Month: December 2018

President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation reached a deal Tuesday to dissolve while Trump fights allegations he misused assets for business and political purposes. New York’s attorney general and Trump Foundation lawyers filed a joint stipulation in a court laying out a process for shutting down the charity and distributing its remaining assets to other nonprofit

President Donald Trump’s school safety commission on Tuesday called for a rollback of an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial disparities in school discipline but that critics say left schools afraid to take action against potentially dangerous students. The panel, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, made the recommendation in a report that

The contract with the company managing the tent facility housing thousands of migrant children at the Tornillo Port of Entry is ending in less than two weeks, but there is no plan for the future living situation for its young tenants. Rep. Will Hurd, (R) Helotes, took to Twitter Tuesday morning, saying, “Just got off

The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March. The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official. Bump stocks became a

The holiday shipping is at its peak and many are scrambling to get gifts delivered before Christmas. The United States Postal Service said it expects to process and deliver nearly three billion pieces of first-class mail. The UPS Store in west El Paso is gearing up for the holiday rush to help customers get their

The bad weather has delayed a TxDot project this morning. The Anthony overpass has remained closed since last night. It was scheduled to be reopened at six am however work was delayed due to weather. Drivers need to take the Vinton overpass.

The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees is scheduled to discuss the sale and agreement of the Northeast Tennis Center Property on Tuesday. The district’s goal is on “removing the burden of maintenance of the facility,” which acquired in the 1970s, as stated on a memorandum regarding the sale. The El Paso Community

The El Paso Police officer shot in South Cental El Paso last week responded to well wishes on social media. “I want to thank every single one of you for your thoughts and prayers after this week’s incident,” Officer Felipe Bermudez said on Twitter over the weekend. EPPD confirmed to ABC-7 that Bermudez had been

The Texas Water Development Board approved $12.8 Million in funding to provide first-time wastewater service to 800 homes in Montana Vista. The homes are located in between Vista Del Esta and Krag Street, South of Montana Ave. “Sometimes the septic tank gets full and we have to have people come in and empty the septic

Correction: El Paso County Commissioner Vince Perez said Texas Sen. Jose Rodriguez campaigned against city and county incumbents. ABC-7 checked campaign finance reports and the senator did not make any donations on the only contested county commission race.He did donate $1,350 in city council districst represented by Cissy Lizarraga and Claudia Ordaz-Perez, who is commissioner

Stanford running back Bryce Love announced Monday that he will sit out the Sun Bowl game later this month to instead focus on the NFL Draft. The Cardinal will meet Pittsburgh on Dec. 31 at noon in the annual game. Love has been battling injuries all year including an ankle injury that kept him out

The NMSU men’s basketball team came back after a nine-day lay-off and defeated Northern Colorado at home Monday night by a final of 74-62. The Aggies improved to 8-2 with the win while Northern Colorado dropped to 6-3 overall. NMSU has now won six of its last seven contests. NMSU, which lost to Kansas by

Sunland Park police need your help finding the person responsible for the fire that claimed the life of an eight-year-old girl. “It is very serious,” said Detective Daniel Perez of the Sunland Park Police Department. On Thursday, Marisa Muñoz, a third grader at Desert View Elementary, died in the fire. On Saturday, the New Mexico

The man who allegedly shot an El Paso Police officer in the hand “ambushed” a pair of police officers when they pulled into the parking lot of a South Central El Paso taco restaurant, a criminal complaint obtained by ABC-7 states. El Paso Police charged 41-year-old Ricardo Cereceres with two counts of attempted capital murder.

No matter what happens when Jimmy Garoppolo is healthy again and steps back in as starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Nick Mullens has proven there’s a place for him somewhere in the NFL. The former undrafted free agent out of Southern Mississippi who wasn’t even deemed worthy enough to invite to the combine

Crews continue to clean a neighborhood east of Chamberino three days after a pipe leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline. “It didn’t affect me at all,” said Rudy Garcia. “My wife didn’t like the lights on all night, because there were lights. You can tell where the lights were. But last night they

Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside. Behind locked gates, men and women are sewing sportswear that can end up on U.S. college campuses and sports teams. This

The Borderplex Alliance and Foster Electric announced the company plans to expand its existing operations in El Paso with the goal of creating about 40 new positions by 2020. Foster Electric, a leading global automotive supplier, manufactures auto speaker systems for US and Japanese automakers. Jose Rangel, with the company, said Foster Electric chose El

The KVIA family has lost one of its members. Carlos Rosales, who served as photographer, assignment editor and assistant news director at ABC-7 suffered a heart attack on Saturday. He was fearless, tough, tireless. Our condolences go out to his daughter Carla who is now receiving messages from all over the country from journalists he

A 1974 New York state ban on nunchucks that was put into place over fears that youth inspired by martial arts movies would create widespread mayhem is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, a federal court has ruled. Judge Pamela Chen issued her ruling Friday in a Brooklyn federal court on the martial arts weapon made

A federal judge’s ruling would, if upheld, wipe away the entire Affordable Care Act, the health care overhaul championed by President Barack Obama and twice sustained by the Supreme Court. Judge Reed O’Connor’s opinion was issued late Friday, and supporters of the law vowed to appeal and take other steps to preserve health benefits in

Two teenagers shot another teen during a drug deal that was set up online, El Paso Police said. Police charged 18-year-old Matthew Alexander Perez, of the 9300 block of Viscount; and 17-year-old Jaime Aranda III, of the 9300 block of Lait, with aggravated assault. The shooting happened December 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. at 9375

A Georgia teacher told police he stole a 9-year-old student’s violin because he needed money to pay for a $700 ticket. Citing an incident report, news outlets report that video showed 21-year-old Kalif Jones of Stone Mountain stealing the instrument from the cafeteria. It also showed the Brockett Elementary School teacher walking throughout the school

Shackled at their ankles and wrists and their shoelaces removed, a long line of men and women waited on the tarmac as a team of officers patted them down and checked inside their mouths for anything hidden. Then one by one, they climbed a mobile staircase and onto a charter plane the size of a

Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly is The Associated Press college football Coach of the Year and the third coach to win the award twice since it was established in 1998. Kelly received 16 of 58 first-place votes from AP college football poll voters and 81 total points. Alabama’s Nick Saban was second with 16 first-place votes

Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr name their choices for the best films of 2018. JAKE COYLE 1. “Burning”: It was, for sure, an extraordinary movie year. Little to nothing separates my favorite 10 films, or, for that matter, my top 20 or 30. Many of the year’s best were found overseas,

Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border despite lawmaker resistance from both parties. Without a resolution, parts of the federal government will shut down at midnight Friday. President Donald Trump kept up the pressure

Following the death of a Guatemalan migrant girl in the custody of the federal government, a group of El Paso residents is demanding the improved treatment of migrants. “There’s very many people who have died here trying to immigrate to the United States,” said Marissa Elyse Sanchez, the organizer of the small event. “People are

The Texas judge who approved a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University student accused of rape to avoid jail time holds three degrees from Baylor. The criminal district attorney overseeing the case holds two. The prosecutor who agreed to the plea agreement graduated from Baylor law school. Local leaders say those connections to the

The 57-Hour closure of the entrance ramp to I-10 East and Executive remains closed this morning. The concrete in the area has not fully cured and the ramp will not be able to fully reopen yet. TxDot crews anticipate at the earliest this area may open at 9 a.m. Drivers need to merge on to