Month: September 2018

The Bowie Bears may not be able to play their home opener after vandals caused more than $150,000 in damage at the Bowie High School football field/ A spokesman with the El Paso School District told ABC-7 a group of teenagers was behind the damage that occurred last week. The spokesman said the four teenagers

Two motorcyclists and two passengers not wearing helmets were injured when they collided into each other after one of the passengers dropped a cell phone on the street, El Paso Police said. The wreck happened at 11:4 a.m Sunday on the 10200 block of Montana near Lorne. Police said 56-year-old Ana Aguilar was riding as

A Dallas-area parole officer is accused by federal authorities of buying a firearm for one of the individuals she had supervised in her job and who she was also dating. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Shawnetta LaRuth Jones is facing four counts, including one count of conspiracy to acquire a firearm by false statement and

Inmates sent to help fight wildfires are back behind bars in Idaho after one inmate was charged with raping a woman working at a base camp in Utah, authorities said Tuesday. The Idaho Department of Correction is reviewing the way they select, train and deploy those inmates, spokesman Jeff Ray said. Most Western states have

Licensed funeral homes had no responsibility to know that the Tennessee cemetery where they were sending corpses to be interred was grossly mishandling burials even after it lost its registration, a lawyer said Tuesday. John Branson delivered an opening statement in the trial in a lawsuit accusing more than a dozen funeral homes of knowingly

Investigators in Iowa arrested a man accused of impregnating a 14-year-old girl who ran away from El Paso, KCAU, the ABC-7 affiliate in Le Mars, reports. Online jail records state 21-year-old Saqueo Neptali Carreto Perez, of Le Mars, was arrested and charged with third-degree sexual abuse. He is currently jailed at the Plymouth County Jail.

Wisconsin prosecutors charged a father and mother Tuesday with child neglect for allegedly allowing their teenage son to starve to death and his brother to become severely emaciated during a religious fast. Sauk County prosecutors charged Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo Omosebi, 48, with child neglect causing death and child neglect causing great bodily harm.

An investigator testified Tuesday that a California man charged with killing a gay University of Pennsylvania student had troves of anti-gay, anti-semitic and white hate group material on his phone. Investigator Craig Goldsmith told an Orange County Superior Court hearing that Samuel Woodward had over 100 pieces of content related to the violent hate group

Officials say a crane collapsed onto a house in a Florida neighborhood, tearing a large gash in its roof. The Orlando Fire Department says the crane fell over Tuesday in the upscale Baldwin Park neighborhood. No injuries were reported. Photos released by the fire department show the crane’s base turned partially over in front of

A St. Louis-area woman is accused of starving her 2-month-old son. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 24-year-old Makayla Hill of Bridgeton is charged with felony child abuse or neglect resulting in death. She is jailed on $150,000 cash-only bond. Bridgeton police were called by Hill to a hotel Sunday afternoon. Her son, Samuel Williamson

The Chaparral woman involved in a deadly rollover shortly after midnight on Labor Day was driving drunk, speeding and transporting four passengers who were not wearing seatbelts, El Paso Police said. 18-year-old Aron Jurado, of Chaparral, New Mexico, was killed in the wreck. It happened Monday, September 3, 2018 at 12:01 a.m. on the 10600

An actor who was a regular on “The Cosby Show” said he’s thankful for the support he has received since photos of him working at a grocery store showed up on news sites. Geoffrey Owens said Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he did feel some people were trying to job shame him. But

Today ABC 7 learned that the funeral services for Luis Alvarez have been set. Luis is the 49 year old Greyhound bus driver from Santa Teresa who was killed when a semi truck and the bus Luis was driving, collided. ABC 7 reached out to a personal friend of Luis’ and he said that the

Fire crews are looking into what started a blaze at an apartment in Central El Paso overnight that displaced two people. The fire broke out around 1 a.m. on Magnolia Street, near I-10 and Piedras Street. Authorities on the scene said two people were evacuated without injuries. Officials are still investigating. KVIA 2018

Authorities are investigating after four semitrailers caught fire Monday night. The fire was reported at 9:30 p.m. at Mesilla Valley Transportation on Escobar Drive, in the Lower Valley near Zaragoza and I-10. ABC-7 cameras were not allowed onto the site because it is private property. The fire department says the fire was contained and no

The police department in Socorro is looking for the driver of a vehicle that ended up in a canal. The canal is on Socorro and Vineyard roads. Authorities were called there around midnight Tuesday, but the driver was nowhere to be found. There is no word on how the car ended up in the canal.

One person was killed in a crash on Railroad Drive and Angora Loop Avenue, police said. The crash was reported Monday at 1 a.m. Railroad Drive was closed for hours, but it’s now open. The fire department said two people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Another person suffered minor injuries. Police said

The El Paso Chihuahuas wrapped up their 5th regular season Monday afternoon at Southwest University Park, but there’s still more baseball left to be played. The Chihuahuas are headed to the playoffs for the 4th straight year and that means downtown El Paso will have a few more visitors in the coming days. Chihuahuas’ fan

UTEP Soccer’s Lauren Crenshaw is this weeks C-USA Offensive Player of the Week. In back to back games Crenshaw was fouled as she made her way to the penalty box. Thursday she was fouled in the first half against GCU, which awarded the team a penalty shot that she would make. This past Sunday against

The UTEP Miner Soccer team took on the NIU Huskies out at University Field. Both teams were anchored by excellent goalkeeping play by Alyssa Palacios for the Miners and Megan Donnally for the Huskies. The Miners pressed all game but the Huskies defense repelled them at every turn. At the end of the first half