Month: May 2019

Elmer’s Family Restaurant, an East-Central El Paso staple operating for 74 years, has closed its doors for what may have been its final time. The restaurant had a loyal customer base who had been visiting for years. “I remember my mother, since I was small, in the 50s,” said Carmen Navarro, a customer who drove

Academy Award nominees Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross will be special guests of the El Paso Community Foundation’s 12th annual Plaza Classic Film Festival this August. The couple will appear for on-stage interviews before a 50th-anniversary screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 7 p.m. Friday, August 2, and the 1978 cult horror

El Paso Police arrested a young man accused of soliciting two boys for sex online. Elijah Dshon Mendez, 19, of the 4600 block of Tumbleweed El Paso, Texas, is charged with online solicitation of a minor under 14 years of age. Police said the victims’ parents contacted investigators to report suspicious communications between Mendez and

UPDATE: Authorities say a man suspected of shooting four people in East Texas has died. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says search dogs led officers to a boat where Pavol Vido was hiding. Investigators said he shot himself with a handgun when confronted by police. The department helped with the manhunt for Vido. It

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico’s State Investment Council has approved settlements in a decade-old scandal that involved politically influenced investment deals using state money. The Albuquerque Journal reports the council unanimously approved settlements Tuesday with Anthony Correra and his son Marc Correra, who shared in more than $22 million in fees charged to investment

Police arrested a man accused of attempting to strangle his girlfriend and threatening her with a box-cutter during an argument. Scott Andrew Lee Perez, 26, of the 1800 block of Webster Avenue, is charged with aggravated battery against a household member, aggravated assault against a household member, false imprisonment and criminal damage to property. Perez

A DOUBLE-MURDER INVESTIGATION LED TO THIS POLICE CHASE IN TEXAS WEDNESDAY. AUTHORITIES REPORT THEY WERE EXECUTING WARRANTS AT A HOME IN ROWLETT WHEN TWO PERSONS OF INTEREST DROVE PAST THE HOME. POLICE SAY THEY TRIED TO PULL THEM OVER BUT THE VEHICLE DIDN’T STOP. THE CHASE WENT FROM ROWLETT THROUGH DALLAS BEFORE IT ENDED IN

A former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who campaigned in a “deportation bus” has pleaded guilty to falsely reporting that computer servers were stolen from his office. Michael Williams, a Republican ex-state senator, was indicted in December in Hall County, northeast of Atlanta, on charges of insurance fraud and lying to investigators. District Attorney Lee Darragh told

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The U.S. Census director is promising the 2020 Census will remain independent and will avoid political pressures amid uncertainty over how the bureau will question immigrants. U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham told reporters in Albuquerque on Wednesday bureau workers have taken a “lifetime oath” not to share private information from

El Paso police said officers were investigating a stabbing Tuesday evening in downtown El Paso. Police said the incident happened around 8:30 p.m. on Stanton Street and Mills Avenue. Investigators said one person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. There is no word on if a suspect is in custody. ABC-7 will update

DALLAS (AP) – Court records show that a third Dallas man has been charged with federal hate crimes in connection with a string of kidnappings and robberies in 2017 targeting gay men who police say were lured to an apartment from posts on a dating app. The Dallas Morning News reports that court records show

Mexican authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the former director of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos in what looks to be the most ambitious anti-corruption push yet by the new administration. President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, who took office on Dec. 1 on vows to stamp out endemic public corruption but not to target

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put a yearlong hold on oil and gas leasing within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of Chaco Canyon National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. Officials say that will allow for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to finish drafting an updated management plan

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping immigration plan to seek a pathway to U.S. citizenship for 11 million people in the country illegally, deploy thousands of immigration lawyers to the southern border to help with asylum cases and earmark $5 billion to bolster the rule of law in Central America. The

Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he was legally barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasized that his Russia report did not exonerate the president. If he could have cleared Trump of obstruction of justice he “would have said so,” Mueller said. The special counsel’s remarks, his first in public

There are reports of a car fire on Loop 375 and Edgemere near Montana. The car is on the right shoulder and is also blocking the right lane. Drivers need to take Saul Kelinfeld or Zaragoza to avoid this area.

There is a crash on I-10 East at Mesa blocking the left lane. Traffic is down to one lane in the area. Drivers need to take Mesa, Doniphan, or Westwind to avoid this area. No injuries reported.

WACO, Texas (AP) – A 38-year-old Central Texas man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking ring. Prosecutors say Daniel Louis Lopez was sentenced Tuesday in Waco. The Waco man in January pleaded guilty to conspiracy with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Investigators say Lopez was among 20 people indicted

One local teacher is $100,000 dollars richer thanks to comedian and talk show host, Ellen Degeneres, and it’s all because of his involvement in the El Paso community. Ricky Ramirez was born and raised in northeast El Paso. Growing up, Ramirez didnt think he would be able to attend college so he set his sights

WATCH LIVE: Special counsel Robert Mueller will make a statement about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election at 11 a.m. ET Wednesday, the Justice Department said. The statement will be delivered amid political disputes about the findings of Mueller’s investigation, particularly regarding whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice. It will be Mueller’s

A man was hospitalized with possible self-inflicted stab wounds, El Paso police said. Authorities said the stabbing happened at Officer David Ortiz Park, which is on N. Carolina Drive. Police reported the incident just before 7 a.m. Officials haven’t said anything else about this investigation.

The Federal Communications Commission is pushing a new proposal that would force phone companies to stop unwanted robocalls before they get to your phone. It is called the Robocop Act and if passed it would force phone companies to do more and better protect American families from the tens of billions of scam phone calls

(CNN) — Special counsel Robert Mueller will make a statement about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election at 11 a. m. ET Wednesday, the Justice Department said.

Mexican authorities extradited Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo – a.k.a. Jaguar – to the United States so that he could face federal racketeering charges in the Western District of Texas. Torres Marrufo was charged in an April 2012 RICO indictment alleging conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, money laundering and drug distribution, federal officials said. He remains

The City of Sunland Park announced Tuesday the construction of a privately-funded border barrier on private property over Memorial Day weekend is not in compliance with City ordinance. The City has issued a cease and desist order. “At this point, it will be turned over to the courts for follow-up on the matter,” said Sunland

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was asked about Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam this week ahead of their game one matchup in the NBA Finals Thursday. Kerr responded by saying that Siakam “looks like a young Draymond [Green] to me.” It’s high praise to be compared to a three-time NBA champion in just

The head of Texas’ beleaguered child welfare system announced on Tuesday he’s stepping down, which comes at a time when child abuse deaths statewide reached a six-year high in 2018. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Hank Whitman told the agency’s workers in a video that he is planning to retire at the

El Paso Police issued two citations to the 18-year-old driver of a Chevrolet Corvette that struck two Pebble Hills High School students last week. The Texas Peace Officer’s Crash Report obtained by ABC-7 identifies the driver as Luis Antonio Cano, 18, of the 2600 block of Pete Sampras Place. Cano, the report states, was issued

Police arrested a man accused of trying to strangle his girlfriend while he held their 17-day-old daughter in a chest-mounted baby carrier. Police said 31-year-old Raymond Lonergan, of the 800 block of Alamo Street, is charged with child abuse, aggravated battery against a household member, criminal damage to property and interference with communications. Officers arrived

Border Patrol Agents in the El Paso sector apprehended more than 2,200 undocumented immigrants “who entered the country illegally” on Memorial Day. The Border Patrol said it was “the busiest recent day of enforcement activity for El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents during the ongoing influx” of migrants. The U.S. Border Patrol’s El Paso sector