police officers in Central El Paso arrested an alleged drunk driver accused of crashing into two parked vehicles and injuring two people. The wreck happened just after 6 p.m. January 13, 2018 on the 1900 block of Myrtle. Police said an investigation revealed 54-year-old Ricardo Alvares was driving an Astro van when he struck a

A man suspected in the killing of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student who was stabbed nearly two dozen times and buried in a shallow grave at a California park told investigators that he was being hit on, a newspaper reported. Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, was arrested Friday on suspicion of homicide after DNA evidence

The mother of 13 malnourished children and young adults who were held in filthy conditions, some chained to furniture, was “perplexed” when deputies arrived at the family’s Southern California home, a sheriff’s official said Tuesday. The deputies had been summoned by a 17-year-old daughter who jumped out a window and called 911. Riverside County sheriff’s

Three of the six children riding in the SUV that rolled several times along Baylor Canyon Road were thrown from the vehicle because they were not wearing seatbelts, Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputies said. Investigators said all seven people in the SUV, including the driver, were injured when the SUV flipped off Baylor Canyon in

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he and the president of Kazakhstan are united in a shared determination to prevent North Korea from “threatening the world with nuclear devastation.” Trump and President Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed North Korea along with other issues during meetings at the White House. The U.S. president has pledged to solve the

Police arrested a man accused of pointing an AR-15 style rifle at a woman outside a sports bar Sunday evening. Robert Burnham, 32, is charged with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police officers responded to The Game II, at 4131 Northrise Dr., shortly before 7 p.m. January 14, 2018. MORE LOCAL

The Environmental Services Department is having its second annual Trash Bin Art Contest and is encouraging residents 18 years and older to participate. The contest, which focuses on recycling, provides artists with a unique canvas, a trash bin! The contest is free, but candidates must submit their artwork renderings and registration packets via e-mail or

Investigators say a Houston-area husband and wife were ambushed and killed during a home robbery and the suspects later returned several times to the shooting scene. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday released security video in the search for suspects in the deaths of Bao and Jenny Lam. Deputies found the victims Saturday night

There is a crash on I-10 West and Yarbrough blocking the left two lanes. Fire is now on the scene, two cars are involved in this crash. Delays are present in the area, take Montana or Gateway to avoid any delays in the morning commute.

A lawsuit claims a hot springs spa allowed a man to drown in a spring-fed hot tub. The Albuquerque Journal reports the suit, filed Jan. 9, says the June 2016 death of Mark Burrows was the fourth death at the La Paloma Hot Springs and Spa in Truth or Consequences in a five-year span. Spa

The nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository is undergoing its first maintenance outage since it resumed operations a year ago. Before then, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant had been shut down for three years because radiation contaminated part of the facility. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports that maintenance crews will be updating power supplies, relocating fiber-optic

The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from the Texas Democratic Party charging that the Republican-controlled Legislature illegally gerrymandered the state’s electoral maps. The nation’s high court said Tuesday that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the complaint. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Texas’ appeal to preserve two congressional districts and statehouse

Steve Bannon, the onetime close confidant to President Donald Trump, arrived early Tuesday for his interview before the House Intelligence Committee. His interview follows his spectacular fall from power after being quoted in a book that he sees the president’s son and others as engaging in “treasonous” behavior for taking a meeting with Russians during

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has unveiled a plan to cut property taxes, hoping to make the proposal a centerpiece of his re-election campaign despite its needing to be approved by the Legislature. Announced Tuesday in Houston, the plan would establish an annual property tax revenue growth cap of 2.5 percent. Abbott’s campaign says Texas’

The University of Texas says it will decline donations for its new China Policy Center from a Hong Kong-based foundation with ties to a Chinese Communist Party branch in charge of promoting propaganda abroad. The Austin American-Statesman reports that Gregory Fenves, president of UT’s flagship Austin campus, made the decision after an internal review. The

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Texas’ appeal to preserve congressional and legislative districts that a lower court struck down as racially discriminatory. The justices said they will review a lower-court ruling that found problems with two congressional districts and statehouse districts in four counties. The lower court had ordered the districts redrawn in

How could these Chinese panda cubs be any cuter? How about in IMAX? They’re the stars of a new documentary, “Pandas,” about a project to breed giant pandas and introduce cubs into the wild. The film is due in theaters in April. Check out the preview:

If you are about to sneeze — even if you are in a quiet place — doctors would advise you to let it rip. A 34-year-old unnamed man in Britain learned that lesson the hard way and had to spend two weeks in the hospital due to his resulting injury. That’s according to a case

Right lane closure on I-10 East from Mesa to Sunland Park 9pm-6amI-10 West closed at Airway 9pm-6am US-54 closed Northbound at Hondo Pass to Transmountain 9pm-6am Paisano closed at Sunland Park until February 15th Mesa right lane closure South Desert to Osborne 9am-3pm I-10 Westbound right lane closure 9am- 12 Lane closures from Hondo Pass

It’s time to bundle up in the Borderland. Near freezing temperatures are expected for Monday night. Below freezing for the next few nights. The highs during the day are predicted to be around 40 degrees and the wind chill factor could make it feel like the teens outside. ABC-7 caught up with Ace Hardware employee

A former Texas Longhorns recruit says he is on his way to UTEP to continue his career. Kai Locksley was a highly-touted high school quarterback from Maryland who chose Texas back in 2015. Locksley was rated a four-star prospect coming out of high school by several publications. But the Longhorns moved him to wide receiver