CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Dozens of street vendors who rely on International Bridge traffic between El Paso and Juarez have lost their source of income and been forced to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic and economic freeze. The lack of international traffic comes after the mayors of both cities issued stay-at-home orders Juarez
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EL PASO, Texas — Elementary school students within the El Paso Independent School district who don’t have a reliable computer at home started being issued iPads Thursday, ahead of home learning beginning Monday. EPISD@Home starts on Monday and every child is going to need a way to connect to their online classes as schools remain
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EL PASO, Texas — Student athletes from Montwood High School had to return to El Paso from out of town tournaments after the Socorro Independent School District banned all school travel outside the region. For the Montwood baseball team this meant losing their last chance to go all out in Lubbock. “People work hard. They
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EL PASO, Texas — With a roar and cheers Monster Jam took over the Sun Bowl Saturday. It comes back year after year and for some families it’s an important tradition. Some are just starting out. “Every day they watch this on YouTube. I guess all they want to do are monster trucks,” said Demetri
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EL PASO. Texas — El Paso International Airport is continuing with cleanliness guidelines and travelers are taking extra precautions amidst coronavirus concerns. An airport staffer told ABC-7 they have seen a lot less traffic in recent weeks, and an official representative said they follow the same cleaning schedule no matter what. “Every day of the
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EL PASO, Texas — Residents in one east-side El Paso neighborhood can now drive out of their homes after torrential rains left them boxed in with a partially destroyed street. An El Paso Water utility project along Sam Snead Drive was washed away in Tuesday’s torrential rains. The rain eroded the dirt around one water
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EL PASO, Texas — The coronavirus, although not physically present along the U.S.-Mexico border, is starting to affect the intricate chain that manufacturing supplies follow from China to North America according to stakeholders at the Sister Cities Summit in El Paso on Thursday. “It’s starting to show an effect on “Right on Time” deliveries, which seems
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — One Saturday morning, Liliana Muñoz Puente of Juarez was with her aunt shopping at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart, buying school supplies for her son. That Saturday morning was last Aug. 3. Muñoz Puente spoke to local documentarian Charlie Minn about what she went through. She was leaving the store when she saw the shooter.
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Soldiers at Ft. Bliss are going through some grueling training and braving the heat of the kitchen. A local team is getting ready for the by the Army in Virginia and they’re not just making prepared field meals. The Ft. Bliss Culinary team are preparing to go head to head against
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Census Bureau is leading efforts to make sure El Paso’s immigrant populations is properly counted in 2020 after worries a now-defunct citizenship question would scare people away from the survey. The 2020 census is starting in March and is used to determine how much federal funds El Paso gets
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SOCORRO, Texas — Three-year-olds will have access to full pre-kindergarten free of cost starting in the fall of 2020 with the Socorro Independent School District after a recent district policy expansion. Parents of children who turn three or four years old by September 1, 2020 will be able to enroll their kids in the expanded
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EL PASO, Texas — An iconic El Paso flea market is working to re-open this coming weekend after code violations forced it to shut down for repairs. A City of El Paso spokesperson told ABC-7 that El Bronco Swap Meet in the Lower Valley was found to have several code violations, with fire hazards being
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EL PASO, Texas – With more than 1,000 runners from outside the borderland set to run in Sunday’s El Paso Marathon, businesses are taking advantage of the economic boost. More than 4,000 runners are going to hit the pavement Sunday morning for the 14th year in a row. About 30 percent of them from out
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso police narcotics detective killed in an Arizona car crash earlier this week was given a final farewell by law enforcement and military colleagues in two states on Friday. 51-year-old Richard Allbee was a 19-year veteran of the El Paso Police Department and a retired command sergeant major with
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EL PASO, Texas — The future of Texas politics lies in the hands of minority voters, according to Democrat efforts and the Republican lieutenant governor. El Paso’s Beto O’Rourke declaring his goal to make the Texas house blue, but no luck on the first race he helped in. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick visiting El Paso
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El Pasoans remembered and celebrated Black History Month Saturday in Central El Paso where they had the chance to learn more about what black people have gone through in the Sun City. Black El Pasoans used to be segregated. One of the first black physicians in El Paso, Dr. Lawrence Nixon was not allowed to
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EL PASO, Texas — Billionaire and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg courted Latino voters in an El Paso campaign visit Wednesday night, the only remaining hopeful to visit the city. Bloomberg has focused his Democratic presidential campaign on Super Tuesday states like Texas and California, where primaries across the country assign the majority of
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FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico — Violent clashes have broken out in Mexico between migrants and military forces after a caravan headed north from Central America met the Mexican National Guard at the same time the U.S. government is looking to strengthen immigration enforcement in Latin America. Mexican National Guard troops were recorded forming a shield wall
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EL PASO, Texas — Flu cases in El Paso have skyrocketed with nearly 2,000 more this season compared to this time last year and nearly double the number of Socorro Independent School District students have been missing class. El Paso saw 2,946 flu cases last flu season, October 2018-January 2019, and has had 5,059 reported
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Bridging the gap between migrants and attorneys, a new program called Puentes Libres is using laptops to let lawyers from around the country video chat with clients told to wait in Mexico for their U.S. asylum cases to be processed. Judges themselves have told migrants that asylum cases without an attorney
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GUAYANILLA, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico has been facing a series of earthquakes every couple of days for more than two weeks already. Millions have ended up without electricity. “It was pandemonium. It fells like the world is collapsing around you,” said Ivonne Santiago, a civil engineering professor at UTEP who is in Puerto Rico.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obador visited Juarez on Friday, holding a press conference at a military garrison, discussing how security is an ongoing problem in the state of Chihuahua after Juarez had its fourth deadliest year in history. Crime data shows femicide – the systemic killings of women because of
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives committee on Mass Violence Prevention and Community Safety heard public testimony Thursday at UTEP from people directly impacted by the mass shooting that occurred in El Paso on Aug. 3 as they looked to try to prevent future incidents. At the hearing, doctors also spoke to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Brannden Fernandez has a heart that’s too big for his body. His family always knew it would have to be replaced but that time came faster than expected. He’s 16 years old and waiting for a heart transplant. Last October Brannden Fernandez’ enlarged heart made his blood pressure in his
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EL PASO, Texas — Two of the 100 worst congested roads in Texas are located here in El Paso. According to the annual study released by the Texas A&M transportation institute, some of the heaviest El Paso commute congestion is on Mesa Street between Executive Center Blvd. and downtown. There’s an average five minute delay
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — The leader of an armed civilian group that had been stopping undocumented migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in early 2019 pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges on Thursday. Larry Hopkins, 70, was arrested last April by the FBI in Sunland Park and charged in federal court with being a felon in
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A group of Central American migrants is under quarantine in a Juarez shelter after a chickenpox outbreak. The shelter itself has now opened its doors. Nearly 800 migrants are housed in the Leona Vicario shelter, where the Mexican federal government cares for Central American asylum seekers sent back by the US to wait in Mexico.
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EL PASO, Texas — Parents at an elementary school were attending a Christmas program Tuesday evening when suddenly law enforcement swarmed the school. Parents told ABC-7 that they were in line to enter the Christmas program at Marion Manor when suddenly a small group of migrants ran into the school with Border Patrol agents chasing
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A dog with a mutilated leg that was abandoned at the Mesilla Valley Animal Services earlier this week is now in better condition after animal rescue volunteers took the dog to a veterinary hospital. Murphy the dog was left by a black-clad individual in horrific condition Tuesday evening at the door to
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EL PASO, Texas — Police on Thursday had not yet found a body in their murder investigation into missing mother, 29-year-old Erika Gaytán, but investigators do have an idea of where she might be. Police arrested 28-year-old Ricardo Marquez on Wednesday, accusing him of murdering Gaytan after a concert date July 13. Gaytán went missing
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