EL PASO, Texas – The bi-district round of the high school basketball playoffs continued Tuesday. Several El Paso teams punched their ticket to the area round. The scores below are from Tuesday: CLASS 6A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Odessa Permian 66 Franklin 48 San Angelo Central 46 Eastwood 48 Coronado 53 Odessa 86 Americas 46 Frenship 71
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LED Lighting Supply compiled statistics about commercial energy use per building in Texas using data from the Building Performance Database from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — With high winds on their way to the borderland Wednesday, ABC-7 is offering tips for you to stay safe on the roads. Officials from the Texas Department of Transportation say the best thing is to avoid driving in high wind conditions if possible, but if you must drive, keep both
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City is asking residents not to put out their recycling bins on high wind days. This comes after The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning for February 22 as the area is expected to see very strong winds. The City says on windy days, recycling bins can
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists have long wondered what lies at the very center of the Earth, and the latest research is putting weight behind a theory that our planet has a distinct ball of iron within its metallic core. Beneath the outermost crust, the mantle and the molten-liquid outer core lies the Earth’s solid
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WESLACO, Texas (KVIA) — A roundtable on Texas’s ongoing border security efforts was held by Governor Greg Abbott along with other state officials after last week border security was designated as an emergency item for this legislative session. The discussion included expanding the state’s strategies to secure the southern border, as well as the Biden
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– The former probation officer of Angeles Zaragoza, the 17-year-old who died in the Cielo Vista shooting, spoke to ABC 7 about the judgement Zaragoza is getting form the community online. “You know, I haven’t had contact with him. I want to say in about probably a year since I left the
Continue Reading Originally Published: 21 FEB 23 06:57 ETUpdated: 21 FEB 23 21:51 ETBy Aya Elamroussi and Rob Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — A massive winter storm bringing a mix of heavy snow, rain and gusty winds is poised to lash much of the US West and North this week and has put more than 60 million people across
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Originally Published: 14 FEB 23 16:08 ETUpdated: 21 FEB 23 21:41 ETBy Greg Wallace and Laura Ly, CNN (CNN) — Investigators probing the toxic train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, are reviewing multiple videos of the train prior to it derailing.One video shows “what appears to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat
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Originally Published: 21 FEB 23 01:53 ETUpdated: 21 FEB 23 20:56 ETBy Meridith Edwards, Holly Yan, Nouran Salahieh and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said state environmental officials made a “criminal referral” against Norfolk Southern — the company who operated the train that derailed in an Ohio village near the Pennsylvania border
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Originally Published: 21 FEB 23 07:56 ETUpdated: 21 FEB 23 21:19 ETBy Simone McCarthy, CNN’s Beijing bureau, Anna Chernova and Uliana Pavlova (CNN) — China’s top diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian state media reported, in the first visit to Russia by a Chinese official in that role since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion
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Originally Published: 21 FEB 23 08:11 ETUpdated: 21 FEB 23 21:20 ETBy Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, Lauren Kent and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is suspending his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, imperiling the last remaining pact that regulates
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP senior Shamar Givance has been named to the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-District men’s basketball team, it was announced by the organization Tuesday. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve with at least a 3.50 GPA. Givance’s honor made UTEP one of four schools on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A man wanted for homicide in Brownfield, Texas, was caught trying to cross into the US through the Bridge of the Americas border crossing, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The 24-year-old man was not identified by name. CBP officials say a primary search revealed an outstanding warrant
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police arrested a 17-year-old for deadly conduct. Police say Eduardo Antonio Robles, an east El Paso resident, was in a viral video showing him firing a pistol from a car window toward a residential neighborhood. Photo credit: FitFam Police say the incident happened Sunday on Pebble Hills Blvd.
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DALLAS, Texas – Adhel Tac, Avery Crouse and Sabine Lipe of UTEP women’s basketball were all named to the Academic All-District Team presented by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve with at least a 3.50 GPA. The three Miners comprise 20 percent of the
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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — If you want to visit Fort Bliss, you no longer need to be sponsored by a service member, according to officials. Now, you just need to register once to gain access to the post for three years. The change comes with Fort Bliss’ implementation of its new Community Access Pass
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Finding potential evidence of life on Mars may be more difficult than expected, according to new research. Missions such as the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers are each equipped with a suite of scientific instruments that can analyze rock and dust samples and collect data about the red planet. But those instruments
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(CNN) — The Biden administration released a new rule Tuesday that largely bars migrants who traveled through other countries on their way to the US-Mexico border from applying for asylum in the United States, marking a departure from decadeslong protocol. The new 153-page proposed regulation, which could affect tens of thousands of people, is the
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The winds will begin to pick up tonight and increase throughout the day Wednesday. Winds will be out of the SW sustained at 30-40 with gusts peaking out around 65 mph. A passing cold front will usher in some cooler air later tomorrow providing some wind chills as well. There will likely be some structural
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– — Perches Funeral Homes and Operation Hope have come together to help the family of 17-year-old Angeles Zaragoza. The teen was killed in a shooting at Cielo Vista Mall on February 15 during a confrontation between two groups police say was random and escalated into a physical fight. Police say during
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- Multiple law enforcement agencies gathered for a press conference Tuesday to discuss the increase in school threats. Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey R. Downey of the FBI El Paso Field Office said the surge in social media threats directed towards our community schools is an alarming problem in El Paso and
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The cat found inside of CERESO 3 with a gang tattoo, that’s gained worldwide fame, will be set up for adoption. And now anyone can apply to give the animal a loving home – but there are some key conditions to who can adopt it. Photo credit: Canal 44 Juárez’s department
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Two new studies co-authored by a public health professor at New Mexico State University say that gun violence-related deaths among preschool-aged kids is rising but also suggest that state laws may help reduce the deaths. NMSU Public Health & Sciences Professor Jagdish Khubcahndani and University of Toledo Emeritus of
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More than 300,000 Starbucks vanilla Frappuccino bottles are being recalled because they might contain glass. The drinks are 13.7-ounce vanilla Frappuccinos with the expiration dates of March 8th, May 29th, June 4th and 10th. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the voluntary recall, which was issued Jan. 28, covers 25,200 cases of the
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for the second time in two years, with some scientists alarmed that dramatic drops are a signal the climate crisis may now be more clearly influencing this vast, complex and isolated region. The sea ice that fringes Antarctica dropped to just 737,000 square
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President Biden is set to speak from the royal castle in Warsaw, Poland today, after a secret visit to Kyiv on Monday. It is the latest symbolic clash with Russian president Vladimir Putin, who is also giving a speech in Moscow, tied to the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. U.S. National Security Adviser
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Happy Fat Tuesday! The ABC-7 First Alert remains in effect for high winds on Wednesday. A strong low-pressure system and cold front will move through the area Wednesday and produce high winds across the borderland. Southwesterly winds between 20 to 40 mph will be possible along with gusts around 65 mph through Wednesday evening. Winds
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A vehicle rolled over and crashed on US-54 north at Diana early Tuesday morning leaving two people injured. According to El Paso Police, the call came in just after 3 a.m. El Paso Fire officials say two individuals were sent to University Medical Center with serious injuries. Special traffic investigators
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN When being truly honest with herself, Seun Adebagbo says, she can describe what drove her to go to medical school in a single word: self-preservation. Adebagbo, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Boston, said that as a child, she often saw tensions between certain aspects of Western medicine
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