Prosecutors have concluded that police were justified in fatally shooting a man who fired on authorities in June in Las Cruces, injuring three law enforcement officers. The Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office made the announcement on Friday, saying it “has concluded that the shooting was justified under New Mexico Law and will not be taking
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A month after a white gunman targeting Latinos killed 22 people in El Paso, the Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee heard Friday from experts about the “relationship between anti-immigrant rhetoric and domestic terrorism.” U.S. Reps. Veronica Escobar of Texas and Jerry Nadler of New York presided over a field hearing at the University of Texas
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New Mexico is in the height of green chile season and farmers depend on help with harvesting. However, this year farmers say they are facing a labor shortage. “It’s really, really hard to get workers out there right now,” Alonso Grajeda, a green chile farmer from Hatch, said. “It hurts us big time.” Most years,
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Chile farmers in southern New Mexico say extreme shifts in weather have affected the harvest. Alonso Grajeda of Grajeda Farms says a cold snap early in the season and a later heat wave mean he won’t have as much green chile as in previous years. Grajeda said he had to replant, delaying the growth of
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The rookies will have to wait, since star running back Ezekiel Elliott finally ended his long holdout with the Dallas Cowboys and Eli Manning is still the quarterback for the New York Giants. Elliott signed a $90 million, six-year extension just in time for Sunday’s opener at home against the Giants, who will send Manning
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A woman in her 20’s was shot in the back and wounded in her own home in Las Cruces overnight, police said. It happened in the 1400 block of Branding Iron Circle, near Main Street and South Valley Drive. Officers responded to a call of shots fire at the home around 1 a.m. and found
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Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke says a mandatory government buyback program for AK-47 and AR-15 rifles is needed because other gun control measures don’t do enough to remove weapons already on the streets. O’Rourke spoke at Tufts University in his first campaign stop in Massachusetts. He said that while universal background checks and red flag
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Josh Turner, who has scored a number of Top 10 hits on the country charts and recently netted three Gospel Music Association award nominations, has announced a Fort Bliss concert next month. The “Let Freedom Sing” concert will be on Oct. 4 from 6 to 10 p.m. and is free to attend. It will be
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Country singer Kylie Rae Harris caused a three-vehicle crash in New Mexico that left her and a 16-year-old girl dead, authorities said Friday. Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told the Taos News that investigators believe Harris caused Wednesday’s crash and that speed appeared to be a contributing factor when she clipped the back of another
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Texas Tech feels like it can pick up the pace even more in its up-tempo offense. “We can definitely go faster,” running back Armand Shyne said. The goal for the Red Raiders with new offensive coordinator David Yost, who came with head coach Matt Wells from Utah State, is to get lined up and snap
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The heat is on! The No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide (1-0) faces New Mexico State (0-1) Saturday in a mid-afternoon game at Bryant-Denny Stadium with temperatures that could be in the high 90s. The heat might be the biggest issue for Nick Saban’s team, which is favored by 55-1/2 points. Alabama will be more focused
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It wasn’t Gotham City, but Batman descended on a Florida preschool to help a 3-year-old girl who was being bullied. When Erica Calculli’s daughter Lydia came home from school with bruises on her face, she chalked it up to regular kid’s play. But then Lydia came home with a swollen black eye last month. The
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Hurricane Dorian made landfall along Cape Hatteras in North Carolina on Friday as those on the state’s low-lying islands battled ferocious rain and braced for flash flooding and dangerous storm surge. Hundreds may be trapped on Ocracoke Island where the deadly storm “is raging” and “waters are rising quickly,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said.
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The jury selection process is beginning in the trial of a white former Dallas police officer charged with killing an unarmed black man in his own apartment. Amber Guyger faces a murder charge in the slaying of Botham Jean. Guyger told authorities she mistakenly entered Jean’s apartment thinking it was her own and fatally shot
Continue Reading An attorney for the former Montwood High School band treasurer accused of stealing $50,000 in band funds isn’t disputing the allegations against her client following her arrest. El Paso police on Thursday said 40-year-old Stacy Telles turned herself into the Central Regional Command Center a day earlier after an arrest warrant was issued for embezzlement.
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Under threat of crippling U.S. tariffs, Mexico said Friday it had reduced the flow of migrants arriving at its northern border by 56% in three months. Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said he believes Mexico’s strategy of cracking down on illegal migration with a National Guard deployment, investment in Central America and allowing the U.S. to
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A motorcyclist died in a crash early Friday morning on El Paso’s eastside. Police said 48-year-old Adrian Flores was killed in the accident that happened just before 1 a.m. in the 1800 block of George Dieter Drive near the Trawood Drive intersection. Investigators said the accident was triggered when Flores’ motorcycle struck the curb while
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For years, El Paso and Odessa have met on the football field to battle it out for the win and bragging rights. But this time as the two teams hit the field on Thursday night, they put aside their differences to share a message of unity. That’s because far more than the final score was
Continue Reading Another El Paso area high school will stand in solidarity with a Midland-Odessa area school prior to a high school football game this week in the wake of the latest mass shooting. Pebble Hills High School travels to Midland High School Friday. In a show of support, the Spartans will present the Midland High School
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It was the much-anticipated game Thursday night between Eastwood and Plano at The Star. In a game that had originally been canceled by the Plano ISD, hundreds made the trip to the Dallas Cowboys training facility to see the Eastwood Troopers take on the Plano Wildcats in a game symbolizing unity between the two communities.
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Coming off a win against Coronado last week, the Andress High School Football team hit the road to take on the Chapin Huskies. Andress’ defense held strong, pitching a 15-0 shutout victory, but none was stronger than Eagles RB Travon Ware’s 78-yard Touchdown run. In a surefire candidate for Play of the Year in Borderland
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Kylie Rae Harris, a rising country singer from Texas, died in a car accident in New Mexico, Alex Torrez, the CEO of her management company, Torrez Music Group, said Thursday. She was 30. “We are heartbroken to confirm that Kylie Rae Harris passed away in a car accident last night,” a statement from Torrez read.
Continue Reading Here’s an archived version of the entire broadcast of the Plano vs. Eastwood high school football game played at The Star in Frisco for your video-on-demand viewing pleasure. KVIA 2019
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The Borderscene Film Festival returns for a second year in New Mexico with the option to view films online. The festival in Las Cruces takes place Friday through Monday at the Allen Theaters Cineport 10, Video 4 and Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces. Organizers say the multi-day festival’s theme is “Overcoming Challenges.” Officials say they
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ABC-7 will broadcast the Plano Senior High School vs. Eastwood High School football game live on Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. on the air and here on KVIA.com. The game is being played at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, where the Eastwood team arrived by bus late Thursday afternoon and were
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For some, being far away from home can be tough, but for three educators living in Garland it was especially hard following the mass shooting at an east El Paso Walmart. The Garland Independent School District is one of the Dallas-area’s largest school districts. Mariel Maese graduated from Eastwood in 2001, and currently is a
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For some, being far away from home can be tough, but for three educators living in Garland, TX it was especially hard following the mass shooting at an east El Paso Walmart. The Garland Independent School District is one of the Dallas areas largest school districts. Mariel Maese graduated from Eastwood in 2001, and currently
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UPDATE Sept. 5th: Police cancelled their lookout for Rojo saying that the FBI had located her with a family member in Clovis, New Mexico. UPDATE July 31st: El Paso police continue to search for Ms. Rojo and have once again issued a call for the public’s help in locating her. Original article from July 24th
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Minutes after media outlets identified the gunman who killed seven people in west Texas, a Twitter account that may be automated began spreading baseless information linking the shooter to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. “The Odessa Shooter’s name is Seth Ator, a Democrat Socialist who had a Beto sticker on his truck,” said the post,
Continue Reading Federal law enforcement officials say ATF agents have executed a search warrant at the Lubbock home of a man they believe was involved in the “transfer” of an AR-style rifle to the gunman who killed seven people in a Labor Day weekend mass shooting. The officials familiar with the investigation spoke on condition of anonymity
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