EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Here a list of road closures scheduled for Thursday, May 11 for El Paso County and the City of Las Cruces. For updates in El Paso, click here. For a look at more information from TxDOT, click here. For updates in Las Cruces, click here. EL PASO Gateway West @ Eastlake, right
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — On Good Morning El Paso, I’ll provide a live look at downtown El Paso as Title 42 expires tonight. With Title 42 being lifted tonight the streets near Sacred Heart were emptier than they were just days ago. Hundreds of migrants turned themselves in Tuesday after they were handed fliers
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Good morning! Much quieter conditions are in the forecast for today and tomorrow. Temperatures will be cooler behind a cold front, running below average this time of year. Afternoon highs will reach the low 80’s winds will be out of the west around 10 to 15 mph. Friday looks warmer, with temperatures climbing to the
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By Katia Hetter, CNN The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ends in the United States on Thursday, May 11, more than three years after it was first declared. This comes as the World Health Organization announced last week that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency. What does all this mean about
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Stacker analyzed data quantifying draft numbers during World War II from multiple sources, such as historical Census data and the Selective Service System, to rank how many men were drafted per state.
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Giggster compiled seven pointers for throwing the most memorable milestone birthday.
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Looking for more flexible working conditions? ClickUp ranked the 15 best jobs for working at your own pace based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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Benzinga breaks down the writers strike in Hollywood, why it’s important, and what it has to do with artificial intelligence.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A group based out of the University of Texas at Austin is bringing it’s evidence-based intensive therapy program to the Borderland to help children who stutter. Camp Dream. Speak. Live., run by Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research, is a week-long summer camp offered to children ages five
Continue Reading By Katherine Dillinger, CNN A “peanut patch” showed promising results in a late-phase clinical trial in toddlers with peanut allergies, according to a new study. Researchers from the French biopharmaceutical firm DBV Technologies and institutions around the world conducted randomized double-blind trial of the Viaskin Peanut patch in children ages 1 through 3 years old
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces Police are hoping to find two people who may have witnessed a shooting that injured a 69-year-old man Tuesday evening. The shooting happened on the 500 block of Lujan Street just before 9 p.m. May 9. The victim had at least one gunshot wound and was rushed
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The closed Bassett Middle School will temporarily shelter migrants as Title 42 is lifted. The city has not yet announced an opening time, telling ABC-7 the school will shelter migrants as needed. Some processed migrants needing shelter can be held at the school for up to 72 hours. “Case workers
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball head coach Keitha Adams announced the signing of Czech forward Luisa Vydrova Wednesday. Vydrova will compete with the Czech Republic at the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup this summer. A profile on Vydrova and a quote from Adams follows below. Luisa Vydrova Gymnázium Nad Štolou Prague, Czech Republic 6-1, Forward Freshman
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Winds have been gusting to 35-40 mph across the El Paso area this afternoon and evening. The winds will slowly weaken later tonight and overnight. Lots of sun tomorrow with a little cooler temps and much less wind. Thunderstorm chances increase for the late weekend and much of next week.
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Vast — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants in the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to use a SpaceX rocket to launch what it hopes to be the world’s first commercial space station and ferry passengers to and from the orbiting outpost. It’s not clear how much
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Police in Florida arrested an 18-year-old woman in connecting with social media threats against a Las Cruces school. The threat started circulating Tuesday, prompting a statewide warning from the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Other students in other parts of the state, including Roswell, also
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Weird Kidz, a full-length animated feature film will get a special screening at the Plaza Theatre on Thursday night. The coming-of-age film made by El Pasoan Zach Passero is based on memories, adventures, and influences from his time in the Borderland. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and film starts at 7 p.m.,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 drone crews captured video of a group of migrants gathered on the Mexican side of the border, orderly waiting near border law enforcement officials. This video was captured Wednesday, May 10, 2023, just one day before the scheduled lifting of Title 42.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 19-year-old Andrea Hernandez will receive her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from UTEP this weekend. She graduated from Americas High School’s Trailblazers Early College High School in 2017. Hernandez then spent four years at El Paso Community College, preparing to transfer to UTEP, which she did in 2021. For
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(CNN) — Rep. George Santos has pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges, including allegations of fraud related to Covid-19 unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds and lying about his personal finances on House disclosure reports. Santos is being released on a $500,000 bond, according to the US Attorney’s Office in New York. He was ordered to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — You can now apply to become part of the 2023-2024 Sun Court. The Sun Bowl Association is accepting applications until June 16 at 3 p.m. Submit an application online or in-person at 4150 Pinnacle Street, Suite 100. Interviews start July 8 at 9 a.m. at the Sun Bowl Association offices.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — LCPS is responding to threats being made against schools across New Mexico. The district says it sent out the following message to parents Tuesday night. “Late Tuesday night, our district was made aware of information shared on social media claiming random acts of violence would be carried out on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has reached out to the El Paso Police Department following a viewer-submitted video that surfaced earlier this week, showing El Paso Police Officers detaining a man. The incident, recorded on a smartphone, allegedly occurred on Sunday night around 11:30 PM. The footage, which lasts approximately three minutes, appears to
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(CNN) — Hundreds of US troops are set to begin a new mission along the southern border Wednesday as officials and a surge of migrants brace for what’s to come when a Trump-era border restriction policy expires late Thursday. Some 550 troops, mostly from the Army, will support US Customs and Border Protection by monitoring the border
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan, CNN Advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in support of making the birth-control pill Opill available over-the-counter, saying the benefits outweigh the risks. Two FDA advisory panels agreed that people would use Opill safely and effectively and said groups such as adolescents and those with limited
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Just one day before Title 42 is set to be lifted, migrants in Juarez are still making their way to gates 40 and 42 of the border wall, just across the border from the Lower Valley. These camps have been set up for days, and some of them have already been
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SANTA FE, New Mexico (KVIA) — The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is warning of a statewide threat against schools. Officials say a student in Roswell received a message on social media that threatened an attack on the student’s school. Other students at districts across New Mexico received the same message.
Continue Reading (CNN) — The House will vote on Republicans’ wide-ranging border security package on Thursday — the same day the Covid-era Title 42 policy that has enabled the US to swiftly expel certain migrants is set to expire, GOP leadership sources told CNN. The bill, known as HR 2, would codify some of the border programs implemented by
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By Brian Lopez and Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune “Texas House’s version of the Senate’s school voucher bill would reduce the program’s scope and replace the STAAR test” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The non-profit Border Servant Corps in Las Cruces has been receiving migrants from the El Paso area for months, as the migrant crisis along the borderland continues to unfold. The organization told ABC-7 it typically gets about 250 migrants a day, and are expecting more as Title 42 is
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