LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University regents on Saturday approved a revised operation budget that cuts $20 million for fiscal year 2020-2021. “This budget does not predict what’s going to happen in the future,” admitted NMSU President John Floros. “We don’t really know what’s going to happen. But we within the university
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EL PASO, Texas — On Saturday, in church that can hold up to 1,200 people, 40 people celebrated the sacrament of confirmation in front of three family members and their sponsor at St. Raphael Catholic Church in east El Paso. Special ceremonies, which only include baptisms, first communions, and confirmations, along with the celebration of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Later this year, Doña Ana County will eliminate the position of undersheriff, the sheriff confirmed to ABC-7. “It was just not a position that really meets the 21st century,” Sheriff Kim Stewart told ABC-7 on Saturday. Undersheriff Jaime Quezada’s last day will be Sept. 30, the sheriff confirmed. He told
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EL PASO, Texas — Investigators said the cause of a west El Paso house fire Saturday evening appeared to be suspicious. The blaze happened about 6:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Esmeralda Armendariz. It took 37 firefighters about an hour to put the flames out. Fire officials said the home suffered significant interior damage
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At least two Florida counties are under curfew Saturday to fight the spread of coronavirus, just hours after the governor said officials won’t punish residents for not wearing face masks. The state is “not going to be prosecuting people” for not wearing masks, Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters during a Saturday briefing in St. Augustine.
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In another blow to sporting events in the age of coronavirus, Canada is not allowing the Toronto Blue Jays to play home games in Toronto due to the pandemic, according to a statement from the country’s minister of immigration, refugees, and citizenship. The Blue Jays were initially given exemption for summer workouts in Toronto, as
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Miguel Medina stopped his push cart in downtown Los Angeles and reached inside for a paleta. Within seconds, he was knocked unconscious. When the 58-year-old street vendor opened his eyes, he was on the ground and surrounded by firefighters, he says. His head “hurt a lot” and his wallet was gone. Medina, who was robbed
Continue Reading Breonna Taylor was briefly alive for “five to six minutes” after being shot, according to a claim made in a lawsuit filed by Taylor’s mother against Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly, the three Louisville Metro Police Department officers identified in connection to her death. “Breonna, who was unarmed in her hallway, was struck
Continue Reading To the upbeat sounds of a blue-uniformed brass band, the rally proceeded through downtown Hong Kong. Marchers, dressed all in yellow, carried purple lotus plants, yin-yang symbols, and other traditional Buddhist icons. But it was their giant banners, held aloft or mounted on small floats, that indicated this was not just a religious rally. “Keep
Continue Reading The leader of the New York Police Department offered a scathing rebuke of lawmakers who have been critical of officers and pushed for reforms during a closed-door speech at the department’s weekly crime stats briefing, according to a video recording of the remarks obtained by CNN. “They don’t have a goddamn clue what they’re talking
Continue Reading The US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced it has issued an emergency use authorization that allows the laboratory Quest Diagnostics to pool samples from up to four individuals to test for Covid-19. This is the first Covid-19 diagnostic test in the United States to be authorized for use with pooled samples, the agency
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Hit 103 today for our 16th triple digit day in a row. We should see another one tomorrow before we start to cool a little for next week. Our monsoon has finally kicked in so rain and storm chances will be a part of our daily forecast. Along with the rain comes thunderstorms with some
Continue Reading Earlier this month, I — along with 38,000 or so other medical school graduates — officially began medical residency training here in the United States. We represent only the tip of the iceberg. In addition to first-year residents — otherwise known as “interns” — there are also thousands of other health care workers who will
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Southern New Mexico accounted for two of the state’s four new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, health officials said, as the statewide death toll grew to 569. The victims included a Doña Ana County woman in her 90s who was a resident at one of eleven southern New Mexico nursing homes
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From burping cows to an all-electric SUV, big companies introduced new products this week that will help cut the climate change risk. And for good reason: Climate change is one of the biggest risks to business’ long-term survival. Massive amounts of plastic have piled up in landfills, some emitting greenhouse gases and contributing to global
Continue Reading When the State of New York issued a rule requiring restaurant patrons to order food if they want to buy alcohol, the owner of a Saratoga Springs pub added $1 Cuomo Chips to the menu. They’re named after Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the executive order as part of an effort to ensure social distancing
Continue Reading Eighteen Chicago Police officers were injured in a protest Friday, the department said in a statement. A large group gathered for a protest around 4:20 p.m. local time, the department said. Officers were there “providing security and protecting their First Amendment right to peaceful assembly,” the statement said. Approaching a statue of Christopher Columbus, some
Continue Reading A parasailing accident in Key West, Florida, left a man dead and a woman severely injured. Following the accident on Friday, the woman was airlifted to a trauma hospital, Officer Bobby Dube, spokesman for Florida Fish and Wildlife, told CNN. A rental boat was on the water in Key West during “harsh weather,” Dube said.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored in each half as Arsenal stunned holder Manchester City 2-0 at Wembley on Saturday to reach a record 21st FA Cup final. The Gabonese striker struck in the 19th and 71st minutes as Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta gained bragging rights over Pepe Guardiola, his old mentor at City. Manchester City, aiming for
Continue Reading Ahmed Fahad was a computer whiz kid in Bangladesh when Fahim Saleh agreed to hear his pitches for book-sharing and dating apps. Saleh, a tech entrepreneur who was then helping launch the Bangladeshi ride-sharing start-up Pathao, gave Fahad a coding assignment to return within 24 hours. “I expected him to not … even talk to
Continue Reading Four California high school students are helping children color their way through the coronavirus pandemic. Lauryn Hong, Ella Matlock, Sofia Migliazza and Erin Rogers teamed up on an economics class capstone project at the end of their freshman year at Long Beach Polytechnic High School. The students, all 15 years old, developed a business plan
Continue Reading Pairs figure skater Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, who was born in Russia but competed for Australia in the 2018 Olympics, has died at 20 in Moscow, the International Skating Union reported Saturday. “The ISU is shocked by the news of Ekaterina’s passing,” said ISU President Jan Dijkema in a statement on the organization’s website. “She was a
Continue Reading You can add giant swarms of flying ants to your 2020 scary-sounding insects Bingo card alongside murder hornets and hordes of noisy cicadas. The UK’s Met Office shared radar imagery that showed the ants flying over the southeast part of the country. “It’s not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise,”
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small is maintaining a money edge in a critical U.S. House race in southern New Mexico that Republicans hope to recapture. Federal campaign records show the Las Cruces Democrat raised nearly $796,000 from mid-May to June 30 and had $3.9 million cash-on-hand. Her campaign coffer has more
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Click here for updates on this story O’AHU, HI (KITV) — O’ahu Transit Services, Inc. (OTS), the operator of TheBus and TheHandi-Van, confirmed Friday that one of its operators has tested positive for COVID-19. Monday night, the operator found out a member of their household had tested positive for COVID-19 and informed OTS. Even though
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLETCHER, NC (WLOS ) — An equestrian show is attracting people from across the country to the WNC AG Center. “He is quite the little star,”Karen Voerg said while petting her horse. Voerg is visiting from Georgia to compete in this weekend’s Asheville Summer Fun horse show. “It’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Portland International Airport may be all about planes, but on Friday night, it hosted its first-ever drive-in movie. The event was put on to celebrate the designers and builders of the newly opened Concourse E extension, which adds six gates to the airport for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOLINE, IL (WQAD) — As the 2020-2021 school year gets closer, some parents are expressing interest in homeschooling because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Stephanie Willcox says in the QC Home School Coalition Facebook group, there are new members with plenty of questions about getting started. “Most of what
Continue Reading When Ayeshah Abuelhiga first opened her pop-up restaurant, Mason Dixie Biscuit Co., six years ago, it was the next step on her path to attaining the American Dream. But now, in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, she has had to make the wrenching decision that thousands of small business owners across the US have
Continue Reading Several demonstrators were arrested in Oregon’s largest city early Saturday following the latest of a series of downtown protests, with Portland authorities alleging suspects blocked exits of government buildings and launched fireworks and projectiles. Protesters — as they have often in the last seven weeks — rallied around the federal courthouse and county justice center
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