Month: July 2019

A group of more than a dozen Congressional Democrats who toured border detention facilities in McAllen this weekend, recounted “inhumane” conditions including overcrowded cells, rampant disease, and asylum seekers who had not washed or brushed their teeth for weeks. The delegation’s visit on Saturday came one day after Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-ranking

Dangerous and slow-moving Hurricane Barry made landfall in Louisiana Saturday afternoon as residents braced for “off the chart” amounts of rain. Barry was a hurricane when it made landfall — but it quickly weakened to a tropical storm that promised to dump heavy rains that could last for days and pose a test of the

UTEP’s Women’s Basketball Team is used to throwing up shots, but in a effort to build team chemistry Saturday, they threw up some haymakers. Saturday morning, the Lady Miners took a team trip to the El Paso to go through an intense training session with the Fight Club staff, working on cardio, footwork, and upper

A tip has led to the arrest of a woman considered by authorities to be one of El Paso’s ‘Most Wanted’ fugitives. El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies say a tip on the location of Monica Flores led to her capture this week in the 900 block of Horizon Boulevard in east El Paso County.

History was made at Wimbledon on Saturday but if you were rooting for Serena Williams, it wasn’t what you hoped for. Clutching her trophy 20 minutes after becoming Wimbledon’s champion, Simona Halep checked out the board inside Centre Court that lists tournament winners. Below all of the mentions of Serena Williams, her opponent in Saturday’s

A man armed with a rifle and throwing “incendiary devices” at an immigration jail in Washington state on Saturday died after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities said. The Tacoma Police Department said the officers responded to the privately run Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security detention facility that

President Trump confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would conduct raids on Sunday to deport immigrants with outstanding orders to leave the country. Cities across the U.S. were bracing for the deportation raids this weekend, the second time in less than a month that Trump administration insiders have signaled roundups were imminent. Those announced

At the center of Jeffrey Epstein’s secluded New Mexico ranch sits a sprawling residence the financier built decades ago — complete with plans for a 4,000-square-foot courtyard, a living room roughly the size of the average American home and a nearby private airplane runway. Known as the Zorro Ranch, the high-desert property is now tied

Acknowledging “this is tough stuff,” Vice President Mike Pence says he was not surprised by what he saw as he toured a Texas Border Patrol station, where hundreds of men were being kept in cages with no cots amid sweltering heat. Pence said later, “I knew we’d see a system that was overwhelmed,” citing the

“Lock It Or Lose It” – it’s the latest initiative the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office wants the public to know about, with a goal of keeping your car safe and secure. Vehicle burglaries are common, but can be easily prevented, according to the sheriff’s office. “A theft is a crime of opportunity,” said Sgt.

More than 120 students attending a summer program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge were evacuated to Texas amid concerns about flooding as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in Friday evening, threatening an epic drenching that could also test how well New Orleans has strengthened its flood protections in the 14 years since Hurricane

Carla Provost, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, was reportedly a member of a secret Facebook group where agents joked about migrant deaths and made other offensive comments about immigrants, asylum seekers and lawmakers. Provost, according to a report Friday by The Intercept, is “one of several Border Patrol supervisors… identified as current or

An argument that got out of control led to an El Paso man going on a violent rampage, opening fire with a shotgun on an apartment building and threatening an elderly grandmother with a knife after hitting and kicking her, police said. 26 -year old Ismael Ballesteros was being held Friday at the El Paso

The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it use Pentagon money to build sections of a border wall with Mexico after two lower courts blocked it from doing so while a lawsuit over the money continues. The Trump administration filed the request with the Supreme Court on Friday. Last week, a

Democrats who’ve visited the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso accused President Donald Trump of cruelty on Friday while Republicans said Democrats were playing politics but doing little to help as the parties clashed at a U.S. House hearing over who’s to blame for squalid conditions facing migrants detained entering the country. In an extraordinary duel

Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender in Florida, was set to be registered as one in New Mexico when he planned to come to the state years ago. But Epstein’s registration was withdrawn due to differences in state laws in Florida and New Mexico, according to documents obtained by KOAT . It goes

A magnitude 4.9 aftershock of last week’s Southern California powerful earthquakes was felt widely Friday morning in the region. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 6:11 a.m. and was centered about 5 miles northeast of the Mojave Desert city of Ridgecrest, which is home to 28,000 people. The quake was felt very

The Lions Club, in partnership with the Socorro Independent School District, will host its annual School Uniform Swap from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Col. John O. Ensor Middle School. In preparation of the annual event, parents can now drop off washed uniform pieces that are no longer needed or being used, and receive

The ACLU announced a coalition of groups has filed a preemptive lawsuit against the Trump administration to try to stop planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids this weekend. Five immigration legal services organizations filed the lawsuit late Thursday to try and protect the refugees being targeted by the raids. The groups — represented by the

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he is resigning following renewed scrutiny of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls and has ties to New Mexico. President Donald Trump, with Acosta at his side, made the announcement as he

A storm system with heavy rain slammed El Paso County Thursday afternoon, prompting an ABC-7 First Alert to be issued through 6 p.m. In the above video player you can see what the storm looked like as it began moving through the west-side of El Paso outside the ABC-7 studios. Some of the storm cells

For Janet Rodriguez the word ‘quit’ isn’t in her vocabulary. Even when a cancerous tumor was found inside her right leg and doctors told Rodriguez her leg would have to be amputated, Rodriguez took the news in stride. “My mom was crying,” Rodriguez said. “And I told her that we had to keep going and

A native El Pasoan killed in the line of duty as a Kendall County Sheriffs’ deputy was returned home to El Paso Thursday evening to be laid to rest. Deputy Carlos Ramirez was conducting a traffic stop July 2 when he was fatally struck by a car along Interstate 10 just outside of San Antonio

Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan met with mayors of border communities, toured Border Patrol facilities and spoke with border agents during a visit to the El Paso area on Thursday. McAleenan visited Border Patrol station 1 at Hondo Pass during the midday, where he held a roundtable gathering with the mayors of

A crash involving a semi-truck along Interstate-10 eastbound caused major traffic delays during the commute home for many motorists on Thursday. The crash around 3 p.m. happened along I-10 east near Crockett and Buena Vista. Police said the right lane of the eastbound freeway was closed due to the crash, eventually backing up traffic to

Police said a 36-year old El Paso man was injured in a hit-and-run that started as a carjacking Thursday morning in the Lower Valley. It happened just after 6:30 a.m in the 200 block of Americas near the intersection of Soccoro Road. Police said they located the vehicle less an hour later, and not far

Police say the body of an 18-month-old boy has been found in a Dallas-area landfill a day after he was the subject of a statewide Amber Alert that was issued. Sedrick Johnson, the boyfriend of Cedrick Jackson’s aunt and caregiver, has been arrested and charged with serious injury to a child. Dallas police Sgt. Vincent

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to obtain an estimate of U.S. citizenship through other means. “I am hereby ordering every department and agency in the federal government to

Federal and state authorities raided the home of the CEO of El Paso’s Goodwill Industries and detained her and her husband, later charging him with fraud and forgery. The raid took place at the east El Paso residence of non-profit head Melinda Jordan and her husband, James, at 11901 Paseo Del Rio Court. “Yesterday the