Month: July 2019

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

Hundreds of animals are currently waiting at the Animal Services Center in northeast El Paso for a forever home. Some are even waiting to be reunited with their owners. “We have so many in our care right now. We have close to 700 dogs,” said Paula Powell, director of El Paso Animal Services. As ABC-7

A bombshell revelation was delivered by prosecutors late Thursday in day three of the trial of a former El Paso Catholic priest accused of child sexual abuse. The prosecution said 68-year old Miguel Luna fathered a daughter with a prostitute and then misappropriated funds from the church to funnel to that daughter. Prosecutors also said

A former El Paso Catholic priest on trial for allegedly sexually abusing a girl from age ten through her teen years took the witness stand in his own defense on Friday and vehemently denied those accusations. But 68-year old Miguel Luna did acknowledge having a “secret baby” in Juarez, seemingly confirming a bombshell revelation by

New details emerged Thursday about an attack this week at a southern New Mexico prison that hospitalized two guards. Authorities now say the pair were viciously beaten by a group of five inmates during a nurse visit at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility near Las Cruces. The attack left the corrections officers with severe,

A Texas woman was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to shooting and killing her two young daughters in 2017. Prosecutors declined to pursue the death penalty against Sarah Nicole Henderson in exchange for her pleading guilty to two counts of capital murder in the deaths of her 5- and 7-year-old daughters.

The new Courtyard Marriott hotel just up the street form New Mexico State University opened its doors Thursday morning and it’s partnering with the school to provide students unique opportunities. Fifty hospitality students are now employees at the hotel, getting to put what they are learning in the classroom into practice. “It’s better to be

A charter bus carrying workers from Matamoros, Mexico crashed when it slammed into a guard rail at an exit along Interstate-69 in the Houston area. Officials said passengers were sleeping when the crash happened around 6 a.m. Thursday. Many had bloody noses, cuts on their legs and scrapes. “I woke up when I felt the

A train collided with a vehicle in central El Paso early Thursday morning, but police said the car was gone when they arrived at the scene. It happened near the intersection of Piedras Street and Grant Avenue. It appeared the motorist drove away after the collision, but it was unclear if that driver suffered any

A semi-truck caught fire in east El Paso early Thursday morning, but no one was injured. It happened just before 4 a.m. near Joe Battle Blvd and Pebble Hills Blvd. Flames and smoke could be seen for miles until fire crews put the blaze out. A fire dispatcher tells ABC-7 there were no injuries. It’s

A family preparing to go hiking watched as their BMW SUV went up in flames in west El Paso Thursday morning. The SUV was parked near the intersection of Via Bianca Lane and Via De La Paz Drive when the fire happened. Heavy smoke from it could be seen billowing for miles. The owner of

A top Trump administration official said Thursday the number of family separations at the border has fallen since last summer’s zero tolerance policy, and they are done only for compelling reasons. He also acknowledged that the troubled Clint border station facility in El Paso County is “absolutely overcrowded.” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said

Odessa Police arrested a 15-year-old boy for spitting in an Arizona Tea bottle and putting it back for someone else to drink, KOSA CBS7 reported. An officer wrote in a sworn affidavit that he was dispatched to the Albertsons store on North County Road West in Odessa on Monday night. He says he watched security

A federal judge denied bail for jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges Thursday, saying the danger to the community that would result if the jet-setting defendant was free formed the “heart of this decision.” Epstein is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls from New York and Florida, and authorities are looking

A U.S. Border Patrol agent from Clint is accused of using Facebook to harass the mother of a 12-year-old migrant child who was in custody, The Washington Post reported late Wednesday. According to the report, “a U.S. Border Patrol agent allegedly sought out an undocumented Guatemalan woman living in California, sent her Facebook messages and

Stormy weather conditions across the Borderland Wednesday night resulted in significant lightning, power outages, and flooding concerns. About 2,300 customers lost power in El Paso’s Lower Valley, according to El Paso Electric. The utility company said it was able to completely restore electric service by 9:45 p.m. Elsewhere, the El Paso Locomotive soccer game was

It was a bad start to the week for Beto O’Rourke, but he returned home to the Borderland on Wednesday evening hoping to get his campaign back on track. O’Rourke announced on Monday that he had raised just $3.6 million between April 1 and June 30, a massive decline from the $9.4 million the former

One of the Borderland’s oldest institutions is getting a million-dollar makeover. Coronado High School has broken ground on renovations funded by the El Paso Independent School District’s Bond Program, which gave the EPISD $69 million in bond funds to modernize the district’s schools. What used to be used Building “B” at Coronado on Champions Place

The Pentagon says an additional 2,100 troops will be sent to the U.S.-Mexican border to help with security. Among them are 1,100 active-duty troops who will perform a variety of missions, including aerial surveillance and logistical and administrative support. The Pentagon says the new acting defense secretary, Richard V. Spencer, approved the deployment. Also deploying

The El Paso Locomotive haven’t won a game in more than a month, but on Wednesday the Locomotive returned home to the friendly confines of Southwest University Park. Unfortunately, not even the home crowd was enough to get the Locomotive back on the winning track as the Locomotive lost to San Antonio FC by a

Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso DEA Kyle Williamson is calling it ‘a great victory for the DEA and law enforcement all around the world.’ Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years and was ordered to pay $12.6 billion in forfeiture on Wednesday. (Watch

El Paso Mayor Dee Margo and Ciudad Juarez Mayor Armando Cabada were the special guests Wednesday of a presentation of the Border Perception Index, a survey that examines how the two cities perceive one another. The goal of the survey was to strengthen the connections of the two communities. The survey identified immigration and trade

The Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility was placed on lockdown Wednesday after two corrections officers were attacked by multiple inmates and seriously injured, officials said. The injured corrections officers were taken to El Paso area hospitals, where at least one reportedly is undergoing surgery. Corrections officials released no other details surrounding the incident, but New

A former Texas judge and longtime Republican announced that she is leaving the Republican Party, denouncing President Donald Trump’s “ideology” of “racism” on the heels of Trump’s “racist” attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color. “President Trump is the worst president in the history of this country,” Elsa Alcala wrote in a Facebook post, saying

This was not your typical police chase that you see on TV. Instead of four wheels, it involved four feet and a shell, KOAT reported. A runaway tortoise was found by a hiker earlier this week near Sun Mountain Drive in Santa Fe. This big guy is named Plato and weighs 150 pounds. Santa Fe

The U.S. House easily tabled a maverick Texas Democrat’s effort Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for his recent racial insults against lawmakers of color, in a vote that provided an early snapshot of just how divided Democrats are over trying to oust him in the shadow of the 2020 elections. Democrats leaned against the

A new policy to deny asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country threatens to exacerbate overcrowding at severely strained U.S. immigration detention centers and makeshift holding areas. Photos and video of Vice President Mike Pence’s visit Friday to McAllen showing men crammed behind chain-link fences offered the

The motto for the upcoming football season at UTEP is ‘Orange Revival,’ and that’s just what the Miners are hoping to prove to everyone, not just UTEP fans. On Wednesday, UTEP head coach Dana Dimel, along with defensive back Justin Rogers, and offensive lineman Derron Gatewood, were in Frisco, TX for C-USA media days. All

Prosecutors have dropped a case accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a Massachusetts resort island bar in 2016. The Cape and Islands district attorney said Wednesday that they dropped the indecent assault and battery case brought against the actor last year. Spacey was accused of getting an 18-year-old man drunk and then