Month: March 2019

Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged along with nearly 50 other people Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents bribed college coaches and insiders at testing centers to help get their children into some of the most elite schools in the country, federal prosecutors said. “These parents are a catalog of

Health care experts are working to raise awareness with the public about a dramatic jump in sexually transmitted infection rates. The recently revealed numbers for 2017 show more than 7,000 new cases of STIs emerged in the El Paso area. That number represents an 11% increase from 2016. Meanwhile, overall STI rates have increased by

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will speak in New Hampshire next month as he weighs a primary challenge to President Donald Trump. The Republican Hogan, who remains popular in liberal leaning Maryland and won re-election last fall, will speak at “Politics & Eggs” on April 23. The program from the New England Council and the New

With members of the largest fire fighters chanting “Run Joe, run,” former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday teased out themes of a possible presidential candidacy, criticizing President Donald Trump’s leadership while questioning Republicans’ commitment to middle class America. Biden, a Democrat, has not announced a presidential bid. But he asked members of the International

There is a crash on I-10 West and Yarbrough blocking the left lane. There is a heavy delay in the area. Drivers need to take Gateway West or Montana to avoid this area. No injuries reported.

(CNN) With spring break just around the corner, the State Department has some advice for the thousands of Americans who head to Mexico this time each year. Here are some things to know before you go: Hospital costs can be just as high or even higher than in the United States, the embassy said. Check

Pancake fans rejoice! Today is Free Pancake Day at IHOP. Guests can get a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In return, guests can also donate money to IHOP’s charity partners the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. IHOP has locations

A grand jury in Otero County, NM has charged a man with raping a minor, according to the 12th Judicial District Attorney. 38-year-old James Scharmack has been charged with 15 counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor (child under 13 years old) – also referred to as rape, two counts of criminal sexual contact

Passionate parents filled the seats at Monday night’s meeting at Centennial High School. The meeting concerning Columbia Elementary students who are temporarily housed at Centennial High School while their new school is being built at a different location. The meeting was supposed to be a place where parents, community members, and students could come together

The NMSU baseball team has found success recruiting players from around the Borderland in recent years, and that trend continued with the signing of Lydia Patterson Institute pitcher Samuel “Samy” Natera. “I have been daydreaming about this,” said Natera. “It was in November that I went to the tryout, and it has been on my

Monday evening, organizers for the El Paso County Coliseum announced award-winning rapper Cardi B will perform on May 21. Cardi B has recently won a Grammy award for “Invasion of Privacy” in the Best Rap Album category. The artist is best known for her hits including “I Like It”, “Finesse” featuring Bruno Mars and “Bodak

A U.S. Border Patrol agent, who is also a certified emergency medical technician, helped a pregnant woman deliver her baby girl on I-10 in between Deming and Las Cruces, the U.S. Border Patrol said. U.S. Border Patrol Agent responded to a medical emergency on Interstate 10, between Deming and Las Cruces, and ended up assisting

NMSU guard Brooke Salas was named WAC Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, the league announced Monday. In addition to repeating as the top player in the conference, Salas was also named the WAC Defensive Player of the Year after finishing second in blocks and steals per game. Salas averaged more than

Marinda Palacios, the woman at the center of a possible love triangle including a slain radio personality, testified in court Monday in the murder trial of Leonel Hernandez. Hernandez is accused of shooting and killing KLAQ DJ Richard Madrigal on June 11, 2016. Palacios, a friend of Madrigal, was dating Hernandez at the time. Palacios

Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder. The earplug in his left ear is attached to a police scanner in his pants pocket. He wears a tie; Maurina insists upon professionalism.

One of the last investigations Jim Boren oversaw before he retired as executive editor of The Fresno Bee was a four-month examination of substandard housing in the city at the heart of California’s Central Valley. The multimedia project revealed the living conditions imposed on many of the city’s low-income renters, many of them immigrants: apartments

We Texans are fiercely independent and like to make our views known. On that, surely, we can agree. Using our First Amendment right to speak out goes hand in hand with access to public information that helps us understand how our government functions. Unfortunately, both basic American principles – free speech and the people’s right

New Mexico State Police say an officer ended an Interstate 25 standoff last month by shooting an armed suspect in the foot. An Arizona man reportedly abducted his wife in Louisiana and threatened to kill his 7-year-old son in the Feb. 27 standoff. The wife of 39-year-old James Kirkland of Kingman bolted from the vehicle

Police say a 25-year-old Mississippi woman has been arrested after two of her three children drowned when she left them in a locked car and it rolled into a creek. The Clarion-Ledger reports Leland police charged Jenea Monique Payne on Monday with two counts of negligent homicide and one of child neglect. Payne’s third child,

A Central Texas woman has died after someone dropped a rock from a railroad overpass through the windshield of the car in which she was riding. Temple police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the Saturday night incident on Interstate 35 that fatally injured Keila Ruby Flores. The 33-year-old Waco

The nation’s largest provider of facilities for detaining migrant children on behalf of the Trump administration said Monday that its founder and CEO is stepping down after months of criticism. Southwest Key Programs said in a statement that Juan Sanchez will retire. The Austin, Texas-based nonprofit collects hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S.

El Paso Police charged one of its own officers with Driving While Intoxicated after an early morning wreck Saturday. Thomas Sneed, 38, was driving a Dodge Ram north on Piedras when he allegedly struck a parked Mazda 3 on the 2300 block of N. Piedras, police said. That is about a mile away from El

El Paso Police charged the alleged hit-and-run driver accused of striking and killing a pedestrian in West El Paso. Police said Angela Marie Kirscheman, 31, was the driver of the 2011 Dodge Journey that struck 27-year-old Miguel Pereda Silerio on the 7200 block of N. Mesa. The pedestrian wreck happened at about 7:05 p.m. on

Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2015 and a member of the law school faculty for more than 40 years, has died. He was 72. The university said Powers died Sunday in Austin from complications from a fall several months earlier and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, a rare adult-onset

A Juarez man pulled over by police in Far East El Paso was allegedly transporting more than 100 pounds of marijuana in a vehicle, El Paso Police said. Manuel Fernando Martinez, 31, is charged with Possession of Marijuana. Police said Martinez was driving a GMC Safari van when he was stopped for a traffic violation

Staff and youth have reported an ongoing “gang war” at a South Texas juvenile prison, the second recent conflict to erupt at a youth lockup run by the state’s beleaguered Juvenile Justice Department. A report from the department’s oversight agency, the Office of the Independent Ombudsman, notes a string of January assaults at Evins Regional

An armed gang has hauled 19 people off a passenger bus in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, security officials said Monday. The gang forced the bus to stop on a highway between the border city of Reynosa and the town of San Fernando on Thursday. They abducted the victims, but allowed 22 other passengers

U.S. Air Force Secretary and former Congresswoman Heather Wilson, the sole finalist to be the next president of the University of Texas at El Paso, said Monday UTEP is “the right university at the right time.” The University of Texas System Board of Regents voted Friday to select Wilson as the only finalist for the

A father who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally with his daughter is a convicted rapist, the U.S. Border Patrol said. U.S. Border Patrol Agents working in downtown El Paso arrested the father last Thursday. The morning of March 7, 2019, Border Patrol Agents working along the border near the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Helvetica Neue’; color: #454545} A recently released medical study contains some startling news about how an item you rely on everyday could be carrying diseases. According to the study, millions of microorganism on the average human hand are easily transferred to cell phones. While many phones go