Month: July 2018

A Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa banned a customer for the message they wrote to a server on a receipt, according to our ABC affiliate in Odessa, Texas. Khalil Cavil shared a photo of the $108 bill on his Facebook page, that had the message “We don’t Tip Terrorist,” written on it, and circled his

Ford is recalling about 550,000 cars and SUVs in North America to fix a gearshift problem that could cause the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly. The recall covers certain 2013 through 2016 Fusion sedans and some 2013 and 2014 Escape small SUVs. Ford says a bushing that attaches the shifter cable to the transmission can

An financial news website listed Juarez as one of the top 20 most dangerous cities in the world, on a list of 50 cities. The online publication, 24/7 Wall St. reported that Juarez had 814 homicides last year, an increase from 2016. The top five cities were: 1. Los Cabos, Mexico 2. Caracas, Venezuela 3.

The Trump administration has summoned at least 70 infants to immigration court for their own deportation proceedings since Oct. 1, according to Justice Department data provided to Kaiser Health News. These are children who need frequent touching and bonding with a parent and naps every few hours, and some were of breastfeeding age, medical experts

The southern road to Spaceport America is now paved, after officials had promised it more than decade ago. Since 2013, ABC-7 has been reporting on how visitors have been unable to use the gravel road that begins at the Upham exit off I-25. Visitors are currently forced to go toward Truth or Consequences, then head

Authorities are investigating a possible cyber attack against the city of Alamogordo. The Alamogordo Daily News reports Alamogordo City Administration discovered that the city’s finance department was the victim of the fraudulent emails after city finance employees were misled by official looking emails from a contractor. Officials say the fraudulent emails asked to make changes

Raymond Licon Jr. – the El Paso Police officer on trial for the death of his baby son – took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, breaking down numerous times as he told the jury he will never forgive himself for the boy’s death. In June of 2017, Licon left his 11-month-old son, Azrael

The calls began coming into the ABC-7 newsroom last year. Tornillo residents were concerned about a loud booming sound. The calls were sporadic, and there were plenty of theories. “I think it’s a crash or something on the freeway. I don’t know,” Tornillo resident Jaime Gandara said. Kadesh Wright works at the Dollar General in

The trial of Raymond Licon Jr., the El Paso Police officer charged with Criminal Negligent Homicide for the death of his 11-month-old child, is scheduled to begin Monday. Opening arguments were held Tuesday in the 205th District Court inside the El Paso County Courthouse. A complaint affidavit obtained by ABC-7 states Licon Jr. was arguing

Jurors in the trial of Raymond Licon Jr. – the El Paso Police officer charged in the drowning death of his baby son – heard the painful 911 call in which the officer is heard screaming and telling the operator, “I killed my son!” During opening arguments Monday, the prosecution told the jury Licon placed

The mother of two teenagers involved in an alleged break-in at Ascarate Park said her sons are in juvenile detention and Child Protective Services is investigating. Elizabeth Flores, a 33-year-old mother of six, including one adult daughter and one special needs child, said the video surveillance shows her sons at the scene, and she cannot

Local star golfer Greg Yellin will be competing at the 118th U.S. Amateur Championship next month, and he says he hopes to use the opportunity to put El Paso golf on the map. “Just golf in El Paso, to get that to be bigger would be really good,” said Yellin. “And to play well at

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A 13-year-old entrepreneur who was reported for operating a hot dog stand without a license is still in business thanks to Minnesota officials who could’ve shut him down. The Minnesota Department of Health received a complaint this summer about the hot dog stand that Jaequan Faulkner had set up outside his Minneapolis

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed a worker at the construction site for Valley View Middle School on North Loop was caught in between two pieces of equipment. The school is in the Ysleta Independent School District. In a statement sent to ABC-7, YISD states, “The district is following all policies and procedures. Due

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) – Patients were evacuated Wednesday on gurneys and in wheelchairs after a tanker truck carrying liquid oxygen crashed and caused a loud explosion at a medical clinic, closing a key highway in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said. No injuries were reported from the crash and the blast that 911

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) – FBI Director Christopher Wray says Russian President Vladimir Putin has a view about what happened during the 2016 presidential election, but he’s got his own. Wray said Wednesday at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that his view has not changed and he stands behind the intelligence agencies’ assessment that Moscow

ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) – Two children were bitten in the leg in the waters off New York’s Fire Island on Wednesday in possible shark attacks, prompting beach closings, authorities said. Suffolk County police said they were investigating the separate incidents, which occurred less than 5 miles (8 kilometers) apart at Sailors Haven and Atlantique beaches.

The lawyer for a self-defense movement leader in Mexico is hailing his client’s acquittal on charges of illegal weapons possession. Attorney Ignacio Mendoza says the court ruling in favor of Jose Manuel Mireles is confirmation that the government acted irresponsibly. Mendoza said Wednesday that the government acted “without shame” when it gave weapons to self-defense

A Central Texas man has been arrested after two pipe bombs were found in a home from which he was being evicted. In a statement Wednesday, the Killeen Police Department said 36-year-old Christopher Rodney Lee Deborde was arrested Monday on a charge of possessing an improvised explosive and moved to the Bell County jail in

The City of El Paso is fixing some of the city’s busiest, and badly damaged streets, according to a video posted on the City’s Facebook page. The streets scheduled for resurfacing are McCombs, Resler, Yarbrough, George Dieter, Viscount, Hawkins, Rojas and Railroad. The project is funded by the 2012 Street Capital Improvement Program. The City

ALBUQUERUQE, N.M. (AP) – Some callers were breathless and others were crying as they flooded emergency phone lines to report the aftermath of a deadly weekend bus crash on a dark New Mexico highway. “There’s children bleeding, there’s people unconscious,” a female caller tells a dispatcher. “They’re pulling them out of the bus right now.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A former aerial dancer at Walt Disney World has sued the resort alleging gender discrimination, saying she was fired after she became pregnant with twins and went on an 11-month leave. Krista Crowder filed the lawsuit in state court in Orlando last week. In the lawsuit, Crowder says she was a

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump announced his intention Wednesday to nominate Steven Dillingham of Virginia to be the next director of the U.S. Census Bureau. If confirmed, Dillingham would serve the remainder of a term that extends through 2021. He would oversee the next once-a-decade census that will determine how many seats in Congress

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Las Vegas police released body camera footage Wednesday of officers finding a wounded security guard on the same floor of a Las Vegas hotel where a gunman opened fire on a country music festival. The footage released by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department under a court order includes videos of an

AKRON, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio chemical manufacturing plant has exploded and caught fire, prompting authorities to evacuate a large area around it. Emerald Performance Materials says it evacuated the plant in Akron and notified the fire department after the Wednesday afternoon explosion. It says the cause of the blast is unknown and first responders

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) – A 6-month-old boy was found with serious burns more than an hour after his mother reported him kidnapped, and he later died. Now a Louisiana police department is investigating the mystery surrounding his disappearance and death. Police in Natchitoches (NACK-uh-tish) say the mother reported she was attacked Tuesday night by two

A judge Wednesday sentenced disgraced Las Cruces Doctor Robert Woody to 364 days in prison and fined the doctor $1,000. Earlier this year, a jury convicted Woody on a single count of criminal sexual contact. Several male patients accused the doctor of sexual harassment and abuse. “I, for one, will never forget that day in

Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a then-11-year-old boy in the 2009 shotgun slaying of his father’s pregnant fiancee, saying prosecutors had not provided enough evidence to support it. The state Supreme Court’s 5-0 ruling clears Jordan Brown of wrongdoing, his lawyers say, in the slaying of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk, who was

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) – Recordings show that a construction worker called 911 to warn he could smell and hear a leak from a broken gas main just before a massive explosion killed a firefighter and destroyed six buildings in southern Wisconsin. The worker told the dispatcher, “it’s bad,” after explaining a main had been

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – Attorneys for an 18-year-old man accused of planning a mass shooting at his former high school in Vermont have requested the court grant him youthful-offender status. A motion filed Monday by the Office of the Defender General on behalf of Jack Sawyer asks the court to move charges of criminal threatening