Month: February 2019

As President Trump’s campaign visit approaches, El Pasoans are getting ready with new merchandise. The president is set to hold a campaign rally Monday and merchandise is already being bought by those supporting and opposing him. Everyone has seen the famous Make America Great Again hats, but they won’t be the only piece political of

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 290 undocumented immigrants near Antelope Wells Port of Entry. Early Friday morning, the agents observed a large group illegally crossing the border. Officials said the group consisted of people from Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. During initial interviews and screenings, Border Patrol agents noticed a juvenile

Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke is scheduled to speak at a “Celebration of El Paso” in South El Paso at the same time President Donald Trump will address supporters at the El Paso County Coliseum. The “Celebration of El Paso” will begin at Bowie High School at 5:00 p.m. Participants will then march to

It’s reckoning time: President Donald Trump had his annual medical exam Friday, a year after his doctor advised him to up the exercise and cut the calories. Trump spent more than four hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a checkup supervised by Dr. Sean P. Conley, his physician, and involving a panel

Trevelin Queen hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to lift New Mexico State over CSU Bakersfield Thursday night in yet another thrilling win for the Aggies. It was a back and forth game in which both teams built double-digit leads throughout the contest. NMSU jumped out to a 23-6 lead and looked to be in

Several El Paso Independent School District campuses near the El Paso County Coliseum will have early release ahead of Monday’s rally by President Donald Trump. The impacted schools are Aoy, Beall, Burleson, Clardy, Cooley, Douglass, Hart and Zavala elementary schools. The afternoon pre-kindergarten and Head Start sessions will be moved to the morning. Guillen and

The apprehension of unaccompanied migrant children and family units has increased dramatically along the Southwest border and the El Paso sector, according to new numbers released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. On Friday, CBP said Border Patrol agents continue to encounter an unprecedented “high volume of families and unaccompanied children from Central America” attempting

President Donald Trump will hold his first campaign rally of the year this Monday in El Paso, Texas. His campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted that the rally will be held “less than 1000 feet from the successful border fence that keeps El Paso safe!” The president’s rally will be held at the County Coliseum, just

UPDATE: El Paso Police tweeted at 11:06 P.M. that I-10 West at Executive has reopened. ORIGINAL REPORT: El Paso Police are on the scene of vehicle collision near I-10 West at Executive. According to police, a semi-truck carrying several tractors trailers was driving along I-10 West when around 8 p.m. one of the tractors started

All branches of the El Paso public library will be closed Friday. The city announced the closure this week, stating that staff will take part in training designed to improve services. The main library and branches will reopen on Saturday, Feb. 9. Library users are urged to use the online services or the library app.

Consider this as a way to show yourself some love ahead of Valentine’s Day. The Hospitals of Providence is hosting an event promoting mammograms at three of its locations on Saturday, Feb. 9. Hospital officials said that the yearly exam is the most effective way of detecting breast cancer. The Love Yourself Mammo Event runs

The UTEP Miners were just 15-53 from the field and 5-27 from deep in Thursday’s loss to the FAU Owls at the Don Haskins Center. The Miners were limited to just 19 first half points in their 61-48 loss – their sixth loss in the last seven games. UTEP fell to 2-9 in Conference USA

El Paso city leaders want to deliver on the 2012 Quality of Life Bond projects that voters were promised. They’re willing to do so at any cost — literally. City Council is issuing certificates of obligation, which is a form of non-voter approved debt, in order to pay for the bond projects which are over

Veterinarians in Montana revived a cat named Fluffy that nearly froze to death after being found in a snowbank covered from head to tail in ice and snow. Dr. Jevon Clark of the Animal Clinic of Kalispell said Thursday that Fluffy was unresponsive and her body temperature didn’t register on the clinic’s thermometers when her

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected claims from a Muslim inmate who said his religious rights were being violated, clearing the way for the lethal injection to go forward Thursday night. In a 5-4 decision, justices vacated a stay issued by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had been blocking the execution

Apple has released an iPhone update to fix a software flaw that allowed people to eavesdrop on others while using FaceTime. The bug enabled interlopers to turn an iPhone into a live microphone while using Group FaceTime. Callers were able to activate another person’s microphone remotely even before the person has accepted or rejected the

The Socorro Independent School District invited local parents on Thursday night to an informal meeting regarding the start of a new dual language academy. According to SISD officials, parents have been asking about such a program for a long time and are excited to see it get going. “Students who are not just bi-lingual but

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two people killed in a wreck late Wednesday as 16-year-old Penelope Jauregui and 30-year-old Hugo Davalos. “The preliminary investigation revealed the driver of a Hyundai Veloster was traveling southbound on Horizon when the driver disregarded the red light at the intersection of Horizon and Bowdoin St,”

Four Las Cruces Police officers have been cleared in the deadly shooting of a man close to Las Cruces High School last September. The Doña Ana County District Attorney’s office cited lapel camera video in their decision to not pursue charges, writing in a statement the force of use was justified. The DA’s office wrote

“A big deal.” That’s how the ownership team of the El Paso Chihuahuas described the hiring of Edwin Rodriguez to manage the triple-A baseball team. Rodriguez, who played for both the San Diego Padres and New York Yankees, has spent 40 years in professional baseball as either a player, coach or manager. The native of

Hanks High School held a pep rally Thursday afternoon to introduce Jason Blair as the school’s new head football coach and athletic coordinator. Blair was most recently the offensive coordinator at the school but has 21 total years of experience coaching multiple sports in El Paso including softball, wrestling, soccer, and basketball. He says he

Astronomers have become the latest victims of Mexico’s violence with activities at two observatories being reduced because their staff suffered crimes while traveling to the remote mountain sites, researchers said Thursday. The problems occurred near the Alfonso Serrano Large Millimeter Telescope, or LMT, in the central Mexico state of Puebla. It is the world’s largest

The men allegedly involved in a high-speed chase involving state troopers on I-10 are identified in court documents as 26-year-old Damian Arce and 27-year-old Jeremy Horn. State Police troopers took the two men into custody following a pursuit that began in East-Central and ended in El Paso’s Lower Valley on Friday, February 1, 2019. Police

Texas’ election chief on Thursday defended giving prosecutors a list of 95,000 potential noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls before vetting the information, which turned out to wrongly include scores of people who were naturalized before casting legal ballots. Secretary of State David Whitley deflected sharp questions from Texas lawmakers over whether his office made

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two people killed in a wreck late Wednesday as 16-year-old Penelope Jauregui and 30-year-old Hugo Davalos. “The preliminary investigation revealed the driver of a Hyundai Veloster was traveling southbound on Horizon when the driver disregarded the red light at the intersection of Horizon and Bowdoin St,”

The alleged hit-and-run driver blamed for a man’s death in Northeast El Paso allegedly told police he did not stop to render aid because he panicked. The man allegedly replaced his vehicle’s shattered windshield after the wreck, a criminal complaint obtained by ABC-7 states. Police charged 23-year-old Jorge Benjamin Meza, of Chaparral, New Mexico, with

Wells Fargo is having issues with its online banking and mobile app. The bank tweeted about the outage about an hour ago, saying, “We’re experiencing a systems issue that is causing intermittent outages, and we’re working to restore services as soon as possible.” Twitter users are saying they are unable to access their accounts. Wells

National Signing Day saw UTEP add 32 new signees — including six from El Paso — to the football roster. But ABC-7 wanted to focus on one new player who had to overcome a health battle on top of attempting to land a spot on a Division I college roster. Luke Laufenberg, a tight end

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is promoting her agenda for education reform and opposition to President Trump’s border wall in a video that shows her crashing through plaster walls. The video segment paid for by Lujan Grisham’s campaign fund shows the diminutive governor crashing through a make-believe school classroom and taking aim at a

El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar told ABC-7 she was in disbelief during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address, but stopped short of addressing what some perceived as a vulgar vocal expression seen on national television. About eight minutes into his speech, the President was talking about the two political parties coming together. The