A deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in North Carolina may stem from hot tubs that were on display inside an event center last month during a state fair, state health officials said Thursday. One person has died among 120 confirmed cases of the airborne lung infection, North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services reported.
Continue Reading
A man traveled from Norway to Florida to surprise his father-in-law for his birthday. But when he leaped out of the bushes, he was mistakenly killed. Christopher Bergan, 37, arrived at the home of Richard Dennis, 61, on Tuesday evening and began banging on his front door. Dennis, unsure who was outside, ran the person
Continue Reading
UPDATE: This warning has now expired. (Editor’s note: For current conditions and live radar anytime visit kvia.com/weather) THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… SOUTHEASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO… * UNTIL 500 PM MDT. * AT 406 PM MDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
Continue Reading New Jersey investigators are “still searching for that key piece of information” needed to find a missing 5-year-old girl, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said Friday. It’s been over two weeks since Dulce Maria Alavez was reported missing at a playground in September. In a 911 call released Thursday, the girl’s mother said people at
Continue Reading
Diahann Carroll was in her lifetime many things: a singular talent, a trailblazer, a breaker of barriers. In the wake of her death at age 84, Carroll is being remembered as all those things and so much more by her friends and colleagues in Hollywood — both those who had the privilege to work with
Continue Reading
An El Paso city representative was arrested and charged with assaulting his wife early Friday. Sam Morgan represents District 4, which covers northeast El Paso. Jail records show Morgan was booked Friday morning into the downtown jail on one count of assault causing bodily injury/family violence charge. “Morgan was arrested after officers responded to his
Continue Reading The older sister of Botham Jean admires her youngest sibling for hugging the former Dallas police officer who killed their brother. But she understands those who disagree with the display of forgiveness. “What Brandt did, I truly admire,” Allisa Charles-Findley said in a statement released through the family’s attorney Friday. “I pray every day to
Continue Reading
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is preparing for his exit from the Trump Cabinet with his name squarely in the middle of the Ukrainian controversy, raising the prospect that a once largely clean tenure could be clouded at the very end. Perry plans to leave his post in the Trump administration by December, according to
Continue Reading
You may know the names Steve Murphy and Javier Peña from the Netflix series ‘Narcos.’ They are the retired Drug Enforcement Administration agents largely credited with the take down of drug lord Pablo Escobar. Murphy and Peña recently visited El Paso as part of their speaking tour — Chasing Pablo: The True Story of Pablo
Continue Reading A former Napa Valley vineyard owner was sentenced to five months in prison on Friday for his role in the national college admissions scam Agustin Huneeus Jr., the fifth parent sentenced in the scam, pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit fraud. His five-month prison sentence is the longest so far for a parent
Continue Reading
For the second time in a week, a jury will decide the fate of a former police officer charged with murder for killing an unarmed black man. Jurors on Friday began deliberating the case against former DeKalb County, Georgia, police officer Robert “Chip” Olsen. They met for five hours and will resume deliberations Monday morning.
Continue Reading After Botham Jean was fatally shot in his apartment last year, his former colleagues made a commitment to his family: They wouldn’t allow the memory of their friend and coworker to fade away. On Tuesday, PricewaterhouseCoopers, where Jean worked as an accountant, unveiled a portrait of their colleague in the company’s new Dallas office. The
Continue Reading
The Psychology Internship Program at the El Paso VA Health Care System (EPVAHCS) has been awarded accreditation by the American Psychological Association (APA), a recognition that to date has only been attained by one other internship site in El Paso. El Paso VA health officials say it could lead to timelier access to mental health
Continue Reading Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, one of the cast members from “Jersey Shore,” was arrested Friday after an alleged domestic violence incident in Los Angeles, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department. Ortiz-Margo was booked on a kidnapping charge and bail was set at $100,000. The alleged incident reportedly involved the reality star and his
Continue Reading (CNN) — House Democrats are seeking documents from Vice President Mike Pence as part of their impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump and his conversation with the President of Ukraine. The demand for documents came in a letter Friday from House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel and House Oversight Chairman
Continue Reading
Corey Morgan was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday for planning the 2015 revenge slaying of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in a Chicago alley. Morgan, 31, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced one day after fellow gang member Dwright Doty was convicted of first-degree murder. The jury deliberated about 10 hours since Thursday. Doty,
Continue Reading
Just over a week since it was announced that Inter Milan, along with its city rival AC Milan, plan to build a brand new $1.35 billion, 60,000-seat arena, another gleaming treasure has become a more pressing obsession, at least for those who follow the Nerazzurri. That shiny obsession is the Scudetto — the Italian league
Continue Reading The US Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to stop using THC vaping products as investigations into vaping-related lung injuries and deaths continue. In a statement released Friday, FDA Acting Commissioner Dr. Ned Sharpless said that the ongoing outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries continues to underscore the need “to gather critical information and provide
Continue Reading If we can’t get “Girlfriends” back on the air, this is the next best thing. Golden Brooks, Jill Marie Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross and Persia White were the stars of that show and have reunited for an upcoming episode of Ross’ hit ABC comedy “black-ish.” Ross has been getting folks ready for it on her
Continue Reading A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly making two dozen pipe bombs with the intent of using them to hurt people, the Hillsborough County Sheriff said Friday. Michelle Kolts, 27, faces 24 counts of making a destructive device with intent to harm, Sheriff Chad Chronister told reporters in a news conference. It was Kolts’
Continue Reading Diahann Carroll, who pioneered television with her starring role in the 1968 series “Julia,” died Friday, her daughter Suzanne Kay confirmed to CNN. Carroll was 84. She died early Friday, following a battle with breast cancer, according to her publicist Jeffery Lane. Known as much for her talent as she was her beauty and elegance,
Continue Reading It was the last thing anyone was expecting. Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger had just been sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting a black man, Botham Jean, in his own apartment. Jean’s younger brother Brandt Jean was on the witness stand Wednesday, giving a victim-impact statement, when he turned to the
Continue Reading For the first time since March, Bianca Andreescu has lost a tennis match. In a blockbuster between the past two US Open champions, it was Osaka, the world No. 4 and 21-year-old from Japan, besting the 19-year-old Canadian 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in Beijing. “It meant a lot because I feel like people counted me out
Continue Reading “Porvenir, Texas” an hour-long documentary which is a part of PBS Voces series dedicated to Latino culture will have a special encore screening on Oct 4. The screening will be followed by an open discussion on a 1918 Texas massacre that left 15 people of Mexican descent dead. The massacre was an attack on Latinos
Continue Reading
A Las Cruces motorcyclist was hospitalized in critical condition following an early Friday morning crash along south Main Street that authorities blamed on a combination of wet pavement and speeding. Police said the 20-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle after passing several vehicles and struck a curb about 1:30 a.m. on south Main near
Continue Reading
A minivan crashed a building in a strip mall on Friday morning. It happened in central El Paso near the intersection of Cotton and Missouri. There were no reports of any injuries. No other details were immediately available from police or fire officials. KVIA 2019
Continue Reading
The all-new 2020 Volkswagen Passat keeps with the car’s tradition of understated sophistication.
Continue Reading
Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed more than 2,500 family members between August and September of this year, revealing an increase in deportations driven in part by new administration initiatives. The removals, which occurred over a two-month period, are just shy of the 2,711 family members removed in all of fiscal year 2018. While fiscal year
Continue Reading
One of the most anticipated Jeeps in years will soon go on sale: the Jeep Gladiator pickup truck.
Continue Reading An unarmed man was arrested early Friday morning after an hours-long SWAT standoff in Las Cruces that began Thursday night. A police dog assisted taking 30-year-old Vincente Sanchez into custody around 3:30 a.m., according to police. He had been barricaded inside a house along Claude Dove Drive since about 7 p.m. Sanchez was reportedly injured
Continue Reading