Month: September 2019

Video released by police Thursday showed a propane explosion and fire at a Las Cruces truck stop that critically injured a couple who were traveling cross-country in their pickup truck while towing a trailer. The pair, a 63-year-old man and 59-year-old woman, were flown to the UMC Burn Center in west Texas after Tuesday night’s

Who should get the money, and how much should they get? Those are the questions the task force overseeing the distribution of donations to the August 3 victims of the Walmart mass shooting are trying to answer. Your help is needed. The One Fund Task Force is working to draft a protocol. The draft is

An El Paso County jury began deliberating Thursday morning in the case of former local boxer Joel Garcia, who is on trial for three counts of intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle. Jurors’ deliberations on Garcia’s fate began at 11:15 a.m. following closing arguments that were made in front of a packed courtroom that was at

A school bus and a car collided late Thursday afternoon in Fabens, but it appeared there were no injuries. That crash happened about 4:45 p.m. at Socorro Road and Cuadrilla Road. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said there were no reports of any injuries from the collision. It was not immediately know how many

Temperatures will reach the low 90s again Friday afternoon. The weather will start off fairly quiet with mostly clear skies. We will keep a slight chance of showers for the afternoon and evening with light southerly winds. The weekend looks like there will be a slight chance for a storm with a few more clouds

A crew member who survived the deadly Conception diving boat fire off the coast of California is suing the vessel’s owners, saying the staff had not been properly trained. Ryan Sims had been working as a steward on the Conception for about three weeks when the vessel was consumed by flames and 34 people on

Venerable gun manufacturer Colt says it will stop producing the AR-15, among other rifles, for the consumer market in the wake of many recent mass shootings in which suspects used the weapon. “At the end of the day, we believe it is good sense to follow consumer demand and to adjust as market dynamics change,”

The famous Three Mile Island nuclear plant is officially shutting down Friday, plant spokesperson David Marcheskie confirmed to CNN. Exelon Generation, the company that runs the plant, announced in May that it would officially close the plant by September 30, citing a lack of state action in subsidizing clean energy. The company previously announced in

A 63-year-old man died after being stabbed repeatedly Wednesday night in the Cincinnati Entertainment District, according to the El Paso Police Department. Investigators said Chester Charles Woodward was murdered at the Sun Metro stop at Stanton Street and Cincinnati Avenue at 10:44 p.m. Sgt. Enrique Carrillo indicated Woodward was found on the ground lying next

Last month, five Chicago teenagers were charged with first-degree murder after their alleged accomplice in an attempted burglary was fatally shot by the elderly homeowner. Now prosecutors are dropping the murder charges against the five teens, the state’s attorney of Lake County, Illinois, said in a statement. The state’s attorney, Michael G. Nerheim, reached an

Officials have now released the grand jury indictment recently filed against a man accused of killing 22 people at an El Paso Walmart, but the document offered few new details into the prosecution of Patrick Crusius. The one-page indictment against Crusius lists the names of the 22 victims who were killed in the Aug. 3

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it is boosting a reward being offered in an effort to find the arsonist who burned three Catholic churches in west El Paso over the summer. The FBI’s contribution of $5,000 on Thursday now raises the total reward being offered in the cases to $15,000. St. Matthew Catholic Church,

Shareholders of El Paso Electric Co. overwhelmingly voted at a special meeting Thursday to approve the sale of the utility to an infrastructure fund of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. “Of the shares voted, approximately 99.61 percent voted to approve and adopt the agreement,” said utility company spokesman Javier Camacho. The two firms have previously

Michael Jones, the Florida man suspected of killing his wife and four children and driving with their bodies in his van for weeks, was denied bond in court in Marion County on Thursday. Jones, 38, was also placed on suicide watch, according to CNN affiliate WFTV. He was assigned a public defender by the judge.

One person is dead and seven others injured after a bus that was part of country singer Josh Turner’s road crew went off a roadway in San Luis Obispo County, California, authorities said Thursday. “Mr. Turner and band were in different buses and not injured,” CAL FIRE said via Twitter. CNN has reached out to

Similar to what it did after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas Roadhouse restaurants at over 60 locations across Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico are holding a fundraiser Thursday to benefit Midland-Odessa shooting victims and their families. The restaurants are donating 100% of their profits from all meals served between 4 p.m. to

The remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda unleashed torrential rain Thursday in parts of Texas, prompting hundreds of water rescues, a hospital evacuation and road closures as the powerful storm system drew comparisons to Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Although the amount of predicted rainfall is massive — forecasters say some places could see 40 inches

Jerry has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory. The storm is the 10th named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, and follows Hurricane Humberto and Tropical Storm Imelda, the remnants of which are causing flooding in southeastern Texas on Thursday. Hurricane Jerry had maximum sustained winds

Hordes of dragonflies are showing up on weather radar and making things interesting for weather forecasters in the Eastern United States. It’s not their fault — the flying insects are just heading south to escape the coming cold weather. The National Weather Service office in Wakefield, Virginia, tweeted radar imagery on Monday that showed strange,

Emergency sirens went off early Wednesday evening in Hawaii, but officials say their preliminary investigation shows the sirens were set off inadvertently. The sirens were heard in parts of Hawaii, including O’ahu, and officials say there were sounded during a Honolulu Police Department training. “Due to an error during a Honolulu Police Department training exercise,

As the rock was smashed into his face, the attacker’s words hit Rabbi Avraham Gopin almost as hard. “He said ‘Jew, Jew’,” Gopin recalled in an interview with WCBS, a CNN affiliate. “It was hate,” the rabbi added. The attack broke his nose and knocked out two teeth. Gopin, 63, had gone out to get

Cornell University’s medical school had a life-changing announcement for its students. They’ll get a top-notch college education and walk out debt-free. Weill Cornell Medicine said Monday it would eliminate medical education debt for all students who qualified for financial aid, starting with the students that entered the program this fall. “By replacing student loans with