By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years ago, has died. He was 95. Whittington died at his home Saturday in Austin, family friend Karl Rove said Monday. Before Whittington was thrust into the national
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WESH, WALT DISNEY WORLD, CNN By Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis may soon get to pick the people who govern Disney’s Orlando-area theme parks, a move that would give the Republican leader new authority over the state’s largest employer and a recent political foe. Republican lawmakers on Monday unveiled a bill to turn over
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Freddy Hicks scored 22 points to help Tarleton State defeat UT Arlington 69-64 on Monday night. Hicks also contributed six rebounds and three blocks for the Texans (13-11, 6-5 Western Athletic Conference). Jakorie Smith scored 19 points, going 6 of 8 (5 for 7 from distance). Javontae Hopkins was 2 of
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CNN’s Pete Muntean takes a closer look at a near-miss incident between FedEx and Southwest Airlines in Texas.
Continue Reading By Greg Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN A Southwest passenger jet and a FedEx cargo plane came as close as 100 feet from colliding Saturday at the main airport in Texas’ capital, and it was a pilot — not air traffic controllers — who averted disaster, a top federal investigator says. Controllers at Austin’s international
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic has his co-star, and the Dallas Mavericks are set for their season essentially to start over after trading for Kyrie Irving. The blockbuster deal with Brooklyn sending the mercurial Irving to the Mavericks became official Monday, two days before what figures to be his
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN A bill to wind down Disney’s special governing powers in Central Florida would put the company’s Orlando-area theme parks under the oversight of a board that will be hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis, giving the Republican executive new authority over the state’s largest employer and his recent political foe. The move
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — The NBA has rescheduled three games after one game was postponed last week when the Detroit Pistons were stranded in Dallas due to a winter storm. The Pistons will make up their home game against the Washington Wizards on March 7. The league also rescheduled games for both franchises to avoid either
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El Paso ties a record high today of 77 degrees. The warmest since November 9th when it was 81. But for now we say goodbye to the very warm temperatures and must deal with highs below normal in the 50’s – all courtesy of a cold front moving east. The winds will turn more to
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it’s the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant has the most known moons, too. Astronomers have observed 12 additional moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 92. The discovery was made during observations
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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Like thousands of other Austin residents, Darin Murphy began a sixth day Monday with no power in his home, wrapping his head around the city’s latest demoralizing update: Getting the lights fully back on may take another week. “We are planning for
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Community College is celebrating Black History Month with several events this month. EPCC’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs is hosting a panel discussion titled Black Resistance. It will take place from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. February 15 at the Valle Verde AST Building Foyer. Panelists include Adeni Janae, UTEP Music Major and Black El
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez and Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A middle school in New York and its food vendor, Aramark, apologized after students were served chicken and waffles, along with watermelon on the first day of Black History Month. The lunch menu offered on February 1 at Nyack Middle School in Rockland County was “inexcusably insensitive and
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler returned to the team as a special assistant to general manager Chris Young, his teammate in the organization’s minor league system nearly two decades ago. Young said Monday that Kinsler, who was part of the franchise’s only two World Series teams in 2010 and
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UPDATE: According to a spokesperson with El Paso Police, a 32-year-old Hispanic man entered the convenience store just after 12:30 p.m. Officials said he demanded money and showed a weapon on his waistband to the store clerk. The clerk, a 28-year-old man, then fired his weapon at least once and shot the 32-year-old, according to
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday. “Every day as a NORAD
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – A recent surge in weed growth has spurred the El Paso Code Enforcement division to focus on compliance with the city’s weed ordinance. ABC-7 has heard from viewers who were issued citations due to overgrown weeds behind their homes. According to the city ordinance under Section 9.04.870, any individual lot
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UPDATE – The construction of these raised medians are meant to increase safety on the roads at bi-directional turn lanes, according to TXDOT. The medians are being built in about a dozen other areas besides Doniphan Dr, including Zaragoza Rd, Dyer St, and Montana Ave, according to TXDOT spokesperson Jennifer Wright. The project started in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, the company will lay off 110 employees. Officials told ABC-7, the facility located at 6500 N. Desert Blvd. will be permanently closing. The company website says it is the world’s leading automotive wiring harnesses and components manufacturer. The company supplies electronic components like electronic control
Continue Reading By Alayna Treene and Pamela Brown, CNN House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has subpoenaed three former Twitter employees who will testify before the panel in relation to their investigation into Twitter’s decision to temporarily suppress a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop, three sources familiar with the documents tell CNN. Twitter’s former
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Law enforcement officials in Las Cruces say they are concerned about a rising trend of vehicle thefts in the city. The Dona Ana Sheriffs Office said in 2022, 353 vehicles were reported stolen from the county’s unincorporated areas, more than double the year prior. Officials said thieves are stealing vehicles
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UPDATE: The “secure” protocol was lifted before 1 p.m. One person was apprehended off campus by El Paso police, according to officials. UPDATE (12:37 p.m.): Mulitple law enforcement agencies, including FBI, El Paso Sheriff’s, Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers, El Paso Police and El Paso ISD police, are going through the school room by
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Getting fired by the Boston Bruins didn’t stop former coach Bruce Cassidy from picking up the phone and giving some advice when replacement Jim Montgomery called to ask. Getting fired by the Vegas Golden Knights also didn’t stop Peter DeBoer from answering a call from Cassidy, who replaced him
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts, CNN Aiden Fucci, the Florida teenager who stabbed 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey more than 100 times in 2021 has pleaded guilty to first degree murder, according to the 7th Judicial Circuit court clerk. Fucci entered his guilty plea Monday at a hearing intended to get jury selection for his trial underway, CNN affiliate
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has observed its smallest cosmic object to date — a previously unknown asteroid about the size of the Colosseum in Rome. A team of European astronomers made the detection of the space rock, which is between 328 and 656 feet (100 to 200 meters) long, and
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Alta Spells, CNN The judge in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial on Monday ruled to allow the state to present evidence of the now-disbarred South Carolina attorney’s alleged financial crimes, which the prosecution contends were about to be revealed and provided him a motive to kill his wife and son. The
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal appeals court judges closely questioned a Biden administration attorney Monday on the consequences military personnel might face for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations, even though Biden’s vaccine mandate for military personnel has been rescinded. Lawyers for a group of Navy SEALS and other Navy personnel who refuse
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By Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The select subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government is planning to feature two panels of witnesses during its first hearing on Thursday. Among those expected to appear as witnesses called by the Republicans are GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, as
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN It’s now been half a decade since SpaceX turned heads around the world with its decision to launch Elon Musk’s personal Tesla roadster into outer space, sending the car on an endless journey into the cosmic wilderness where it’s expected to remain for millennia to come. As of Monday, February 6,
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris’ effort to tackle root causes of migration from Central America has yielded more than $4.2 billion in private sector commitments, but border crossings remain high amid mass migration in the Western Hemisphere. In March 2021, during an influx of unaccompanied migrant children, President Joe Biden tasked Harris
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