A 16-year-old boy was killed and three others were injured in a two-car crash late Saturday night in west El Paso. Police on Monday identified the deceased as Jose Roberto Prieto. He was a junior at Coronado High School, according to the El Paso Independent School District, and students were invited to wear white on
Continue Reading
Hurricane Lorenzo is in the middle of the Atlantic, thousands of miles from the US, but the powerful storm will still make its presence felt along the East Coast, from Florida to New England, over the next few days, forecasters said. In Florida, the National Weather Service in Melbourne warned of dangerous currents caused by
Continue Reading A jury on Monday afternoon was deliberating the case of a Dallas police officer who fatally shot her unarmed neighbor in his apartment last year. Closing arguments in the murder trial of Amber Guyger in the fatal shooting of Botham Jean were completed earlier Monday on what would’ve been Jean’s 28th birthday. The trial began
Continue Reading The last of four inmates who overpowered two guards and escaped from an Ohio jail has been captured in North Carolina, officials said Monday. Lawrence R. Lee III was taken into custody in Durham, North Carolina, said Sheriff Matt Champlin of Gallia County, Ohio. A US Marshals fugitive task force and local police found Lee
Continue Reading
California Gov. Gavin Newsom passed Senate Bill 206, also known as the Fair Pay to Play Act, into law Monday. The law allows college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness. The bill will go into effect in 2023, and if the bill survives the expected court challenges, it could reshape the NCAA’s
Continue Reading A Florida city’s Deputy of the Month program was designed to improve relations between law enforcement and the community, but it got off to a rocky start when a commission member called one of the recipients “a rogue police officer” and accused him of arresting the panel member falsely. Deputy Joshua Gallardo was one of
Continue Reading Another violent weekend closed out the month in Juarez, with prosecutors telling Mexican media outlets of 19 more homicides that put September’s death toll at 122. The most prominent of the murder victims, according to El Mexicano , was a model who appeared on television — but it provided no further details. El Diario reported
Continue Reading A 12-year-old African-American girl who claimed three white classmates pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks has admitted the claims were fabricated, her school said. “We can now confirm that the student who accused three of her classmates of assault has acknowledged that the allegations were false,” Stephen Danish, head of Immanuel Christian School, said
Continue Reading A homeless and disabled veteran who was struck and killed by a semi-truck last week in El Paso’s Lower Valley was crossing the street in a crosswalk when he was hit, investigators said Monday, but there was no word on whether the truck driver would face any charges. El Paso police identified the trucker as
Continue Reading An 8-year-old boy was attacked in a Texas elementary school bathroom and beaten so severely he was left unconscious and suffered minor brain bleeding. But police who investigated the incident ultimately determined the culprits were too young to face charges. Children under 10 cannot be prosecuted for committing crimes under Texas law, according to local
Continue Reading Genesis Politron is a preschool and kindergarten teacher in Watsonville, California, who works with deaf and hard of hearing students. While shopping for toys for her class, Politron realized there weren’t any dolls that resembled her students with hearing devices. So she decided to craft some on her own. Using creativity — and a lot
Continue Reading A 12-year-old African-American girl says three of her white male classmates pinned her down and cut several of her dreadlocks. The girl, Amari Allen, tells CNN that three white boys at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia, pinned her on Monday to a playground slide. They held her hands behind her back, Amari said, covered
Continue Reading The Sikh community in Houston and around the world is mourning the loss of Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, the trailblazing sheriff’s deputy in Harris County who was shot and killed during a traffic stop last week. At the Sikh National Center in Houston, the gurdwara Dhaliwal attended, preparations are underway for the funeral. “It’s a huge
Continue Reading A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of South Carolina postal worker Irene Pressley, the Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office said. Trevor Raekwon Seward shot Pressley several times, the arrest warrant alleges. He has been charged with murder, the sheriff’s office said in a release Saturday. Pressley was killed September 23 while
Continue Reading
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins on October 1, the Albuquerque Police Department is showing its support by painting a new patrol car bright pink — the official color of breast cancer awareness. For the entire month, the eye-catching vehicle will cruise the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico to raise awareness. “Our mission with the
Continue Reading The Sikh community in Houston and around the world is mourning the loss of Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, the trailblazing sheriff’s deputy in Harris County, Texas, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop Friday. At the Sikh National Center in Houston, the gurdwara Dhaliwal attended, preparations are underway for the funeral. “It’s a huge
Continue Reading A gas leak that forced the evacuation of some 100 people in Lawrence, Massachusetts, last week happened when road workers inadvertently closed a gas valve that should have been disabled previously, state authorities told CNN. Friday’s evacuations came a year after Lawrence and two nearby communities were hit by a string of gas explosions that
Continue Reading Oakland Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict has been suspended without pay by the NFL for the rest of the season — including any postseason games — for repeated violations of unnecessary roughness rules. The announcement from the league was made Monday, one day after Burfict’s ejection for his helmet-to-helmet hit to Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack
Continue Reading
Just beyond the public August 3 memorial, two investigators were allowed into the Cielo Vista Walmart Sunday. They work for a law firm suing the store on behalf of injured victims and are looking to help build a case. The lawsuit was brought forward in early September by Jessica and Memo Garcia, two surviving victims
Continue Reading The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a deadly rollover crash in Hudspeth County. It happened just before 10 p.m. Sunday night on U.S. Highway 62/180, about six miles east of the Border Patrol check point. A DPS spokesman identified the deceased as a passenger in the vehicle, 32-year-old Edgar Galvan Garcia of Socorro.
Continue Reading Images from cameras built into the starting blocks at the World Athletics Championships in Doha will be censored following objections from female athletes. The cameras — which were in use for the first time and promised to “provide innovative angles on the competition,” according to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) — showed images
Continue ReadingRecord amounts of snow have fallen in parts of Montana over the past few days — and it’s only September. Great Falls, Montana, got 9.7 inches of snow Saturday, the highest one-day September snow amount for that city, followed by 9.6 inches Sunday, the second highest, the National Weather Service said. But even higher amounts
Continue Reading Special teams player Matthew Slater of the New England Patriots scored the first touchdown of his 12-year career with the NFL on Sunday. Slater, who also is a wide receiver, made the touchdown during the Patriots’ game against the Buffalo Bills. He recovered a punt blocked by J.C. Jackson. He scooped the ball and ran
Continue Reading Jews in the Borderland and around the world, are celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It’s one of two Jewish high holidays, some of the religion’s most important days of the year. The holiday began at sundown on Sept. 29 and will end after sunset on Oct. 1. Many Jews will celebrate by attending
Continue Reading Football’s world governing body FIFA has ruled that $6,543,510 (6,000,000 euros) must be paid by Cardiff City to French side Nantes for the transfer of Emiliano Sala, the striker who died in a plane crash over the English Channel earlier this year. Sala and pilot David Ibbotson were both traveling from Nantes towards Cardiff on
Continue Reading The joy of bedtime stories is twofold for parents: They can coax their children to sleep and use it as an excuse to snuggle up with their little ones. To maximize parent-child bonding, though, a study says parents are better off reading to their children from a print book than from a tablet. Parents who
Continue Reading Oprah Winfrey stunned a predominantly-female audience in Charlotte on Saturday by announcing she would donate $1.15 million to help minority students attend and succeed in college. Winfrey was speaking at the 17th annual Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon, where the United Negro College Fund was hoping to raise $1 million for North Carolina students.
Continue Reading Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce further staked her claim as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time by storming to victory in the women’s 100 meters final at the World Championships in Doha. The Jamaican blew away a world-class field in a time of 10.71 seconds to claim her fourth world championship title in the discipline
Continue Reading Two women a day are dying unnecessarily from heart attacks in England and Wales because of a gender gap in awareness, diagnosis and treatment, a leading health charity says. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) released research on Monday that estimates that more than 8,200 women died between 2003 and 2013 as a result of receiving
Continue Reading Consider yourself warned: This video clip will make your heart melt. It’s of John Legend playing the piano, serenading his 1-year-old son Miles Stephens. Chrissy Teigen posted the video on Instagram Saturday, along with the caption “stop everything.” After a few moments of the pair tickling the keys, Legend starts singing “My Favorite Things” from
Continue Reading