Stacker looked at how the world responded to seven of the largest earthquakes of this century, outlining emergency response efforts and humanitarian aid.
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EL PASO, Texas – The boys high school basketball playoffs began Monday night with four El Paso teams punching their ticket to the next round. All four games that were played locally on Monday were in Class 5A. Chapin, Canutillo, Andress and Parkland all won bi-district titles, while in Class 3A the playoff run came
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(CNN) — The artist Jeff Koons’ famous sculptures might look like they’re made from balloons — but the works are actually fragile, as one art fair attendee found out when she knocked over a $42,000 Koons piece Thursday, causing it to shatter. A blue balloon dog sculpture created by Koons broke into tiny shards when a visitor
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By Katia Hetter, CNN On Saturday, the Carter Center announced that former US President Jimmy Carter will be receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia. “After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball guard Soleil Montrose was named the Conference USA Freshman of the Week presented by Blenders Eyewear on Monday by the league office. This is the second time that Montrose has earned the recognition this season. As the lone first-year collegiate player on the roster for the Miners, Montrose picked
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A strong area of low pressure and cold front will move through the area Wednesday producing extreme winds to the area. Gusts from the SW likely to hit 65 mph during the afternoon and evening. Some damage could occur with the strongest winds so secure outdoor decorations and furniture along with trampolines and toys. Those
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(CNN) — A new bill moving through the New Mexico legislature would make the state the first in the nation to have its own official aroma: green chiles roasting in the fall. Democratic state senator William Soules sponsored Bill 188, which seeks to add to the roster of New Mexico’s state symbols. Other symbols include the yucca flower,
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(CNN) — A man was taken into custody in connection with the shooting death of a Catholic bishop renowned for his work as a community “peacemaker,” the LA County Sheriff’s Department announced Monday. Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell was found dead in his home in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood Saturday in what is being investigated as
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A 15-year-old El Paso girl has been missing since Valentine’s day. Chihuahua’s attorney general is asking for the public’s help in locating the girl. The girl’s name is Annette Uruchurtu, and she was last seen leaving Bowie High School. Family members say she wore black vinyl pants, a black shirt
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The mysterious red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may be the result of a newly discovered kind of salty ice. Europa has long intrigued scientists because the moon has a subsurface ocean beneath a thick shell of ice. Plumes of water have been known to erupt from cracks
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– Discussions surrounding steroid use have grown in popularity on several social media platforms like Youtube and TikTok. On the internet platform TikTok, the hashtag ‘Natty or not’ has nearly 400 million views. With this hashtag, most videos include fitness creators asking people in the gym if they are natural or not,
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Originally Published: 20 FEB 23 01:13 ETUpdated: 20 FEB 23 14:16 ETBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A suspect is in custody after one person was killed and four others — including a 4-year-old girl — were injured in a shooting Sunday night along a Mardi Gras parade route ahead of the city’s
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Originally Published: 20 FEB 23 07:44 ETUpdated: 20 FEB 23 13:58 ETBy Cheri Mossburg, Camila Bernal and Kelly McCleary, CNN (CNN) — A man was taken into custody in connection with the shooting death of a Catholic bishop renowned for his work as a community “peacemaker,” the LA County Sheriff’s Department announced Monday.Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) –Las Cruces Police are searching for an armed suspect they say took a man’s car in broad daylight. It happened at 2 p.m. Sunday as the victim was parked in a popular shopping mall. The victim tells police the suspect pointed a gun at him and forced him out of
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Alec Baldwin officially facing involuntary manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The family members of the teen girl who was found dead in an alley in a far east El Paso neighborhood are remembering her. Jasmine Estrella Adame’s loved ones described her as a wonderful child who “touched the lives of those around her.” They said 16-year-old Jasmine was a soccer
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A passenger on a flight leaving El Paso Friday airdropped a message reading “I have a bomb would like to share a photo” to other passengers on the aircraft, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety. American Airlines flight #2051 was departing from El Paso International
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Originally Published: 20 FEB 23 12:55 ETBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — Around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night, President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine’s week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House.The next time he was seen in
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SANTA FE, New Mexico The Santa Fe District Attorney’s Office announced it is dropping the gun enhancement charge — a crime that would have carried a five-year sentence if convicted — against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” in October 2021. Baldwin still faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter for
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(CNN) — A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday killing at least three people and injuring hundreds more, according to Turkish and Syrian officials, two weeks after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in both countries. The quake struck Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) said Monday.
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) — Sunland Park police are investigating a threat made over the weekend against Santa Teresa Middle School, according to a Gadsden ISD spokesperson. The threat was posted on social media. It shows a man warning students not to go to school on Monday. According to the district spokesperson, the man
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Starting May 1st, Amazon will require thousands of office employees to work in person at least three days a week. It marks the end of the e-commerce giant’s remote and hybrid-friendly policy. The move is part of Amazon’s continuing shift away from its pandemic posture, which led the company to double its fulfillment centers in
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Twitter is making some security changes. Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform’s only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. Twitter says it will make the change March 20th. Twitter Blue, which costs $11 a month for iOS and Android subscribers, adds a blue checkmark to the account
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Happy Presidents’ Day! The ABC-7 First Alert continues for rain chances and high winds on Wednesday. After a cold and rainy weekend, the rain continued to fall overnight with rain estimates between 0.14 to 0.57 inches over the El Paso and Las Cruces areas. Over the past 24 hours, we’ve picked up 0.38 inches of
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EL PASO, Texas — From west to east El Paso there’s a construction project in almost every part of the Borderland. Here’s a complete list of TxDOT’s road closures as well as road closures in Las Cruces for the week of February 20 to February 25. For updates, click here. For a look at more information, click
Continue Reading By John Bonifield, CNN Democratic Sen. John Fetterman’s hospitalization for the treatment of clinical depression has raised questions about the links between depression and strokes — and how long he’ll need to be hospitalized. The Pennsylvania Democrat, who suffered a stroke last May ahead of winning the Senate nomination, has experienced depression on and off
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Zoo officials broke ground on Feb. 22 in 2022, for the new Penguin encounter. According to Joe Montisano the Zoo director, 13 Magellanic warm-weathered penguins are coming immediately from multiple facilities across the U.S. The exhibit will fit 25 penguins in total. They will have a refrigerated den for any
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN A nearly 2,000-year-old wooden object in the shape of a penis could have served as a sexual tool by ancient Romans in Britain, according to a new study. The artifact was unearthed in 1992 in a ditch at the Roman Fort of Vindolanda, near Hadrian’s Wall, which once marked the Roman
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Tigers came up big at state doubling their previous medal count of four all time to eight at the competition. The Boys won the 5A 200 and 400 Freestyle relay. Those gold medals were actually the first ever medals in relay events in school history. Marcos Otero
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CNN’s Poppy Harlow sits down with NBA legends Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith ahead of NBA All-Star weekend.
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