LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces Police officer was arrested Saturday morning and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, speeding and negligent use of a deadly weapon, according to a spokesman for New Mexico State Police. A state police officer pulled over 25-year-old Lourdes Hernandez after she was allegedly speeding at 73 mph
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Click here for updates on this story West Hartford, CT (Hartford Business Journal) — A craft brewery and cafe envisioned for West Hartford has raised nearly $56,000 through equity crowdfunding, but the venture needs to net nearly $20,000 more over the next few weeks or it risks losing some of the commitments. WeHa Brewing &
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People in the United States rushed to download TikTok and WeChat after the Commerce Department announced plans to restrict access to both apps starting Sunday. The Trump administration’s executive orders against the two Chinese-owned apps are set to take effect Sunday. National security concerns have long fueled policymakers’ reservations about both apps. TikTok downloads rose
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BROOKFIELD, WI (WDJT) — Brookfield police are searching for a suspect who stole roughly $2,500 worth of items from a driveway on Dartmouth Road around 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18. Police say it happened in the 3000 block of Dartmouth Road in Brookfield. The suspect allegedly rang the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story POTEAU, OK (KFSM ) — 10-year old Blake Standridge spent a year at St. Jude’s hospital in Memphis. Friday (Sept. 18) evening he was welcomed home by the town of Poteau, Oklahoma. Friends and family lined up along Broadway Street to watch a parade of fire trucks and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONESDALE, PA (WNEP) — The Wayne County Arts Alliance recruited some of its “bone-afide” artists to design and decorate 13 different skeletons. These bony beings all have a different theme and will raise money to keep art alive in Wayne County. “It’s important now to be able to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, PA (WPMT) — A man was arrested after stealing a $4,500 ring from a store in Lancaster city. On Sept. 9 at 10:52 a.m., police responded to a retail store on the first block North Prince Street for a report of theft. An individual told authorities
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EL PASO, Texas — Temple Mount Sinai congregants celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, during a special service Saturday morning. You can watch it in the video player above. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of the world. It marks the beginning of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance that culminates
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EL PASO, Texas — The deaths of three men, two in their 60s and one in his 80s, took El Paso County’s coronavirus fatality count to 487 on Saturday. Meantime, both newly reported cases and hospitalizations were on the rise to close out the week ending Saturday. New weekly infections totaled 676, which is the
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg forged a trailblazing legal career championing gender equality and civil rights. Outside of the courtroom, there were several causes close to her heart. In 2019, the Berggruen Institute, an independent think tank, awarded Ginsburg its annual $1 million prize for Philosophy and Culture, praising her as “a constant voice
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Former President Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling on Senate Republicans to follow the precedent set when they refused to consider his Supreme Court nominee in 2016 and not consider a replacement for the high court until after the next president is sworn in. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the Republican-run U.S. Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election. The White House was making preparations to select a nominee for the seat
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As America mourned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a brilliant trailblazer for women and an equal rights icon — a fierce new political debate began unfolding Friday evening. With just 45 days until the election, the battle over who will replace her and when that Senate vote will occur is
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87. Read the full announcement from the Supreme Court: Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87 years old. Justice Ginsburg was
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Vin Scully is a legend in Southern California, where for nearly seven decades he served as the official announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Like a lot of baseball fans, I grew up listening to Scully call the play by play — his voice cascading over the speaker every time a player hit a homer
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If ever in your life you have the opportunity to drive a Ferrari, you should take it. Ferraris are, by and large, a special combination of power and speed smoothed over with a level of refinement other supercars can’t quite match. I almost hate to say this because Ferrari, as a company, is so irritatingly
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If ever in your life you have the opportunity to drive a Ferrari, you should take it. Ferraris are, by and large, a special combination of power and speed smoothed over with a level of refinement other supercars can’t quite match. I almost hate to say this because Ferrari, as a company, is so irritatingly
Continue Reading A preliminary 4.5-magnitude earthquake jolted the Southern California area late Friday night. It hit at 11:39 p.m. local time two miles west of El Monte and 10 miles from Los Angeles, the US Geological Survey reported. The earthquake shook buildings and rattled windows, and was felt in San Diego, Valencia and the San Fernando Valley
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Patrick Reed led the 120th US Open as “brutal” Winged Foot lived up to its fearsome reputation and Tiger Woods missed the halfway cut. Reed followed his first round 66 with a 70 for 136 — four-under-par overall — one clear of fellow American Bryson DeChambeau, who posted a fine second round 68, one of
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Patrick Reed led the 120th US Open as “brutal” Winged Foot lived up to its fearsome reputation and Tiger Woods missed the halfway cut. Reed followed his first round 66 with a 70 for 136 — four-under-par overall — one clear of fellow American Bryson DeChambeau, who posted a fine second round 68, one of
Continue Reading A Florida mom who lost her job due to the coronavirus pandemic has been relying on her children’s lemonade stand to make ends meet. Erin Bailey owned and ran a successful lawn care business in Palm Springs. But as the pandemic spread, her list of clients quickly dwindled — and now she has none. “I
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You may be through with 2020 already, but brace yourselves. The next 50 to 120 days could be the most volatile globally for decades. The October Surprise that American pollsters await with trepidation is usually a US domestic upset. Witness the seismic impact of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and it’s only mid
Continue Reading A family in North Carolina created a pop-up store that sells children’s books featuring main characters who are Black to counter the lack of diversity in literature. The idea was born in 2019 when 8-year-old Langston Miller, named after the Harlem Renaissance poet, told his parents about his dream of becoming a writer. Already an
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While I was hiking recently with my family, a woman came toward us from the other direction, wearing a standard face mask. As we neared, she jumped to the edge of the trail and then pointed at us. Firmly, but not rudely, she asked us to keep our distance while we passed. We weren’t wearing
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s tough enough for high school volleyball teams to prepare for a season, but it’s even tougher when that season is being played during a pandemic. Friday, the high school volleyball season officially began in El Paso. It was a day many thought would never come because of the concerns over
Continue Reading Lane Unhjem was in the middle of harvesting his wheat and canola farm near Crosby, North Dakota when his combine caught fire. In the stress of the event, Unhjem went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital. But his farm is harvested as neighbors, friends and family wasted no time stepping up to
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EL PASO, Texas – It was never a question of “if” the UTEP Marching Miners would play at football games this fall, but for band director Dr. Andrew Hunter it was how they would do it safely amid the pandemic. If you ask Hunter, there’s no better complement to gameday than the atmosphere that surrounds
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Four weeks after students’ return to campus, New Mexico State University has had a total of 16 people test positive for the virus, according to data shared with ABC-7. “I really have a good feeling about it,” said NMSU Police Sgt. Stephen Cary. “It gives me hope that people are taking
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EL PASO, Texas — The Covid-19 virus has affected thousands of El Pasoans. ABC-7 has been closely following the emotional journey of El Paso Community College trustee Bonnie Najera, who lost both parents to Covid-19 and was also diagnosed with the virus herself. But now, she wants to help others. “My mom just passed away
Continue Reading John Lewis’ tireless push for civil rights did not die with him on July 17, 2020. The longtime representative of Georgia’s 5th congressional district spent his lifetime fighting for the oppressed and forgotten. And he wrote the playbook for the next generation to get into what he called “good trouble, necessary trouble.” On September 27,
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