Month: July 2018

Police say a toddler who somehow made his way out of a New York City home and wandered the streets in the middle of the night has been reunited safely with his family. Police had been alerted around 2 a.m. Sunday that an unattended child was spotted in the Bronx, near the Fordham Heights neighborhood.

A shy man who expressed his brilliant intellect through his editorials, Gerald Fischman wrote hundreds of thousands of words for the Capital Gazette before a gunman burst into the newsroom and killed him and four other co-workers. Capital Gazette editor Rick Hutzell wiped away tears Sunday as he read aloud some of those words for

ABC-7 has spoken with the mother of the children involved in that video of a police officer pulling a gun on a group of kids. The story starts well before video was rolling. Police say they were called out to a trespassing call on the 6700 block of Sambrano. Elizabeth Flores, the mother of both

More GO10 projects are planned to start Sunday that will impact west El Paso commuters. The closures impact traffic in both direction on Interstate 10, and go into affect overnight starting at 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Thursday. I-10 East will close completely at the North Mesa overpass, as will the entrance ramp.

Four of the 12 boys trapped with their soccer coach in a cave in Thailand for 16 days were successfully extracted by divers in an hours-long subterranean rescue mission that has gripped the attention of the world, according to the Thai Navy SEALs. The international effort to save the group has paired elite divers in

More property owners along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas say they’ve received notices from the federal government asking to review their land, which could be used for border wall construction. KENS-TV reports residents in the town of Escobares received letters from the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection a few

Officials are investigating a double roll over in far east El Paso. It happened on the 11600 block of Rufus Brijalba and John Weir just after 7:30 Sunday morning. ABC-7 crews on scene say there were no major injuries. This story will be update.

Nasheed Anwaar, a local barber known as “G” was killed after being struck by a car Friday night, according to friends of the victim. Police confirmed to ABC-7 a man had died after a crash with a car on the corner of Hayes and Dyer in northeast El Paso. Nasheed Anwaar was known as G,

Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organization, which was rocked by a 2017 email scandal that led to the resignations of its top leaders. Representatives from 22 state pageants signed a petition calling for the resignations of the new Miss America board, including Chairwoman

Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others that have forced evacuations of hundreds of homes. In heat-stricken Southern California, powerful winds that sent an overnight inferno hopscotching through the Santa Barbara County community of Goleta vanished

The El Paso Police Department, along with the Assistant City Manager, Dionne Mack, held a news conference Saturday in response to the viral video of an officer pointing a gun at a group kids. Law enforcement officials said two officers responded to a criminal trespassing call Thursday on the 6700 block of Sambrano in central

UPDATE: The El Paso Police Department, along with the Assistant City Manager, Dionne Mack, held a news conference this afternoon. They tell ABC 7 that this incident happened on Thursday on the 6700 block of Sambrano in Central El Paso. Two officers responded to the scene after a call was made for criminal trespassing, at

A lawyer and activist is charged with human smuggling after being accused of picking up two immigrants in the U.S. illegally on the side of a South Texas road. The San Antonio Express-News reports that Armando Treviño was arrested Monday. A federal complaint alleges that an off-duty Border Patrol agent on U.S. Highway 83 Monday

San Antonio Spurs combo guard Danny Green is back in the Borderland for the third consecutive year to host a kids basketball camp. Green’s camp runs this Saturday and Sunday (July 7 and 8) at Coronado H.S. The camp will begin at 10 a.m. both days and end around 2 p.m. It is open to

San Antonio Spurs mainstay Danny Green is back in the Borderland, and in typical fashion, he took time before his annual camp to meet with fans and sign autographs. Green, who is back in El Paso to host his basketball camp for the third year in a row, met with fans at the Pizza Hut

Mary Williams has lived on the 12000 block of O’brady Place in the Northeast since 1977. Williams said she was not aware that just a couple of homes down there were dogs that were suffering. “It’s a shame because that should never happen to an animal. We have a responsibility to take care of them

El Paso’s newest Sprouts is set to open later this month. According to its website, the new store on Gateway West and McRae, the store will have its grand opening on July 25. This will be the third sprouts in town. In addition to wine, beer and a meat deli, the new store will have

Scammers will try just about anything to get what they want and money isn’t always the main objective. High dollar items, like cellphones, are just as valuable and now scammers are turning the tables on victims by claiming to be victims themselves. A couple of weeks ago I received a call to my cellphone. The