Month: July 2019

The latest shelter meant to house unaccompanied migrant children is now empty after less than a month of use, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Carrizo Springs shelter in south Texas, which was run by BCFS, the same organization responsible for the facility in Tornillo last year, will officially have

Wind power has surpassed coal for the first time in Texas, according to a new report. The numbers cap an enormous rise in wind power in the nation’s top energy-producing state over the past decades. Wind has generated 22 percent of the state’s electrical needs this year. It just edged out coal, which provided 21

July Fourth celebrations turned into a nightmare for one La Mesa woman and her family. Bernice Maldonado and her family were doing what they love, boating at Caballo Lake to celebrate the nation’s birthday. However, all that changed when she was dragged under their boat, tossed around by the propeller. “I put my hand up

For the second time in as many days, El Paso police on Thursday said a mentally-impaired person had gone missing, and they once again asked for help in locating the individual. Police said 35-year-old Mario “Bogie” Frias, who suffers from seizures and mental illness, left his home in the 6800 block of Bellrose on Wednesday

Two families are without homes after a huge fire Wednesday afternoon severely damaged four mobile homes just north of Las Cruces. Jessie Wilson is the owner of one of the mobile homes. He saw the fire with his own eyes just feet behind his home and captured it on video seconds before he had to

Buckets full of body parts. Heads, bodies, and genitalia of different people sewn together and hung up on a wall. New gruesome details in a lawsuit against a body donation and tissue bank facility in Phoenix that was raided back in 2014, all part of a human body parts trafficking investigation. For years, Troy Harp

The White House is condemning an order by a federal judge requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to stop denying asylum to anyone who transits through another country to reach the U.S. border. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Thursday the plaintiffs in the case found “a single district judge who will purport to dictate

A grand jury in Texas has indicted a man who was already facing a charge in connection with the death of Maleah Davis, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Derion Vence, the girl’s mother’s former fianc, was indicted on a charge of tampering with the four-year-old’s body, District Attorney Kim Ogg said. Vence,

An investigation into troops smuggling immigrants into the United States illegally led to the arrest Thursday of 16 Marines at California’s Camp Pendleton, a base about an hour’s drive from the U.S.-Mexico border. None of the 16 Marines were involved in helping enforce border security, the Marine Corps said in a news release. They are

A Mexican national who spent more than two decades on Texas’ death row for the slayings of three El Paso teenagers has died in prison. A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman said that 49-year-old Ignacio Gomez died of cardiac arrest at an East Texas hospital shortly after being found unresponsive in his cell this

Officials on Thursday confirmed to ABC-7 that Aaron Hull, the chief of the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, is being reassigned as of next week. NBC News reported the transfer was due to the growing controversy over the treatment of migrants in local detention facilities. The network cited an internal memo it had obtained. A

A New Mexico woman is facing charges after police say she ordered food from a Sonic and told a server, “This one’s on God,” before fleeing. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports 30-year-old Delila Hernandez was arrested Monday in a felony robbery case. Police say Hernandez rode her bicycle to a Sonic in Las Cruces and

Recordings leaked to the media are providing new details about a reported fight between two El Paso-area school superintendents. Those recordings are of conversations between the alleged aggressor and a witness to the incident that happened at a San Antonio Whataburger restaurant last month. That’s where Ysleta ISD Superintendent Xavier De La Torre is accused

Diego Najera is not your typical 9-year-old boy, and when you see all the medals he’s won in Taekwondo, you’ll get the idea. Najera got into the sport when he was 5-years-old, and he was immediately hooked. Najera is a state and even a national champion in Taekwondo. He’s won back-to-back national titles, first in

Almost two years ago, former Sunland Park city manager Bob Gallagher was fired for alleged misconduct. But now he’s speaking out about the settlement of his wrongful termination lawsuit, which he says exonerates him. “We had the truth on our side. I’ve been vindicated,” Gallagher told ABC-7 in an interview on Wednesday. Gallagher’s receiving a

The president of the Ysleta Teachers Association said Wednesday night that she wants repercussions for both superintendents involved in the alleged fight at a San Antonio Whataburger. The El Paso Times says that Ysleta ISD Superintendent Xavier De La Torre head-butted Socorro ISD Superintendent Jose Espinoza at a Whataburger restaurant during a late night encounter

A fire raged through a Las Cruces-area mobile home park late Wednesday afternoon, burning four units. Over 30 firefighters battled the blaze in the St. John’s mobile home park along El Camino Real, just north of the city. There were no injuries and it remained unknown what sparked the fire. The federal Bureau of Alcohol,

A sixth case of the measles was confirmed Wednesday in a growing outbreak that El Paso public health officials warned could produce more incidents of the highly contagious respiratory disease. The latest victim was a man in his mid-20’s who officials believe may have exposed other people at a veterans clinic and two local drug

El Paso police took to twitter on Wednesday afternoon to debunk fraudulent rumors circulating on social media of a serial killer kidnapping women around the area. Those rumors come in the wake of a couple of missing woman cases recently. In the tweet, police said “there is absolutely no truth to the spreading social media

After the 6th reported case of measles in El Paso, people aren’t taking any chances when it comes to their families health. The non-profit Immunize El Paso says they have had well above their average number of patients for this time of year of the past few weeks for a few reasons. Daniel Acosta is

A 57-year-old man is being held in the El Paso County Detention Facility after sheriff’s deputies said they found him with a pipe-bomb during a drug raid. Burt Allen Gidcumb is charged with possession of a prohibited weapon. The pipe-bomb discovery was made as deputies served a search warrant for drugs at a home in

U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered 17 migrants in the cargo area of a U-Haul truck near Deming earlier this week. Agents said they found footprints leading from the border to Highway 9, where a U-Haul truck had been seen. The agents pulled the truck over and found 17 migrants inside the “sweltering” cargo area. The

A 22-year-old Socorro woman has been missing for over a month now, and police said Wednesday they think she may have been a victim of foul play in Mexico. Delia Ruth Guerra disappeared on the morning of June 16, according to Socorro police. She was last seen in 250 block of Flor Del Sur Avenue,

The head of the Border Network for Human Rights said Wednesday that immigration raids in the El Paso are had resulted in at least 5 arrests over the past couple of weeks. Fernando Garcia revealed word of the arrests at a press conference on Wednesday to decry new immigration and asylum policies being implemented by

A federal judge said Wednesday that the Trump administration can enforce its new restrictions on asylum for people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while lawsuits challenging the policy play out. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly denied a request for a temporary restraining order, saying the immigrant advocate groups behind the suit did not show that their

Wyler Aerial Tramway has been closed since September 2018, when it was determined that engineering standards were no longer being met. Plans are underway to rebuild and reopen the tramway, and Wednesday night residents in the Borderland will have a chance to give their opinions on the project. A public meeting will be held at

Yellowstone National Park officials say a bull bison tossed a 9-year-old Florida girl into the air when the animal charged a group of about 50 tourists. Park officials say the bison rushed the group Monday after some of the tourists approached to within 5 to 10 feet of the animal over at least 20 minutes.

Using the slogan “Kinder ready, college ready,” the Canutillo Independent School District on Tuesday announced the expansion of its pre-kindergarten program. Canutillo ISD is now offering a new, full-day pre-k program free of charge at all of its elementary schools for qualified El Paso-area families for the 2019-2020 school year. The expanded pre-k program comes

Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. But they are only holding CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible in a limited fashion. The fine is the largest the Federal Trade Commission has levied on a tech company, though it won’t make much of

Gov. Ricardo Rossello, the embattled leader of Puerto Rico, has resigned after weeks of protest and multiple declarations he would remain in office through January 2021. Rossello, who has faced intense pressure from protesters and politicians to step down after the leak of offensive text messages between the governor and his top aides, made the