A shopper learned an expensive lesson when her $19,000 alligator-skin handbag was destroyed by customs officials in Australia because it entered the country without the correct import license. The Australian Border Force (ABF) seized the Saint Laurent bag, bought online from a boutique in France, at a cargo depot in Perth, Western Australia in January.
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You’ve almost made it to a long Labor Day weekend! Enjoy yourself, protect your health and stay cool: More than 50 million people will be under extreme heat alerts this holiday. We’ll see you again next Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
Continue Reading In a year of startling upheaval for the aviation industry, one seismic change, at least, had already been predicted. For years, China has been en route to become the world’s biggest aviation market, eclipsing the United States. The International Air Transport Association predicted it would happen by 2024, but it seems the Covid-19 crisis has
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Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has opened up about his mental health struggles, admitting he has “a lot of difficult days” and suffers from loneliness on the tour. The six-time world champion posted an emotional message on his social media channels this week, explaining the two very different sides of him — one being the
Continue Reading We’ve all experienced the frustration of being stuck on an airplane, so close to the end of the journey, yet forced to wait while some technical problem is sorted out. But while common sense stops most people from opening the doors ourselves, one passenger in Ukraine apparently decided the best course of action was to
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Garbine Muguruza lost her racket and her US Open match Thursday against a tricky foe who returned to the circuit this week after becoming a mom. Tsvetana Pironkova upset the two-time grand slam winner at this unusual US Open 7-5 6-3 in her first event since leaving the game in 2017. The Bulgarian — once
Continue Reading For Alexis Ohanian last summer, it started with a simple phone call. The entrepreneur and co-founder of Reddit was in London and his friend wanted him to come to Paris, “He’s like, you’re an idiot if you don’t come down to watch the USA play France.” Shortly afterwards, Ohanian was alongside 45,000 other fans, watching
Continue Reading R. Kelly’s attorneys will ask for his release from federal custody before an appeals court on Friday, arguing that the singer has been unable to prepare for his upcoming trial for nearly six months. The singer has not seen his attorneys in person since March, when prisons went into lockdown, cutting off in-person legal visits
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Seven police officers in Rochester, New York, involved in the March arrest of a Black man who was pinned to the ground and later died have been suspended, the city’s mayor announced. “Mr. (Daniel) Prude lost his life in our city. He lost his life because of the actions of our police officers,” Rochester Mayor
Continue Reading The NFL’s Washington Football Team is facing new allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace from four women who spoke to ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap. Rachel Engelson, a former director in the team’s marketing and client services department, detailed the harassment to Schaap on the “ESPN Daily” podcast saying, “You just know that depending on the
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EL PASO, Texas — Voices in sports span lifetimes. From Don Haskins to Rodney Terry, Bob Stull to Dana Dimel, Jon Teicher has been there every step of the way, albeit in a difference capacity. As the “Voice of the Miners” Teicher enters his 40th season as UTEP’s play-by-play broadcaster. UTEP fans have heard the
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LACEY, Washington — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, a senior U.S. Justice Department official told The Associated Press. The man, Michael Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — As the Borderland continues to fight the spread of coronavirus, New Mexico State University has been looking at better ways to clean the air their Aggies breath. With buildings being used for varying purposes, officials believe each building would need a different and specific level of air filtration. As a
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Penn State University on Thursday clarified the remarks of the school’s director of athletic medicine about how many Big Ten athletes who tested positive for coronavirus now show signs of inflammation of the heart muscle. Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli’s comments Monday at State College Area Board of School Directors meeting reignited the debate over the safety
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CLINT, Texas — Teachers in the Clint Independent School District are facing a dilemma. Some educators reached out to ABC-7, upset over the options presented by the Clint ISD superintendent as they transition to classrooms. In a closed meeting on Aug. 25, Superintendent Juan Martinez told teachers they needed to be back in the classroom.
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EL PASO, Texas — The medical community is concerned about a rise in opioid overdoses in the Borderland. One local doctor told ABC-7 she believes laced drugs purchased illegally are to blame. “We’re concerned that people are buying what they think is oxycodone off the street and it turns out to be fentanyl. Without intending
Continue Reading Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in favor of dedicating their resources to a gold-standard clinical trial that could help settle the science for good. As many as 45 hospitals
Continue Reading The number of Covid-19 cases linked to an August wedding reception in Maine more than doubled in the past week to 144, a state CDC spokesman said Thursday. Also, a second person connected to the outbreak died of the virus in the past week, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Robert Long told
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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas surpassed 13,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths Thursday as hospitalizations continued falling to the lowest levels since June. State health officials reported nearly 3,900 new cases and 221 additional deaths blamed on Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Hospitalized patients were just over 4,000. In El Paso on Thursday, there were eight new coronavirus-related
Continue Reading Keith Gambrell feels minorities are getting blamed for dying from coronavirus. “They say, ‘Oh, it’s because of the way you guys eat. It’s the way you guys are living,” he said. “I guess it’s a blame game for everything that the minorities do. Like, how do you blame someone for dying at home?” Gambrell, 33,
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Sunland Park firefighters rescued a 2-month-old puppy Thursday night, pulling it out of the Rio Grande where it had been floating for an hour. The fire department deployed water rescue crews to save the pup after receiving a 9-1-1 call about the distressed dog. Officials said the dog’s owners had
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DALLAS, Texas — Stolen almost two decades ago from an ancient abbey in northeastern Italy, a trafficked 19th century art piece is making its way back home. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency recovered a 19th century painting Wednesday looted from the Abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis in Sesto al Reghena, Italy, in
Continue Reading Just because states have been asked to have a vaccine distribution plan doesn’t mean the public should expect to get shots this fall, doctors say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told state and local public health officials to prepare to distribute a possible Covid-19 vaccine as soon as late October. Many health experts
Continue Reading In the heart of the leafy, mountain-top campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong stands a replica of a giant statue erected by protesting students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, before a bloody crackdown by Chinese troops. A monument to freedom, the “Goddess of Democracy” has long been a symbol of Hong Kong’s
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — Two communities in Dona Ana County are disputing the right to land that is currently being developed. In 2018, the community of Santa Teresa filed with the state of New Mexico to become incorporated, turning the community into a city. Before the state dealt with Santa Teresa’s application, the
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP senior running back Quardraiz Wadley was named to the eighth annual Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List on Wednesday. Wadley returns to the gridiron after missing all of 2019 due to an injury. He last played during the 2018 season when he started in 10 of 12 games. The product
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso high school teacher needs some help if she wants to land the cover of a fitness magazine. Clarissa Marquez is an English teacher at El Paso High School, but fitness is also one of her passions. Marquez got into body building two years ago and she’s won several
Continue Reading As schools across the country open to mixed results amid the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci laid out how colleges and universities should open successfully — and the conditions that he feels would be necessary for sending his own children onto a college campus. In a phone interview with CNN, the director of the National
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Dr. Burgos was unavailable this week,
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Temperature hit 101 today, tying a record that was also hit in 2011. This is the 55th day of triples so far this year and our 12th record high temp since May. It’s pretty unusual to hit triples in the month of September but it’s 2020! We should be just below 100 tomorrow (98) but
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