Month: March 2019

New Mexico State University made their way to the Midwest for their series against the Chicago State Cougars. The Aggies and the Cougars each split each of the last two games. NSMU dropped their games yesterday against the Cougars after they failed to come back eventually losing 7-3. Today however, the Aggies were unstoppable. Aggie

The Locomotive F.C. put their demons from last week behind them. They secured their first franchise win in style in front of their home fans at Southwest University Park. Edson Partida took care of business tonight as he netted the games first goal just after 64th minute off an Omar Salgado deflection. Then in the

Two people, including an El Paso Police officer, were taken to a local hospital after crashing in East El Paso. It happened shortly before 3 p.m. this afternoon on the intersection of George Dieter and Vista Del Sol. Police said two cars including a patrol unit crashed. The officer, who was riding solo, and the

Beto O’Rourke formally launched his presidential campaign in El Paso, Texas Saturday. The former El Paso congressman has two other Saturday rallies in Texas, where he came close enough to upsetting Sen. Ted Cruz to generate the national buzz now buoying his 2020 White House bid. In El Paso, O’Rourke told 1,000-plus supporters near the

Scores for first round games played Friday, March 29: Class 6A Boys: Midland def. Montwood, 1-0 Class 5A Boys: Eastlake def. Andress, 2-1 Jefferson def. Parkland, 2-1 Del Valle def. Chapin, 3-2 Class 6A Girls: Franklin def. Midland, 1-0 Class 5A Girls: El Paso def. Del Valle, 2-0 Chapin def. Bel Air, 1-0

Chris Hanna’s favorite football player is Tony Romo . He’s the quarterback that the El Pasoan grew up idolizing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545} ” He was always a nobody, but he made something out of nothing, and he got to where he’s at, ” Hanna said. Two years

Workers won’t face charges after they were seen on video dragging and shoving immigrant children at a privately run shelter in Arizona, authorities said Friday. Prosecutors in Maricopa County said there’s no reasonable likelihood of proving the workers committed a crime at the now-shuttered Southwest Key facility near Phoenix. Prosecutors said none of the three

Hundreds of friends, relatives and law enforcement officers bid a final farewell to slain El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Peter J. Herrera. Deputy Herrera was laid to rest Friday afternoon at Evergreen Cemetery in East El Paso following a funeral mass officiated by Bishop Mark Seitz at Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church. WATCH

The pregnant and unresponsive woman rushed from the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry to a hospital in El Paso is an undocumented immigrant, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirms. The El Paso Fire Department told ABC-7 Border Patrol agents called emergency dispatch shortly before 1 p.m. to report the woman was not responsive.

Mexico’s foreign relations secretary says his country won’t react to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border. On Friday, Marcelo Ebrard wrote on Twitter: ” Mexico doesn’t act based on threats. ” He also said the Spanish-speaking country is ” the best neighbor ” the U.S. could have. Trump has implied he

Joe Biden’s spokesman said Friday that the former vice president does not recall kissing a Nevada political candidate on the back of her head in 2014. The allegation was made in a New York Magazine article written by Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state representative and the 2014 Democratic nominee for Nevada lieutenant governor. Flores’

Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared on Friday he is likely to shut down America’s southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration. Such a severe move could hit the economies of both countries, but the president emphasized, ” I am not kidding around. ” ” It could

El Paso Police are looking for two men who allegedly stole a woman’s purse, then used the victim’s credit cards. The alleged theft happened Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 9:44 p.m. at the ” Texas Road House ” restaurant located at 10729 Gateway West. Police said the two men grabbed a purse that was hanging

UTEP students and staff know who will be the university’s next president after Dr. Diana Natalicio retires. The University of Texas System announced earlier this month that former New Mexico Congresswoman and Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, Heather Wilson, will be proceeding Dr. Natalicio . But that decision didn’t come without some backlash from

Jakelin Caal Maquin , the Guatemalan girl who died less than 48 hours after Border Patrol agents detained her and other migrants at a remote New Mexico border crossing, died of a bacterial infection, an autopsy report obtained by ABC-7 states. The autopsy report states traces of streptococcus sepsis bacteria were found in Jakelin’s lungs,

On Monday, El Paso City Council voted to allocate 20-thousand dollars towards the hiring of a volunteer coordinator to help with the migrant influx. The county has already allocated the same amount and another 20-thousand dollars is expected to come from the Paso del Norte Foundation.Mayor Dee Margo appeared on ABC-7 at Four to discuss

” 1659. ” Thirty-two-year-old Beto O’Rourke didn’t know what the text arriving to his flip phone meant. But he knew it was from the woman he’d taken to Mexico on a blind date three days earlier, and he figured it was a good sign. It was December 2004, and O’Rourke and Amy Sanders had parked

Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the ” mother of all caravans, ” even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big. Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming. ” We have

Federal immigration authorities on Monday arrested a Canadian man with an expired visitor’s visa, twice been convicted of trespassing at the California home of social media influencer and television personality Kendall Jenner. Homeland Security agents arrested John Ford, 38, in the parking lot of a hotel in Albuquerque. Ford was recently arrested after being discovered

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close America’s southern border or large sections of it next week, a potentially drastic step affecting the economies of both the U.S. and Mexico, if Mexico does not halt illegal immigration ” immediately. ” ” It could mean all trade ” with Mexico, ” Trump said when questioned

The body of fallen El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy Peter J. Herrera is being escorted to its final resting place. The procession will go from Far East El Paso to Del Valle High School in the Lower Valley. It will then go back north to Deputy Herrera’s final resting place at Evergreen Cemetery East. WATCH

Authorities in the Houston area say a pizza delivery driver was shot and killed as he returned to his car after delivering a pizza at an apartment complex. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting occurred Thursday evening at a complex in northern Harris County and involved two suspects who were seen running from

Friends, family, fellow law enforcement, the community and those that loved Deputy Herrera are at the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church to pay their respects at the visitation which started at 5:00 Thursday afternoon. Hundreds of people filed into the church, some carrying flowers as they walked in. Law enforcement from Las Cruces, Horizon

Class 6A Boys: Wolfforth Frenship def. Coronado, 6-3 Odessa def. Americas, 2-1 Midland Lee def. Socorro, 3-0 Class 6A Girls: Odessa def. Socorro, 3-0 Odessa Permian def. Pebble Hills, 2-1 Wolfforth Frenship def. Americas, 8-0 Class 5A Girls: El Dorado def. Andress, 5-1 Eastwood def. Canutillo, 3-2 (AET)

A former associate superintendent with the Gadsden Independent School District was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to four counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor. A grand jury indicted Richard Chavez, 66, on six counts of second degree criminal sexual contact of a minor in May 2016.

The planned Beto O’Rourke rally in downtown El Paso creates hurdles for local business owners. With an estimated crowd in the thousands it is thought that the store owners would be ecstatic about the over whelming foot traffic. That may be true for some store owners but the ones on South El Paso street may

The number of migrant families and children entering the U.S. from Mexico is so high that Border Patrol is immediately releasing them instead of transferring them to the agency responsible for their release, forcing local governments to help coordinate their housing, meals and travel. ” We need to work toward a clean sweep, ” Border

A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Tigua Tribe’s bingo and gaming operations must stop in 90 days, then immediately stopped his own order, pending appeal, citing ” irreparable harm ” that may be suffered by the Tribe. Judge Philip Martinez issued a permanent injunction for Speaking Rock and other properties, saying the tribe’s activities

A childhood illness once thought eradicated in the United States has been diagnosed at Andress High.Three people have been diagnosed with the virus, which is highly contagious and is spread through coughing and contact with saliva. The El Paso school district could not specify whether the patients were all students. Parents were notified through a

The Texas House of Representatives approved two key appropriations bills that would provide $15 million to fix the Wyler Aerial Tramway and $20 million for a new dental school at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso, said El Paso State Representative Cesar Blanco. Blanco voted in favor of the Supplemental Appropriations Bill