Month: May 2018

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – A robotics company known for its widely shared videos of nimble, legged robots opening doors or walking through rough terrain is preparing to sell some after more than a quarter century of research. Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert said Friday that his company plans to begin selling the dog-like SpotMini robot

Documents obtained by ABC-7 show Sylvia Borunda Firth’s retirement was initially labeled a resignation. The City of El Paso announced Borunda Firth resigned from her position, effective May 31st. A reasoning for her resignation was not been made available. An initial press release obtained by ABC-7 dated on April 26th, is titled “Sylvia Borunda Firth

Emma and Liam were the most frequently chosen baby names for 2017. For the fourth year in a row, Emma was the top girl’s name according to the annual list of the most popular baby names released by the Social Security Administration on Friday. Liam pushed last year’s champ, Noah, to second to claim the

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A new album of previously unreleased music from Prince’s storied Vault will debut on Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service, likely sometime in 2019. The Prince estate and Tidal announced details of the agreement Friday, two days after a Minnesota judge said it was in the best interest of the estate to end litigation

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A drug smuggler who prosecutors say brought thousands of pounds of marijuana into the U.S. in the 1980s before fleeing and settling in Australia was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said her sentencing decision was “difficult,” noting that Peyton Eidson was now much older

El Paso Police, with the assistance of the Texas Department of Public Safety, arrested three alleged “juggers” from Houston. The suspects were identified as Devante Marquis Tashon Brown, 23; Travion Ja Bre Beaudoin, 22; and Marnell Laray White, 23. All three are from Houston, police said. Jugging is a criminal practice in which a group

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 Thursday that Texas is

El Paso police arrested a man who was allegedly seen on surveillance cameras burglarizing a West Side home. Joseph Ray Pena, 21, and the vehicle he was using during the alleged burglary, were identified through surveillance images captured at the home on Monday May, 7. A police officer spotted a similar vehicle and pulled it

A wreck at I-10 West near Executive is blocking the two right lanes. Traffic is backed up to Shuster and clearing time is expected to be one hour, police said via Twitter. Seek an alternative route when driving through that area.

Embracing his role as party leader, President Donald Trump issued a stern warning at a rally Thursday that Democrats would disrupt the economic progress of his administration, imploring Republicans to mobilize during the 2018 midterm elections. Trump used one of his signature rallies in northern Indiana to paint a rosy picture of his presidency, pointing

A Palestinian was killed and 176 were wounded by Israeli army fire Friday as thousands of Gaza residents protested near their sealed border – part of a weeks-long campaign to end a decade-old blockade of the territory. Later Friday, vandals burned a fuel complex and a conveyor belt on the Palestinian side of Gaza’s main

The murder of 39-year-old Antonio Razo remains unsolved and El Paso Police detectives are asking the public for help. The night of Friday, April 27th, 2018, Razo was driving eastbound on Quail in Northeast El Paso. At about 9:27 p.m., Razo stopped at the intersection of Quail and Railroad behind another car stopped at a

President Donald Trump’s long-awaited plan to bring down drug prices, unveiled Friday, will mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of “getting away with murder” and instead focus on increasing private competition and requiring more openness about costs. In Rose Garden remarks at the White House, Trump called his plan the “most sweeping action

New Mexico will pump in an additional $10 million into the state pre-K program for the next school year, bringing the program to 11 school districts for the first time. The state Public Education Department announced the additional funding Thursday, opening up more than 1,500 additional pre-K spots to make about 6,800 slots available statewide.

More than 2,000 students will graduate from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces with a bachelor’s degree or other advance degrees. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports two commencement ceremonies will be held Saturday for students receiving their bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the university in southern New Mexico. A ceremony for the university’s 79

PHOENIX (AP) – A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was acquitted of second-degree murder while jurors deadlocked on lesser counts will be retried, an attorney for the family of the rock-throwing teen killed in a border shooting in Arizona said Friday. Attorney Luis Parra said he was in a federal courtroom in Tucson when U.S.

A judge says a woman found guilty of housing dozens of filthy and sick Great Danes in her New Hampshire mansion could serve as little as a month in jail on animal cruelty charges if she undergoes counseling. The judge followed the prosecution’s recommendation Friday for a 12-month sentence for 60-year-old Christina Fay but suspended

HOUSTON (AP) – A Texas woman who killed her cheating husband by running him down with her car in a jealous rage has been released from prison. Sixty-year-old Clara Harris left prison Friday after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence in the 2002 killing of her orthodontist husband, David Harris, in the parking lot

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Authorities say a 36-year-old man is charged with traveling from Texas to Kansas to have sex with a 15-year-old girl and later bringing the girl back to Texas with him. The U.S. attorney’s office says Juan Carlos Carmona was charged Thursday with two federal counts. It wasn’t immediately known whether he

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – More than 2,000 students will graduate from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces with a bachelor’s degree or other advance degrees. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports two commencement ceremonies will be held Saturday for students receiving their bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the university in southern New Mexico. A

Drivers in east El Paso should prepare for a closure at the intersection of Montwood Drive and Zaragoza Road this weekend. The closures will happen overnight, but businesses and restaurants in the area attract scores of people heading out weekend nights. The intersection will close Friday night at 10 p.m. and will open Saturday morning

Officials say a 14-year-old high school student has been taken into custody after shooting a classmate at their high school in the California city of Palmdale. Los Angeles County sheriff’s Capt. Darran Harris tells KTTV Friday that the student was taken into custody and a gun was recovered at the scene. The shooting happened at

NEW YORK (AP) – So how do you ask 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to let you bring video cameras into the gym to record her workout? The answer, according to the makers of the “RBG” documentary that’s in theaters now and bound for CNN later this year, is “very meekly.” A trainer

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) – A judge on Friday declared a defendant’s trial testimony “poppycock” before sentencing him to 55 years for killing his wife and burying her body with a wedding band, flowers, potato chip bag, and a bottle of Gucci cologne called “Guilty.” The judge said he was “disgusted” by the conduct of Army

NEW YORK (AP) – Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump’s attorneys, says he is “quite certain” the president did not know Michael Cohen was trying to sell his insight into the president. Giuliani told The Associated Press on Friday that Trump was “surprised” to learn that Cohen, his longtime attorney and self-described fixer, brokered

All lanes were closed for about two hours Thursday on I-10 East near Mesa after a semi truck rollover. El Paso Police tweeted that all lanes were reopened and that traffic is backed up to Transmountain. During the lane closure, vehicles were instructed to exit on Mesa (Exit 11). At first, police said two people

There is a crash on I-10 West and Hawkins that is blocking the right lane. Wea are tracking moderate delays in the area. Take Montana or Gateway West to avoid this area.

Work to fill a giant, man-made cavern that is on the verge of collapse in southern New Mexico is expected to begin in August. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports the state hired the engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler last month to design and implement the project to shore up the brine well on the edge of

El Paso Police has issued a local Silver Alert warning for a man who suffers from dementia. Police say Ted Gavino, 59, has been missing since Monday, May 7, 2018 when he was last seen walking out of his home at 11628 Mocha Dune Drive. He was last seen wearing a red t-shirt with white

Frustration is mounting in East El Paso. Viewers have told ABC-7 that they are tired of the daily long wait that greets them when they try to retrieve their mail at the Sandy Creek Post Office at 2100 George Dieter Drive. ABC-7 stopped by the post office shortly after it opened at 9:30 a.m. and