EL PASO Texas– The order from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott allowing hair salons and barbershops across the state to open goes into effect Friday. Businesses in El Paso will open their doors for the first time in over a month to cut El Pasoans’ hair, leaving some hairstylists and patrons a little weary of a
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son Thursday and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of a black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood. The charges came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — ABC-7 continues to highlight health care workers who are working on the front lines helping Covid-19 patients. ABC-7’s New Mexico Mobile Newsroom spoke to two Las Cruces health care workers who are working at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States: New York City. Sean Doyle At
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Seattle residents will have more space to exercise and bike on as the city plans to permanently close 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic, the mayor announced Thursday. The Stay Healthy Streets initiative started in April to temporarily provide more space for residents to get out of the house and exercise while maintaining
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AUSTIN, Texas — A man was struck and killed by a Southwest Airlines jet landing on a runaway at the Austin airport Thursday night, authorities said. The pilot of Southwest Flight 1392, a Boeing 737 arriving from Dallas, reported seeing a person on Runway 17R at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, shortly after the jet touched down
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Jimmy Glenn, a former boxing trainer and Times Square bar owner, died on Thursday after fighting the novel coronavirus for weeks, his son told CNN. He was 89. Glenn was hospitalized at NYU Langone Medical Center in April after suffering Covid-19 related symptoms and tested positive shortly after being admitted, his son Adam Glenn said.
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SAM ELIZARIO, Texas — The San Elizario Eagles have found their next head football coach, and they didn’t have to look very far. Roberto Herrera will lead the Eagles next football season after having served the last 2 years as defensive coordinator for the football program. Herrera has 22 years of coaching experience. In 2018,
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Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday offered a grim assessment of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, stating pointedly: “I think we’re seeing the start of a botched reopening.” His comments come as researchers predict a higher death toll from coronavirus this summer than previously expected while more states plan phased reopenings
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Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had a “duty” to move to dismiss the charges against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday. Barr denied in an interview with CBS News that he was doing the bidding of the President, who had repeatedly lambasted the probe, in carrying out
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Jose Nuñez Romaniz was on a mission to buy socks for his grandfather. He’d just helped him find the right ones online, after the elder man had no luck finding them in stores. The 19-year-old Nuñez just needed to deposit money into his bank account to make the online purchase. When
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The children filed in, one by one, keeping their distance, to have their temperature taken at the door as Willow Creek School in Montana opened Thursday. “They’re incredibly excited. They are so glad to be back,” said Erika Wahl, the mother of two students at the school, which has between 50 and 60 students in
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Esron Torres’ grandfather was admitted to a hospital in Manaus, Brazil, with a finger wound. Days later, he was buried in one of the city’s many overcrowded cemeteries. A handful of relatives attended the small ceremony, while others listened over the phone as the family’s patriarch was laid to rest. According to his death certificate,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Here’s the Q&A for Thursday, May
Continue Reading It wasn’t long ago that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had Israel’s High Court firmly in his crosshairs. His bloc of right-wing and religious allies, too, would consistently hammer away at the court. One minister accused it of “impertinence” and “contempt.” A deputy minister said it was trying to establish a “judicial dictatorship.” There were frequent
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The Kansas City Chiefs will open defense of their Super Bowl championship by hosting Houston on Sept. 10 in the NFL’s annual kickoff game — pending developments in the coronavirus pandemic, of course. The Texans won a regular-season game at Arrowhead Stadium in 2019, then blew a 24-0 lead in the divisional round of the
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is celebrating Nurses’ Week from May 6 to May 12. It’s something Dr. Stephanie Woods, Dean of the Hunt School of Nursing, says could not come at a better time. “We’re hearing of the sacrifices they are making and the fear they have of their
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The Trump administration will not implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 17-page draft recommendation for reopening America, a senior CDC official confirmed to CNN Thursday. The guidance provided more detailed suggestions beyond the reopening guidelines the administration had put forth last month, including specific suggestions for schools and churches. President Donald Trump in
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The Supreme Court threw out fraud convictions on Thursday against two New Jersey officials involved in the “Bridgegate” political scandal, the George Washington Bridge traffic jam that rocked the administration of then-Gov. Chris Christie. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Elena Kagan said that “for no reason” other than “political payback” the aides “used deception”
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States across the country continued Thursday to work toward reopening as researchers said the novel coronavirus has been deadlier in the United States than the seasonal flu. California, one of the first states to implement a stay-at-home order, is set to begin loosening some restrictions Friday, though state Health Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly warned residents,
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States across the country continued Thursday to work toward reopening as researchers said the novel coronavirus has been deadlier in the United States than the seasonal flu. California, one of the first states to implement a stay-at-home order, is set to begin loosening some restrictions Friday, though state Health Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly warned residents,
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HOUSTON (AP) — Federal investigators say a video made by a witness shows a Houston police helicopter rotating in the air before plunging to the ground and crashing, killing one person aboard and injuring the other. In a preliminary report issued Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board drew no conclusions as to the cause of
Continue Reading Wildfires were burning parts of the Florida Panhandle on Thursday, damaging or destroying an unspecified number of buildings and forcing hundreds of people to flee, officials said. Two fires tore through Santa Rosa and Walton counties, which are between Pensacola and Panama City Beach. In Santa Rosa County, the Five Mile Swamp Fire — spurred
Continue Reading “Can we take our masks off?” I ask, as my bride and I get into position. “You may,” responds a Hong Kong official, who is still wearing his mask. Moments later, Rana and I exchange rings, sign government documents, and share a brief kiss. Amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, Rana and I have
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EL PASO, Texas — More than two weeks after El Paso Water and other water utilities warned residents to stop flushing protective equipment down the toilet, the problem persists. The utility warns the practice can lead to damaged equipment and clogged pipes, and rate payers will be left to foot the bill. The utility says
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House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff on Thursday released transcripts from 57 of the committee’s closed-door interviews from the panel’s two-year Russia investigation in 2017 and 2018. The transcripts are available at the links below: 1. Interview of Rinat Akhmetshin 2. Interview of Steve Bannon (February 16, 2018) 3. Interview of Andrew Brown 4. Interview of
Continue Reading Turns out, all those selfies we’ve edited and posted on social media could be more problematic than we thought. A recent study, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, found a “consistent and direct link” between posting edited photos on Instagram and eating disorder risk factors — such as concerns over a person’s weight
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Dear Mr. President, In the last day, your administration has talked of winding down the coronavirus task force and now you’ve said it will continue indefinitely. Will you be at the meetings and briefings? Or will you speak separately, and undercut or contradict your experts? So many of my military colleagues have tried to help,
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Nurses rallied in front of the White House on Thursday morning to protest the lack of personal protective equipment available to them in the battle against the novel coronavirus. The demonstrators gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House and placed 88 pairs of empty shoes on the ground. Those shoes represented the
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The Justice Department is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, whose lies about his contacts with Russia prompted Trump to fire him three years ago and special counsel Robert Mueller to flip him to cooperate in the Russia investigation. The request to drop the case, filed with
Continue Reading 120 years after Major Taylor became the world’s first black athletic superstar, a historically black university is continuing in his legacy. Saint Augustine’s University, in Raleigh, North Carolina, announced this week they were forming the first cycling team at a historically black college or university (HCBU). “We’re excited to be the first HBCU to formally
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