Month: June 2019

Powerful New Mexico state Sen. Richard Martinez has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and is facing charges following a car crash. Espanola police say the 66-year-old was arrested Friday night after a collision at an intersection on the city’s north side. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Martinez was alone in his SUV

Police on Sunday identified a man shot dead ​​​​​near Halo’s Ultra Lounge in Las Cruces on Friday and said they arrested a man in connection with the murder. Adam Alexander Torres, 24, is charged with one count of murder in the death of Rogelio Alexander Baeza, according to court records. He also faces a charge

Ten people died Sunday after a private aircraft crashed into an airport hangar shortly after takeoff, according to authorities. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air crashed at Addison Municipal Airport. Ed Martelle, a public information officer for the town of Addison, said the small plane made

Two young boys feared to be in “grave danger” after allegedly being abducted in El Paso’s Upper Valley by a 26-year-old man were found safe early Sunday in Mexico, police said. The boys, who were the subjects Saturday of a Texas statewide Amber Alert, were located in Ciudad Juarez and returned to their mother in

The bodies of the father and daughter who drowned together last week while trying to cross the Rio Grande to the U.S. returned to El Salvador on Sunday for burial. Photographs of Valeria, face down with her little arm wrapped around the neck of her father, Oscar Alberto Martnez, broke hearts around the world and

Former federal housing secretary and Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro made a campaign stop in the Borderland Saturday, visiting the Clint Border Patrol station and an Annunciation House migrant shelter. Castro showed up at the Clint station without advance notice, according to officials, and was not allowed inside. He still spoke about conditions in the

A building in downtown Dallas was imploded over the weekend and it made for an incredible scene. You can see the video of the implosion below at the bottom of this article. Police shut down several streets surrounding the Reserve Loan Life Building ahead of Saturday’s implosion. People were also told not to go outside

Sunday marked the final day of online voting in the El Paso Chihuahuas quest to have Southwest University Park named the best minor league ballpark in all of baseball. The Chihuahuas faced some tough competition in the Las Vegas Aviators to claim the honors from Ballpark Digest‘s annual fan poll, in which over 100,000 votes

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke visited Mexico on Sunday and listened to tearful immigrants say they fled Central American violence and turmoil to seek asylum in the U.S., but were turned away at the border. The trip to Ciudad Juárez came the same day that O’Rourke held a “Rally for Children” outside a Border Patrol

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies found a man dead while doing a welfare check after getting a report of a “man down,” according to the department. Deputies discovered the body around 11:30 a.m. in the 1300 block of Saltillo in San Elizario, according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office. The Sheriff’s Office Major

The El Paso Police Department issued an AMBER Alert for two boys abducted Saturday afternoon that it believes are in grave or immediate danger. Police are searching for 8-year-old Leonardo Ortega, 3′ 9″, 65 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white shirt, underwear, and navy blue crocs. Police

With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talks on the pariah nation’s nuclear program. Trump, pressing his bid for a legacy-defining accord, became the first sitting American leader to walk with Kim into

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is heading to Mexico on Sunday to meet with immigrants seeking U.S. asylum but “turned away” at the border. In the former congressman’s first international trip as a White House hopeful, his campaign says O’Rourke will visit Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from his native El Paso, Texas, to

51 arrests have been made in a sting operation covering three Texas counties in relation to online child sex crime. Officers from the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force posed as underage children online for the sting, dubbed Operation “Broken Heart,” which took place over several months in Montgomery, Fort Bend and Harris counties,

A toddler nearly drowned at an El Paso hotel pool Saturday afternoon and was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to police and fire officials. The call came in just before 3 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel in the 1700 block of Airway off Montana Avenue, a fire dispatch supervisor confirmed to ABC-7. The 3-year-old girl

Houston police arrested five men in a human trafficking investigation for allegedly holding 18 Latin American immigrants for ransom, police said. The suspects face multiple charges, including engaging in organized crime by kidnapping, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Friday. The investigation started June 5 after a family told police a relative was being held

President Donald Trump said that his administration still plans to launch a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids starting in about a week, sometime after the July Fourth holiday. Trump had postponed the raids planned for major cities last weekend. He granted a two-week delay to see if an agreement on immigration reform could

One Texan became a political sensation waging a long shot U.S. Senate campaign, then stormed into the presidential race with even more momentum, climbing in the polls, running up monster fundraising and dominating the national conversation. The other announced his 2020 bid earlier and to far less fanfare, then struggled for months to even stay

An employee for an apartment complex where a man died after being electrocuted in the swimming pool there denied the incident ever happened and warned a resident preparing to do an interview Friday night with ABC-7 not to talk to media “liars.” El Paso police said 50-year old Roy Charles Stoltz died as a result

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is launching a new effort to craft legislation that could legalize recreational marijuana sales next year. The first-year Democratic governor announced Friday her recruitment of health, legal and fiscal policy experts to serve in a new discussion group that provides recommendations on state legalization. Members of the group include

Bond is now set for one of four suspects arrested in connection with a man found dead inside the trunk of a burned out car. Damika Childs was only 19-years old when she was arrested in connection with the murder of Johnny Ramirez. She could have spent up to 27 years in prison, but accepted

A unique entertainment venue called the Rad Retrocade has opened, featuring 44 arcade video games, from different eras including PAC-Man, Galaga, Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat. The venue at 201 N. Main Street in downtown Las Cruces also features vintage pinball machines, basketball shooting games and Skee-Ball. The establishment is the brainchild of Alex Macias,

What appeared to be an infestation of hundreds of mosquitos around an apartment building in El Paso’s Lower Valley actually turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. “I actually went out there to go investigate, and we found out that they are midges, and they really do look like a mosquito,” said Jimmy

Natividad Quinto Crisstomo was dreaming of reuniting with her husband in Arkansas when she died in an irrigation canal near the United States-Mexico border fence. The 19-year-old from the Mexican state of Michoacn is among the nearly a dozen people who have drowned in El Paso-area canals this month as the region deals with an

The ACTion Program for Animals will be offering free pet adoptions during the month of July. APA Executive Director Michel Meunier said the nonprofit chose July to tie the offer to freedom and independence. “When someone adopts from APA, it frees up a space for us to rescue the next animal at the municipal shelter,”

Earl Large didn’t win many championships, but his contributions to the sport of boxing here in the Borderland will live on forever. Large died Saturday in El Paso at the age of 72. Large was born in Clovis, New Mexico, but spent a big part of his life in El Paso where he and his

Outspoken and controversial New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be among a delegation of lawmakers who plan to visit the troubled Clint Border Patrol station on Monday as part of a Congressional probe into conditions at the facility. Cortez, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, is coming at the invitation of local

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday defended his civil rights record the day after California Sen. Kamala Harris assailed him over race and busing in a Democratic presidential debate. “I heard and I listened to and I respect Sen. Harris,” Biden said at a Rainbow PUSH Coalition event on the west side of Chicago.

Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang claimed on Friday that his microphone during the Democratic debate Thursday was turned off at times. “I feel bad for those who tuned in to see and support me that I didn’t get more airtime,” he tweeted Friday. “Will do better (my mic being off unless called on

California Sen. Kamala Harris said Friday that she misinterpreted a question about abolishing private health insurance at Thursday night’s 2020 Democratic debate, despite the fact that she raised her hand when asked if she would eliminate it. NBC’s Lester Holt asked for the 10 candidates on stage to raise their hands if their health care