EL PASO, Texas – Cathedral High School has cancelled its first two games of the 2020 football season. Sources confirmed to ABC-7 that the reason was because of a positive case of COVID-19 at the private school. Cathedral was supposed to play a football game at Mountain View High School this Friday. Mountain View will
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EDMONTON, Alberta — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the champions of bubble hockey. Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal, and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 to win the Stanley Cup and finish off the NHL playoffs staged in quarantine during the pandemic. The clock hitting zeros in an empty arena set off
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who have cut several major deals during the coronavirus pandemic, are trying one final time to ease a bitter standoff on Capitol Hill over a pre-Election Day package to provide relief to millions of Americans reeling from the damaging economic crisis. Pelosi and
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EL PASO, Texas — Students at Northwest Early College High School are being recognized on the state level for their community service throughout the year. “I think it’s really telling that even though Northwest has been around for 12 years, they have been doing community service for that time, but now that we’re a part
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DALLAS, Texas — The Dallas secondary committed the team’s first four penalties, blew several assignments for the second consecutive week and gave up Russell Wilson’s fifth touchdown pass for the go-ahead score in the final two minutes in Seattle. The injury-challenged unit is the biggest of several questions for the 1-2 Cowboys, who play the
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Gabriel Cardona takes pictures for a living. He captures moments in time. Now he wishes he could go back to when things were normal. His wife Pati died of Covid-19 in May. She battled for 15 days in the hospital. In her final moments she was on a ventilator. Gabriel
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico upped its “estimated” Covid-19 deaths to 89,612 on Monday, and boosted estimates of its total number of cases to 870,699, almost 137,000 more than it previously recognized. Ciudad Juarez accounts for 7,441 of the nation’s Covid-19 cases and 861 deaths as of Monday’s count. Even with the new estimated death
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The Dona Ana County Detention Center has a new leader. Bryan Baker has been named the new director of the county detention facility. County Manager Fernando Macias made the announcement Friday. Baker has served as interim director since March. He joined the detention center as a cadet in 2001. During
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EL PASO, Texas – El Pasoan Sebastian Acosta has only been volunteering with the West Texas Red Cross for about a month, but he is now poised to make a big impact. Acosta deployed over the weekend and will spend at least two weeks in the Dallas area, helping in shelters that are housing people
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Fire Department, the Department of Public Health and a handful of community partners are teaming up to offer free flu shots starting on Oct. 5. The “BePowerFlu” campaign aims to reduce the number of flu cases and prevent serious illness during the Covid-19 pandemic. Flu shots will be
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NEW DELHI, India — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 1 million. The milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, comes nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work. The
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It’s nice to have a cold front blow through town after record breaking heat this morning along with the gusty winds. Peak gusts hit 54 mph on the west side of town. Temps took a nice dip hitting 76 for the high. Expect temps to gradually warm in the 80’s with sunshine continuing the rest
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REDDING, California — Northern California’s wine country was blanketed by fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched region, destroying homes and prompting evacuation orders for more than 50,000 people. Further north near Redding, Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini announced during a late afternoon update that three people had died from
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas sheriff has been indicted on charges accusing him of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death in custody of a Black man, Javier Ambler, that was filmed by a police reality TV series “Live PD.” Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody was booked into his own jail Monday
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Monday reported 153 new confirmed coronavirus cases with three additional deaths, increasing the statewide totals to 28,985 cases and 873 known deaths since the pandemic began. New Mexico Department of Health officials said 19 of the new cases were in Doña Ana County, for
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EL PASO, Texas — It was 3 a.m. Monday when the Ordaz family heard a loud crash in their front yard. They walked outside their home to see a car in the middle of their yard and their rock wall in pieces. That same rock wall was just repaired Saturday after another car crashed into
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MESILLA, New Mexico – An employee at Zia Middle School has tested positive for Covid-19, the Las Cruces Public Schools District announced Monday afternoon. The school was closed as of 3:30 p.m. Monday for a deep cleaning. The building is expected to reopen on Oct. 1, officials said. This case brings the total number of
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KERMIT, Texas – An El Pasoan was killed in a head-on car-truck crash in Winkler County, about 250 miles east of El Paso, on Sunday night, troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Enrique Porras, 37, was driving along State Highway 302 about four miles east of Kermit in the Pecos Valley of
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EL PASO, Texas — A 46-year-old El Paso man is accused of being drunk when his car ran a red light and collided with a motorcycle along Transmountain Drive over the weekend, seriously injuring two other men. Police said Arturo Caballero was being held Monday in the downtown jail on $125,000 bond on a charge
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Las Cruces City Council discussed at a meeting on Monday the possibility of attracting commercial passenger flights back to the Las Cruces International Airport. Currently there are none; the last airline to provide service at the Las Cruces airport was Westward Airways, which ceased operations in 2005. It was among nearly
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump announced Monday that the federal government will begin distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week and urged governors to use them to reopen schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The move to vastly expand U.S. testing comes as confirmed new Covid-19 cases remain elevated
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas woman says she was fired by a Whataburger in Fort Worth for wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask to work, in what is the latest in a string of penalties handed down by employers for public displays of support for the social justice movement. Similar cases are popping
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NEW YORK, NY — The stock market rallied on Monday, ignoring negative headlines that weighed on the market over the past few weeks in favor of hoping for a stimulus deal out of Washington. The S&P 500 rose 53.14 points to 3,351.60. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 410.10 points, or 1.5%, to 27,584.06. The
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District will allow fans in the stands when high school football games begin on Oct. 1, the district announced Monday. All games will have limited stadium seating to allow for social distancing and fans will be required to wear face masks at all times, officials said.
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BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s military says five Iraqi civilians have been killed and two severely wounded after a Katyusha rocket hit near Baghdad airport. The rocket targeted the international airport but struck a residential home close by on Monday, a military statement said. The attack is the latest in a spate of rocket and mortar
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported one new coronavirus-related death on Monday. The death toll now stands at 517 in El Paso County. Health officials identified the victim as a man in his 60s with underlying health conditions. For the tenth day in a row, El Paso County
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A strong cold front moved through the region early Monday morning ushering in cooler air and strong winds. The ABC-7 WeatherNet sites reported gusts up of 54 mph at the Texas Tech Transmountain campus. High temperatures will run about 20 degrees cooler than yesterday’s record high temperatures. The rest of the week looks to remain
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EL PASO, Texas — Two victims described as “very intoxicated” walked to a nearby fire station for help after reportedly being stabbed at a west El Paso bar early Monday morning, police said. Investigators said the pair were apparently attacked during a confrontation about 2 a.m. at the Rockin’ Cigar Bar and Grill at 6404
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has confirmed reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited him in a Berlin hospital where he was being treated for what German authorities determined was nerve agent poisoning. “There was a meeting, but one shouldn’t call it secret,” Navalny said in a tweet Monday, referring to media
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