Month: June 2019

Demonstrators upset at the treatment of migrant children in detention gathered Tuesday evening to protest at the border station facility on Hondo Pass in northeast El Paso. It’s a facility where some children who were being cared for at the border facility in Clint, Texas were transferred after that location came under fire for poor

A horrific photo from the U.S. border with Mexico shows a Salvadorian father and his 23-month-old daughter face-down in the shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, having drowned while trying to get to the United States. The man’s black shirt was hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her

Teens between the ages of 12 and 17 who have lower extremity weakness that requires use of a wheelchair at least most of the time are wanted for a wheelchair basketball program. This is a partnership between the UTEP Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, The Christopher and Dana Reeves Foundation, and El Paso Parks and

The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in filthy conditions at one of the agency’s stations in the El Paso area. Commissioner John Sanders’ departure deepened the sense of crisis and added to the rapid turnover inside the agencies responsible

An El Paso police bomb squad “cleared” a suspicious package found overnight in a west side grocery store parking lot that turned out to be a briefcase. Authorities did not indicate what the briefcase contained, but gave the all-clear after examining it. The item was found around 3:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the

The City of El Paso has added a one-time ‘collection fee’ of nearly $100,000 to its unpaid invoice to the Donald J. Trump for President campaign for President Trump’s February 11th rally in El Paso. The city warned the campaign of the looming penalty in a letter to the campaign on May 23rd. The collection

U.S. government officials say they’ve moved more than 100 kids back to a remote border facility where lawyers reported detained children were caring for each other and had inadequate food, water, and sanitation. An official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday that the “majority” of the roughly 300 children detained at Clint, Texas,

Michael Jackson’s estate paid tribute to his artistry and charity Tuesday as fans began gathering to celebrate his memory on the 10th anniversary of the King of Pop’s death. “Ten years ago today, the world lost a gifted artist and extraordinary humanitarian,” the Jackson estate said in a statement to The Associated Press. “A decade

There is a stalled vehicle on the left lane of I-10 West and Yarbrough. There is no shoulder in place, at this point one lane is blocked off and creating a delay. Take Gateway West or Montana to avoid this area.

A member of the armed civilian group the Guardian Patriots is set to appear in court Tuesday. Jim Benvie , 44, of Albany, Minnesota, is accused of impersonating a Border Patrol agent in Doña Ana County. He is also accused of fraud and driving a stolen vehicle in Oklahoma. Benvie has told ABC-7 he is

A 10-year old girl was grazed by a bullet while asleep in bed in her family’s Chapparal home, authorities said Monday. The young girl was taken to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries after the incident happened around 1 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of Escondido. The Otero County Sheriff’s Office said

A judge has set bond at $20,000 for a suspect accused of gunning a man down while he was out for a walk with his wife in Las Cruces. Judge Conrad Perea on Monday agreed with prosecutors that 41-year-old Corban Serna poses a flight risk and required that the bond be secured — and ordered

Shock and disbelief — that’s how parishioners at a Lower Valley church after it was damaged by fire. Porta potties outside the Caminos De Vida Church at 7822 San Jose Road went up in flames last Friday afternoon. As ABC-7 has previously reported, the church has been housing migrants for several months. Thankfully, no one

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is pledging to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and help create a federal health care fund to cover the costs of those who serve in future wars by taxing those who don’t. The former El Paso, Texas congressman unveiled his veterans’ proposal Monday and attended a veterans’ round

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from the Clint Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 kids were detained there under perilous conditions — and caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. Just 30 children remained at the facility near El Paso Monday, said Rep.

The awards just keep on coming for former New Mexico State University basketball player, Pascal Siakam. The Toronto Raptors forward was chosen as the 2018-19’s most improved player of the year. Siakam was able to up his scoring this season, from his 7.3 points last season to 16.9 this year. Siakam’s rebounding also improved from

City of El Paso staff and the group advocating to protect the Lost Dog Trail met for the first time Monday to try to figure out what happens next. You may recall the group promoting the protection of the trail, along with 1,000 acres of land inside the city-created tax increment reinvestment zone in the

Steve Bannon, the controversial former chief strategist for President Trump, was in Sunland Park Monday evening participating in a fundraising bid to support the private border wall effort. Bannon was among a number of well-known conservatives promoted as participating in a web streaming event dubbed the “We-Build-The-Wall-A-Thon” originating from the Sunland Park location where a

It’s the beginning of a new day for New Mexico State University’s baseball program. Monday, the university announced that Mike Kirby, an assistant baseball coach at Nebraska, will take over as head coach of NMSU’s baseball team. Kirby has spent the last five seasons at Nebraska (2014-19) where he served as an assistant head coach.

The El Paso Police Department held a news conference regarding a new approach to combating crime. It’s called Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration describes it as a method that combines location-based crime and traffic crash data to plan where to assign law police and resources. Simply put,

A pair of crashes along Interstate 10 eastbound near downtown El Paso caused significant traffic backups for Monday afternoon commuters. Police and the Texas Dept. of Transportation said one collision occurred on I-10 east at Reynolds, while another accident involving multiple vehicles happened about the same time on I-10 east at Copia. Both accidents around

Mexico has now deployed almost 15,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the country’s Secretary of Defense Luis Sandoval. “In the northern part of the country, we have deployed a total of almost 15,000 troops composed of National Guard elements and military units,” Sandoval announced Monday in Cancun. Over the weekend in Ciudad Juarez,

A new statewide auto theft campaign has kicked-off in El Paso. The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority announced the campaign Monday morning at the Northeast Regional Command Center on Dyer Street. With rising auto theft rates, the campaign is designed to educate motorists on steps they can take to avoid having their vehicles stolen. Here

A Texas woman is accused of killing her 3-year-old son after running over him with an SUV during a game of “chicken.” Lexus Stagg, 26, was seen in surveillance footage from her Harris County, Texas, apartment driving toward her three children as they ran toward the front of her 2006 Lincoln Navigator, according to a

Authorities on Monday were trying to determine what caused a bus carrying a New Mexico high school church group home from a weekend retreat in Denver to veer off the highway and crash, killing two people and injuring at least 13 others. Investigators were looking into the possibility the driver had a medical issue that

Four people, including three children, found dead in South Texas near the border with Mexico most likely died of dehydration and heat exposure after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S., authorities said Monday. A law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press the four were overcome by the heat and foul

A 20-year old man wanted in the slayings of a college student and her mother in Albuquerque turned himself into El Paso police, authorities said Sunday. Jesus Cartagena Jr. was being held on suspicion of two open counts of murder in the deaths of 19-year old Shanta Hanish and 58-year-old Laura Hanish. According to a

A car crashed into a traffic pole in far east El Paso Monday morning, leaving the driver fighting for life, authorities said. Police traffic investigators said the violent crash happened just after 4 a.m. near the intersection of Montana Avenue and Justice Drive. The driver of that car was taken to the hospital with life-threatening

A woman and three children were found dead near the Mexico-Texas border, according to Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra. Guerra said in a tweet that two infants, a toddler and a 20-year-old woman were found dead by border patrol agents near the Rio Grande River, southeast of the Anzalduas Park Sunday night. BREAKING NEWS: Deputies

The spokesman for an armed vigilante militia group that has detained migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico was arrested on a federal criminal complaint for allegedly impersonating a U.S. Border Patrol agent, authorities said Saturday. Jim Benvie, named in a federal indictment as James Christopher Benvie, 44, of Albany, Minnesota, serves as the