EL PASO, Texas — Big congratulations are in order for one of Ysleta Independent School District’s teachers. Michelle Sandoval was named the 2020 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year on Friday. Sandoval, an eighth grade teacher at Parkland Middle School, was named Teacher of the Year by the Texas Association of School Administrators at a
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Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a plan Friday that aims to protect workers’ rights and to strengthen unions and collective bargaining efforts as he tries to persuade voters he’s the best presidential candidate to fight for the labor community. The 11-page proposal hits President Donald Trump as engaging in a “war on organizing,
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seemed to voice subdued approval of the work of the top US diplomat in Ukraine whose testimony undermined the administration claims that President Donald Trump had not pushed for investigations into his political rivals in exchange for US aid. Pompeo said he and Bill Taylor, the charge d’affaires in Kiev,
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Oh, please let it happen. Tame Impala announced plans to release its first studio album in nearly five years. The album, titled “The Slow Rush,” will be available in 2020, according to a sneak peek recently posted on the band’s website. It will be the Australian psychedelic band’s followup to “Currents” in 2015. The highly
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Click here for updates on this story Mercer (KDKA) — The father charged in the death of his teenage son, whose body was found emaciated in a Mercer County home, was in court Friday for his arraignment. Antonio Juan Gonzalez, 33, is facing charges of criminal homicide and child abuse. On his way into Magistrate
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story North Dallas (KTVT) — Storm damage cleanup continues across North Texas after nearly a dozen tornadoes touched down this past weekend. And while residents aren’t surprised to find their property blocks, if not miles, away the pain of the loss is more difficult when the item can’t be
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Former New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo is suing New York City, the NYPD and its commissioner James O’Neill over his termination related to the 2014 death of Eric Garner, Pantaleo’s attorney told CNN. Pantaleo was accused of fatally choking Garner. The former officer was fired in August after being found guilty in a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Billings (Billings Gazette) — A California man was sentenced to prison Thursday after a trooper found more than 8 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a spare tire of the car he was driving near Columbus. Manuel Paz Sanchez Jr., 32, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced to 15 years
Continue Reading Shall we skip right to the obvious? Virtually the only moments when President Donald Trump refers to the pain and persecution of a marginalized group are when he’s talking about his own perceived suffering. Consider, for instance, Trump’s penchant for using the term “witch hunt,” which he has tossed around hundreds of times since assuming
Continue Reading Emilia Clarke “was too many drinks in” and broke down crying when she met Beyoncé at an Oscars afterparty, she says. Speaking to Graham Norton, the “Game Of Thrones” star said Beyoncé “got out of there very quickly” when she saw Clarke burst into tears at the sight of her and husband Jay Z. “I
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CLINT, Texas – It will be a moment of a lifetime for a youth baseball coach from Clint. Veronica Larquier will be headed to game four of the World Series in Washington D.C., not as a fan, but as a “Coach of the Year.’ She’ll be honored before the start of the game and Larquier
Continue Reading One year ago, on October 27, 11 people were murdered while praying in the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the United States. In the hours before the shooting, the attacker posted to social media that he couldn’t “sit by” while HIAS, the
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EL PASO, Texas — Traffic was snarled for the Friday afternoon commute when a crash involving an El Paso County Sheriff’s Office van used to transport prisoners forced authorities to shut down Loop 375 northbound at Montwood. All motorists were being diverted off the highway at Montwood due to the wreck. As of 3:45 p.m.,
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“Joker,” the gritty comic book film about the origins of the crazed Batman villain, has become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. The film, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled man who turns into a killer clown, has made roughly $788 million at the worldwide box office, Warner Bros. confirmed on Friday. That
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The long General Motors strike is finally over, as members of the United Auto Workers union voted in favor of a four-year labor deal to end the walkout. The rank-and-file members voted 57% in favor of the deal, according to the union. The labor contract was reached between union and company negotiators on Oct. 16,
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For the first time, vaping devices and cartridges will be accepted during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday. Since the program started in 2010, the US Drug Enforcement Agency says it has collected more than 11 million pounds of expired and unwanted prescription medication in order to help stop abuse and theft of
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Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Carl Holmes has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting three female officers to whom he presented himself as a mentor, according to prosecutors. Holmes, 54, one of the highest ranking members of the department, allegedly used his position to insulate himself against the allegations, which resulted in internal affairs investigations
Continue Reading Several retailers have pulled Johnson’s baby powder from shelves after Johnson & Johnson announced earlier this month it was recalling 33,000 bottles due to asbestos concerns. The recall, which is limited to the 22-ounce size produced and shipped in the United States last year, was initiated in response to a US Food and Drug Administration
Continue Reading Republican lawmakers and political action committees that took money from Rudy Giuliani’s two associates who are now at the center of the Ukraine scandal are distancing themselves from the donors facing criminal charges, according to a CNN survey. Soviet-born businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman and their company, Global Energy Producers, gave more than $621,000
Continue Reading Lawyers for former national security adviser John Bolton have had talks with the three House committees leading the impeachment inquiry about a possible deposition, according to a source familiar. If he does give a deposition, Bolton would join a handful of current and former Trump administration members who have been interviewed this month as part
Continue Reading A federal judge on Friday gave a legal endorsement to the House Democrats’ impeachment probe into President Donald Trump and ordered the Justice Department to release grand jury information redacted from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The ruling is a blow to the Trump administration’s claims that the House is not conducting a valid impeachment
Continue Reading Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, said on Friday that the congressman was “hurt” in the last months of his life by attacks against him and on the city of Baltimore — an apparent response to President Donald Trump’s earlier attacks on the congressman and his hometown. “It was not
Continue Reading Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s on Capitol Hill, announced Friday that a resolution he introduced condemning the House impeachment inquiry process now has 50 co-sponsors in the Senate. That number would give Republicans enough votes to reach a simple majority in the Senate if Vice President Mike Pence cast
Continue Reading The Justice Department is reportedly conducting a criminal investigation into its own probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election — a decision that seems to be a brazen effort to politicize the department. Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff released a press statement expressing their concern about how the department had “lost its
Continue Reading The US budget deficit ballooned to nearly $1 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year, according to data released by the Treasury Department on Friday, the biggest gap since 2012 — despite President Donald Trump’s promises to shrink or even eliminate it. The deficit, which is the gap between how much the government spends and how
Continue Reading Months after this summer’s brief but brutal fried chicken sandwich battle, rivals are diligently plotting to win the longer war. Popeyes, which sparked the latest fight with its spicy chicken sandwich in August, is scrambling to bring back the viral sensation “as soon as possible.” Chick-fil-A is steadily growing its reach, outselling chicken chains nearly
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Actress Felicity Huffman was released Friday from a federal prison in Dublin, California, after serving 11 days of a two-week sentence for her role in the college admissions scam, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Huffman, the “Desperate Housewives” star, was the first of the more than 30 parents charged in the sprawling criminal case
Continue Reading Two very interesting things happened Thursday night: 1) Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, announced she would not seek reelection, choosing instead to focus all her energies on her longshot 2020 presidential bid. 2) She skipped a Latino candidate forum in Iowa, spending that time instead on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, running down
Continue Reading It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, we know it’s not even Halloween yet, but the holiday movies have arrived. Starting Friday night, you can kick back and get into the spirit with “Sweet Mountain Christmas,” starring Megan Hilty and Marcus Rosner, over on Lifetime and “A Merry Christmas Match,” starring Ashley Newbrough
Continue Reading Three men have been arrested in two separate shootings in Philadelphia last weekend that left a 2-year-old girl dead and an 11-month-old child critically wounded, police said. Freddie Perez and Tayvon Thomas were arrested in the death of Nikolette Rivera, Philadelphia police said. The toddler was killed Sunday when someone fired a 7.62 mm rifle
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