EL PASO, Texas — El Paso native Steven Montez has no doubt in his arm strength. And despite not being selected in the 2020 NFL Draft, he’ll tell you it beats every player who was picked ahead of him. “I mean I’ve thrown with a lot of these quarterbacks,” says Montez of his arm strength.
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Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged accomplice of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, said in a court filing Monday that they’ve learned of “critical new information” that impacts her criminal case and a civil case where dozens of documents are expected to be unsealed. Her attorneys have asked that the documents, including depositions, remain sealed
Continue Reading Every Friday, Carolyn Freyer-Jones encourages her family and friends to participate in #thefridayminute to honor her father Hugh and others who have died from the coronavirus pandemic. The idea came out of a discussion with her brother about how sometime down the road, there may be a national day of mourning for those who have
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — With Las Cruces Public Schools beginning the semester online, a Las Cruces restaurant owner plans to again provide thousands of free meals to children who need it. “We will offer free meals for the community to anyone who needs them,” said Marci Dickerson, owner of the Game Sports Bar and
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Protesters demonstrated outside the Ferguson Police Department on Sunday night to mark the 6th anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown. Ferguson Police said over 100 people gathered at the department, and police ultimately arrested four protesters for failure to disperse. Brown, an unarmed Black 18-year-old, was shot and killed in the street in
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Over 60 NFL players have opted out of the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. Players had until 4 p.m. ET on Thursday to decide and after the deadline passed, a spokesperson for the NFL told CNN that out of 2,880 players, 66 players chose to opt out. That figure could be higher —
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AUSTIN, Texas – The state of Texas is on the right track in its fight against the coronavirus with hospitalizations on the decline – and El Paso is doing even better, said one of the governor’s top medical advisers in an interview with ABC-7. Both Texas and El Paso on Monday saw hospitalizations drop to
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As discussions about postponing the 2020 college football season continue, players and coaches are trying to save the season. Using the hashtag #WeWantToPlay, many star players — including Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence — expressed their support in playing this year, a sentiment echoed by President Trump Monday. “The student-athletes have been working too hard for
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UPDATE: Action on this item has now been delayed until a future meeting. No presentation or discussion will take place Tuesday, the item has been withdrawn from the agenda. ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Independent School District trustees will meet Tuesday to consider placing on the November ballot a new bond measure
Continue Reading Snippets of newly released body camera video show the moment a Nevada police officer unintentionally shot a man after that officer was hit with a Taser discharged by a sheriff’s deputy, the Reno Police Department said. The Reno police posted edited footage on Sunday from an incident in which Washoe County sheriff’s deputies intended to
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The world has reached the grim milestone of 20 million confirmed coronavirus cases and is edging closer to 750,000 deaths globally, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. Case numbers have soared exponentially since the first were reported in China in December. The world recorded one million cases more than three months later, on April
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AUSTIN, Texas — For weeks, 1.6 million Texans were receiving an extra $600 weekly thanks to federal legislation designed to help keep Americans and businesses afloat. Funding for those benefits expired at the end of July, and although President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend that could give unemployed Americans more money
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UPDATE: EPISD trustees on Tuesday unanimously approved submitting a request to the Texas Education Association to extend online learning to eight weeks total, up from the originally planned four weeks. The board agreed with Superintendent Juan Cabrera’s recommendation that El Paso’s coronavirus positivity testing rate should be at 5% or lower before going back to
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HOUSTON, Texas — A memorial service for Fort Hood Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen will be held this Friday at the high school she attended in Houston, ABC affiliate KTRK reported. According to the family’s attorney, Natalie Khawam, the Guillen family will host a private funeral on Saturday, Aug. 15, and Vanessa will be laid to
Continue Reading New information has been released on the 7-year-old Georgia boy with Covid-19 who died. The boy drowned in a bathtub after having a seizure due to a high fever, Chatham County Coroner Bill Wessinger told CNN Monday. The child did not have any known underlying health conditions. After being found unresponsive and pronounced dead at
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Click here for updates on this story Blue Ridge Parkway, NC (WLOS) — Newlyweds remind us that there’s always time for love — even during a pandemic. In March, just as COVID-19 shut everything down, the lovebirds opened their hearts. Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Jane and Richard Neal have captured lightning in a bottle.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Glen Carbon, IL (KMOV) — A 70-year-old grandmother and two of her grandchildren were rescued Sunday after the car they were riding in was swamped by flash floodwaters in Glen Carbon. The woman and two children were riding on Highway 162 near Highway 157 when the Judy Branch
Continue Reading Stuck at home during the pandemic with not much to do, Kenneth Felts began to write a memoir, chronicling the past 90 years of his life. But as Felts wrote, he quickly came to realize that his story would never be complete without revealing a secret he had kept hidden his entire life: His true
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is advising that local Texas governments’ attempts to delay evictions for renters grappling with the Covid-19 recession amounted to rewriting state law — something they can’t do, he said in non-binding legal guidance. “While local officials do possess certain emergency powers … statewide eviction procedures far exceed the requirement that
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Covid-19 rumors, stigma and conspiracy theories have been circulating in 25 different languages across at least 87 countries — including the United States — and this spread of misinformation has led to deaths and injuries, according to a new study. The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on Monday, involved
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FABENS, Texas — School got underway Monday in Fabens in what promises to be a unique academic year. Fabens Independent School District officials chose to begin the year with distance learning, like most school districts are doing across the state. “Per the health mandates, we will be all virtual distance learning for all of our
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Within two hours of learning one of her employees tested positive for the coronavirus, the owner of the Game Sports Bar and Grill said she was able to test everyone on staff. “We have 140 employees,” Marci Dickerson said. “That’s 140 families that depend on these guys being able to
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KILLEEN, Texas — Killeen police have arrested 9 people, including at least two Fort Hood soldiers, during a two-day child prostitution sting, according to ABC affiliate KXXV. It was joint effort by the Killeen Police Department Special Victim’s Unit in partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety Human Trafficking Program. Authorities said the overall
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Simon Cowell will be sitting out Tuesday and Wednesday’s episodes of “America’s Got Talent” due to an injury, but thankfully, the talent competition knew just who to call for a moment like this. Singer and recent Daytime Emmy winner Kelly Clarkson, whom Cowell once had a hand in crowning the winner of “American Idol,” is
Continue Reading Seven years ago, Carmen Tarleton received a face transplant, a decision she made after her estranged husband attacked her in 2007 with a bottle of lye, disfiguring her face beyond recognition. The transplant was a grueling, complex, surgical procedure — one that ultimately proved unsuccessful. But last month, Tarleton, a 52-year-old former nurse, chose to
Continue Reading A hiker was seriously injured on Sunday when a large boulder rolled onto him as he descended down a mountain in Washington, according to rescue teams. The man, who wasn’t named by officials, was hiking down the Iron Cap Mountain with a female friend Sunday evening, according to a press release from the Coast Guard.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOLANO COUNTY , CA (KOVR) — A helicopter had to be called to the rescue after an elderly couple fell while being chased by a cow in Solano County on Sunday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. The CHP’s Golden Gate Division Air Operations said this happened
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTH BELLMORE, NY (WCBS) — It was like a scene from a movie. An SUV went flying off the Southern State Parkway on Sunday morning, over a fence, and then hit a pickup truck before slamming into a parked car. Samantha Rivera told CBS2’s Cory James exclusively she
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — The effects of the violence following the death of George Floyd still linger in south Minneapolis, in physical damage and the uptick in crime in the area. Hannah Kenny has lived in Minneapolis on and off for 20 years. “I think what makes it
Continue Reading The formula for how Covid-19 relief funding from the federal government gets allocated to hospitals across the United States could have a “disparate impact” on hospitals in counties with a higher-than-average share of Black residents, new research suggests. In other words, hospitals in those counties received the same amount of funding as counties with less
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