Month: December 2018

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with capital murder after telling investigators he killed four sex workers whom he considered worthless and that he thought he was performing a service for his Texas border hometown, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said he will seek the death penalty if

El Paso Police are investigating a rollover wreck at Spur 601 and Global Reach near Fort Bliss. The wreck was reported shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Global Reach Exit 25 South towards Montana is closed. Police dispatch communications indicated one person was ejected from the vehicle. ABC-7 is working to get official confirmation from police

El Pasoans looking for a quick bite to eat may find that discounts sometimes come right to your fingertips. Burger King is offering a limited time promotion from Tuesday through December 12th that allows customers to buy a whopper sandwich for 1 cent – but there’s a catch. In order to cash in on the

The state’s largest liquor chain — Spec’s Wine, Spirits and Finer Foods — is suing the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission for “abusive regulatory overreach” over an enforcement action that dragged on for almost two years before falling apart in administrative proceedings last year, court documents show. The federal lawsuit, filed in Houston in late August

Mexico’s leftist new president said Wednesday that relations with U.S. President Donald Trump are “good,” and the two will probably talk soon about the immigration issue. Many analysts had been expecting President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to run into headlong conflict with Trump, especially since a caravan of about 7,000 Central American migrants set up

There is a crash on I-10 West and Yarbrough blocking the right lane. Drivers need to take Gateway West or Montana to avoid this area. No injuries reported.

A second person has died as result of a deadly home invasion on Thanksgiving Day. Jonathan Salas, 24, was shot on Nov. 22, after a man broke into his family’s home on the 8000 block of Signal Peak Place in Northeast El Paso. His father, Juan Salas, 58, was shot and killed. His mother, Lorenza

Tuesday night was a dream come true for one high school student. Angie Guereca is a special-needs student and the manager of Pebble Hills High School girls basketball team. Teammates said she is at the campus every morning for the team’s practice and is their biggest supporter. As the Spartans took on the Clint High

Joseph Garcia was four years into a 50-year sentence for a 1996 Bexar County murder when he joined six other inmates who escaped prison, went on the run and killed Irving Police officer Aubrey Hawkins in a Christmas Eve robbery. Texas executed the 47-year-old Garcia on Tuesday, almost 18 years after he and the other

National Influenza Vaccination Week ends Dec. 8, and the City of El Paso Department of Public Health wants some of the most vulnerable in our community to get vaccinated. “We want to encourage our community members to get vaccinated because every year thousands of children and adults must be hospitalized due to complications related to

ABC-7 first reported on the Productos Real pork rinds factory being out of compliance with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in January. That report was prompted by several Lower Valley residents complaining about the smell coming from the factory located on 1100 Pendale Drive. The company was forced to enter into a compliance

There was very little doubt concerning who would win Tuesday’s matchup between New Mexico and New Mexico State after the opening minutes. The Aggies jumped out to an 11-0 lead early on and proceeded to demolish the Lobos to claim their fifth straight win in the series. The only question after the first few minutes

UTEP freshman Jordan Lathon scored 26 points and added six assists, but the Miners fell on the road Tuesday at Marquette by a final of 76-69. The Golden Eagles jumped out to a quick 13-2 lead early in the first half, but Lathon helped the Miners stay in game scoring 15 of his 26 before

The man accused in a deadly home invasion in Northeast El Paso on Thanksgiving evening was also involved in a kidnaping in Las Cruces hours before. Jason A. Gibson, 38, was arrested by U.S. Marshals officials in Florida on Tuesday afternoon. ABC-7 has obtained police reports stating Gibson is also wanted on a homicide charge

Lorenzo Anchondo, the man accused of driving drunk and crashing into a stop sign that struck and killed 33-year-old Xiaoyan Shi, had a blood alcohol content of .17, nearly twice the legal limit, prosecutors argued Tuesday. Anchondo’s trial is underway in the 41st District Court at the county courthouse. The trial’s second day focused on

Fire investigators suspect someone might have set ablaze an abandoned structure in central Las Cruces. “It does concern me a lot,” said Natalia Contreras, who lives right next door on Nevarez Street near Solano Drive. A message on the structure reads “KEEP OUT,” but Contreras told ABC-7 she has seen people drink on the abandoned

A teenager who told authorities she “snapped” and killed her parents while struggling with gender identity and acceptance was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison. Andrea Balcer, who was 17 at the time of the fatal stabbings, asked for forgiveness from her remaining family members, many of whom had called for the maximum penalty.

While the Trump administration focuses attention on migrant caravans trying to cross the southern U.S. border in California, migration is surging at the opposite end of the border in South Texas. Last weekend in the Rio Grande Valley, Border Patrol agents caught 1,900 people trying to cross the southern border illegally. Border agents in the

Police say a 4-year-old central Indiana girl has died, five days after she was accidentally shot in the head by her 3-year-old brother. Lebanon police say Izabella-Marie Helem died Tuesday at an Indianapolis hospital. Her mother, Briana Helem, says eight children will benefit from organ donations. She says her daughter has “created miracles for other

El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke recently with former president Barack Obama as O’Rourke weighs whether to run for president in 2020, the Washington Post reports. The newspaper reports the meeting was held on November 16th at the former president’s offices in Washington D.C. The Post reports the meeting came as former Obama aides encouraged O’Rourke

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has approved plans to extend the deployment of active-duty U.S. troops at the southern border with Mexico until January 31. The 45-day extension was requested by the Department of Homeland Security. It involves military forces that will install and repair wire barriers and provide security and transportation for

The United States warned Russia Tuesday it has 60 days to start complying with a landmark missile treaty or Washington could abandon the pact, creating doubts about nuclear security in Europe. At NATO talks in Brussels, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Russia of “cheating at its arms control obligations” under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

UTEP senior linebacker A.J. Hotchkins was named to the All-Conference USA second team on Tuesday. The Oregon transfer finished the season with 126 total tackles, which was tied for the league lead. He also paced the Miners with seven sacks. Hotchkins finished 17th nationally in tackles per game with 10.5 in his lone season with

An exhausted Alonzo Juan Jose sat still on a cot inside a shelter in southern New Mexico. For six days, the 24-year-old migrant from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, and his 5-month-old daughter, Allison Yajaira Juan Miguel, slept on a concrete floor while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Now they were moments away from a good

Billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in Iowa Tuesday he would do everything he can to make climate change the defining issue of the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating campaign, despite resistance in regions of the country his party would likely need to recapture the White House. Like Bloomberg, who was making his maiden

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the San Diego sector has experienced a “slight uptick” in families entering the U.S. illegally and turning themselves in to agents since the caravan of Central American migrants arrived in Tijuana two weeks ago. An Associated Press video journalist witnessed more than two dozen migrants scale a fence between

A former Texas Christian University employee must serve five years in prison for embezzling at least $210,000 from a federal program that helps low-income students prepare for college. Margaret Faust was sentenced Monday in Fort Worth. The 69-year-old Faust in August pleaded guilty in a case involving TCU’s Upward Bound program, which closed amid the

Haydee Posadas had waited eight years for her son to come home. On the last night of her long vigil, she was too agitated to sleep. Her son had fled Honduras for the U.S. in 2010 in part because of gang threats, just as thousands are doing today in the migrant caravans headed north, including

Attorneys for a death row inmate who is scheduled to die Tuesday say he should be spared because he wasn’t the one who killed a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas Eve robbery 18 years ago, it was other escaped inmates he was with. Joseph Garcia, 47, is slated to die by lethal injection

A local chapter of the Satanic Temple has been allowed to place a statue in the Illinois Statehouse alongside holiday displays of a Nativity scene and a menorah. The State Journal-Register reports the sculpture depicts the forearm of a woman holding an apple. The statue is called “Knowledge is the Greatest Gift.” In its application