The rate of kids sports and recreation-related emergency room visits for traumatic brain injuries declined 32% from 2012 to 2018, after more than a decade of increasing rates, a new study finds. The decline seems to be largely related to the decreasing number of kids playing tackle football and the increase in the additional contact
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EL PASO, Texas — Conference USA men’s hoops has returned to traditional league play, as the 2020-21 UTEP men’s basketball 18-game conference schedule was released Thursday. The league slate will feature five home-and-home series after moving away from Bonus Play. UTEP will take on conference foes LA Tech, North Texas, Rice, Southern Miss and UTSA twice,
Continue Reading Some states have reopened too quickly, allowing the coronavirus pandemic to come roaring back, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday. “There are some times when despite the guidelines and the recommendations to open up carefully and prudently, some states skipped over those and just opened up too quickly,” Fauci said. Fauci said on Podcast-19, FiveThirtyEight’s weekly
Continue Reading Coronavirus is winning the battle in El Centro, California. It’s in almost every patient in the hospital. Tents are being put up to handle even more cases. It’s on the streets, forcing rescuers to put on protective suits and cumbersome masks before they approach people needing help. And it’s not stopping. Even as nearby and
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso reached a scorching 109 degrees Thursday afternoon, and while it was only one degree shy of the daily record – it did make for the hottest day of the year thus far. Thursday’s high temperature was two degrees warmer than the previous hottest day of 107 that happened on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Nationwide, businesses have had to learn to adapt to life during the pandemic. It can be a particular adjustment for salons, where workers are spaced physically close to their clients. Salons in Texas were allowed to reopen in May. Since then, local owners tell ABC-7 the adjustments have gotten easier.
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Chelsea Alionar hoped she’d be better by now. The 37-year-old resident of Keizer, Oregon, has battled the symptoms of the coronavirus for more than four months. She’s had to put her life on hold, but only feels a little bit better. “I have really not left my home except for doctor’s appointments and a hospital
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British sprinter Bianca Williams says she hopes an investigation that has been launched into a controversial handcuffing incident involving herself and her partner will be “rigorous.” Williams had been in the West London neighborhood of Maida Vale with her partner, Portuguese 400 meter record holder Ricardo dos Santos, and their three-month-old son when they were
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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, July
Continue ReadingWe hit 109 at the El Paso airport! Hottest of the year so far. This is the hottest since 2017 when we hit 111 degrees! Temps will stay between 105-110 through the weekend with lots of sunshine. This is all due to a huge furnace of high pressure pushing down from above and heating us
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Bill Nye the Science Guy took to TikTok to demonstrate why the general public should wear a mask. “Why do people in the scientific community want you to wear a face mask when you are out in public?” Nye asks in his social video. “Masks prevent particles from my respiratory system from getting into your
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When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that malls in New York could not reopen until they installed high-efficiency particulate air filters capable of trapping the virus that causes Covid-19, Harvard environmental health researcher Joseph Gardner Allen was thrilled. “I’ve been writing consistently since early February about how healthy buildings should be the
Continue Reading The sprawling Camp Ozark in Mount Ida, Arkansas, was shuttered after an undisclosed number of campers and a counselor contracted the coronavirus. Harvard University students will take courses online, even those living on campus. In Florida, nearly 50 hospitals on Thursday had intensive care units at full capacity. The big US reopening of the pandemic
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EL PASO, Texas — Upwards of several thousand customers of El Paso Electric had to contend with power outages Thursday during a Heat Advisory on the hottest day of the year so far. As of about 11 p.m., the utility indicated it was still dealing with scattered outages throughout the area and crews planned to
Continue Reading If you want to be one of the first to receive an experimental vaccine for Covid-19, now’s your chance. Wednesday, a new website — coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org — went live allowing people in the United States to register to take part in clinical trials for vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies. The website will handle registration for the
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“Enter if you dare,” is the message on Gary Larson’s website challenging people to explore his new content. “The Far Side” cartoonist surprised fans this week when he published never-before-seen comics for the first time in 25 years. However, the comics he released Tuesday are a bit different than Larson’s previous works. The “New Stuff”
Continue Reading Besides transforming Broadway and delivering maybe the most memorable history lesson ever, “Hamilton” also broke ground by being intentional about diversity in its casting. What creator Lin-Manuel Miranda pulled off in reimagining the Founding Fathers as men of color is a fabulous retort to the myth of a “pipeline problem.” What’s that like, though, for
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Click here for updates on this story TRACY, CA (KTXL) — Parents and students of the New Jerusalem Elementary School District told FOX40 Wednesday that they are fighting for accountability, transparency and the immediate suspension of a top educator in Tracy. The calls for action come weeks after the district superintendent and his wife posted
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called it “a tough pill to swallow for many New Mexicans” as she rolled back the state’s re-opening because of a significant uptick in coronavirus spread. Lujan Grisham announced the below-listed measures on Thursday, citing accelerating rates of infection across large expanses of the state including
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ELON, NC (WXII) — Elon University’s president announced new plans to promote diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, including the removal of a name from one of the residence halls. The name “William A. Harper” was removed from one of the residence halls. In a video posted to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, NH (WMUR) — A Coos County man accused of driving a plow truck into his ex-wife’s mobile home and two cars is being held without bail. Prosecutors said George Bell, 71, told police he was drunk on whiskey and moonshine Tuesday night when the incident occurred. “Ms.
Continue Reading New York City is painting a Black Lives Matter mural on the street directly outside of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. City employees began painting a stretch of Fifth Avenue, just in front of the Trump Organization’s headquarters, on Thursday morning. Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the stark yellow mural earlier this month. The New
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EL PAS, Texas — El Paso firefighters briefly closed off a portion of a busy west El Paso street due to an apparent gas leak Thursday afternoon. The damaged gas line was at Mesa and Gregory, near an Albertson’s grocery store. There were no injures, but the 3100 block of Mesa Street was closed in
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego and other local leaders unveiled plans Thursday afternoon for the upcoming Aug. 3 mass shooting anniversary remembrance. Here’s what the judge outlined… On Aug. 2, Ascarate Park will open to the public at 8:30 p.m. for a Drive-Thru Luminaria Remembrance event which will be hosted by
Continue Reading After George Floyd repeatedly told police that he couldn’t breathe, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin said, “Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” according to transcripts of police body camera footage. “Come on, man. Oh, oh. I cannot breathe. I cannot breathe. Ah! They’ll kill
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EL PASO, Texas — The man accused of killing 23 people at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso was re-indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury with additional charges in the mass shooting that targeted Hispanics, prosecutors said. Patrick Crusius, of the Dallas suburb of Allen, continues to be held without bond in the downtown El
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, PA (WGAL) — The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry said more than 2.7 million unemployment claims have been filed since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. While some workers are still waiting for a response, others have received money they admit they don’t deserve —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ELON, NC (WXII) — Elon University’s president announced new plans to promote diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, including the removal of a name from one of the residence halls. The name “William A. Harper” was removed from one of the residence halls. In a video posted to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, N.H (WMUR) — A Coos County man accused of driving a plow truck into his ex-wife’s mobile home and two cars is being held without bail. Prosecutors said George Bell, 71, told police he was drunk on whiskey and moonshine Tuesday night when the incident occurred. “Ms.
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