Month: February 2019

The New Mexico State football team has added 10 student-athletes to its 2019-20 roster on National Signing Day. Of the 10 new Aggies, seven are soon-to-be high school graduates and the remaining three are from the college and junior college ranks. After wrapping up a strong signing day, head coach Doug Martin thanked his coaching

UTEP Football Head Coach Dana Dimel hosted a media luncheon Wednesday afternoon for National Signing Day. Coach Dimel plans to add depth to the Miners’ 2019 roster by signing 32 new players. WATCH COACH DIMEL’S NEWS CONFERENCE BELOW: Nine are transfers and 23 are high school student-athletes who will attend UTEP next semester. A total

The Trump campaign announced the president will host a Make America Great Again rally in El Paso on Monday, February 11th. The rally, which is the president’s seventh in Texas, but first in El Paso, is scheduled to start at 7:00 pm at the El Paso County Coliseum. “Our security plan will be a collaborative

The governor of New Mexico ordered the withdrawal of the majority of the state’s National Guard troops from the U.S. border with Mexico on Tuesday, in a move that challenges President Trump’s description of a security crisis. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the partial withdrawal shortly before Trump’s State of the Union address. Her Republican

El Paso law enforcement officers are contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims that El Paso was unsafe before the border barrier was built. The president of the local police officers union told ABC-7 the barrier had nothing to do with making El Paso one of the safest cities in the nation. “Well, I was watching last

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was seen by 46.8 million television viewers, an increase over his 2018 speech. The Nielsen company said the speech, which was delayed by the government shutdown, topped last year’s audience of 45.6 million. His first such address before Congress in 2017 was seen by 47.7 million. The

When a Las Cruces family heard a crash in their neighborhood at 2 a.m. on Saturday, they immediately thought of their daughter. “The first thing that comes to a parent’s mind is ‘Oh my God, please don’t let it be her,’” said Elva Martinez. According to the Las Cruces Police Department, Naomi Flores died after

Ex bugging you? The El Paso Zoo is holding an event for Valentine’s Day where you can submit the name of your ex to be assigned to a cockroach then fed to a meerkat. Just message your ex’s name to the zoo’s Facebook page starting February 11. To watch the gory game unfold live, visit

Article By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Jurors at the trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman ended their third day of deliberations at his U.S. trial Wednesday without a verdict after asking whether killing someone over personal beef could be part of a drug-trafficking conspiracy. In the same note

A caravan of 1,600 Central American migrants was surrounded Wednesday by Mexican authorities in an old factory a short distance from Texas, where they hoped to seek asylum even as U.S. authorities sent extra law enforcement and soldiers to stop them. President Donald Trump warned in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday of

President Donald Trump had invited Joshua Trump as his State of The Union guest because the White House said the sixth-grader from Wilmington, Delaware, had been bullied because of his last name. Dressed in formal white shirt and (loosened) tie, he had a prime seat in the House gallery — right there in the same

President Trump is coming to El Paso. The Trump campaign announced that the president will host a Make America Great Again rally on Monday, Feb. 11. It will take place at 7:00 pm at the El Paso County Coliseum. This is the seventh rally that Trump has held in Texas, and the first rally in

Jurors are deliberating for a third day at the U.S. trial of the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The panel returned to work Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court. The jurors sent the judge notes Tuesday indicating interest in the kingpin’s alleged attempts at diversifying his smuggling operation to include methamphetamine. The defense

The El Paso Police Department continues to warn El Pasoans to stay alert about new phone scams popping up in the city. According to the department, the latest scam occures when the caller/scammer contacts a resident and explains that a vehicle registered in their name has been stored, but it cannot be released due to

A growing chorus of high-ranking Texas officials is calling on the federal government to establish rules that will allow for the flow of $4.3 billion to the state for Hurricane Harvey recovery. Texas has been waiting a year for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Office of Management and Budget to

FBI agents in El Paso are investigating an alleged assault on a Border Patrol agent while the agent was on duty. The FBI says someone fired shots at the agent on January 31, 2019, at approximately 7:35 p.m. It is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons

A pregnant woman and her unborn baby were killed in a head-on crash near Santa Teresa. New Mexico State Police identified the victim as Cynthia P. Gamboa, 24, of Chaparral. The crash happened in the late evening on Jan. 31 on New Mexico State Road 136 near mile post 9. The investigation by New Mexico

The Associated Press is fact-checking remarks from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech. Here’s a look at some of the claims we’ve examined: BORDER WALL TRUMP: “These (border) agents will tell you where walls go up, illegal crossings go way, way down … San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings

After two years of bitter partisanship and personal attacks, President Donald Trump will call for unity and cross-party cooperation in Washington during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, a message likely to ring hollow with Democrats determined to block his push for a border wall. Trump’s prime-time address comes at a critical moment in his

Club volleyball teams from across Texas and New Mexico will convene this weekend for a major tournament at the El Paso Convention Center. Among the local organizations competing is the El Paso Stars, a group founded by Joseph Dawson about a decade ago that trains year-round at Stars Haven volleyball court on Ripley Drive. The

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke will decide whether to run for president “before the end of this month,” he told Oprah Winfrey in an interview Tuesday. O’Rourke’s weeks of near-silence ended on a massive stage as he sat down for an interview with Winfrey. “People have been telling you’re the real deal, so I’ve invited you

New Mexico State University is set to open its first on-campus bar and restaurant in April. Pete’s Patio is located in the atrium at the Corbett’s Center Student Union, next to Taos restaurant. Sitting at Taos enjoying his lunch with a friend, Joe Limon told ABC-7, “Before, when they didn’t have that, it was empty

In his address to Texas on Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott made an ambitious proposal. “We must create a pathway for the best teachers to earn a six-figure salary,” Abbott said. El Paso educators took issue with his recommendation. “It sounds nice, but the reality is, very few if any actually get that $100,000 you’re talking

Texas’ election chief denies his office made mistakes over a list of 95,000 voters whose U.S. citizenship was called into question but included thousands of wrongly flagged names. Secretary of State David Whitley is expected to publicly address the backlash surrounding Texas’ efforts to find noncitizens on voter rolls for the first time during his

A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. The governor of the northern state of Coahuila described the migrants as “asylum seekers,” suggesting all had express intentions of surrendering to U.S. authorities. While previous caravans had travelled to the

A jury at the U.S. trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman concluded its second day of deliberations without a verdict Tuesday after jurors sent the judge a handful of notes indicating interest in the kingpin’s alleged attempts at diversifying his smuggling operation to include methamphetamine. One note asked for a reading of

Police suspect a man who died in an explosion behind an Albuquerque, New Mexico, strip mall intended to kill himself. The improvised explosive device exploded Monday in an alley near a busy intersection, killing one man who has not been identified by police. No one else was injured in the afternoon blast that shook nearby

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared school safety an “emergency” issue of his second term Tuesday following one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings last year near Houston, but the Republican put no dollar amount on the table for schools and made no mention of tightening gun laws. His clearest call during his State of the

Former El Paso congressman Beto O’Rourke is set to make a high-profile appearance with Oprah Winfrey. Oprah is hosting Super Soul Conversations Live from Times Square at 2:30 p.m. El Paso time. The event is sold out. O’Rourke, a Democrat who represented much of El Paso in Washington, D.C. from 2013 until Jan. 3, 2019,

Beto O’Rourke’s weeks of near-silence end on a massive stage when he sits down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey. The appearance Tuesday on “Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations from Times Square” comes ahead of a possible presidential campaign and puts O’Rourke’s charisma to the test. O’Rourke dazzled Democrats last year by nearly defeating Republican Sen. Ted