EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police said a driver was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash on the east side early Wednesday morning. 44–year-old Elizabeth Ann Rodriguez was listed in critical condition at University Medical Center with severe head trauma. Police indicated she was not wearing her seat belt
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PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams has pulled out of the French Open because of an Achilles injury. The 23-time Grand Slam champion says she had a short warmup and decided she couldn’t continue. She had been scheduled to play Tsvetana Pironkova in the second round at Roland Garros. Williams says she thinks she needs a
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian court has acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence leaving some 2,000 people dead. Four senior leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party had been among the accused at
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Six in 10 debate watchers said former Vice President Joe Biden did the best job in Tuesday’s debate, and just 28% say President Donald Trump did, according a CNN Poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS. View 2020 presidential election polling In interviews with the same voters conducted before the debate, 56% said they expected
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EL PASO, Texas — Court documents show the father of three children who died in a northeast El Paso car crash over a week ago smelled of alcohol at the time of the crash and admitted to police that he was headed to pick up more beer. Juan Angel Loera failed two breathalyzer tests the
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida — A woman was dead and a man was rushed to a hospital following a shooting at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Jacksonville on Tuesday night, ABC affiliate WJXX reported. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, authorities were called shortly before 7:30 p.m. to the warehouse where they found a man and woman,
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IMPERIAL COUNTY, California — A Marine Corps F-35 fighter jet crashed in California after clipping the wing of a Marine KC-130 refueling tanker during a mid-air refueling on Tuesday, according to a Marine Corps statement. The F-35 pilot was able to eject safely and the KC-130 was able to carry out a safe emergency landing. The pilot was
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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall and former Morehouse College President Robert Franklin are advancing to a Dec. 1 runoff in the special election to fill the remainder of the term of the late John Lewis. Hall and Franklin led five other candidates Tuesday in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District. The winner will
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EL PASO, Texas – Even though the volleyball season doesn’t officially begin until the Spring, the UTEP volleyball team isn’t taking any time off. The Miners are forging ahead with scrimmages this Fall as they prepare for a season they hope will begin in 2021. So far UTEP has played two scrimmages against Texas State.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – An employee at Alameda Elementary School in Las Cruces has tested positive for Covid-19, the Las Cruces Public Schools District announced late Tuesday afternoon. The school was closed as of 4 p.m. Tuesday for a deep cleaning. The building is expected to reopen on Friday, officials said. This case brings the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces waitress is walking home with the tip of a lifetime after two women rallied the community online to surprise the hardworking men and women of the service industry. “I’m extremely grateful,” said Audrey Pacheco, a waitress at the Game II. “I love my community. I never thought
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Marked by angry interruptions and bitter accusations, the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden erupted in contentious exchanges Tuesday night over the coronavirus pandemic, city violence, job losses and how the Supreme Court will shape the future of the nation’s health care. In what was the most
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It’s why many people here love this time of year – great weather that’s cool in the morning and warm by midday. Temps will continue to warm each day this week with lots of sunshine. Temps will climb to around 90 by Friday and the weekend. Winds will be on the light side as well
Continue Reading MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin. Absentee ballots are typically due at local clerks’ offices by 8 p.m. on Election Day. A lower court judge ruled that ballots that arrive up to six days after Election Day will count if postmarked by
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ORLANDO, Florida — The Walt Disney Co. is planning to lay off 28,000 workers in its theme parks division in California and Florida. The company has been squeezed by limits on attendance at its parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic. Disney says two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers but they range
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso County Commissioners court welcomed an update on Monday about the participation rates of local residents in the 2020 census. In 2010, El Paso’s self-return rate was very impressive at just over 70% However, it has recently become clear that the self-return rate will trend at least a few
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – Health officials said Tuesday that the number of Covid-19 cases and the rate of transmission are on the rise in New Mexico, leaving the state trailing when it comes to two of its most important metrics. New Mexico on Tuesday saw 178 new virus cases for a pandemic total of 29,157.
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials said Tuesday that water samples taken earlier this year from a Houston-area community did not raise concerns before the detection of a brain-eating amoeba, which doctors believe killed a 6-year-old boy. Residents of Lake Jackson are likely to remain under orders to boil water
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UPDATE: New Mexico State Police said Monday that a 10-year-old girl who had been hospitalized following an I-10 crash last month has now died of her injuries. State police declined to release the name of the deceased because of her age. The girl had been flown to an El Paso hospital, where she died days
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EL PASO, Texas — Five new confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed among students and staff in El Paso Independent School District high schools, officials said Tuesday. Two Irvin High School students, a Franklin High School student and a student and the staff member at Coronado High School have all tested positive for
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah has become the oil-rich nation’s new ruling emir. The 83-year-old Sheikh Nawaf had served as the crown prince since 2006. State TV announced his taking of the position. Sheikh Nawaf jumping a traditional order of alternating rule between the Al
Continue Reading NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans suspended in-person activities through Friday after the NFL says three Titans players and five personnel tested positive for the coronavirus. A person familiar with the situation says all eight test results are confirmed positives, making this the first COVID-19 outbreak of the NFL season in Week 4. The
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and other senior government officials following the disputed presidential election and a violent crackdown on protesters in Belarus. The two countries said they acted together to ensure the sanctions have a greater impact and “to demonstrate unity in our
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, has died. He was 91. That’s according to the administrator
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported a surge of over 250 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the pandemic infection total over 24,000. There were also two new coronavirus-related deaths reported on Tuesday. It brought the death toll to 519 in El Paso County. Health officials identified the
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High pressure will bring quiet weather to the borderland. Winds will be light and temperatures will begin to warm back up toward the end of the week. The warm calm weather conditions will continue through the weekend.
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“The Apprentice” didn’t just give President Donald Trump a platform. It threw him a financial “lifeline,” according to the New York Times. In a new report Monday, the newspaper laid out how Trump’s career was transformed by the hit reality show on NBC, which turned him into a household name, helped him earn hundreds of
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top official in the United Arab Emirates says his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the country’s vice president and prime minister, made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday. Sheikh Mohammed’s announcement comes after the launch
Continue Reading MITO, Japan (AP) — Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, or NTT, says it will spend $38 billion to buy out and take private its mobile unit NTT DoCoMo as it restructures for the 5G era. The deal is one of the largest buy outs ever. NTT and NTT DoCoMo executives told reporters Tuesday
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – With the Mountain West, Mid-American, Big Ten, and Pac-12 conferences reversing course and opting to play this fall, there are just three FBS programs not playing football in 2020. UCONN, Old Dominion, and New New Mexico State. So now almost two months after postponing his season, does NMSU Athletic Director
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