A man was in custody in connection with an Amber Alert issued for a 5-year-old northern New Mexico girl, authorities said Monday afternoon. Renezme Calzada was last seen playing in her front yard in Espanola on Sunday morning. But investigators said the girl’s disappearance went unreported for nearly ten hours. Her mother called 911 to
Continue Reading (Editor’s note: A ‘possible suspect’ has now been arrested, but the girl remains missing. Click here for those details.) An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5-year-old girl from northern New Mexico. According to New Mexico State Police, Renezme Calzada was last seen Sunday in Rio Arriba County. Renezme is four feet tall and
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Fifty U.S. states and territories, led by Texas, announced an investigation into Google’s “potential monopolistic behavior.” The Monday announcement closely followed one from a separate group of states Friday that disclosed an investigation into Facebook’s market dominance. The two probes widen the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies beyond sweeping federal and congressional investigations and
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The Trump administration says it saw a 30% drop in the number of people apprehended at the southern U.S. border from July to August, amid summer heat and aggressive crackdowns on both sides of the border to deter migrants. Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Monday that the percentage of border
Continue Reading The U.S. Department of Defense is diverting an estimated $3.6 billion in military construction funds to help build President Donald Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, some of it from Texas and New Mexico. The Pentagon has now released the full list of 127 military construction projects that will lose funds in order to help
Continue Reading A federal judge in California on Monday again blocked the Trump administration from turning away asylum seekers who pass through another country on the way to the U.S.-Mexico border, reinstating his nationwide injunction after the Ninth Circuit narrowed it to apply only within that circuit. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar on Monday ruled that an
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With six in 10 worried about a mass shooting in their community, Americans by a 17-point margin express confidence that stricter gun control laws would reduce such incidents, and even more endorse improved mental health monitoring and treatment to that end. Two measures, specifically, remain overwhelmingly popular: Eighty-nine percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post
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A multi-vehicle fire on a car carrier trailer Sunday morning led to the closure of Interstate-10 eastbound, just south of Las Cruces for about an hour and a half, snarling traffic. The closure at milepost 145 happened about 10:30 a.m. as fire crews worked to put out the flames. New Mexico Dept. of Transportation officials
Continue Reading Storms flooded parts of central Las Cruces on Saturday night, stalling at least one vehicle. Stacy Parks recorded this video above, which shows water rushing around a car on Missouri Avenue. Police were also on scene. “The cop was so nice!!” Parks wrote. “Tried to offer help!! A spokesman for the Las Cruces Police Department
Continue Reading Rescue crews with the El Paso and Sunland Park fire departments were searching along the Rio Grande Sunday morning after reports of a person being swept away by the river current. It happened around 8:50 a.m. near Racetrack Drive between Doniphan and McNutt. Border Patrol helicopters also flew over the river looking for signs of
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Ezekiel Elliott’s workload in the opener didn’t matter much after the Dallas Cowboys running back missed the entire preseason in a holdout. Now there are more questions about how soon quarterback Dak Prescott will get the big payday his backfield mate enjoyed just four days before the season started. Prescott tied his career high with
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When completed, the new $48 million new Fruitport High School will include renovations to the existing building and major new sections which include subtle safe spaces that can be used to protect students in the event of a shooting, and long curved hallways that would offer protection too. “To cut down on the sight lines
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The month of September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. It’s a time to recognize the children and families affected by childhood cancers. Back in May ABC-7 introduced you to 5-year-old Stevie Lerma, who was diagnosed with brain cancer. In May, two El Paso youth football teams helped Stevie’s wish to score a touchdown come true
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Two men were killed and dismembered with their mutilated remains being found scattered in two separate sections of the city over the weekend, according to reports from El Mexicano and El Diario. The body discoveries contributed to a weekend that saw an escalation of violence in Juarez, with at least a half-dozen murders occurring during
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Singer and songwriter Camilo Sesto, whose dramatic and florid ballads made him a hugely popular figure in the Spanish-language music world, has died of heart failure. He was 72 and would have celebrated a birthday on Sept. 16. Sesto enjoyed an enduring popularity throughout Spanish-speaking regions. In October, he was scheduled to begin a U.S.
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Matt Moore gave up studying to be a priest to become an educator. After teaching for a number of years, he decided to go into the law. He became a municipal court judge and spent 18 years in the El Paso District Attorney’s office. His lifetime of adventures has become the basis for a new
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A gain for Elizabeth Warren and a slip in support for Kamala Harris place Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Warren atop the field in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, days in advance of the Sept. 12 Democratic debate in Houston, sponsored by ABC that will air live on ABC-7 and be streamed here on
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The military’s Area 51 in Nevada is bracing for an invasion of amateur alien hunters later this month. It all started as a joke Facebook event: “Storm Area 51,” read Matty Roberts’ Facebook event page. “They can’t stop all of us.” Two million people marked themselves as “attending” the event to take place Sept. 20.
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Being friends with employees at an Albuquerque body shop nearly got Vespa the cat killed. But thanks to several veterinarians and one employee who wasn’t afraid to tell police what his boss had done, the feline is expected to make a full recovery after being shot in the face twice with a rifle. “He’s a
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Alan Bowman threw three touchdown passes, two to T.J. Vasher, and Texas Tech rode another strong defensive performance under new coach Matt Wells to a 38-3 victory over UTEP on Saturday night. The Red Raiders (2-0) cruised despite a sluggish start from the offense a week after Bowman had the most yards passing in the
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August recess is just about over and Congress will go back to Washington after three mass shootings across the U.S. Elected officials representing El Paso and the state of Texas have plans to tackle the varied issues. “We’re going to be marking up three gun violence legislation bills. One will be a red flag law,
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Tua Tagovailoa’s first throw went backward to Henry Ruggs III, who sprinted 75 yards to the end zone. That’s about how the day went for No. 2 Alabama. Tagovailoa passed for three touchdowns and ran 25 yards for a fourth, all in the first half of the Crimson Tide’s 62-10 victory over New Mexico State
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New court documents filed on Friday in a lawsuit stemming from El Paso’s mass shooting tragedy accuse Walmart of failing to provide “necessary security” at their Cielo Vista store, making it an “inviting target” for criminals to commit violence. “We have to make sure that Walmart takes notice of its own internal security practices,” said
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President Donald Trump will be holding a rally in the Land of Enchantment later this month as his re-election campaign hopes to flip the traditionally Democratic state. The President’s rally will be on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, a suburb of Albuquerque. Trump is likely to
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A man was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Friday for the ax killing of a woman whose head was nearly severed, as well as shooting and wounding a southern New Mexico sheriff’s deputy. Andrew Poteet Magill, 25, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the April 2017 death of Mary Ann Moorhouse at
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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is prepared to vote next week on a resolution laying out the procedures for its investigation now that it is actively considering moving to impeach President Donald Trump, a major step toward formalizing its sweeping probe, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort. The committee Democrats discussed the matter
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If you travel to Juarez for business or fun, how you get there will dramatically change beginning this Sunday. The I-10 Connect project is building ramps over Interstate 10 at the interchange with U.S. 54 (the Spaghetti Bowl) that will specifically direct traffic to Juarez. But the current ramps to Juarez will close in order
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is ready to work on restricting gun sales in his state between strangers without a background check in the wake of last weekend’s second mass shooting in Texas — even if it means opposing the National Rifle Association. “That gap of stranger to stranger we have to close, in my
Continue Reading As hundreds of high school band students hit the field for Friday Night football, police say Montwood High’s program is missing tens of thousands of dollars. “It’s not the children’s fault,” said Veronica Palacios, the vice president of the Montwood High School Ram Band Booster Club. According to the El Paso Police Department, Stacey Telles
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