Month: March 2018

El Paso police determined that a suspicious package found Wednesday near and East Side Walmart store did not pose any threats. Several police units responded to the parking lot of the Neighborhood Walmart about 8 p.m. at 1561 N. Zaragosa Road. The El Paso Police Department tweeted that officers were looking into reports of a

The El Paso Independent School District’s Citizens Bond Advisory Committee held a meeting Wednesday evening. The committee is made up of members from the community and they oversee effective and efficient use of the district’s bond funds. The CBAC along with the district’s security staff talked about what many school administrators are talking about right

The El Dorado girls soccer team saw years of hard work pay off in a big way this week when they claimed the program’s first-ever District 1-6A title. The Aztecs defeated Pebble Hills on Tuesday by a final of 4-0 to wrap up the title. “This senior group, most of them were starters since freshman

Is it time to delete your Facebook account? That’s a question some users are asking themselves. If your answer is no, how can you protect yourself? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now outlining steps to protect user data . While that is good news for some, for others it’s not good enough. Nils Desmet is

A Las Cruces jury has found Roswell man guilty of second degree murder for the July 2016 stabbing murder of 46-year-old Christopher Wray. Rodolfo Martinez, 37, testified in his own defense Wednesday, telling jurors he acted in self-defense. “It wasn’t my intentions to hurt that man,” said Martinez. Surveillance video from the stabbing death in

According to a recent report released by WalletHub, a personal finance website, El Paso has the highest share of adults with diabetes at 15.6 percent. WalletHub compared 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas. It named El Paso as the 33rd fattest city. For some perspective, only six percent of adults in the Denver

The Texas Education Agency has released its new plan for overhauling special education across the state. The TEA has been working on the plan since federal officials found the state had illegally denied services to students with disabilities for years. The plan would create a professional statewide special education deployment system. It also calls for

The National Civic League has named the City of El Paso as a finalist for the 2018 All-America City Award. El Paso previously won the award in 1969 and 2010. The 20 cities named as finalists will send delegations to Denver, Colorado in June to make a live presentation to a panel of judges. The

Police have discovered a 25-minute recording on a cellphone found with bombing suspect Mark Conditt and Austin Police Chief Brian Manley says he considers it a “confession.” Manley says at a news conference that Conditt talks on the recording in great detail about the differences among the bombs he built. He says that the tape

The suspected Austin bomber is dead after terrorizing Texas’ capital city for three weeks. And in the end the manhunt wasn’t cracked by hundreds of phoned-in tips, the big pot of reward money or police pleading to the bomber through TV. One of the largest bombing investigations in the U.S. since the Boston Marathon attacks

Detectives with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Chaparral man a second time and charged him with three additional counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child. Detectives said news coverage of Pablo Meza Aragon’s arrest, first reported by ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom, encouraged a second victim to come forward with allegations

Police in West Texas have fatally shot a student suspected of stabbing three people at a community center, including his teacher. The incident happened about 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Our Place Community Center in Littlefield, Texas. Angel Uolla, 18, was taking instruction for his high school equivalency certificate when he repeatedly stabbed his teacher,

Walmart’s legal victory allowing it to sell hard liquor in Texas doesn’t mean people in the state will be able to go out and buy bottles of vodka and gin at the retail giant’s stores anytime soon. An industry association representing Texas’ liquor store operators said Wednesday it will appeal the decision from Austin-based U.S.

A history teacher who was videotaped telling his students that only dumb people join the U.S. military has been fired by the suburban Southern California school district where he has taught for more than 15 years. El Rancho Unified School District President Aurora R. Villon announced Gregory Salcido’s dismissal at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.

A pedestrian overpass remains closed after it was struck by an excavator transported on a flatbed trailer. TXDOT officials tell ABC-7 the tractor-trailer was heading south on U.S 54 Tuesday morning when it struck the pedestrian bridge between Hercules and Hondo Pass. Engineers were sent to inspect the damage. “They examined the bridge and they

El Paso’s Department of Public Health says there has been another flu-related death, the 19th this season in El Paso. The victim was a woman in her 50s with underlying medical conditions. Last season 1,211 flu cases were reported to the Department of Public Health, this season is already up to 9,226 cases and flu

A Las Cruces couple charged with multiple counts of child abuse appeared in court Wednesday morning to change their plea. Stephen Cordero, 27, was charged with 14 counts of third-degree child abuse not resulting in death or great bodily harm. Cordero and his girlfriend, 31-year-old Josie Rubio, both pleaded “no contest” to three counts of

A 32-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for stalking and abducting his ex-girlfriend in Las Vegas, chaining her to the floorboard of his van and driving her to New Mexico. Jack William Morgan was sentenced Tuesday after a jury found him guilty in December of conspiracy and kidnapping. A co-defendant,

An industry association representing Texas’ liquor store operators says it will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that opens the door for Walmart to sell liquor by the bottle in Texas. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on Tuesday backed Walmart’s constitutional challenge to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, which had refused Walmart licenses for retail liquor

The suspect in the deadly bombings that terrorized Austin blew himself up early Wednesday as authorities closed in on him, bringing a grisly end to a three-week manhunt. But police warned that more bombs could be out there. The young man behind the attacks was identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, an unemployed 23-year-old who bought

New Mexico regulators have approved a plan to build two massive wind farms along the Texas-New Mexico border. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of a $1.6 billion project that Xcel Energy says will add 1,230 megawatts of wind energy to the regional generating mix. The utility is still awaiting

As the final steel beam is raised on the new Eastwood High School building Wednesday morning, ABC-7 learned that the parking problems keep rolling into surrounding communities. “It’s just packed. It’s just a mess,” said one student. “It seems like they really were not like prepared for what was going to happen.” But Eastwood administrators

The man suspected of planting four bombs in the Texas capital this month that killed two people and injured four others was an unemployed college dropout who doesn’t appear to have left much of a trail online aside from some 2012 blog posts about gay marriage and other topics. Authorities say Mark Anthony Conditt blew

El Paso Police say a man accidentally shot and killed himself while mishandling a shotgun with illegal modifications. The man was allegedly trying to sell the shotgun at the time, police said. Early Tuesday morning, police responded to a shots fired call on the 2400 block of Desert View Drive. Police say the body of

President Donald Trump was warned in briefing materials to refrain from congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election, but he did so anyway, a senior administration official said Wednesday. Aides included a section in Trump’s briefing materials for his Tuesday morning phone call to Putin stating: “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” said the official, who spoke

There is a crash on I-10 West and the downtown exit. Take Montana or Gateway to avoid this area. There are no injuries reported with this crash, however traffic is at a standstill.

High temperatures will warm well above normal for the rest of the week. The warmest temperatures will be Thursday and Friday, with near-record high temperatures. Windy conditions return Friday with some areas of blowing dust and sand. The strongest winds will be in the northeast and on the east sides of town. A cold front

A crash was behind Tuesday night’s power outage in Northeast El Paso, according to El Paso Electric. It tweeted that crews restored power to nearly 2,270 customers in the area, most of which are near Rushing and Fairbanks. Other customers being were around Railroad and Deer Avenue, where one crash was reported around 8:45 p.m.

A pedestrian bridge in Northeast El Paso will remain closed after it was damaged by an excavator transported on a flatbed trailer. The tractor trailer was heading south on U.S. 54 when it hit the pedestrian bridge between Hondo Pass and Hercules shortly before Noon Tuesday. Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation told ABC-7

Former UTEP offensive lineman Will Hernandez could have conducted his NFL pro day just about anywhere, but he chose to be at UTEP Tuesday with his teammates. Hernandez, who is a Las Vegas native and has spent time recently training in Southern California, is widely expected to be a first or second-round pick in the