SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials have reported an additional 154 Covid-19 cases, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 27,350. The death toll now tops 841, with five additional deaths reported Friday. Of the state’s latest cases, 17 of those occurred in Doña Ana County to raise its pandemic infection
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President Donald Trump claimed Friday there will be enough coronavirus vaccines for every American by April — a claim that doesn’t match any timeline given by the federal government’s health agencies, private researchers or even the companies making the vaccines. But Trump and one of his top advisers said they were confident that a vaccine
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UPDATE: ABC-7 has obtained newly-released police video from earlier this month of the attack. You can see it in the video player above. ORIGINAL REPORT: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Las Cruces man accused of using a crowbar to break into a friend’s house and damage at least two vehicles has been arrested after
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CANUTILLO, Texas – Two people in the Canutillo Independent School District have tested positive for Covid-19, the district announced Friday afternoon. One person at Reyes Elementary School tested positive just prior to in-person instruction beginning on Monday. The other case was identified late Thursday afternoon at Alderete Middle School. The district did not say whether
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With rain finally arriving in parts of the West Coast, fire officials hope the forecast will help them gain ground on the deadly wildfires that forced thousands to evacuate this week. Much of the rain will drop over the west slopes of the Cascade Mountains, exactly where Oregon Department of Forestry fire chief Doug Grafe
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One after another, disgruntled North Dakotans took the podium at a city council meeting in Minot to air their grievances. At issue: the mayor’s decision to raise the Pride flag at city hall a week earlier. One person recalled having to “embarrassingly” answer an elderly neighbor’s question about “what the flag was up on their
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EL PASO, Texas — A water line was struck by a contractor on Friday afternoon, flooding a busy east El Paso intersection and leaving a neaby apartment complex without water. The water leak happened about 2 p.m. at the corner of Hawkins and Viscount. While it made for a mess for motorists in the area,
Continue Reading For a father and son, a hug before the first game of football season is a special moment. For Scott and Cade Sullivan, it was the moment of a lifetime. Scott Sullivan of Somerset, Kentucky, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after being admitted to the hospital for abnormal lab results in early
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EL PASO, Texas – A car fire on the Spaghetti Bowl snarled the Friday afternoon/evening commute for some motorists. The vehicle caught fire shortly before 3:15 p.m. on the U.S. 54 South ramp at Interstate 10. El Paso Fire officials said the fire was contained shortly after they arrived on the scene. But it took
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The virtual Emmy Awards will be “live, live, live,” with the producers fully anticipating that there will be foul-ups and planning to roll with that as best they can. The first major entertainment industry awards since the pandemic struck will be broadcast on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who told the Hollywood Reporter that
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ARLINGTON, Texas — A grand jury indicted a former police officer this week over the shooting death of a woman who was struck by his gunfire while he attempted to shoot an approaching dog. The Tarrant County grand jury indicted former Arlington police officer Ravinder Singh on Wednesday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide
Continue Reading The University of California’s top doctor had a sobering message for the system’s leaders this week: School won’t go back to normal for at least another year. Dr. Carrie Byington, the executive vice president and head of UC Health, delivered the message to the University of California’s Board of Regents during its two-day virtual teleconference
Continue Reading The Rochester City Council on Friday authorized subpoena power to the New York City law firm leading the independent investigation into the city’s handling of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after police pinned him to the ground. “There’s really one question here,” attorney Andrew Celli Jr. told reporters
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The Baylor Bears and Houston Cougars will not be playing college football on Saturday due to Covid-19 concerns on Baylor’s team. The postponement comes after Baylor was unable to meet the Big 12 conference Covid-19 game cancellation thresholds. The teams have agreed to honor their planned “home and home” games and will look for future
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Click here for updates on this story Meredith, GA (WGCL) — An 18-month-old boy who beat the odds at birth has reached a new milestone: hearing his mother’s voice for the first time. A heartwarming video shows Maison McMillian sitting on his mother’s lap after getting his first set of hearing aids at Virginia Commonwealth
Continue Reading Police are searching for two suspects after shots were fired at the New Jersey home of two police officers earlier this week while they were on the second floor with their 10-day-old child, police say. “I don’t know what the motive is at this time, but I do know that this is a targeted attack
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HICKORY, N.C. (WGHP) — Clayton Cook, of Hickory, was heading to his grandmother’s house for Monday night dinner when he bought a $30 ticket and won $1 million, according to an NC Education Lottery news release. “It’s indescribable, really,” Cook said. While stopping for gas at Advent Grocery
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COVINGTON, GA (Jackson Progress-Argus) — Facebook is building on its commitment to Stanton Springs. Facebook announced Thursday it will move forward on its original plan to construct five data centers at Stanton Springs in Newton County, with a total potential investment of $42 billion. Facebook said it will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hartford, CT (Hartford Business Journal) — An Israeli energy developer has agreed to pay up to $800 million for a Maryland company with a significant presence in Connecticut’s power generation sector. OPC Energy has signed a letter of intent to acquire Maryland-based Competitive Power Ventures, owner of Connecticut’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Florida (South Florida Gay News) — In the final weeks of Campaign 2020, South Florida’s largest LGBT political groups are pushing hard to make sure gay voters and their allies are registered, and know how to cast their ballots. “Vote like your life depends upon it,” said Nik
Continue Reading Three people in Multnomah County, Oregon, are accused of setting up an illegal roadblock north of the Riverside Fire evacuation zone this week. The Sheriff’s Office says Joshua Smith, Travis Lucky and Michael Meier are being cited for disorderly conduct after allegedly blocking an intersection east of Corbett. It is unclear why the three men
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Shares of Unity Software, one of the leading platforms for video game developers, jumped 44% on their Wall Street debut Friday, becoming the latest in a flurry of tech IPOs that investors can’t seem to get enough of. Unity debuted on the New York Stock Exchange at $75 a share. On Thursday, ahead of the
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Pregnant women with Covid-19 who are hospitalized may be at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely, a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests. Data showed that 12.6% of live births among hospitalized women with Covid-19 in the study were preterm compared with 10% of births that were observed
Continue Reading As athletes recover from Covid-19, taking images of their hearts to screen for inflammation may help doctors determine when it could be safe to get back in the game, new research suggests. The small study — conducted by researchers at Ohio State University — found in cardiac magnetic resonance images, or MRIs, that among 26
Continue Reading Aileen and Jordan Stevens were driving to church on Sunday when a car rear-ended their Ford Mustang on Interstate 24 in Tennessee. It was about 9:30 a.m. — Aileen Stevens was teaching Sunday School that morning at their church in Rutherford County, her family said. At the time, the couple didn’t know that the driver,
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Aileen and Jordan Stevens were driving to church on Sunday when a car rear-ended their Ford Mustang on Interstate 24 in Tennessee. It was about 9:30 a.m. — Aileen Stevens was teaching Sunday School that morning at their church in Rutherford County, her family said. At the time, the couple didn’t know that the driver,
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The US stock market had another day of sharp losses at the end of an already turbulent week. The Dow closed 0.9%, or 245 points, lower, on a second-straight day of losses. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both finished down 1.1%. It was the third day of losses in a row for both
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EL PASO, Texas — The corner of Upper Valley and Artcraft was a place to indulge in almost a dozen food vendors on a daily basis. That was until multiple agencies from the City of El Paso informed them they would need to take their vehicles and food elsewhere. City spokeswoman Laura Cruz-Acosta told ABC-7
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLLINSVILLE, IL (KMOV) — One suspect is in custody and another is at large after a group of people opened fire in the parking lot of businesses in Collinsville on Aug. 29. Officers with the Collinsville Police Department said several people in different cars showed up in the
Continue Reading A pastor in Idaho who called himself a “no-masker” during a service and repeatedly questioned the veracity of coronavirus case reporting is in the ICU after contracting Covid-19. Paul Van Noy, senior pastor at Candlelight Church in Coeur d’Alene, has spent two weeks in the hospital with a Covid-19 diagnosis, ministry coordinator Eric Reade confirmed
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