Month: July 2019

The National Alliance of Mental Illness of El Paso kicked off its ninth annual mental health walk, NAMIWalks El Paso, early Friday morning with a breakfast for participants and sponsors taking part in this year’s walk. In the past years the annual 5k walk has taken place at Memorial Park in central El Paso, but

Texas rapper Tay-K, who recorded the 2017 viral hit “The Race” while on the run, was found guilty of murder on Friday. The 19-year-old, whose legal name is Taymor McIntyre, was also convicted of three counts of aggravated robbery, said Sam Jordan, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. Jordan told CNN

A fight between two El Paso-area school district superintendents took place during an educational leadership conference last month in San Antonio, according to a published report on Friday. The El Paso Times says that Yleta ISD Superintendent Xavier De La Torre head-butted Socorro ISD Superintendent Jose Espinoza at a Whataburger restaurant during a late night

El Paso police issued a missing person alert late Thursday night for a 29-year-old mother they described as “endangered” after she vanished this past weekend. Friends and family of Erika Gaytan told ABC-7 she was last seen on Saturday night while on a date at a concert at the El Paso County Coliseum. The man

Fifty years ago, man was preparing to land on the moon — but today, southern New Mexico may be just months away from commercial space flight and with it, space tourism. The city of Las Cruces is embracing the next chapter of the space age, preparing for the tourism Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic are

Cell phone video obtained by ABC-7 shows several families standing outside the Salvation Army Family Center in El Paso. In the video you can hear the person holding the phone say, “they show up at three o’clock with their kids their small children, like I said it’s over 100 degrees, now they are telling them

The University of Texas at El Paso is making a new ‘promise’ to help students in dire need of financial aid pay for college.It’s called the PayDirt Promise. It will cover tuition and fees for students who families make $40,000 per year or less. The PayDirt Promise is part of another financial aid opportunity at

Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said a new asylum rule introduced earlier this week is in the “piloting” phase even as officials expect it to be blocked in court. “Although the new federal regulation allows us to apply that all 2,000 miles along the southwest border, we’re not going to do

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says conditions at a Texas border detention facility are “inhumane.” Schumer and a group of other Democratic senators, including Oregon’s Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, toured the facility in McAllen on Friday. Schumer said the tour left him with an awful feeling. “It’s been a very, very difficult day

As druglord Joaquin Guzman got life in prison this week, his daughter launched her “El Chapo” clothing line in Mexico that hinges heavily on the legacy and lore surrounding her father. Ironically, it appears at least some of the items in the clothing line are being made in a Mexican maximum-security federal prison from where

A semi-truck got tangled in and brought down some power lines in east El Paso Friday morning, causing an electrical outage that forced the closure of a veterans’ clinic for the day. El Paso Electric said the power lines got stuck on the truck, and as it kept moving the lines were pulled down. It

Investigators have arrested an Albuquerque couple, saying the husband and wife performed sex acts on two little girls. According to the search warrant, the girls were just 6 and 3 years old and the adults recorded it, possibly for porn. Court records show authorities arrested Crystal and John Dickman on Thursday afternoon. According to the

The Trump administration discussed the possibility of admitting zero refugees next year during a recent meeting with officials from the Department of Homeland Security, State Department, the Pentagon and other agencies, according to sources familiar with the meeting. A number of options are being discussed and the zero option already received pushback from some government

The city of Las Cruces has activated its cooling stations as high temperatures near triple digits. Las Cruces officials say the cooling stations will be open until 8 p.m. every week night and from noon to 8 p.m. on weekends. The stations are places where the elderly, other high-risk residents and the general public can

If you live in an area that floods easily, El Paso Water is offering free sandbags. Customers can get sandbags for flood control any day of the week beginning Monday, July 8. The expanded site locations and hours will be available through the end of September. The summer distribution sites will reopen in the Mission

On July 25, 2019 Volar Center for Independent living, in partnership with Texas Department of Transportation, Emergence Health Network, Project Amistad and the Arc of El Paso will be hosting an event celebrating the 29th anniversary of the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. During the event El Pasoans with and without disabilities will

A 32-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash Friday morning in central El Paso, police said. The crash occurred shortly after 2:20 AM at 3900 Gateway Boulevard East. Police said Jeffrey Carrasco had just left a bar and was riding his Harley Davidson through a construction zone. Police said he struck a construction barrel, causing

Nine emergency phone calls were made and two rescue operations were completed by authorities. It was not enough to save the lives of two young truck drivers who drove straight to their deaths. The crash happened in the early morning hours of December 21, 2017. Patrick Van Fossen, 24, was behind the wheel of his

El Pasoan Danny Olivas was just 4-years old when man landed on the moon. But it was the Apollo 11 mission that sparked an interest in space exploration. As NASA marks the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing, Olivas looks to the future of space exploration. Olivas is a forensic engineer and is working with

Summer vacation is here and three EPISD schools have closed as the district consolidates student bodies to have more efficient schools, but one group of parents is adamant the closures are bad for their families. EPISD says these schools merging will save about a million dollars a year, but some parents say it’s putting their

After recently seeing a slowdown in the flow of immigrants illegally entering through our borders, U.S. Border Patrol officials are now seeing a resurgence. It could be because immigrants are adapting, figuring out ways around the “Remain in Mexico” policies known as the Migrant Protection Protocols. “Yes we’ve heard a lot about crossing prevention, I

The Clint Independent School District board approved a compensation plan Thursday evening that it said provides a pay increase for all employees. The starting salary for an entry-level teacher will be $52,526 for the next school year. Existing teachers in the district will get pay hikes of 4% to 6% based on experience. Substitute teacher

The 50-year anniversary for the Apollo 11 moon landing has captured national headlines. But El Pasoans at NASA today are leading the way for future moon landings Ginger Kerrick is an El Paso native and Flight Integration Chief for NASA. Kerrick says, ” you know I came into this world when we had people on

The historic Apollo lunar landing on July 20, 1969 paved the way for future space exploration, and boy has lunar exploration changed in those 50 years. What many people may not know is that University of Texas El Paso is on the forefront of cutting-edge space engineering, working with NASA and the Johnson Space Center,

To help Rubio get to nationals, click on one of the links below: http://paypal.me/runningdream https://www.gofundme.com/f/national-junior-olympic-track-and-field?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet A high school runner is hoping to make a statement when he competes at a national competition in California. Evan Rubio is entering his senior year at Ysleta High School where he competes on the track and field team. During

Only hours after receiving a life sentence, convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was forced to make a sudden departure to the highest-security prison in the U.S. to serve the term, his lawyer said Thursday. A government helicopter whisked the narco, notorious for his daring jailbreaks, out of New York City on Wednesday

Only hours after receiving a life sentence, convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was forced to make a sudden departure to the highest-security prison in the U.S. to serve the term, his lawyer said Thursday. A government helicopter whisked the narco, notorious for his daring jailbreaks, out of New York City on Wednesday

It’s time for round two. CNN’s two-night Democratic primary debate will offer a rematch of former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris, whose clash over race became the most closely watched moment of the first round of debates. Biden and Harris will debate in Detroit on Wednesday, July 31. The debates will