Month: May 2018

Today was the 5th hugs not walls event. Close to 300 families reconnected at the riverbed between US and Mexico near Chihuahuita. It was an emotional reunion for some families who hadn’t seen each other in years. Those from the U.S. wore blue and those from Mexico wore white. This event was arranged by the

Saturday High School Baseball Playoff Scores: 6A: Franklin defeats Fort Worth Paschal 12-3 (Franklin advances) Coronado loses to Timber Creek 3-0 (Coronado eliminated) 5A: Eastlake lost game two to Lubbock Monterey 8-5, but Eastlake would rebound and defeat Lubbock Monterey in game three by a final of 9-6 (Eastlake advances) Bel Air loses to Amarillo

May is stroke awareness month and today the Hospitals of Providence held its third annual Strides Against Stroke Walk. The goal is to educate the community on stroke prevention. Close to 800,000 people suffer a stroke each year and at least 80 percent of strokes are preventable. The event offered free health screening to the

The car wash lasted until 4 p.m. at Viva Power Sports on 1045 Magruder Street. In a matter of months, two-year-old Mia Ojeda has undergone more than twenty surgeries for her stage four neuroblastoma. “Mia is one of the strongest little girls I’ve ever known,” said her mother, Suracy Gonzalez. “She is a happy, bubbly,

There are 2,900 new UTEP graduates in the borderland. Saturday was the spring commencement for the following: The College of Liberal Arts, School of Nursing, colleges of Education and Business Administration, colleges of Science, Engineering and Health Sciences and School of Pharmacy. “The moment I was holding that diploma, it’s the best felling in the

A knife-wielding assailant killed one person and injured four others in a lively neighborhood near Paris’ famed Opera Garnier before he was killed by police Saturday night. The Islamic State group claimed the attacker as one of its “soldiers.” Counterterrorism authorities took charge of the investigation, and President Emmanuel Macron vowed that France would not

NASA is planning to send a tiny autonomous helicopter to Mars on its next rover mission to the red planet. The space agency announced Friday that the helicopter will be carried aboard the Mars 2020 rover as a technology demonstration to test its ability to serve as a scout and to reach locations not accessible

The man who wrestled an AR-15 from a gunman attacking a Waffle House in Tennessee has met with students from the Parkland high school where 17 people were killed. James Shaw Jr. and the teenagers met in Miami Saturday and shared photos of their encounter. “I met one of my heros today,” Shaw tweeted with

The eruption of a Hawaii volcano in the Pacific “Ring of Fire” has experts warily eyeing volcanic peaks on America’s West Coast that are also part of the geologically active region. The West Coast is home to an 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) chain of 13 volcanoes , from Washington state’s Mount Baker to California’s Lassen Peak. They

A funeral service has been held in Longmont for a Colorado soldier who was killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan. Gabriel D. Conde’s family members shared poems and songs as they remembered the 22-year-old Army airborne infantryman Saturday at Lifebridge Christian Church. Mourners stood and the Battle Hymn of the Republic played as Conde’s flag-draped

A Southeast Texas church has reopened a day after a package bomb exploded by the front door, causing minor damage but drawing a swarm of investigators. Beaumont police and federal agents took down the yellow crime scene tape Friday afternoon at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Beaumont’s West End. Police declined to give any further

A school district west of Houston will pay more than $750,000 to its superintendent who’s resigning at the end of the year in the wake of allegations that he was a bully as a teenager. Details of a contract released Friday by the Katy school district show Superintendent Lance Hindt will receive two years of

A South Texas man who has three prior convictions for drunken driving has been charged with intoxication manslaughter following a wreck that killed a woman and critically injured three children. Thirty-eight-year-old Ignacio Navarro Jr. was being held Saturday at the Hidalgo County jail on bonds totaling $500,000. Police in Mercedes, east of McAllen, say Navarro

Forty past and present UTEP student-athletes will graduate from the university on Saturday. The list includes 13 representatives from the football program, five from track and field, four from men’s golf, softball and tennis, three from volleyball, two from women’s golf and soccer, and one from men’s basketball, women’s basketball and rifle. The list of

New Mexico officials are accepting applications for the state’s sixth racetrack and casino license, and at least two eastern New Mexico groups are planning to submit proposals. The groups, one in Clovis and one in Tucumcari, last week stated their intentions to apply for licenses to establish a “racino,” the Eastern New Mexico News reports

I-10 is closed in both directions at Sunland Park for 57 hours. It closed Friday at 9 p.m. and won’t open up until Monday at 6 a.m. Sunland Park Drive in both directions will also close between Mesa Hills Drive and Doniphan Drive, and the Resler entrance ramp to I-10 East will close as well.

Hanks track star Michael Abeyta stole the show at the state track and field meet in Austin on Friday. The sophomore sensation captured three medals (one gold, two silver) after a grueling schedule on day one of the meet. Abeyta grabbed the silver in the 5A 3200 early in the morning, just missing out on

ABC-7 spoke to some west siders about the hassle of the closures Friday evening and unlike in the past it seems like some drivers are little more forgiving this time around. El Paso’s west side has gotten more than its fair share of traffic during the closures. Some had to deal with it last weekend.

Softball, Texas, Regional Quarterfinals: Class 5A: Lubbock Coronado 6, Eastlake 3 Final (Game one, best-of-three series) Baseball, Texas, Area Round: Class 6A: Franklin 5, Fort Worth Paschal 3 Final (Game one, best-of-three series) Coronado 7, Fort Worth Timber Creek 8 Final/8 (Game one, best-of-three series) Keller 1, Socorro 0 Final/9 (Game one, best-of-three series) Keller

Every year, close to 800,000 people suffer a stroke. Saturday morning, The Hospitals of Providence is holding its third annual Strides Against Stroke Walk and free health screenings at the Cielo Vista Mall. A stroke is a cardiovascular disease that affects the arteries leading to the brain and the arteries within the brain. There are

Organizers of the Sun City Music Festival announced Wednesday the festival will not be returning to Ascarate Park this year. The annual festival, which brings some of electronic music’s biggest names to the city, announced on its Facebook page the event has been canceled. “They said there were a number of factors that went into

Oscar Sandoval, owner of Oasis roofing in El Paso, says he watched ABC 7’s story about the wheelchair-bound woman who may lose her home, and was inspired to help. Cynthia Lares was left with limited movement after a horrible car crash almost 30 years ago. The bank is foreclosing on the house because $130,000 is

Three lanes were closed on I-10 West near Paisano as crews work on a crash. Traffic is backed up to Airway and clearing time is expected be one hour, El Paso police said via Twitter. Seek an alternate route when traveling to the area.

The top trade representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada ended the latest round of talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade without a deal Friday, less than a week before an unofficial deadline to get any agreement through the U.S. Congress. Mexico’s Economy Secretary said technical working groups from the three countries

New Mexico State University regents Friday announced the appointment of Dr. Dan Arvizu as the university’s new chancellor and the appointment of Dr. John Floros as the next university president. “After much discussion, deliberation, thought (and) angst, the board concluded the institution will be best served by both a chancellor of the NMSU system and

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A Democratic candidate for Congress in New Mexico is using an expletive in television ads to condemn the National Rifle Association and inaction by U.S. lawmakers on gun control. Albuquerque City Council member Pat Davis says “F— the NRA” during the 15-second ad broadcast Friday by an Albuquerque-area television station.

ABC-7 has learned that some El Paso gas stations were spotted without operating gas pumps Friday. Some of the locations that displayed signs saying they were not carrying unleaded gasoline were 7-Eleven stores on Mesa and Brentwood, Alabama and McKellington Canyon, U.S. 54 and Fred Wilson and Dyer and Thomason. The 7-Elevens at Mesa and

UVALDE, Texas (AP) – A 21-year-old Texas man is back in jail after authorities say he violated his bond while awaiting trial for a 2017 crash that killed 13 people in a church minibus. Jack Dillon Young of Leakey was returned to Uvalde County Jail earlier this week after having been free on $380,000 bond.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A judge has ruled that Texas isn’t complying with a decades-old voter registration law and wants a quick fix. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia says Texas is running afoul of the National Voter Registration Act that requires letting people sign-up to vote while getting or renewing their driver’s license. Garcia ruled

NEW YORK (AP) – The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit Friday against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulatory agency for what it says is a blacklisting campaign aimed at preventing firms from doing business with the gun owners’ group. The lawsuit filed in federal court for the northern district of