Month: August 2018

Monday’s tragic accident that claimed the life of a 33-year-old mother in the Tippin Elementary School parking lot weighed heavily on the minds of parents and children at the school Tuesday afternoon. El Paso ISD police said 58-year-old Roger Hawkins was backing out of a parking space when he collided with a vehicle. Police said

Police say an El Paso man with previous DWI convictions was driving drunk when he collided into a fire department pumper unit. Jorge Conde, 44, is charged with “DWI 3rd or More,” police said. Investigators say Conde was driving a red 2001 Ford Mustang when he collided with the passenger side of EPFD Pumper unit

Omarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday released another secret audio tape that she says proves President Donald Trump wanted to silence her after firing her from the White House. In the tape played on MSNBC, Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, offers Manigault Newman a job earning $15,000 a month. The job wouldn’t require her to report to

Mark Wahlberg’s “Mile 22 ” character James Silva has a tick where he snaps a yellow rubber bracelet against his wrist. He does this many, many times throughout this all-out assault of a movie, which seems to have been shot and edited with the singular purpose of leaving the audience confused and disoriented at every

They’ve long been an unmissable part of public events in Mexico, from soccer matches to trade fairs: attractive women hired to be greeters or simply as eye candy, sometimes scantily clad in short skirts and high heels or crop-tops and hot pants emblazoned with corporate logos. Now Mexico City has prohibited the use of models

Weeks after the request by the campaign for Beto O’Rourke to hold debates ahead of the midterm election, the debate over how those debates should work continues between O’Rourke and Sen. Ted Cruz. According to the Corpus Christi Caller Times, the Cruz campaign announced that the first debate would be on August 31 in Dallas.

Hurricanes are perfectly organized storms of destruction. Part of a family of storms called tropical cyclones which typically develop during June and November– just north of the equator in the tropical to subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, The Gulf of Mexico, The Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricanes vary in intensity with winds

As the start of a new school year gets closer for some students in the Borderland, many parents are also getting ready for a new routine. A new routine means going to sleep earlier and up early in the morning for school. That can be a challenge after kids were used staying up later than

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as “Think,” ”I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advance pancreatic cancer. Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn tells The Associated Press through a family

It looks like a casino. There’s cards, chips, dealers and live music. People are betting their own money and playing poker. El Paso Player’s Club is the third poker club to open up in El Paso since July. All of these clubs claim they are completely legal, despite the state’s strict gambling laws. “The way

Both Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke released their first TV campaign ads in August. Rep. O’Rourke released his first ad Wednesday, focused on bringing Texans together. The ad contains footage from O’Rourke’s visit to all 254 counties in Texas. It is running in all 20 media markets, costing his campaign $1.3 million. Sen. Cruz released

A second case of West Nile Virus has been confirmed in El Paso this season. The Department of Public Health said the patient is a man in his early 70s who lives in West El Paso. He has underlying medical conditions but is recovering from the infection, according to health officials. The first case this

UTEP goalkeeper Alyssa Palacios has a chance to break several school records if her senior season is as successful as previous years have been. Palacios enters her final year with the Miners second all-time in saves and third all-time in shutouts in program history. She needs just three more clean sheets to set the record

An individual or individuals are scamming residents in the El Paso area by asking for donations claiming to be The El Paso Fire Department the El Paso Firefighters Association Local 51 ‘ The El Paso Fire Department said the calls are not associated with either organizations. “Neither the EPFD nor Local 51 make phone calls

One of the most impressive teams around town during the 2017 football season was Del Valle, but their talent will be tested in 2018. The Conquistadores posted a 10-2 overall record and were perfect in district play behind players such as quarterback Raymond Montez and wide receivers Karch Gardiner and Danny Cortez. All three are

Ground was broken on the new VA mental health facility behind the Medical School of the Americas. It will be 33,000 square feet and serve the 7,000 veterans in the El Paso area. The facility is a project Congressman Beto O’Rourke has been championing since 2015. He said, “The facility is going to insure more

New Mexico Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce Wednesday praised a high-tech company in Las Cruces as a prime example of the businesses he hopes to attract to the Land of Enchantment if elected governor. “We haven’t been able to convince people to stay here and invest in anything here,” said Pearce during a news conference

Two isolated thunderstorms pummeled Doña Ana County northeast of Las Cruces on Wednesday afternoon in a matter of minutes. “It went from a nice dry thing to a raging river,” said David Ward, who has lived in the area for ten years. “Literally.” In just fifty minutes, the storms produced two to three inches of

A murder trial for a former Texas police officer who killed a black 15-year-old teenager highlights the heightened role video evidence plays in high-profile police shootings that have stirred discourse and triggered protests nationwide over issues of race and law enforcement. Former Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver, who is white, opened fire last year into

The EL Paso County sheriff’s Office have arrested a “wanted” criminal following a Crime Stoppers tip. On Wednesday, August 15th, Miguel Tapia-Aguirre was arrested at a construction site located on the 11400 block of Gateway West Boulevard. Sheriff’s deputies and Crime Stoppers of El Paso conducted an investigation as to Aguirre’s location based on information

The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Austin American-Statesman reports the FCC also has fined the station’s operators $15,000 – a fine the FCC says in a lawsuit the operators are refusing to pay. The lawsuit filed in federal

TRURO, Mass. (AP) – A man swimming off Cape Cod was attacked by a shark on Wednesday and was airlifted to a hospital. It was the first shark attack on a human on the popular summer tourist destination since 2012. The victim was a 61-year-old man, who suffered puncture wounds to his torso and legs,

The YWCA of El Paso is trying to get the word out on the importance of early education for younger children. They held a back to school ceremony for the UTEP community Wednesday morning to talk about what the program has to offer and how important early education is for young children. “We do academic

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry has a new CEO who has challenged the company to “double its social impact.” Matthew McCarthy became CEO on July 1. The marketing executive is a veteran of Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Anglo-Dutch consumer goods multinational Unilever, where he has worked for 21 years. The maker of Chunky

U.S. health officials are eliminating special regulations for gene therapy experiments, saying that what was once exotic science is quickly becoming an established form of medical care with no extraordinary risks. A special National Institutes of Health oversight panel will no longer review all gene therapy applications and will instead take on a broader advisory

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials unveiled some additional strategies in combating Mexican drug cartels Wednesday in Chicago alongside members of the Mexican government, military and federal police, who said one priority was to capture the leader of the increasingly powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. A joint news conference with the officials side by side was

A Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds – a stance partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court – has sued the state over its opposition to his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition, his attorneys said Wednesday. Jack Phillips, owner of the

New York City unveiled an ambitious plan on Wednesday to replace the notorious Rikers Island jail complex with four smaller lockups located in densely populated neighborhoods, including turning an Art Deco government building that went up in lower Manhattan in 1930 into a tower for up to 1,500 inmates. Mayor Bill de Blasio and other

An Ohio man has been found alive and in good condition on a flank of Mount St. Helens, nearly one week after he set out on a day hike and failed to return, authorities said Wednesday. Rescuers found Matthew B. Matheny, 40, of Warren, Ohio, on a flank of the volcano in the Cascade Mountains

A Detroit man who spent about 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was released Wednesday- on his birthday. A review determined that Aaron Salter’s case was primarily based on mistaken identification and the charges against him have been dismissed, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement. Salter, 36, left