CNN By Evan Perez, Kylie Atwood, Sean Lyngaas and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The United States’ pursuit of Julian Assange for leaking state secrets has played out for more than a decade in courtrooms and government offices across the world, from Washington, DC, to London to Stockholm and Quito, Ecuador. But on Wednesday it
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Update: The estimated number of impacted customers had dropped to 453. LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — There is a power outage impacting about 2,400 people in Las Cruces right now. The current listed fix time is 6:45 PM. Courtesy: El Paso Electric ABC-7 will provide more information as it becomes available.
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RUIDOSO, NM (KVIA) — Scores of business owners have lost thousands of dollars since the Wildfires began in the region in and around Ruidoso. Michael Free, owner of “Free Designs”, along Highway 70 in Ruidoso, has been cutting his wooden art that reflects elements of the forest for decades. However, he’s literally gone a week without
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A 2-year-old Las Cruces boy drowned in a backyard swimming pool Monday evening. That is according to Las Cruces Police. Investigators are still looking into the drowning to determine the circumstances that led up to the boy’s death. Police say officers and fire personnel were called out to a
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said today an El Paso man is accused of homicide for causing a crash that killed. He is 45-year-old Henry Raygoza. Our news partners at Channel 44 obtained security video that shows the crash. Investigators say he was driving a black Jeep. It rear-ended a Honda,
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Update: New Mexico State Police identify the pilot at Alberto Lozano, 28, of Las Cruces. Update: The pilot is dead. He or she was believed to be the plane’s sole occupant. The crash was reported about 2 PM. CHAMBERINO, New Mexico (KVIA) — A plane crashed on the mesa west of Chamberino, New Mexico this
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Eli-Sha Upshaw will receive 4.5 years of supervised probation, and Jonathan Smith will receive 3 years of supervised probation, for their involvement in a 2022 attack on the University of New Mexico campus, prosecutors announced today. “In 2022, Smith, Upshaw, and Brandon Travis planned to jump NMSU basketball player Mike
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CNN By Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material, as part of a deal with the Justice Department that will allow him to avoid imprisonment
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Very hot temperatures along with added humidity is providing the ingredients for a rough time to be outdoors. Temperatures should just be shy of any record highs but it will certainly feel hotter with the humidity. Storms that do fire up tonight will be more isolated. I do expect more widespread activity on Wednesday and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino will make an appearance at this year’s Plaza Classic Film Festival. Sorvino will appear at the screening of Mighty Aphrodite at 7:00 PM Friday, July 19 and at the screening of Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion at 3:30 pm Saturday, July 20, 2024. Sorvino
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Associated Press The number of residents still unaccounted for has been shrinking significantly after thousands of people fled their homes as two fast-moving wildfires approached their village in southern New Mexico, Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford said Tuesday. Search and rescue crews have cleared more properties in the areas of Ruidoso, the mountain community hardest hit
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KTVT, CARLA GATES, CNN By Brooke Rogers Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — The widow of a Dallas postal worker who died of a heat-related illness said that the U.S. Postal Service is not doing enough to keep workers safe. Eugene Gates Jr. collapsed last year while delivering mail on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — One of the largest homeless shelters in El Paso is expanding its services, as well as structurally at one of its locations in South-Central El Paso. The expansion “includes four large projects,” according to Deputy Director for the center, John Martin. Projects The first project the center is currently working
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) –You’re likely looking forward to the colorful firework displays that will ignite the sky this Independence Day. Fireworks are banned within El Paso city limits and partially banned in El Paso county, but Doña Ana County and Las Cruces are dealing with different restrictions. “Usually a firework ban is triggered by extreme drought
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In 2017, 23-year-old Tyler Croke was ambushed in a friend’s East El Paso apartment, and was stabbed repeatedly. On May 17, 2024, Adam Acosta, Tristan Chilton, and Brandon Olsen pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of murder in connection to Croke’s death as part of a plea deal. That is when Croke’s family
Continue Reading CNN, NBC, POOL, 10TH ST PROD, GETTY IMAGES, BIDEN CAMPAIGN By CNN staff (CNN) — A historic showdown between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is set for Thursday on CNN when the presumptive major party nominees meet for their first debate this election cycle. The debate will be the earliest such event
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WWAY, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Rebekah Riess and Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — A 14-year-old boy is recovering at Camp Lejune Naval Hospital after being bitten in the leg by a shark off North Carolina on Sunday, according to the North Topsail Beach Chief of Police William Younginer. Police officers and EMS were already on
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El Paso, TX (KVIA-TX)- As we watched the natural disaster unfold in Ruidoso last week, we all wanted to help the small community that had been ravaged by fire. As we watched the news, so did criminals, who will not hesitate to exploit you and others who want to help those who need help in
Continue Reading CNN By Abdel Qadder Sabbah, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Tareq El Helou, Kareem Khadder, Sana Noor Haq, Paula Hancocks, Jo Shelley and Byron Blunt, CNN (CNN) — Younis lays disorientated on a green mattress in Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza. His long brown eyelashes rest delicately on his pale sunken face, as he drifts in and out
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Update (June 25, 2024): A Sunland Park Fire spokesperson says the department helped recover a third body in less than 24 hours. @SunlandParkFire assisted Border Patrol, DASO, and OMI with a body recovery in the desert northwest of 1000 Camino Real Ave. Time out: 1323 pic.twitter.com/eiT6Gcsup1— Sunland Park Fire (@SunlandParkFire) June 25, 2024 This body
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince,
Continue Reading SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — An Alabama man accused in a string of killings in Oklahoma and Alabama has pleaded not guilty to two Oklahoma killings. KHBS-TV reports that the pleas were entered Monday on behalf of 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake at a court appearance in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. He faces two charges of enhanced murder. Relatives
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court has upheld a sentence of two years in prison for an elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority. The move on Tuesday is expected to further exacerbate tension with neighboring Greece. Dhionisios Alfred Beleris was imprisoned in March after he was convicted
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WABC, WCBS, CNN By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Rocklin, California (CNN) — When I visited Rocklin Elementary school, I sat in on a lesson with a third-grade class – a lesson I would never have imagined as a father, a journalist or a trauma surgeon. “Chances are, you’re never ever going to have to use this.
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spain will temporarily eliminate the sales tax on olive oil to help consumers cope with skyrocketing prices, the government said Tuesday. Spain is the world’s leading producer and exporter of olive oil, but its cost for domestic consumers has risen dramatically due to global inflationary pressures and a prolonged drought that decimated
Continue Reading Originally Published: 24 JUN 24 11:00 ET By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A new ketamine pill may help hard-to-treat depression with fewer side effects than other forms of the treatment, early research suggests. Technically, no form of ketamine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat any psychiatric disorder, including depression.
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Originally Published: 24 JUN 24 12:53 ET Updated: 24 JUN 24 13:24 ET By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are on set for “Freaky Friday 2.” The two are reprising their roles of mother and daughter Anna and Tess Coleman, although the plot is mostly being kept under wraps. Disney did reveal
Continue Reading By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — He emerged on the information security scene in the 1990s as a “famous teenage hacker” following what he called an “ itinerant minstrel childhood” beginning in Townsville, Australia. But the story of Julian Assange, eccentric founder of secret-spilling website WikiLeaks, never became
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has welcomed the Japanese emperor and empress for a state visit offering the best in pomp and circumstance. The U.K. seeks to bolster its role as the most influential European nation in the Indo-Pacific region. Both countries look to each other as a source
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