Month: April 2019

El Paso Animal Services has come up with a unique way to get pet lovers to adopt cats. It’s going straight to the source where folks go to enjoy animals: the El Paso Zoo. While the average zoo visitor may not want to take home lions or tigers, they will be able to go home

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has tapped El Pasoan Woody Hunt to serve, along with seven other business leaders, on the Board of Directors for the Texas Economic Development Corporation. The appointments require approval by the Texas Senate. The corporation markets Texas competitively and dynamically to businesses to let them know they can Go Big in

Sen. Bernie Sanders took heat from some Democrats for holding a town hall on Fox News Channel but there’s one result hard to argue with: it was the most-watched candidate event in the election campaign so far. An estimated 2.55 million people saw Sanders’ town hall Monday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Nielsen company said. Not

The Trump administration wants to open two new tent facilities to temporarily detain up to 1,000 parents and children near the southern border, as advocates sharply criticize the conditions inside the tents already used to hold migrants. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a notice to potential contractors that it wants to house 500

Municipal authorities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have tried to block a caravan of about 2,000 Central American migrants from entering the town of Huixtla. The Huixtla government declared an emergency Monday night and told stores to close when the migrants streamed in anyway. Members of the caravan pushed past police and headed

A New Mexico man is facing charges after police say he made a bomb threat to a Family Dollar so his girlfriend could get off work. Lovington police said Aaron Gutierrez was arrested Monday in connection with a phoned-in bomb threat in February. The 26-year-old was arrested after police obtained phone records through search warrants.

Dallas police say a man was offered $200 to beat a transgender woman in an attack that was recorded as a crowd gathered to holler and watch. A police affidavit released Monday says the woman accidentally backed into a vehicle before the driver of that vehicle pointed a gun at her and refused to let

A man and a woman from Ruidoso Downs allegedly conspired to kidnap and rob a man at gunpoint at the Casino Apache Travel Center near Mescalero, New Mexico, according to criminal complaint documents obtained by ABC-7. Investigators charged Brittney Priddy and Joshua Bowen, both of the 200 block of Harris Lane in Ruidoso Downs, with

Teaching a teenager how to drive can be difficult for any parent. However, a new driving simulation game has become popular with the promise of bringing much needed experience to young drivers from the safety and comfort of their couches. The game is called Driving Essentials XE and was released recently for the XBOX One

UPDATE: A spokesperson for the El Paso Police Department said the SWAT situation in Far East El Paso has been cleared. Police said there was no evidence of a weapon being fired, and no arrests were made. PREVIOUS STORY: The El Paso Police Department’s SWAT Team, along with a Crisis Intervention Team has been dispatched

El Paso police have confirmed the pedestrian who was struck and killed on I-10 in West El Paso on Friday was evading Border Patrol agents. Police said the unidentified male pedestrian crossed I-10 near Schuster to avoid Border Patrol when he was struck and killed by a car heading Eastbound. Police said the pedestrian was

Love Reese’s peanut butter eggs? If you’re lucky, the Easter Bunny will put a few in your basket. If you’re extra lucky, you could get 36 individually-wrapped Reese’s eggs delivered to your doorstep during the hottest months of the year! That’s right — the company is freezing batches of the iconic candy and will be

Las Cruces City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday that would allocate $75,000 to provide temporary care for the asylusm seekers in Las Cruces. “This community deals with the situation that it has been handed,” said City Councilor Greg Smith, who represents district two. “We didn’t ask for it.” “Just because we have the money,

Every year fifth-grade students at Lundy Elementary School give back a special gift to the school as a way of saying thanks for the education they received. This years fifth-grade class took a field trip Monday to Bomanite Artistic Concrete & Pool. That’s where they were able to individually contribute to a new Mountain Lion

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Monday released 10 years of his tax returns, with the most recent filing showing that he and his wife earned more than $360,000 in income. Encompassing 2008 through 2017, the hundreds of pages of returns show that the former Texas congressman and his wife, Amy, had a total annual

A sweeping Texas bill that would toughen penalties for election-related crimes advanced Monday over protests from civil rights groups who say it punishes voters with jail time for making potentially honest mistakes. The GOP-backed measure, which has now tentatively cleared the Texas Senate, has intensified voting rights battles in the Capitol at a time when

Top administration officials have been discussing ways to increase pressure on countries with high numbers of citizens who overstay short-term visas, as part of President Donald Trump’s growing focus on immigration heading into his re-election campaign. The administration could introduce new travel restrictions on nationals from those countries, according to two people familiar with the

Police say the woman suspected of driving while intoxicated and crashing into another vehicle Sunday evening has been charged with child abuse after police learned her 10-year-old son was a passenger in the vehicle. Maria Vielma, 28, of the 3500 block of Tile Avenue, is charged with a felony count of child abuse. Police said

Military officials on Monday confirmed a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss is accused of murdering his wife. “Sgt. Lance E. Colbert has been accused of murdering his spouse, Staff Sgt. Amy Colbert,” said Guy A. Volb, Garrison Public Affairs Office, Fort Bliss and 1st Armored Division. The woman was murdered the evening of April 6,

El Paso Police say two out of the 16 individuals accused of vandalizing the U.S. Border Patrol Museum turned themselves into authorities on Monday. Tiffany Deveze, 30, of El Paso, walked into the Central Regional Command Center and turned herself in for her outstanding warrant. Deveze is facing a charge of criminal tresspass. Elizabeth Lynne

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday released 10 years of his long-anticipated tax returns as he campaigns for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. His 2018 return reveals that he and his wife, Jane, earned more than $550,000, including $133,000 in income from his Senate salary and $391,000 in sales of his book, “Our Revolution: A

A massive fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris’ soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its landmark rectangular

According to El Paso Police, a crash on I-10 West at Executive Center is causing the closure of the left lane. Drivers heading in that direction can expect backup to Sun Bowl. Clearing time is expected to be up to an hour.

The trial for the man accused of kidnapping and brutally attacking an off-duty Border Patrol agent begins on Monday in Las Cruces. Fernando Puga, 31, was taken into custody by Doña Ana County Sheriff’s detectives in June of 2017 with the assistance of FBI agents. Puga was arrested across the street from The Community of

A Northeast El Paso man was shot and killed during a drug deal, a criminal complaint obtained by ABC-7 states. Police charged 17-year-old Neko Rutledge with murder for the killing of 57-year-old Robert Noble. Police said the victim was murdered at his home on the 5700 Block of Raymond Telles Drive on April 9, 2019.

Detectives with the Crimes Against Children Unit charged the former owner and landlord of a Central El Paso apartment complex with sexually abusing a child who lived in one his apartment units years ago. The accuser, now an adult, told police 56-year-old Jesse Hall abused her when she was in her early teens. Police did

President Donald Trump says he will present Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Woods won his fifth Masters title Sunday, overcoming personal and professional adversity to once more claim the green jacket. Trump tweeted Monday that he spoke to Woods and congratulated him on “the great victory” and “to inform him that because

The crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates is showing early signs of money trouble as donors sit on the sidelines to see how the contest unfolds, signaling a drawn-out primary battle lies ahead. The Democratic campaign comes into greater focus on Monday as declared White House hopefuls report their first quarter fundraising totals. Early

Elizabeth Warren is vowing to prohibit new fossil fuel leasing on public lands if she’s elected president, one of several new energy proposals she rolled out Monday before a campaign swing in two Western states. Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, already has launched more than a half-dozen new proposals since entering the Democratic primary

Ardently liberal, pro-labor and anti-corporate cash, the field of Democrats running for president may look like a union activist’s dream. But some key labor leaders are starting to worry about the topics dominating the 2020 conversation. The candidates are spending too much time talking about esoteric issues like the Senate filibuster and the composition of