Month: November 2018

UPDATE: Ruidoso police have released more information about a deadly home invasion that happened in October. According to the publication Ruidoso News, homeowner Michael Schattner, 69, called police to report that he had shot an intruder — but in the process, he also shot his wife in the leg. When police arrived, police found Emmanuel

The U.S. is seeing alarming rates of sexually transmitted infections, specifically syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia. The Centers for Disease Control reported numbers have increased for the fourth consecutive year. The City of El Paso Department of Health is tracking an uptick in local diagnosed cases of sexually transmitted infections, or STI. In 2017, nearly 2.3 million

UPDATE: The director of the Bel Air High School percussion team has told ABC-7 that $3,905 has been raised the days before, and the day of, the 24-hour drum-a-thon. “Thank you for all the help you and all of the KVIA team has provided us,” said Benjamin Perez in an email to ABC-7 on Monday.

UTEP Men’s Basketball was looking for a win after two tough losses to NMSU and Arizona. And the team got one against Eastern New Mexico in the Don Haskins Center Monday night. The final score was 66-59 — and it came after the Miners nearly lost the lead to the Greyhounds in the second half.

Winter is coming! Ice on roadways is probably one of the most serious weather hazards–and causes hundreds of serious injuries and tragic deaths every year. As winter approaches, temperatures will begin dropping, and you know what else is coming – icy roads, snow, black ice and freezing rain events. In anticipation of winter weather, Texas

Investigators Monday identified the two alleged DWI drivers blamed for a wreck that left a star Franklin High School athlete in critical condition. Pablo Payan and James Furman were arrested and charged with DWI, police said. The wreck happened Saturday, November 17, 2018 at the intersection of Edinburgh Drive and Leeds Drive. James McClain Green,

The Las Cruces City Council voted 4 to 3 on Monday to amend two sections of municipal code after criticism of the city’s panhandling laws by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico. “We focus on the behavior of standing in a dangerous area,” said Jennifer Vega-Brown, the city’s attorney. “That’s what we’re concerned

ts getting close to that time of the year. the sun bowl festivities are beginning. today was the first round of the sun bowl marathon all-america golf classic This tournament features the best collegiate golfers in the nation. Some of the names you will see are golfers that will definitely make big waves on the

The UTEP Miners football team ran into a buzz saw this weekend. Playing the one and nine Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, Miner fans thought maybe they could add another win to a tough season they had been enduring. Apparently the environment, was just too much. “You know I don’t think we handled the trip very well

One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting on downtown Denver streets Monday, authorities said. Officers blocked off several streets at the crime scene near the Colorado Rockies’ baseball stadium but had not arrested anyone, police spokesman Doug Schepman said. Schepman said he did not know what led to the shooting,

UPDATE: Former Deputy Tai Chan will remain behind bars through the Thanksgiving holiday. Chan turned himself in over the weekend. His Defense attorney, John Day sought to get the charge dismissed. On Nov. 19, a judge refused to dismiss the charge. Chan will be transported to Santa Fe County where he will remain in jail.

A gunman opened fire Monday at a Chicago hospital, killing a police officer and two hospital employees in an attack that began with a domestic dispute and exploded into a firefight with law enforcement inside the medical center. The suspect was also dead, authorities said. It was not immediately clear if the attacker took his

The mission – no one in our community should go hungry. This holiday season the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank will make sure that families in need will have a meal on the table just in time for Thanksgiving. Come Tuesday, volunteers at the food pantry will be packing together turkey dinners that will

Doña Ana County Sheriff’s detectives are looking for a man who allegedly broke into a San Miguel home over the weekend and was captured on surveillance cameras. Detectives are looking for a man believed to be Danny Sanchez Jr. following a burglary of a home on the 100 block of Rosario Street on Saturday, November

The candidates running in the city council district eight runoff election visited El Paso City Council chambers Monday for a ballot drawing, with incumbent Cissy Lizarraga drawing first. The draw means Lizarraga will show up second on the ballot while challenger Nicholas Vasquez will show up first. The District 8 race went to a runoff

In a 4 to 3 vote, the Las Cruces City Council voted to approve a resolution in support of a state bill that would completely alter the landscape of liquor licensing in New Mexico. “It will be chaos,” said Marci Dickerson, who owns the Game and the Game II. “I promise you.” If passed, the

James McClain Green, the Franklin High School athlete critically injured in a car wreck over the weekend, remains in the hospitalized, but is improving, track coach Lennie Brooks told ABC-7. Green was involved in a car crash Saturday night. He was not driving. According to police, Green was a passenger in the car and was

A Taiwanese exchange student accused of threatening to “shoot up” his high school near Philadelphia was spared additional time in prison at his sentencing Monday, but he will be deported and barred from returning to the U.S. A federal judge Monday after nearly two hours of testimony sentenced An-Tso Sun also known as “Edward” to

Family and friends are mourning a couple killed in a fiery chain reaction crash while driving to their wedding in Pittsburgh. Kathryn Schurtz, 35, and her fiance Joseph Kearney were driving on Interstate 78 on Wednesday when they encountered heavy traffic from an earlier crash, state police said. A tractor-trailer was unable to stop and

Police in suburban St. Louis on Monday were searching for a gunman who went into a religious supply store, sexually assaulted at least one woman and shot a woman in the head. The shooting victim was in critical condition at a hospital. The shooting happened about 3:15 p.m. at a Catholic Supply of St. Louis

Police in suburban St. Louis on Monday were searching for a gunman who went into a religious supply store, sexually assaulted at least one woman and shot a woman in the head. The shooting victim was in critical condition at a hospital. The shooting happened about 3:15 p.m. at a Catholic Supply of St. Louis

A mystery man is providing cheer to Walmart shoppers in Vermont. The man paid off the entire lot of layaway items at the store in Derby, near the Canadian border. Brownington resident Sandra Cortez tells WCAX-TV she thought it was a rumor. But she learned it was real when she went to the store to

Chipotle said Monday that the company has offered a fired St. Paul restaurant manager her job back after receiving more information about an incident where employees refused to serve five black men and asked them to prove they could pay before taking their order. The company said in a statement it has reviewed the evidence

El Salvador’s navy has seized 6.3 metric tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible boat in the Pacific Ocean. The Salvadoran anti-narcotics police division says that four Colombians and a Guatemalan were detained aboard the vessel. Police said Monday the boat was spotted about 185 nautical miles offshore. It had been modified to sit low in

Many Central American migrants camped in Tijuana after crossing Mexico in a caravan said Monday that a protest over the weekend by residents demanding they leave frightened them and left them even more anxious while they try to get into the United States. About 500 people demonstrated in an affluent section of Tijuana on Sunday

Two men and two women were found shot and killed in a basement of a house being renovated on Monday. Police received a call in the morning to check on the welfare of people at the house after a family member arrived to find the door ajar. Responding officers found the four in the basement,

The Alamogordo high school band director accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student was arrested after he allegedly stalked the teenager at home, police said. Detectives with the Alamogordo Police Department arrested 38-year-old Shamlan Al-Masoud on a Magistrate Court Arrest Warrant for Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor and Contributing to Delinquency of

The Alamogordo high school band director accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student was arrested after he allegedly stalked the teenager at home, police said. Detectives with the Alamogordo Police Department arrested 38-year-old Shamlan Al-Masoud on a Magistrate Court Arrest Warrant for Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor and Contributing to Delinquency of

Police have charged a Houston man with child abandonment after concluding that his 6-year-old daughter strangled her 1-year-old brother with a seatbelt in the family car parked outside a thrift store while their father shopped. Adrian Dreshuan Middleton was charged Friday in the May 20 incident on the eastern edge of Houston. ABC 13 in

Legal groups argued Monday that a judge should prevent the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on asylum for anyone who illegally crosses the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar did not immediately rule on whether to issue a temporary restraining order during a hearing in San Francisco. The request was made by