Month: July 2018

A 25-year-old man is jailed on $10,000 bond on animal cruelty charges after authorities say he broke the neck of a dog that had been abandoned at a North Texas trailer park and threw the animal in a trash container. Parker County authorities say the dog was bothering Kyle Rufus Childers so he killed it.

Officials say a 70-year-old southern New Mexico man who regularly fed wildlife at his home suffered multiple injuries when he was bitten by a bear as he stepped outside. The state Game and Fish Department says conservation officers went to the man’s Cloudcroft home Friday after his wife drove him to an Alamogordo hospital for

A Central El Paso neighborhood lit up with red and blue lights this morning as fires crews worked to put out a fire near Brown and Wyoming. ABC-7 crews spoke with the homeowner who told us that he was in a room with his nephew and a friend when his nephew left the room then

The eight and under Invaders track team are headed to Nationals next week and they are also our Southwest Community Champions. The girls practice out at Coronado High School. This is what coach Rose Corral had to say, “Its fun you know, they are 8 and under, so you see them perform at this level.

The eight and under Invaders track team are headed to Nationals next week and they are also our Southwest Community Champions. The girls practice out at Coronado High School. This is what coach Rose Corral had to say, “Its fun you know, they are 8 and under, so you see them perform at this level.

A private inspector said Saturday that he warned the company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake about design flaws putting the watercraft at greater risk of sinking, less than a year before the accident that killed 17 people during a sudden storm. Steve Paul, owner of the Test Drive Technologies inspection service in the

A private inspector said Saturday that he warned the company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake about design flaws putting the watercraft at greater risk of sinking, less than a year before the accident that killed 17 people during a sudden storm. Steve Paul, owner of the Test Drive Technologies inspection service in the

More than three hundred children have new school supplies for the school year ahead today after the ninth annual Housing Authority Back-To School Fair, funded by the Hunt Family Foundation. About $30 worth of school supplies were given out to each child Saturday. Families turned out Saturday morning to the Housing Authority offices,where they also

A federal judge says the Trump administration is making “great progress” toward meeting a Thursday deadline to reunite more than 2,500 children with their families after they were separated at the border. Justice Department attorneys said Friday that 450 children 5 and older had been reunified, up from 364 a day earlier. There are still

Officials say a 70-year-old southern New Mexico man who regularly fed wildlife at his home suffered multiple injuries when he was bitten by a bear as he stepped outside. The state Game and Fish Department says conservation officers went to the man’s Cloudcroft home Friday after his wife drove him to an Alamogordo hospital for

Authorities investigating a deadly commercial passenger bus crash along a New Mexico highway said Friday that one of the passengers was carrying a backpack filled with almost $100,000 in cash. Sandoval County Sheriff’s Lt. Keith Elder confirmed during a news conference that the money was discovered after the passenger was transported to an Albuquerque hospital,

TXDOT El Paso tweeted Saturday morning that I-10 is now open after it was closed for about two days. Police closed I-10 in both directions in Downtown El Paso on Thursday as crews worked to safely remove a semi truck that went up in flames after the driver drove up an embankment, crashing into a

Special Traffic Investigators are investigating a female falling out of a car on Liberty at Marshal. Police said she was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. It is unclear how fast the car was going at the time. We will update this as soon as we learn more.

It’s not easy to take over a high school football program when you have months to prepare for a new season. So, needless to say, it’s no enviable task to prepare for a new season in a few short weeks. But that’s the task ahead of David Telas, El Dorado’s new head football coach and

For drivers who were fed up with traffic re-routing as part of the Go10 project, take comfort in the fact that all that helped with traffic management after a tractor trailer plowed into a utility bridge on I-10. Traffic coordinators with the Texas Department of Transportation have built such a good relationship with all emergency

The Texas unemployment rate improved to 4 percent during June to mirror the nationwide jobless figure, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday. Last month’s rate figure for Texas compares to 4.1 percent in May. The U.S. unemployment rate in May had reached an 18-year low at 3.8 percent before rising during June. The Midland area

The Latest on the heat wave spreading across the southern U.S. (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Texas prison officials are offering cold water, cold showers and opportunities to cool off in air-conditioned chapels and offices to thousands of inmates in lock-ups without central air-conditioning in a wide swath of the state under an excessive-heat warning.

The 2018 Solar Car Challenge made a stop at UTEP on July 20th. The Challenge is a solar-powered car race where high school students from around the country compete in three different divisions: classic, advanced and electric-solar-powered. High school students are in charge of building, maintaining and driving their cars 833 miles: from Fort Worth,

TxDOT and local utilities are working to make sure utility customers in Downtown El Paso are not affected after Thursday’s fiery wreck damaged a utility bridge at I-10 West and Mesa. ABC-7 has learned the utility bridge carries electric, water, gas, and telecommunication lines. Jennifer Wright, a TxDOT representative, said the gas line running along

Temperatures are back in the triple digits and the heat has certainly been a strain for those working to repair a damaged utility bridge at I-10 and Mesa in Downtown El Paso. The bridge was damaged when a truck driver reaching for a bottle of water accidentally drove up an embankment and crashed into the

Jurors have convicted a man in the 2016 death of a student who was sexually assaulted strangled on the University of Texas campus. Twenty-year-old Meechaiel Criner was found guilty of capital murder Friday in the death of 18-year-old Haruka Weiser. Weiser was a freshman dance major from Portland, Oregon. She was walking to her dormitory

Authorities investigating a deadly commercial passenger bus crash along a New Mexico highway said Friday that one of the passengers was carrying a backpack filled with almost $100,000 in cash. Sandoval County Sheriff’s Lt. Keith Elder confirmed during a news conference that the money was discovered after the passenger was transported to an Albuquerque hospital,

Authorities have released video that shows passengers, some holding small children, walking or limping in shock after a deadly bus crash on a New Mexico highway. The Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage Friday taken from an officer on scene. In the video, the officer tries to calm people in English and Spanish

Police closed I-10 in both directions in Downtown El Paso as crews work to safely remove a semi truck that went up in flames after the driver drove up an embankment, crashing into a utility bridge near I-10 and Mesa. All westbound traffic is being forced off at Mesa, police said in a tweet. Traffic

The El Paso Police Department is asking for your help identifying several suspects responsible for stealing over $50,000 using duplicated credit cards since May. According to El Paso Police, the suspects are using credit card skimmer to steal victim’s information including their pin number and creating duplicate cards. The suspects have been stealing money with

As executive director of the Guyon Saunders Resource Center for about six months, Joyce Knight has seen what the entry point for Amarillo’s homeless can be. The question is, will it be around for that to happen? “It’s been my mission to become a true resource center again,” Knight said. The Amarillo Globe-News reports the

Two suspects have been arrested and charged in the attempted holdup of a North Texas bank and shootings of three bank employees. An FBI statement says three persons had initially been detained and questioned about the attempted robbery Thursday of the Veritex Community Bank in Fort Worth, Texas. One of the detainees was determined to

An El Paso man allegedly confessed to shooting his wife after they argued over alleged infidelity and household responsibilities, a criminal complaint obtained by ABC-7 states. Police said Jamarr Lenell Birch, 35, shot and killed his wife, 34-year-old Jennifer Birch, just after 4 p.m on the 10300 block of Mackinaw on July 15, 2018. According

A year-old boy who became a poster child for the U.S. policy of separating immigrants and their children was on his way home to the arms of his parents Friday, five months after he was taken from his father at the U.S. border. Johan Bueso Montecinos was on a jet bound for San Pedro Sulas

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him, The New York Times reported Friday. The president’s current personal lawyer confirmed the conversation and said it showed Trump did nothing wrong, according to the Times. Citing lawyers and others familiar