Five men, including a former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department captain, were indicted on charges related to illegal gun trafficking and drug trafficking, the US Attorney’s Office for Southern California said Friday. Marco Garmo, 52, served as a sheriff’s deputy 27 years and was the captain in charge of the Rancho San Diego Station, according
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Three New Mexico State department came together at the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope to provide the homeless with services including state ID’s and birth certificates on Friday. According to Community of Hope, the loss of theft of an ID or birth certificate is extremely prevalent. Without one, many people
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EL PASO, Texas — It was a sweet end to the week for employees at the Richard C. White Federal building in downtown El Paso. It was their first annual inter-department holiday bake off, with a total of 9 different pies, cakes and cookie selections being submitted. Participants were joined by dozens of their fellow
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Former national security adviser John Bolton said Friday the White House barred him from his own Twitter account after he left the administration and suggested it acted out of concern about what he might say. Bolton, a constant if unseen presence during the House impeachment inquiry into Trump, reappeared on Twitter Friday after a months-long
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EL PASO, Texas — The city of El Paso’s living Christmas tree in San Jacinto Plaza was once a favorite source of serenity and shade planted in an Upper Valley couple’s front yard. ABC-7 revisited the woman who donated the tree to the city 22 years ago in honor of her deceased husband. “It was
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — An El Paso man was arrested Friday on charges stemming from a rape last month on the campus of New Mexico State University. Christian Estrada, 24, was booked into the Dona Ana County jail on two counts of criminal sexual penetration, one felony count of attempted kidnapping and one misdemeanor charge
Continue ReadingThe former president of the South Bend, Indiana, Common Council on Friday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, and criticized South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the city’s mayor faces more questions about his appeal to black voters. Oliver Davis is one of the longest-serving black South Bend council members, according to a
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It will be a bit chilly Saturday morning. Overnight lows will drop down to the low and mid 30’s. The weekend looks good with light winds, a decent amount of sunshine and temps in the low to mid 60’s. Watch out for some rain chances next week. Looking at later Tuesday, Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day
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A clear divide was on display this week in Washington. On one side were the nine witnesses — all of whom are current or former Trump administration officials. This group was dealing in something called facts. Texts. WhatsApp messages. Contemporaneous notes from phone calls and meetings. Released rough transcripts. Eyewitness testimony. Those facts all painted
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP sophomore transfer Kaden Archie will be ready to suit up in a UTEP uniform as the 6’6″ guard was announced immediately eligible for competition late Friday afternoon after getting an NCAA waiver. Archie, a transfer from TCU, will be ready to play on Nov. 27 as the Miners will host
Continue ReadingIt will be a bit chilly Saturday morning. Overnight lows will drop down to the low and mid 30’s. The weekend looks good with light winds, a decent amount of sunshine and temps in the low to mid 60’s. Watch out for some rain chances next week. Looking at later Tuesday, Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day
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Exactly 56 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was scheduled to give a speech to the Democratic Party aimed at unifying the nation during a time of conflict and division. But he didn’t live to make it. “Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake,” Kennedy’s undelivered speech says.
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A total of 40 people in 16 states have fallen ill due to an E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and US Food and Drug Administration. The agencies warn consumers, retailers and restaurants not to purchase or sell romaine lettuce harvested in Salinas, California, about
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The White House held a contentious, wide-ranging meeting on Friday to examine increases in youth vaping and the outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries currently sweeping the United States. President Donald Trump served as moderator, listening as both medical professionals, parents’ groups and industry experts, including anti-tobacco and vaping activists, debated whether flavored e-cigarettes should be
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Click here for updates on this story YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WPMT) — A small plane crash in York County has Federal Aviation Administration investigators stumped after the pilot was nowhere to be found. Officials say a 1940’s single-engine plane crashed just outside of Baublitz Commercial Airport in Brogue on Tuesday, about 300 feet away
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EL PASO, Texas — The start of El Paso’s WinterFest took place Saturday evening with the San Jacinto Plaza Holiday Tree lighting ceremony followed by the 22nd edition of the Scherr Legate Celebration of Lights Parade downtown, drawing an estimated crowd of 60,000 people. (Editor’s note: You can learn about the history of the city’s
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Perched on a stool in his dusty workshop in Macao, Lam Weng Io looks like a scholar or a librarian, bespectacled and in deep concentration. With steady hands, he carefully guides a sheet of red acrylic through a cutting machine. For more than 30 years, Lam has been creating handwritten storefront signs in the former
Continue Reading The roommate of a slain 21-year-old Clark Atlanta University student was denied bond Thursday after it was found she planned to leave the state. Fulton County Judge Rachel Krause said Jordyn Jones posed a significant flight risk after it was revealed that hours after Alexis Crawford’s death, she withdrew from school and was planning to
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(CNN) — Una ciudad en Indonesia espera que la naturaleza pueda salvar a los niños de la adicción a Internet. Pero, ¿pueden los polluelos y los árboles reemplazar a los iPhones y los televisores inteligentes? La ciudad de Bandung en Java Occidental ha lanzado un programa piloto para alejar a los estudiantes de las pantallas
Continue Reading The Department of Homeland Security plans to bus migrants from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, in an expansion of its controversial program to return migrants to Mexico to wait for their US immigration proceedings, according to two officials. Migrants would be taken more than 300 miles from where they initially crossed the border, and
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The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the start of FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election will say the probe was properly launched but lower-level employees made a series of mistakes, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The investigation on the effort to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence
Continue Reading Simone Biles reacted Thursday to a Wall Street Journal report accusing USA Gymnastics of ignoring the possibility she had been sexually abused by Larry Nassar and excluding her from the investigations of the national team’s now-disgraced doctor. “Can’t tell you how hard this is to read and process,” Biles, gymnastics’ preeminent star, wrote in a
Continue Reading Authorities arrested a 13-year-old boy and seized an assault-style rifle in connection with a reported threat at a middle school, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday. Students at Ánimo Mae Jemison Charter Middle School told teachers and administrators on Thursday they heard the boy, a student at the school, threatening to shoot students
Continue Reading Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who was the longest-serving Cabinet secretary in the Obama administration, is poised to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday, four Iowa Democrats familiar with the matter tell CNN. Vilsack, who served as agriculture secretary for eight years under President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden,
Continue Reading The following contains modest spoilers about “The Mandalorian’s” third episode. “The Mandalorian” has become a breakout success for Disney+, and not just because of the mountains of merchandise that “Baby Yoda” is going to move when it hits shelves. The first live-action “Star Wars” series continues to impress through three episodes, employing a savvy blend
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SOCORRO, Texas — A Latino civil rights organization on Friday called on state and local education officials to ban a Socorro High School substitute teacher who recently told a male Hispanic student: “Speak English, we’re in America.” As ABC-7 first reported, the incident was caught on video. The League of United Latin American Citizens –
Continue Reading Federal Judge Richard Leon in Washington, DC, on Friday ordered Iran to pay Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian and his family $180 million for his 544 days in custody. Iran did not respond to the lawsuit in court, and Leon therefore issued a default judgment in Rezaian’s favor. Reznaian spent 18 months in an Iranian
Continue Reading President Donald Trump on Friday seemed to suggest that formal negotiations with the Taliban were back on — months after the peace talks with the militant group collapsed. “We’re working on an agreement now with the Taliban,” Trump said on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “Let’s see what happens.” His comments come several days after
Continue Reading Expert after expert in the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump testified about one key fact: That Ukraine had no role interfering in the 2016 elections to help Hillary Clinton. And one key witness sounded the alarm even louder. “This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security
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When Donald Trump Jr.’s book “Triggered” debuted at the top of The New York Times’ hardcover non-fiction best-seller list earlier this month, a conspicuous dagger appeared alongside it. The symbol meant editors who work on The Times’ best-seller list had determined some of the sales had been made in bulk. Critics seized on the inclusion
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