Month: December 2018

– More police officers have died in the line of duty this year in the United States than in 2017, according to data released Thursday. Most were killed by gunfire, and vehicular accidents claimed nearly as many officers’ lives. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said in a report that 144 federal, state and

The police chief in a South Texas city has been arrested on a domestic violence charge. Records show Hidalgo police Chief Rodolfo “Rudy” Espinoza was booked into Hidalgo County jail Thursday on a charge of assault causing bodily injury to a family member. He was arrested by Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies. Jail records did not

Pedro Gonzalez has faith in Donald Trump and his party. The 55-year-old Colombian immigrant is a pastor at an evangelical church in suburban Denver. Initially repelled by Trump in 2016, he’s been heartened by the president’s steps to protect religious groups and appoint judges who oppose abortion rights. More important, Gonzalez sees Trump’s presidency as

Detectives with the El Paso Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit charged a 22-year-old Fort Bliss soldier with murder after a deadly stabbing attack in Northeast El Paso. Police said Torian A. Davis was arrested for the stabbing death of a 25-year-old woman at an apartment unit at 4649 Loma Del Sur. Police have not

Well the teams have arrived. The Pittsburgh Panthers and the Stanford cardinal are in El Paso and experiencing a little bit of what the Borderland has to offer before they get to work! The first plane landed at the El Paso Airport around 11:am. Pittsburgh showed up first with Stanford arriving about 45 minutes later.

Chances look slim for ending the partial government shutdown any time soon. Lawmakers are away from Washington for the holidays and have been told they will get 24 hours’ notice before having to return for a vote. And although the Senate is slated to come into session Thursday afternoon, few senators were expected to be

More than 500 additional migrants are to be released by ICE in El Paso on Wednesday, said Ruben Garcia with the Annunciation House. Garcia told ABC-7 he was notified by Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expect 520 migrants. Annunciation House is a shelter that helps migrants while they reunite with

The federal government’s partial shutdown hasn’t stopped some people from visiting White Sands National Monument though the site in southern New Mexico is closed. The Alamogordo Daily News reports that hundreds of unauthorized visitors climbed over a fence to enter the monument since the shutdown started Saturday and that numerous cars were parked outside a

A teenager from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is facing child porn charges after allegedly uploading a photo on the social media network Tumblr. New Mexico State Police arrested Daryl Harlan Thomas, 18, on December 20, 2018 in Silver City, New Mexico. Harlan, accused of manufacturing, distributing and possessing child pornography, is facing three counts

El Paso Police Wednesday identified the man shot by two police officers as 25-year-old Luis Angel Hernandez. The suspect was taken to University Medical Center after he was shot in the legs by the two officers, police said. Authorities said the officers were responding to a family disturbance just after 8 p.m. on the 500

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will keep open through early 2019 a tent city in Texas that now holds more than 2,000 migrant teenagers, and also will increase the number of beds at another temporary detention center for children in Florida. The Tornillo facility opened in June in an isolated corner of the Texas

The father of the 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. government custody says his son had shown no signs of illness before falling sick Monday, the same day he died. That’s according to Oscar Padilla, the Guatemalan consul in Phoenix, who met Wednesday with Agustin Gomez, the father of Felipe Gomez Alonzo. Guatemalan officials

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen today released the following statement on the eight year-old Guatemalan national who passed away shortly before midnight on December 24 at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico: “In the evening hours of December 24th, a child who had been apprehended with his father by the

The two suspects in a deadly mobile home fire in Sunland Park were in a “boyfriend-girlfriend relationship” and consumed drugs together, an arrest warrant obtained by ABC-7 states. Juan Carlos Holguin and Jocelyn Ontiveros, both of Sunland Park, New Mexico, are facing a slew of charges, including arson, abuse of a child resulting in death

UPDATE: The truck has been removed from the site of the wreck. Traffic appears to be flowing smoothly on I-10 West near Missouri. ABC-7 is working to get an update on the status of the damaged overpass. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A commercial truck had damaged the Missouri overpass on I-10 West. ABC-7 reporter Saul Saenz reports

The deaths of two migrant children in just over two weeks raised strong new doubts Wednesday about the ability of U.S. border authorities to care for the thousands of minors arriving as part of a surge of families trying to enter the country. An 8-year-old boy identified by Guatemalan officials as Felipe Gomez Alonzo died

A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia who campaigned in a “deportation bus” has turned himself in to county jail after being indicted on charges including insurance fraud. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports an attorney for state Sen. Michael Williams said Wednesday that the indictment presented a “one-sided story” and Williams would be “out soon” after arranging

President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday, leaving behind a partially shuttered U.S. government to greet American troops helping hold off extremists in a country where thousands of Americans died during the recent war. It comes a week after Trump stunned his national security advisers by announcing that he would withdraw

A judge has ordered the Sunland Park woman charged in connection to a deadly fire be held without bond, a court document obtained by ABC-7 states. An arrest warrant obtained by ABC-7 earlier this week states Jocelyn Ontiveros, blamed for the deadly fire that killed an 8-year-old girl, wanted the girl’s mother “killed” because the

President Donald Trump’s claims over Christmas that he had awarded 115 miles of new border wall construction in Texas appear to confuse work that’s already funded and underway. Trump tweeted on Monday, “I am in the Oval Office & just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says “neofascists” and conservatives are blaming the government for a helicopter crash that killed two opposition politicians. Lopez Obrador refused to speculate on what caused the crash, but military experts said no explosive devices were found in the wreckage. Mexico asked the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board for help

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced changes to its medical screening for migrant children. The move comes after two children died this month in Border Patrol custody after they were detained for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The latest death was on Christmas Eve after Felipe Alonzo Gomez, 8, was transported to an Alamogordo hospital

UTEP took on Wyoming at the Don Haskins Center in the consolation game of the Sun Bowl Invitational. First half of the game the senior Paul Thomas gets the ball and sees Effie Odigie down low. Odigie gets the pill and drops it in. Miners playing defense! Jordan Lathon in the right place and the

Just weeks after the death of a 7-year-old migrant girl, officials confirm an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died on Christmas Day at an Alamogordo hospital in the custody of Customs and Border Protection. The name of the boy who died is 8-year-old Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, confirmed U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro, the chairman-elect of the Congressional Hispanic

Signs, flowers and tents line the entrance to the Tornillo detention facility housing migrant children and teens. Immigration activists are camping out in protest for nine days. “It’s a creative encampment and an occupation,” Elizabeth Vega, one of the protest organizers, said. “We believe that resistance is very important to the camp, but we also

A New Mexico cannabis company says it’s expanding its business to include hemp. Ultra Health says in a Monday news release that it was awarded continual production licenses to grow hemp at its Bernalillo and Tularosa sites and will dedicate 872,000 square feet of its operation to hemp cultivation. President Donald Trump last week signed

U.S. Census figures show Texas added more people to its population than any other state during the past year. But the Austin American-Statesman reports Texas’ growth rate has slowed down. Texas added 379,128 people from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, a growth of 1.3 percent. The state’s population is nearly 29 million. In

The NMSU Aggies took on the Washington State Cougars last night in the consolation game, of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic.NMSU started off hot and looked like they were going to route Washington State, JoJo Zamora was shooting the lights out of the building. The ever dangerous AJ Harris was picking pockets and scoring

The NMSU Aggies Brooke Salas was named the WAC Player of the Week today. Apparently she is just stacking up trophies because this is the seventh time shes won the award. Salas went insane during the Alcorn State game putting up 32 points, 22 rebounds and 11 blocked shots. That was the school’s first triple

It was announced today that Efe Odigie is the C-USA Freshman player of the week.This is the second time in a month the talented big man has won the award. Odigie put up his fifth double double of the season versus Wyoming Saturday night. Odigie is the first freshman to win it multiple times since