With a push to make the playoffs, the El Paso Locomotive are peaking at the right time of the season. Wednesday night at Southwest University Park, the Locomotive tacked on 3 more points to their total after defeating Fresno FC, 2-1. Entering the night, El Paso sat in 9th place of the USL standings. Only
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A North Carolina man says his divorce was almost unbearable, but an unusual legal claim just landed him a $750,000 judgment. According to court documents, Kevin Howard recently won a judgment against his ex-wife’s lover for “alienation of affections” — a claim that exists in just a handful of other states across the country —
Continue Reading When a police officer fatally shoots a black man, the legal system often sides with the cop. Some officers never get charged. It’s even more rare for officers to get convicted. So when Dallas jurors convicted Amber Guyger of murder — not a lesser charge of manslaughter — jaws dropped across the country. “I, for
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Albertsons and the El Paso Community Foundation hosted a special luncheon Wednesday for first responders of the August 3 mass shooting. “We know of the hard work and the commitment they have to the community, and we thought it would be most appropriate following the tragedy here in El Paso to thank all the first
Continue Reading A mounted Galveston police officer said “this is gonna look really bad” shortly before he escorted a handcuffed man down the street by a line. The comment was heard on body camera footage released Wednesday by the Galveston Police Department at the end of an administrative review of the controversial August 3 arrest. The department
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Could New Mexico State University be turning into the next big technology hub? A group of students and professors are transforming their school into a major technology center of the future. The Addison Care Virtual Reality Lab was dedicated Wednesday with more than $350,000 invested by Las Cruces-based health technology company Electronic Caregiver. Staff and
Continue Reading Aurora, a falcon that served the Air Force Academy as mascot for 23 years, has died, the school announced Wednesday in a statement posted on Facebook and Twitter. The bird was a fixture at Air Force Academy sporting events as well as military and community events. “She was a beautiful falcon who greatly impressed all
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A World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed Wednesday at a Connecticut airport, killing seven people, made regular visits to the Borderland over the last ten years. The plane, which belonged to the non-profit preservation group, stopped in Santa Teresa numerous times over the past decade — with the most recent visit occurring in April
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A $9 million renovation at the Dona Ana Airport in Santa Teresa is aiming to give cargo planes easy access to the Borderland. The 160 planes that are housed at the airport have put significant wear and tear on the 36-year-old runway. “We have two aircraft that weigh 80,000 pounds apiece, that operate 500 operations
Continue Reading October 1st, 2019 California passed the Fair Pay for Play Act. This legislatoin enabled college athletes the ability to hire agents and make money off their likeness. The bill does not take effect until 2023 but both those for and against the have begun to weigh in. El Paso football super star Ed Stansbury who
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The Bel Air Highlanders are the winners of the Sweet Play of the Week for week 5 of the high school football season. Bel Air quarterback Adrian Parsons had an incredible play in the game against Ysleta that saw him escape a Ysleta defensive lineman and launch a long ball into the hands of wide
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A semi-truck overturned on Interstate 10 east at Porfirio Diaz around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, forcing lane closures along the highway. El Paso police said wreck, which snarled afternoon and evening commute traffic, was finally cleared about 6:30 p.m. I-10 east @ Porfirio Diaz, collision, FINAL, all lanes open. Backup to Asarco. — @EPPOLICETRAFFIC (@eppolicetraffic) October
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Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 10 years in prison for the fatal 2018 killing of an innocent man she shot when she mistakenly entered his apartment believing it was her own. But in a remarkable act of kindness, the brother of the victim took the witness stand and
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(Editor’s note: Click here to WATCH the moment the brother of murder victim Botham Jean hugs and forgives ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger after she was sentenced to 10-years in prison.) A former Dallas police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing her black neighbor in his apartment, which she said she
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New Mexico State’s head football coach says a new California law that will allows college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness will “destroy college athletics.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Fair Pay to Play Act into law this week. It will go into effect in 2023, if it survives the expected
Continue Reading A woman and two 17-year-old girls have been charged with animal cruelty after authorities said the hind legs of a paralyzed dachshund were “sawed off.” The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office tells reporters that a 50-year-old Slidell woman, her daughter and the daughter’s friend were arrested earlier this week. A sheriff’s statement says the wounded
Continue Reading A national foundation dedicated to helping women small business owners obtain loans to grow their business is aiding businesses in El Paso. Through PeopleFund, a Texas-based Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), the Tory Burch Foundation and Bank of America are proud to help women small business owners and entrepreneurs grow their businesses as they make
Continue Reading El Paso County Judge Ricardo A. Samaniego will deliver his first State of the County Address at the County Coliseum on October 10, 2019 at 11:30AM. The event is being hosted by the El Paso Chamber. For more information, contact the El Paso Chamber at 534-0500. County Judge Samaniego discussed plans for the State of
Continue Reading Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal was sitting in a crowd at a gurdwara — a place of worship for Sikhs — on a winter day in 2008 when he first heard the call of duty. It was soon after an encounter between a Sikh family and Harris County sheriff’s deputies had gone horribly wrong. The family had
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The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to implement collection of DNA from migrants who’ve been arrested, according the Department of Homeland Security. The move, being done in coordination with the Department of Justice, comes on the heels of months of historic high apprehension numbers on the southern border and is likely to receive
Continue Reading Unleashing unconcealed fury about Democrats and the press, President Donald Trump railed Wednesday against the investigation into his dealings with Ukraine, hours after House Democratic leaders warned the White House to expect a subpoena for documents. Democrats accused the administration of “flagrant disregard” of previous requests and said that refusal could be considered an impeachable
Continue Reading UPDATE #2: Investigators said a tractor-trailer driven by 32–year old Harjot Singh Goraya of Riverside, California slid off a wet highway and collided into overpass support columns. Goraya was killed in the crash. Police had not yet determined how Goraya lost control of the truck. UPDATE: I-10 west near downtown was temporarily closed just before
Continue Reading A 49-year-old man was shot and wounded outside Deming Tuesday evening, suffering serious injuries that required him to be flown to University Medical Center in El Paso for treatment. Officials with the Luna County Sheriff’s Office said Joe Melendez of Deming was apparently shot and wounded during some type of altercation north of the city
Continue Reading A body found by deputies is that of a kidnapped Santa Cruz, California, tech executive, law enforcement said. Tushare Atre, 50, was kidnapped early Tuesday morning. “The investigation is still ongoing, but we have reason to believe the motive was robbery,” the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. The sheriff’s office said
Continue Reading A Las Cruces man charged with multiple counts of making and possessing child pornography was ordered held without bond Wednesday afternoon until his trial. Judge Douglas Driggers granted a prosecution motion to deny bond to Raymond Pacheco, who was arrested last week following a police search of his residence at the Las Brisas Mobile Home
Continue Reading A 72-year-old man who was crossing the street has become El Paso’s 48th traffic fatality of the year, police said Wednesday. Javier Garcia died at University Medical Center from injuries he suffered on Monday morning when he was struck by an SUV in the 500 block of South Kansas Street. “Gracia was crossing Kansas Street
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of civil rights leader Joseph Lowery. Personal:Birth date: October 6, 1921 Birth place: Huntsville, Alabama Birth name: Joseph Echols Lowery Father: LeRoy Lowery, store owner Mother: Dora (Fackler) Lowery, teacher Marriage: Evelyn (Gibson) Lowery (April 5, 1948-September 26, 2013, her death) Children: with Evelyn Lowery: Yvonne, Karen, Cheryl; with
Continue Reading A man in Florida has been sneaking around his neighborhood tampering with electric scooters parked on the streets, police say. Fort Lauderdale police posted a surveillance video Tuesday showing a man walking up to an electrical scooter on the street, slapping a white sticker on its QR code, and cutting its brake lines, essentially rendering
Continue Reading Perhaps watching football at Anfield should come with a health warning. Just five months since Liverpool produced one of the most astonishing comebacks in the history of European football to dump Barcelona out of the Champions League, its players were once again involved in another contest that defied any modicum of logic. Playing Austria’s Red
Continue Reading El Paso jail magistrate Ray Gutierrez has been placed on paid administrative leave by the El Paso Council of Judges, a spokesman said Wednesday, following his weekend arrest in New Mexico for alleged weapons violations and drunk driving. Gutierrez was released from Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility on Tuesday evening. He was booked there
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