EL PASO, Texas – With the Conference USA schedule officially at its midway point, the UTEP Miners need to start making their move in the West Division standings in order to obtain a solid seed in the conference tournament. This weekend presents the perfect opportunity to do so as the Miners take on in-state rival
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Every week, ABC-7 anchor Mauricio Casillas will speak to Dr. Edward Michelson. Dr. Michelson is the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. Here’s the Q&A for Jan. 28: Mauricio Casillas (KVIA): How has this past week gone for you? Dr.
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SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (KVIA) — The pandemic has devastated families all across the country. Many organizations and people have stepped up to give back. One local school district is taking a unique approach to ensure that no one is going hungry. San Elizario Independent School District and the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank have
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Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — A year after his arrest in Marysville, “Mighty Ducks” actor Shaun Weiss is celebrating one year of sobriety. Weiss, the actor who played Goldberg the goalie in “Mighty Ducks,” was arrested last year in Marysville on burglary charges while reportedly high on meth. Today,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — A year after his arrest in Marysville, “Mighty Ducks” actor Shaun Weiss is celebrating one year of sobriety. Weiss, the actor who played Goldberg the goalie in “Mighty Ducks,” was arrested last year in Marysville on burglary charges while reportedly high on meth. Today,
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Click here for updates on this story WETMORE, CO (KCNC) — Five bear cubs will get another chance to live in the wild after Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers released them into two dens near Pikes Peak. Officers built the dens last week. The cubs were orphaned and spent months at the Wet Mountain Wildlife
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EL PASO, Texas — An Upper Valley brush fire on Thursday afternoon sent thick smoke and flames into the sky that could be seen for miles, from Santa Teresa to UTEP, and was visible to motorists traveling on Interstate 10. It was unknown what sparked the 3 p.m. fire along the 4900 block of Vista
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Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A new type of eye surgery has become increasingly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic because many people are finding their glasses fogging up when wearing a mask. “It’s called SMILE laser eye surgery and SMILE is short for small incision lenticule extraction,” Goel Vision Medical
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TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have put a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot for the state’s August 2022 primary election. The Senate approved the measure Thursday on a 28-11 vote that gave abortion opponents one more vote than the two-thirds majority they needed. The House approved the
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El PASO, Texas — El Paso public health officials said Thursday afternoon they had received another 5,000 Covid-19 vaccines to be given as first doses at the city’s vaccination hub site near the airport. To date, the city said it had administered more than 86,000 doses of virus vaccine to El Pasoans who have registered
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A reality star is getting real about New York City politics. Barbara Kavovit, who appeared on “The Real Housewives of New York City” is running for mayor. She launched her campaign Wednesday. The Bronx-born construction CEO plans to focus on issues including the economy
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A reality star is getting real about New York City politics. Barbara Kavovit, who appeared on “The Real Housewives of New York City” is running for mayor. She launched her campaign Wednesday. The Bronx-born construction CEO plans to focus on issues including the economy
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Two decades ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell popularized the “Pottery Barn rule” of invading foreign countries: “You break it, you own it.” Today the Republican Party has been broken by members of its paranoid fringe, like the freshman Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now they own it. CNN’s review this week of hundreds of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WEST CHESTER, Ohio (KDKA) — A special needs shelter dog from Ohio is tugging on the heartstrings of animal lovers across the world after being stood up by a potential adopter. Cute little Jack is a 9-month-old, 30-pound American Bully pup who has spina bifida. He can get
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WEST CHESTER, Ohio (KDKA) — A special needs shelter dog from Ohio is tugging on the heartstrings of animal lovers across the world after being stood up by a potential adopter. Cute little Jack is a 9-month-old, 30-pound American Bully pup who has spina bifida. He can get
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Former President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met Thursday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where the two Republicans discussed strategy for winning the House majority in next year’s midterms, according to a readout of the meeting provided by Trump’s Political Action Committee Save America. “They discussed many topics, number
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EL PASO, Texas – A Colorado fugitive sought in the shootings of two people, including a 3-year-old girl who was critically wounded, was caught by federal authorities as he tried to cross into El Paso from Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they made the capture of 19-year-old Guadalupe Jose Villanueva earlier this
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The Senate voted Thursday to break a GOP filibuster and advance the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to be President Joe Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security after Republicans objected to efforts to quickly install a critical leader of the country’s national security apparatus. Now that the nomination has successfully cleared that procedural hurdle, a final vote
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GameStop traders sent the stock on a wild ride Thursday. The stock plunged more than 40% Thursday after surging nearly 40% at one point earlier in the day. Adding to the drama? Robinhood said it was restricting trading in the red hot stock as well as several others. “We continuously monitor the markets and make
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Germany’s vaccine commission said the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine should not be given to people older than 65 years, amid a bitter dispute between the European Union and the drugmaker over delayed supplies. The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s main public health authority, found there is insufficient data
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has removed dozens of Facebook posts from 2018 and 2019 in which she endorsed fringe conspiracy theories and repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians. Searches of Greene’s Facebook show the posts from 2018 and 2019 have been removed. Links saved by CNN’s KFile during a review of hundreds
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The home of Emmett Till, the African American teen whose murder became an important catalyst in the civil rights movement, has been granted landmark status by the Chicago City Council. In 1955, Emmett traveled to Mississippi to visit his great uncle. It was during this visit that Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A teenaged brother and sister from San Francisco are using their musical talents to serve others. With 19-year-old Neo Guerrero on the piano and his 17-year-old sister Cleo on the violin, the duet brings joy to their elderly audience and more. “It’s a way
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A teenaged brother and sister from San Francisco are using their musical talents to serve others. With 19-year-old Neo Guerrero on the piano and his 17-year-old sister Cleo on the violin, the duet brings joy to their elderly audience and more. “It’s a way
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday slammed House Republican leaders for not doing more to rebuke GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia over her shocking rhetoric and past statements, saying the focus must be on leadership. “What I’m concerned about is the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, who is willing to overlook, ignore
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Among the new terms added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in a January update is another first for the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, “second gentleman.” Douglas Emhoff, the first male spouse of a U.S. vice president acknowledged the inclusion of the term with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Among the new terms added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in a January update is another first for the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, “second gentleman.” Douglas Emhoff, the first male spouse of a U.S. vice president acknowledged the inclusion of the term with
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Law enforcement authorities across several countries have taken down a network of what they describe as the “world’s most dangerous malware.” The malware, Emotet, gained access to users’ computers through infected email attachments, including documents purporting to be “invoices, shipping notices and information about Covid-19,” European police agency Europol, which coordinated the effort, said in
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Half of US states fail to offer basic protections for LGBTQ people, according to a report by the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group. The Human Rights Campaign’s State Equality Index examines state-level policies impacting LGBTQ people and their families — protections like non-discrimination policies in employment, housing and public accommodations, for example. This year’s report,
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