EL PASO, Texas – After a winless weekend against stiff competition, the UTEP softball team showed plenty of encouragement in splitting a Friday/Saturday series with Northern Colorado. On a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the UTEP Helen of Troy softball complex, the Miners dropped Game 1 by a score of 10-7 but rebounded nicely to take
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EL PASO, Texas – Though Chris Jans may not know the exact remedy, New Mexico State basketball sure knows how to avoid a hangover. For the third week in a row, the Aggies rebounded from a Friday loss to top Utah Valley 67-60 at Eastwood High School Saturday night in El Paso. Utah Valley both
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M’s Southeastern Conference men’s upcoming basketball game at Kentucky on Tuesday night has been postponed due to a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and quarantining within the Aggies’ program. It’s the seventh consecutive postponement for A&M, which hasn’t played since beating Kansas State 68-61 on Jan. 30 in the
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One person is dead and another is severely injured after a small plane crashed in Cullman County, Alabama, Saturday, according to Cullman County Coroner Jeremy Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick said the crash occurred near Cullman Regional Airport-Folsom Field. Cullman County is about 50 miles north of Birmingham. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokeswoman Arlene Salac said a Piper
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(CNN Español) –– Al menos 16 extranjeros fueron arrestados luego de llegar en dos botes a Diana Beach, en Florida. Así lo informó este viernes el agente en jefe de la Patrulla Fronteriza del sector Miami, Thomas G. Martin, a través de un mensaje en Twitter. En ese momento, Martin no dio detalles sobre las nacionalidades
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Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general, calls the January 6 attack on the US Capitol a “heinous attack” in his prepared opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which the Department of Justice released Saturday night ahead of his confirmation hearing on Monday. “If confirmed, I will supervise the prosecution of
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A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Denver International Airport Saturday after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff, sending aircraft debris raining down on soccer fields, homes and yards in a Denver suburb. United Flight 328 returned to the airport around 1:30 p.m. after suffering an engine issue, an airport spokesperson
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President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general, Judge Merrick Garland, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week for his confirmation hearing. His opening statement to the committee was released Saturday.
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Yan Dhanda has been a leading light in helping Swansea City return to the Premier League, but he is also driven by the fact he’s one of only a handful of British Asian footballers playing professionally in the United Kingdom. Dhanda, whose father was born in England to Indian parents, says he’s excited by the
Continue Reading President Joe Biden visited former Sen. Bob Dole Saturday afternoon, according to the White House, after the longtime Kansas senator announced earlier in the week that he had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. The two had served in the Senate together and Dole is a “close friend” of the President, the White House
Continue Reading A Nile crocodile named Anuket had to undergo surgery in Florida recently. The problem started in December when a shoe slipped off the foot of a tourist ziplining over the crocodile habitat at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, according to a social media post from the zoo. Anuket, who lived in the enclosure
Continue Reading (CNN) — Tres personas murieron y dos más resultaron heridas en un tiroteo en una tienda de armas en Louisiana, este sábado. Agentes fueron llamados al lugar de los hechos en el Jefferson Gun Outlet de Metairie, poco antes de las 3 p.m., informó el sheriff de Jefferson, Joseph Lopinto III, en rueda de prensa.
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas– Exactly one week ago the borderland was preparing for an artic blast to approach the borderland. Today, Spring-like temperatures and sunny skies graced our forecast. These above average temperatures aren’t expected to stick around Sunday as a cold front moves in late Saturday into Sunday. Wind gusts of up to 35 mph
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she regrets discretionary spending of taxpayer money that included $6,500 on groceries and alcohol. Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, over a six-month period in 2020 spent almost $13,500 from a taxpayer-funded expense account is appropriated by the state Legislature for the governor to spend on functions,
Continue Reading When Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis ran for President against George H. W. Bush in 1988, he made competence one of his major campaign themes. Instead of claiming to be a visionary politician or a champion of liberalism, Dukakis highlighted his technocratic managerial expertise. “This election isn’t about ideology,” Dukakis argued, “It’s about competence. It’s not
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DALLAS, Texas — Dallas resident DeAndre Upshaw said it was “very shocking” when he opened his latest electricity bill. “While I’m trying to get gas and groceries and make sure that my pipes don’t explode, the last thing I’m thinking about is a $7,000 bill from my utility company,” Upshaw told CNN via Skype Saturday.
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Saturday reported 427 additional confirmed Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 182,475 cases and 3,610 deaths. Four counties accounted for over half the additional cases: Bernalillo, 95; Doña Ana, 70; San Juan, 43, and McKinley 37. The counties with at least one death were
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El gobierno de Panamá anunció que la próxima semana recibirá su tercer lote de vacunas contra el coronavirus por parte de la farmacéutica Pfizer-BioNTech. Así lo dio a conocer este viernes la viceministra de Salud del país, Ivette Berrío. Serían 77.200 dosis de vacunas las que se recibirían en la semana que
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Alexey Navalny, opositor ruso y crítico del Kremlin, permanecerá en prisión, luego de que un tribunal en Rusia rechazara parcialmente su apelación a la condena dos años y medio de cárcel dictada en su contra a principios de este mes. La corte de apelaciones redujo la sentencia de Navalny en un mes y
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Cuando el automóvil de una repartidora comenzó a deslizarse por un camino cubierto de hielo en medio de la tormenta en Texas, la conductora cerró los ojos. En ese momento rezaba que el coche no golpeara la casa del cliente. No chocó contra la casa. Pero, el auto de Chelsea Timmons aplastó un
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — “Everyone must be young. Everyone must discover themselves.” Those are the words from one native Las Cruces resident who so happens to have released his first self-published poetry book. Mason Quiñones is the author of ‘Youth’ a collection of poems written by him, completely unfiltered. Quiñones sat down with ABC-7
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Un vuelo de United Airlines, con destino a Honolulu, regresó al Aeropuerto Internacional de Denver este sábado, después de sufrir una falla en el motor y de que escombros del avión cayeran en un suburbio de Denver. El vuelo 328 de United regresó a salvo al aeropuerto alrededor de la 1:30 p.m. hora
Continue Reading For the first time in its 130-year history, Wyoming has a Black sheriff. Aaron Appelhans, 39, has taken charge of the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, which faces two pending lawsuits and calls for reform in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Robert “Robbie” Ramirez by a deputy in 2018. “You don’t see a whole
Continue Reading Former President Donald Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, next Sunday, according to a source familiar with the matter. The source, who is familiar with the former President’s speech, told CNN on Saturday that “he’ll be talking about the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.” “Also
Continue Reading Two women were caught trying to get second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine by dressing up as “grannies,” the Director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County said Thursday. The women came to the vaccination site wearing bonnets, gloves, and glasses in an attempt to receive their vaccines, Dr. Raul Pino said during
Continue Reading A United Airlines flight bound for Honolulu returned to Denver International Airport Saturday after suffering an engine failure with debris from the aircraft falling onto a Denver suburb. United Flight 328 returned safely to the airport around 1:30 p.m. after suffering an engine issue, an airport spokesman told CNN. The flight returned about 20 minutes
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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation says it is planning to open all 26 of its amusement parks and water parks for the 2021 season, including five that were not able to operate last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it worked with epidemiologists to develop a reopening plan that “meets or exceeds federal,
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A pair of 4-year-old twins are in critical condition after firefighters rescued them from an early morning house fire Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. Firefighters arrived at the home around 7:43 a.m. where they found the twins trapped and unresponsive, according to Battalion Chief Steve Martin of the Columbus Division of Fire. Authorities performed CPR on
Continue Reading When Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis ran for President against George H. W. Bush in 1988, he made competence one of his major campaign themes. Instead of claiming to be a visionary politician or a champion of liberalism, Dukakis highlighted his technocratic managerial expertise. “This election isn’t about ideology,” Dukakis argued, “It’s about competence. It’s not
Continue Reading Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States are at the lowest level since early November, when a fall surge in cases and deaths was picking up steam, data showed Saturday. This comes as federal officials say they’re pushing large shipments of vaccines to states this weekend, in part to make up for a backlog from winter
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