HORIZON CITY, Texas – The Make-A-Wish Foundation and some Borderland businesses and organizations came together to make sure a courageous 11-year-old boy had a very happy birthday. Brayam Elias of Horizon City has been battling cancer. Saturday, the Make-A-Wish Foundation showed up for a surprise, socially distant birthday celebration for Brayam. Among his gifts was
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The state of New Mexico has issued a civil citation to Crunch Fitness and fined the gym $5,000 for operating in violation of the governor’s public health order. According to the citation obtained by ABC-7, the gym is considered a non-essential business, which is required to “reduce their in-person workforce
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Andy Dalton returned from a two-game absence to throw three touchdown passes, hitting Dalton Schultz for a 2-yard score with 1:37 left to lift Dallas over the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 on Sunday to stop the Cowboys’ four-game losing streak. Dalton went 22 for 32 for 203 yards and one interception after fill-ins
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department has launched a new web site for online crime reporting. The department says the new site offers a “streamlined process” to report a wider variety of offenses that don’t require a police response. like making an accident report or reporting an abandoned vehicle. If you have
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EL PASO, Texas– Another warm day across the borderland as we reached 76 for the official afternoon high. Winds will gradually decrease overnight. Low end windy conditions are expected to continue Monday afternoon with warm temperatures remaining in the forecast. A weak cold front will approach the area Tuesday dropping our afternoon highs to the
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Sunday reported 2,468 new Covid-19 cases and 33 additional deaths, which is a single-day record. Doña Ana County had 220 of those new cases and three of the deaths: a man in his 50s who was hospitalized, a woman in her 60s who was a resident of
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Since traveling is not advised for Thanksgiving this year, it leaves those staying home with a meal to prepare — but several restaurants and stores are offering to help with full Thanksgiving dinners to-go. This holiday may look completely different than it did last year, so if you aren’t a cook, or the meal just
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A key Republican on the Michigan canvassing board is expected to vote against certifying the state’s election results on Monday, a potential boon for the Trump campaign’s conspiracy theory-fueled effort to delay the finalization of results. According to Michigan GOP Rep. Paul Mitchell, who said he spoke days ago with Norman Shinkle, one of the
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Part of a Tennessee law banning abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome or a fetus’ race or sex, can take effect, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted part of a lower court’s preliminary injunction that blocked the law from being enforced, allowing a portion of
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Georgia will conduct another recount of its presidential ballots following a Trump campaign request Saturday, but the recount is extremely unlikely to change his loss in the state. “Because the margin is still less than 0.5%, the President can request a recount after certification of the results. That recount will be conducted by rescanning all
Continue Reading Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s campaign says the Georgia Republican’s previously inconclusive Covid-19 test has come back negative, but that she will continue to undergo testing for the virus. “Senator Loeffler’s previously inconclusive PCR results were retested overnight and the results thankfully came back negative,” campaign spokesperson Stephen Lawson said in a statement Sunday. Lawson added that,
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Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s campaign says the Georgia Republican’s previously inconclusive Covid-19 test has come back negative, but that she will continue to undergo testing for the virus. “Senator Loeffler’s previously inconclusive PCR results were retested overnight and the results thankfully came back negative,” campaign spokesperson Stephen Lawson said in a statement Sunday. Lawson added that,
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California State University, East Bay published a public database of remote job vacancies across the country to help people struggling to find employment due to the pandemic. In a press release last week, the university said it wants to help “pull the rising unemployment level in the country back to its normal level.” The university,
Continue Reading A federal judge dealt a death blow to the Trump campaign’s effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win of the presidency on Saturday, by dismissing a closely watched lawsuit that sought to invalidate millions of Pennsylvania votes. “It is not in the power of this Court to violate the Constitution,” Judge Matthew Brann of the
Continue Reading Members of the Texas National Guard were mobilized to El Paso County, Texas, to help with the morgue crisis as the state battles a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. A team of 36 National Guard troops has been deployed to “provide mortuary affairs support,” according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM). The
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Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (WOWT ) — Calling all blood donors! The Nebraska Community Blood Bank is in desperate need of blood as the coronavirus pandemic has put a huge strain on their supply. “Starting back in March when the pandemic started, we have constantly been at the 1-to-2-day supply
Continue Reading After weeks of deadly conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has given Tigrayan forces a 72-hour deadline to surrender. In a statement posted on Twitter Sunday, Abiy said that government forces were now “in the third and final phase” of their military operation in the area. “We urge you to
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Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes “almost all” the Covid-19 vaccines will work and work well, he said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Already, vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have shown to be effective in early company data, and Gates said he expects vaccines from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax to have
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I witnessed a rush of collective pleasure online when the news came, on November 7, that Joe Biden had won the presidential race. Not just because of Biden, but also because of Major and Champ, the new first dogs of the United States. The excitement was palpable because, among other reasons, these German shepherds serve
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised Harry Styles for donning a dress on the cover of Vogue, calling it “wonderful.” The pop star made history by becoming the first man to appear solo on the magazine’s cover. His decision to do so while wearing a dress has sparked much debate on social media about changing perceptions of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS ) — Allen is one of many firefighters in Shreveport that had no idea that a thanksgiving meal was coming his way the Saturday before the holiday. “To have an organization like that, knowing that they are going around the whole city doing that is
Continue Reading President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord and touted American oil and natural gas production during a virtual session focused on safeguarding the environment on the final day of the Group of 20 summit. Trump was making what is likely to be his final appearance at an international summit after losing the US
Continue Reading After Tropical Storm Eta swept across northern Florida earlier this month, a beachgoer made a discovery while walking on the shore in St. Augustine. What Mark O’Donoghue spotted peeking through the sand dunes of Crescent Beach were timbers likely belonging to a shipwreck dating back to the 1800s, according to a news release from the
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EL PASO, Texas– Last Sunday ABC-7’s Iris Lopez gave us a tour of Casa Ortiz and Casa Apodaca which is located on the historic Mission Trail in Socorro, Texas. This weekend’s Sunday Funday Moment introduces you to a few artists who are calling Casa Ortiz their new art space. “This particular building, Casa Ortiz, is
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Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds that 58% of Americans said they would get vaccinated against the coronavirus if there was an FDA-approved vaccine available right now at no cost. That’s up from mid-September when just 50% said they would get vaccinated. What’s the point: There’s been mostly good news on the
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Moncef Slaoui, the head of the US government’s effort to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, said the first Americans to receive a vaccine — if all things go according to plan — could be as early as the second week of December. “Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HI (KITV ) — Hawaii Department of Health reported Saturday 123 new COVID-19 cases on Oahu. It confirms that 50 of those cases involve a cluster at the Waiawa Correctional Facility. The Department of Public Safety reports 95 active cases in the facility. “The Department of Health is
Continue Reading President Donald Trump has not answered a single question from the press since Election Day. That was 19 days ago and several media outlets projected Joe Biden as the next President of the United States 15 days ago. Yet Trump is continuing to avoid reporters‘ questions as Biden prepares to transition to his new role
Continue Reading President-Elect Joe Biden is getting ready to transition and move into the White House in January, but President Donald Trump isn’t going to simply fade away. “He’s going to loom large,” Jim VandeHei, CEO and co-founder of Axios, said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “He’s going to announce that he’s going to run in 2024.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MI (WNEM ) — As the pandemic continues on, funeral homes locally here say they’ve been busier than usual as they continue to attend to the needs of families, mourning the loss of their loved ones. “When you think of a ceremony, a funeral, a service, a memorial
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