Month: September 2018

Leaders for the Canutillo Independent School District met to break ground for a new facility at Canutillo Middle School Saturday morning. The groundbreaking ceremony was held at 9 a.m. for what the district describes as “the long-awaited Multi-Purpose Agricultural Science Facility[.]” Officials for the school district say the new facility will provide middle school students

The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, and a nearby United States Postal Service office, were evacuated for security reasons Thursday, observatory officials said. “We have decided to temporarily vacate this facility as a precautionary measure. And we’re working with the proper authorities on this issue,” Association for Universities for Research in Astronomy spokeswoman

No child should go hungry. That’s why ABC-7 once again is holding a food drive with Albertsons and El Pasoans Fighting Hunger. One group of local moms from Fort Bliss is volunteering at EPFH, sorting and processing food to be delivered throughout the borderland. It’s their way to give back. “As a child of a

Special Traffic Investigators is asking for any information on a pedestrian hit-and-run crash that happened at the 5500 block of Montoya in West El Paso Friday afternoon. According to investigators, at around 4 p.m., a 13-year-old girl was walking on Montoya when a dark colored or silver colored pickup truck struck the teen and fled.

Mac Miller, the platinum hip-hop star whose rhymes vacillated from party raps to lyrics about depression and drug use, and earned kudos from the likes of Jay-Z and Chance the Rapper, died Friday at age 26. Police and paramedics found Miller unresponsive at his home in Los Angeles and declared him dead shortly before noon,

Friday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of basketball legend Don Haskins, often credited with helping change the game forever. “I think about him every day. Every time I have a tough decision to make, I think about what my dad would tell me,” said Steve Haskins, the son of the legendary UTEP coach,

Hundreds of Columbia Elementary students were moved out of their school Thursday and will now be at Centennial High school for the rest of the semester until the mold at their school is fully cleaned. Nearly 400 elementary school students move from Columbia Elementary north of Las Cruces to Centennial High School on the city’s

Fred Warner isn’t being given time to ease into his NFL career. The rookie for the San Francisco 49ers is slated to start in his debut on Sunday in Minnesota at a relatively new position of middle linebacker with all the responsibilities that come with calling the defensive signals. “I’m very excited, being this will

He’s 41 now but the joy is still there for Tom Brady. “It’s a blessing to be able to do it,” the New England quarterback said Friday as he awaits his 19th NFL season with Sunday’s home game against the Houston Texans. “I love playing football. I love the sport and I’ve been doing it

Two men are accused of delivering cocaine to undercover detectives in East El Paso. On September 5, 2018, El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies and detectives arrested 53-year-old Rafael Carrillo and 53-year-old Ricardo Mendoza following a narcotics investigation. The detectives met with Carrillo and Mendoza in the parking lot of a business located in the

A Southeast Texas school district says three of its students took control of a school bus after the driver became unconscious and later died. The Sealy school district said on Friday that the bus and its driver, Gerald Gardner, had just picked up students at a junior high school and was leaving the campus when

An El Paso man who allegedly fled from police had outstanding warrants and was in possession of narcotics, police say. Thursday, police officers attempted to stop 40-year-old Marco Antonio Morales, driving a Jeep Commander SUV, for an alleged stop line violation on the 6100 block of Cleveland. Police said Morales refused to stop the vehicle

An El Paso man who allegedly fled from police had outstanding warrants and was in possession of narcotics, police say. Thursday, police officers attempted to stop 40-year-old Marco Antonio Morales, driving a Jeep Commander SUV, for an alleged stop line violation on the 6100 block of Cleveland. Police said Morales refused to stop the vehicle

The brother-in-law of a Dallas woman found raped and slain in 1996 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the killing, according to officials. Victor Serrano, 40, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the death of Manuela Dominguez after DNA from the body connected him to the crime scene, The Dallas Morning News

Nine people have been arrested in the investigation of what federal prosecutors call a San Antonio-based drug trafficking and money laundering ring. A two-count indictment unsealed Friday charges the defendants with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Officials say all nine defendants were arrested Thursday and remain

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission says the discovery of 166 bodies in a field in Veracruz state brings to 696 the total number of corpses found in mass graves since the beginning of 2017. The government rights agency says 163 clandestine burial pits have been found, mainly concentrated in states like Veracruz, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Zacatecas

President Donald Trump declared Friday the U.S. Justice Department should work to identify the writer of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece, purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart his most dangerous impulses. Trump cited “national security” as the reason for such a probe, and he called

A 6-month-old East Texas girl has died after being left in a hot car and officers arrested her father on a charge of criminal negligent homicide. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office says 25-year-old Jackson Tetrick of Brownsboro said he forgot to leave his daughter with a baby sitter Thursday. Tetrick was being held Friday on

Former President Barack Obama said Friday his successor, President Donald Trump, is “the symptom, not the cause” of division and polarization in the U.S. Trump, the former president said, is “just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.” His comments came during a speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where

A Dallas police officer who shot and killed her neighbor and later explained she had mistaken his apartment for her own will be charged with manslaughter, the police chief said Friday. It’s not clear what the off-duty officer may have said to 26-year-old Botham Jean late Thursday or whether there was any interaction between the

Prosecutors in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua say four state police officers are dead and six are wounded following an ambush overnight in a rural part of the state. The state prosecutors’ office said Friday the attack was apparently carried out by the “La Linea” gang, which works for the Juarez drug cartel. The

There is a crash on I-10 West and McRae blocking the left lane. A major delay along I-10 West is now present. No injuries reported.

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso) held a “Beers with Beto” event in Washington, D.C. Thursday, which sold out and even attracted some El Pasoans living on the East Coast. “I think it’s awesome that we finally have someone out there that’s really speaking up against Ted Cruz, speaking up against everything that was bringing so

Socorro High School is preparing dozens of students for a potential career in firefighting. The fire tech program exposes students to all aspects of becoming a firefighter. It is a four year program that begins freshman year. Students can also explore the skills needed to become an EMT, a fire investigator or a member of

El Paso’s Department of Public Health has confirmed a fourth case of West Nile virus. Officials said in a news release Thursday that the patient is a male younger than 20 years of age living in Northeast El Paso. The Department of Public Health said he has no underlying medical conditions. Experts said the rainy

About 2,000 customers experienced a power outage in Central El Paso Friday morning. Electricity was restored at 7:10 a.m., according to El Paso Electric. Crews are still investigating the cause of the outage. The area that was affected was south of I-10 between Cotton Street and US 54, according to the utility’s outage map. It

New Mexico State University administrators are grappling with a $3.3 million budget shortfall, the president told ABC-7. “We didn’t get to the bottom of it until pretty recently, like a week ago,” said President John Floros. He told ABC-7 the previous administration changed the criteria for scholarships. “This is both good news, bad news,” Floros

The Pebble Hills Spartans improved to 2-0 while Coronado got its first win of the season Thursday night in a doubleheader at the SAC. The Spartans defeated Midland High School in a shootout by a final of 42-38 in the first game of the doubleheader. Pebble Hills jumped out to a 28-10 lead at the

The El Paso Chihuahuas are in a tough spot in their PCL semifinal series against Fresno after dropping game two at home Thursday night to fall in an 0-2 hole in the series. The Grizzlies jumped out to an early 3-0 lead and held on for a 7-5 victory to claim their second road game