EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Here a list of road closures scheduled for Wednesday, June 7 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. For look at road closures for the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Music lessons and instruments can be very expensive, and it can prove an obstacle for children who want to learn music. This summer, The Salvation Army music program will accept 25 students, that’s 10 more students than last year. The Salvation Army is requesting instrument donations: cornet, trumpet, baritone, alto
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Good morning! Drier air will start to work its way back to the borderland; expect dry and seasonally warm daytime temperatures. Temperatures will slowly start to warm up over the next 7 days. Some areas will see afternoon temperatures rise into the upper 90s. There will be another round of thunderstorms in areas east of
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New York City’s mayor is urging residents to limit their outdoor activities as smoke from Canadian wildfires smothers the region. CNN’s Laura Aguirre reports on the air pollution warnings.
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By John Allen, Valentina Di Donato and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis underwent a successful, three-hour operation on his abdomen, the Vatican said Wednesday, after renewed fears over the 86-year-old’s fragile health. There were no reported complications, the Vatican said. It had earlier said the pope would remain in the hospital for
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EDsmart has developed a list of 10 schools with the largest share of students enrolled in STEM programs, using 2020 College Scorecard enrollment data.
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The 74 analyzed declining enrollment in schools based on figures from Burbio and additional data from the nation’s 20 largest school systems.
Continue Reading By Josh Pennington, Jo Shelley, Olga Voitovych, Julia Kesaieva and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has sparked fears of an ecological catastrophe, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describing the situation as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction.” Water levels on Wednesday continued to rise after
Continue Reading By Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — A teenage girl is stabbed and bludgeoned to death as members of the public walk by. An even younger girl suffers a similar fate, allegedly at the hands of her own father because she and her mother wanted to sleep on the patio. These two horrifying events took place
Continue Reading By Bertha Ramos, CNN (CNN) — Human remains found in 45 bags discovered in a suburb of Guadalajara belong to call center workers who went missing in May, Mexican authorities have confirmed. The Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) said Tuesday its tests had confirmed the remains belonged to the missing workers and said the
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Numerous showers and storms rolled across El Paso Tuesday evening. Many reports of heavy rain and hail, especially across the Lower Valley and parts of the east side of El Paso. The winds also became a concern, with gusts reported just over 60 mph. We received various reports of hail and wind damage along with
Continue Reading By Carlotta Dotto, Krystina Shveda and Lou Robinson, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Every day, countless mopeds criss-cross the congested city of Hanoi, in Vietnam, with commuters traveling to work or motorbike taxis dropping off everything from parcels to cooked food and clients. One of them is Phong, 42, who starts his shift at 5
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(KVIA) — ABC-7 viewers have been sending in images and videos of hail and rain falling in El Paso and Las Cruces. The severe storm moved out of El Paso and Las Cruces quickly. The storm then moved east. The night and next morning were comparatively peaceful.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A driver is dead after police say he tried to fight another person in his car before falling into traffic on I-10. The dead person, identified only as a 29-year-old Hispanic man, was driving along I-10 going westbound when he struck the center median several times near the Reynolds exit.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Crimes Against Persons investigators are looking into a shooting on the corner of Doniphan and Montoya in the Upper Valley, a few blocks south of Artcraft. Police officials tell ABC-7 one person was rushed to the hospital. Their condition is unknown. Police have not yet said if any arrests have
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to the El Paso Electric outage map, there is a power outage impacting more than 1,000 houses in the Lower Valley, near the border with Santa Teresa. The largest is just below Franklin High School, impacting nearly 3,000 houses. Another outage is impacting more than 200 houses along the
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The gun violence epidemic in the United States was deadlier than ever in 2021, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Both gun-related homicides and suicides reached record levels in 2021, leading to nearly 49,000 total firearm deaths. Firearm-related deaths soared during
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Markina Tarasova, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — Nadejda Chernishova breathes a sigh of relief as she steps off a rubber dinghy, moments after being rescued from her flooded home in Kherson. “I’m not afraid now, but it was scary in my home,” the 65-year-old retiree said.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Disney On Ice will be back at the El Paso County Coliseum this year, and the experience promises to be the most interactive ever. Organizers say families will be invited to “step inside the magical adventures of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen,” and Encanto. Audiences will sing-along to favorite songs
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(Courtesy: UTEP Athletics) EL PASO, Texas – Jakub Belik (high jump), Victor Kibiego (3000m steeplechase), Arianne Morais (javelin), Marissa Simpson (100m H), and Roosa Yloenen (javelin) will represent UTEP at the 2023 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field National Championships hosted by Texas at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin on June 7-10. Competition
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County will receive $28 million from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to improve water access in Montana Vista. The colonia has lacked consistent, safe water access since its establishment. The money from TWDB allows officials to plan, acquire, design, and construct water and wastewater system projects. The
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(CNN) — A grand jury based in southern Florida has heard testimony from multiple witnesses in recent weeks as part of the federal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, sources told CNN. This story is breaking and will be updated.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — City of El Paso District 3 City Representative Cassandra Hernandez accounted for nearly 40% of the gasoline purchased using taxpayer-funded cards by El Paso City Council and the Mayor’s Office from January 1, 2023 through April 30, 2023, according to an internal audit. The audit states Hernandez’s usage during this
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AUSTIN, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill that aims to improve public safety. Lawmakers passed the bill during the 88th regular legislative session, which ended last month. It is one of many measures passed and signed in the days after the regular session. Abbott called a special session to finish
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 captured images of a sculpture lying in the median of Airway Boulevard Tuesday. The City of El Paso tells us that the cause of the damage is still under investigation, although they believe a car could have crashed into the sculpture either Thursday or Friday. City officials say they
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Astrud Gilberto gained international fame in the 1960s with her bossa nova hit. The Brazilian singer was reportedly 83.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — La Semilla Food Center built a brand new garden for the students at Monte Vista Elementary School in Las Cruces. The area on campus allows students to get their hands dirty planting, shoveling, and watering the plants. Students listen to a gardener with the La Semilla Food Center Experts
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By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News June 5, 2023 “Without access to water lines, Texas colonias residents are pulling water from the desert air” 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 statewide issues. Sign up
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope set its sights on a galaxy 20 million light-years away, capturing a dazzling star-forming galaxy in images streaked with the signature of passing asteroids. A bright band in the upper left corner of the images shows the bright, bar-shaped center of the galaxy, according
Continue Reading By Chris Liakos, Tara John, Michael Conte and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — An Air India flight from India to San Francisco was diverted due to a technical issue with one of the plane’s engines and has landed safely in Russia’s Magadan airport, in the country’s far east, according to a statement from the carrier.
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