Month: November 2018

Police identified the man struck and killed by a pickup in El Paso’s Lower Valley as 78-year-old Catarino Ibarra. Ibarra was struck and killed on the intersection of Alameda Avenue and George Orr Road just a few miles away from Ascarate Park at about 7:35 p.m. Police said the driver of a 1999 Ford Ranger

Veronica Miracle of KABC in Los Angeles reports that a Southwest Airlines gate agent is being accused of mocking a girl’s name on social media. The 5 year old girl’s name is Abcde Redford and the name is pronounced “ab-city”. The girl’s mother, Traci Redford, said the gate agent at John Wayne airport in Orange

Lawmakers Thursday called for stricter background checks, more mental health support and a public hearing to further investigate problems at a massive detention camp for migrant teens raised by a federal watchdog report and an Associated Press investigation earlier this week. More than 2,300 teens are being held at the remote tent city in Tornillo,

New Mexico’s top land boss says he is canceling next week’s auction of a parcel of state trust land along the U.S.-Mexico border. Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn initially pledged to auction the land along the international boundary after sparring with the federal government over trespass concerns. Dunn claims the government never received authorization to access

El Paso Mayor Dee Margo and his wife, Adair Margo, have been invited to attend the inauguration of Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador, according to Olivia Zepeda, the mayor’s chief of staff. Lopez-Obrador, who won the Mexican presidential election in a landslide, will be sworn in as president Saturday in Mexico City. Zepeda told ABC-7

A new office created to look into cases of sexual abuse in Chicago’s public schools after an investigation revealed that the officials had failed to adequately do so has received nearly 500 allegations of student-on-student sexual violence in less than three months. The Office of Student Protections and Title IX that was created after the

Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday named immigration and the national debt as his two biggest regrets as he prepares to leave office after 20 years in Congress, saying he has no immediate plans to return to public office. The Republican lawmaker from Wisconsin, the 2012 vice presidential nominee, sat for an interview with

There is a crash on I-10 West and Executive that is creating a delay. The crash is blocking the left lane. Drivers need to take Gateway West or Doniphan to avoid this area.

Police say the man accused of shooting three people in a deadly El Paso home invasion faces charges for kidnapping three people in Las Cruces hours before the killing in El Paso, according to reports obtained by ABC-7. Jason Gibson, 38, was arrested in Florida on Tuesday afternoon after a “brief chase” with law enforcement

A Texas House member wants to bring back an annual football game between the state’s two flagship universities: the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University. On Tuesday, state Rep. Lyle Larson, a San Antonio Republican who earned a bachelor’s degree from A&M, filed House Bill 412, which would require the two teams

Pay attention to the skies on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It’s not quite like in Albuquerque, but Ciudad Juárez is set to have its own hot air balloon festival. Organizers said about 20 balloons will be launched between 6 and 8 a.m. every day. At 7 p.m., the balloons will stay attached to the ground

James McClain Green, the Franklin High School athlete critically injured in a two-car crash, is progressing in his treatment, according to the school’s Twitter page. McClain Green had undergone multiple surgeries, but is reportedly no longer needing a breathing tube. The update was also posted on a GoFundMe page for McClain Green’s treatment. He was

ABC-7 is hosting its annual Operation Noel telethon to provide thousands of Borderland children with a warm coat this winter. The goal is to raise $375,000 to pay for 25,000 coats for children in El Paso and Dona Ana counties. Many of the families have fallen on hard times and need some help this year

The investigation intensifies into possible medical negligence at a plastic surgery clinic in Juarez. According to XHIJ channel 44, ABC-7’s news partners in Juarez, the state of Chihuahua is gathering evidence at the Rinocenter plastic surgery clinic, where former El Pasoan Laura Avila slipped into a coma. Her family said she died on Saturday, Nov.

It was much closer than the first contest of the season, but the end result was the same. New Mexico State defeated UTEP for the second time in 2018, winning a 62-58 slugfest at the Don Haskins Center Wednesday night. NMSU previously beat UTEP 96-69 at the Pan American Center just 19 days earlier. UTEP

Meet the Rouse family. Caresse Rouse and her husband have three children: 3-year-old Raequan, 2-y ear-old Demetrius and 1-year-old Blessings The Rouse’s say they spend their life sacrificing for their children. Caresse said, “we’ll lay our life on the line to make sure they got what they need and there’s nothing we wont do for

Prosecutors charged a central Minnesota man with a gross misdemeanor Wednesday but not a hate crime for allegedly having his teenage son dump bloody deer carcasses on the hoods of two cars owned by Somali-American men. The Stearns County Attorney’s office charged 62-year-old Daniel Dorian Knowlen of St. Cloud with contributing to the delinquency of

The mother of a slain New Mexico teenager has accepted a plea deal that will result in a 12-year prison sentence for child abuse resulting in death. The Albuquerque Journal reports 36-year-old Tracy Ann Pena must testify against 20-year-old Jordan Nunez who’s awaiting trial in the case. Nunez is the son of Pena’s former boyfriend.

A Texas appeals court’s ruling could allow state authorities to formally license two detention centers that house thousands of immigrant families. The 3rd Texas Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling barring Texas from issuing child-care licenses to the detention facilities in Karnes and Dilley. The appeals court ruled the organization Grassroots

New Hampshire’s Supreme Court heard biting criticism of an elite prep school graduate’s star-studded legal team Wednesday as his lawyer argued he deserved a new trial following his conviction for using a computer to lure an underage student for sex. Owen Labrie, 23, of Tunbridge, Vermont, was acquitted in 2015 of raping a 15-year-old classmate

Immigration and Customs and Enforcement has placed an immigration detainer on the man accused of running over and killing an El Paso teacher on Thanksgiving Day. “On Nov. 24, 2018, deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed an immigration detainer with the El Paso (Texas) County Sheriff’s Department on Joel Josue Velazquez-Herrera,

U.S. Border Patrol agents near Tijuana, Mexico, faced a choice as they looked out over the chaos at a crowd of migrants that included rock-throwing men as well as barefoot children: Do they respond with force – and, if so, what kind? The circumstances at the San Ysidro border crossing Sunday were exceptional, but the

Five inmates in the Carolinas extorted more than half a million dollars from military personnel throughout the country, using illegal cellphones to pose as women on dating sites, authorities said Wednesday. Standing in front of a state prison in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon told reporters that five inmates had been indicted on

A Kansas woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and other charges in the abuse and death of her 3-year-old son, whose body was found encased in concrete in the laundry room of their Wichita home. Miranda Miller, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, child abuse and aggravated child endangerment under a deal in

Nancy Pelosi was nominated by fellow House Democrats to be speaker on Wednesday, but she still faces a showdown vote when the full House convenes in January. Pelosi entered the closed-door caucus election in an unusual position — running unopposed despite the clamor by some Democrats for new leadership. Votes were still being counted, but

Nancy Pelosi was nominated by fellow House Democrats to be speaker on Wednesday, but she still faces a showdown vote when the full House convenes in January. Pelosi entered the closed-door caucus election in an unusual position — running unopposed despite the clamor by some Democrats for new leadership. Votes were still being counted, but

State officials say the number of Texas teachers accused of engaging in romantic relationships with students has increased for the 10th consecutive year. The Texas Education Agency in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 1 opened 429 cases of improper relationships, a number representing a 42 percent increase from the previous year and the largest

The Supreme Court left little doubt Wednesday that it would rule that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help an Indiana man recover the $40,000 Land Rover police seized when they arrested him for selling about $400 worth of heroin. A decision in favor of 37-year-old Tyson

The family of a Honduran transgender migrant who died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is threatening to sue, claiming the woman did not receive adequate medical care and was physically abused. The Transgender Law Center and attorney Andrew Free released details of an independent autopsy this week that concluded Roxsana

With a partial government shutdown possible on Dec. 7, President Donald Trump has met with Republican leaders to hash out a spending plan that includes money for Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico. Trump is seeking $5 billion for the wall, which he made a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign and said Mexico would pay