Month: June 2019

It’s summer break for most kids and that means more time outdoors. The El Paso County Sheriff’s office wants to make sure kids are safe this summer especially when playing outside. This whole week the Sheriff’s office is holding their annual Safety Town event at their headquarters. “We host safety town in the summer when

Police shot two dogs on the city’s south side Friday afternoon after an officer was bitten, authorities said. The incident happened in the 2100 block of Cyprus. The officer who was bitten was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. No further details were immediately released.

A baseball is to blame for an El Paso streetcar derailment Thursday night in Downtown El Paso, a city spokeswoman tells ABC-7. ABC-7 reported the streetcar derailment as breaking news after the NBA Finals. It happened just outside Southwest University Park while the Chihuahuas were playing at the intersection of Santa Fe and Franklin Streets

The third annual Spaceport America Cup is June 18-22 at the Las Cruces Convention Center and Spaceport America. The Cup is designed around the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition for student rocketry teams. This competition hosts teams from American and International Colleges and Universities. With over 120 teams registered in 2019 from around the globe, the

A rendition of the 1967 classic film, ‘The Graduate’ is coming to the El Paso Playhouse. Showings of ‘The Graduate’ will run from June 14 to June 30. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. General tickets are $15, including $12 for seniors, students and members of the military. Based on

Beto O’Rourke took a path somewhat less traveled on Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina as he strives to make connections with the black voters who will play a dominant role in next year’s Southern presidential primaries. In the community room of a Baptist church in

NBC set the lineup for its two-night debate of 2020 presidential contenders later this month, with a top-heavy second session that will pit former Vice President Joe Biden onstage against 2016 Democratic runner-up, Bernie Sanders, the youthful Mayor Pete Buttigieg and California Sen. Kamala Harris. The first night, June 26 in Miami, is headlined by

Whataburger, which began as a small burger stand in Corpus Christi, is changing hands after 69 years of family ownership. The popular fast food chain, which is headquartered in San Antonio and boasts more than 800 locations across 10 states, announced it is being sold to investment holdings firm BDT Capital Partners of Chicago, Illinois.

The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment in El Paso being forced to sleep on the bare ground during dust storms. The Border Network for Human Rights issued a report Friday based on dozens of

Authorities say a man suspected in a Massachusetts homicide has been taken into custody in New Mexico. New Mexico State Police say they received information early Thursday that 27-year-old Gilfrey Gregory may be traveling through the state in a vehicle with a Florida license plate. A State Police officer located a vehicle on Interstate 10

NBCUniversal has announced plans for a state-of-the-art television and film studio in a warehouse district just north of downtown Albuquerque. The announcement Friday comes as state officials are offering more than $10 million in incentives and promising that the economic impact from the venture will top $1 billion over the next decade. The media giant

The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention instead of where the advocate

Heading off the prospect of everyone in Texas being able to call themselves plumbers, Gov. Greg Abbott has extended the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners and its licensing law until 2021 via an executive order. The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners was on track to shut down by Sept. 1, 2020, after the

The Association of American Medical Colleges ( AAMC ) has published data projecting a shortage of 122,000 physicians by 2032. IHS Markit is a global information company that completed the 5th annual study titled The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections from 2017 to 2032, 2019 update. According to the study, the main driver

Proponents of government transparency are warning that a little-noticed bill, now sitting on Gov. Greg Abbott‘s desk, could gut public access to the Texas Legislature’s internal communications. Some are urging Abbott to reject the measure before the deadline to veto bills ends this weekend. Among them is First Amendment lawyer Joe Larsen, a member of

New Mexico has made it illegal for private employers to ask about a person’s criminal history on an initial job application. Workforce Solutions Secretary Bill McCamley said the new law went into effect Friday under oversight of the state Human Rights Bureau. Private employers are allowed to discuss prior arrests or convictions later in the

ABC-7 photojournalist David Avila was coming back to the TV station when he saw agents step out of a Border Patrol vehicle and then chase two suspected smugglers early Thursday Morning. The video above shows the moment one agent in plain clothes tackles one of the men. Moments before, our photographer saw that same man

ABC-7 Photographer David Avila was not far from our television studios when he noticed a Border Patrol unit stopped on the corner of Executive Center Blvd. and N. Mesa Street; he then saw agents chase two men. Avila watched when that first takedown happened, prompting him to capture video of a second takedown by a

E-cigarettes will be included in New Mexico’s indoor smoking ban starting Friday. The amendment suggests a ‘reasonable distance’ between smokers and public businesses. Doa Ana County moved forward with its own stricter vaping ban earlier tis week, when County Commissioners voted to expand the county’s smoking ordinance to the devices. The ban pushes e-cigarette smokers

The federal government has chosen a military base in Oklahoma as the location for a new temporary shelter to house migrant children and is considering a customs port in southern New Mexico at Santa Teresa as another option as existing shelters are overwhelmed. The Office of Refugee Resettlement said Tuesday it’s dealing with a dramatic

Three people were injured, one critically, when an ATV collided with another vehicle along a San Elizario on Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Camino De La Rosa, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. Three people were taken to local hospitals; Sheriff’s spokeswoman Leslie Antunez said

A fire in the small town of Organ, about 15 miles east of Las Cruces, that destroyed a tool shed and burned part of a home last week was intentionally by a resident of the home according to authorities. Doa Ana County Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested 28-year-old Ivan Gambio-Soto, charging him with possible arson. According

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular press briefings and questions about the administration’s credibility, as well as her own, will leave her post at the end of the month, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. Trump, calling Sanders forward at an unrelated event in the East Room,

A welcome surge of melting snow is pouring out of the Rocky Mountains and into the drought-stricken rivers of the southwestern U.S., fending off a water shortage but threatening to push rivers over their banks. Last winter brought above-average snowfall to much of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, so an abundance of snow-melt is rushing into

The federal government is illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a fair chance of being released on bond, attorneys alleged in a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit filed by American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in Massachusetts and New Hampshire accuses the government of violating the Constitution by requiring immigrants at bond hearings to prove

The Democratic National Committee has announced the 20 candidates who have qualified for the party’s first presidential primary debates later this month. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock was the most high-profile candidate left off the list. He failed to reach the party’s polling or grassroots fundraising thresholds. U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, former U.S. Sen.

Behind a thick metal door and down a sterile hallway at a privately-run detention center in rural New Mexico, voices echo from the confines of a small outdoor recreation yard. It’s a three-on-three volleyball match. The players, all clad in different colored jumpsuits, are transgender women awaiting the outcome of their cases while in the

The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature, being held in detention instead of where she believes

(Editors’ note: The following is sponsored content) The Texas public charter high school system officially announced its new name and unveiled its logo during a Thursday news conference at the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. (You can watch the news conference in the video player below.) The new name — Triumph Public High Schools

A normal Sunday afternoon turned into terrifying ordeal for El Paso native and UTEP graduate Jacqueline Padilla. Padilla, who moved to Dallas from El Paso for work, was inside her apartment while a massive crane collapsed on her building. “I was looking at the window and all of the pool furniture fell like straight up