ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — El Paso mother of five Megan von Prittwitz was eight months pregnant when she was airlifted to an Albuquerque hospital with Covid-related pneumonia. In order to get a life save treatment, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, the doctors needed to delivery the baby early. Von Prittwitz, who was sedated at the time and
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ELEPHANT BUTTE, New Mexico — Millions of gallons of water were released from the Caballo Lake Reservoir on Monday. Soon, farmers across the Borderland will begin receiving water for irrigation. The Elephant Butte Irrigation District started releasing the water at 6 a.m. at 600 cubic feet per second. By 8:30 a.m., the water was gushing
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate has approved a bill to cap the cost of insulin copays at $25. The bill would reduce and cap the cost of insulin co-pays for each prescription per month for insured Texans on state-regulated health plans. Sen. César Blanco joint authored the bipartisan bill Senate Bill 827 by Chair of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — For the first time, students 12 years or older received their vaccination in the Las Cruces Public School District on Wednesday. Interim LCPS Superintendent Ralph Ramos told ABC-7 that there were 475 students who got their shots. “I feel like everyone could take the vaccine so we can just get
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EL PASO, Texas — The Socorro Independent School District discussed a number of key items during a school board meeting Tuesday night, but took no action. Those discussions included developing the plan for the 2021/2022 school year amid the decline for Covid cases in the Borderland and vaccination for school-aged kids. Another item up for
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EL PASO, Texas — For the past month, Juan Delgado from El Paso’s Sunset Heights noticed his recycling bin and his trash bin were being dumped in the same trash truck. Another resident in the same westside neighborhood caught his recycling bins being dumped into the trash truck on camera. Delgado told ABC-7 he decided
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El PASO, Texas — An exiting day for the El Paso Children’s hospital after receiving a $100,000 donation from the Kickpin Foundation. The name might sound familiar. Drew and Jamie Frank opening up the sneaker shop in 2017 as teenagers. Since then, the business has thrived and the brothers have been able to give back
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EL PASO, Texas — Home valuations are expected to increase this year and the more your house is valued, the more property taxes you have to pay. El Pasoans do have an opportunity to protest the valuation. The Central Appraisal District said you can protest if the market value is incorrect, property is not appraised
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UPDATE, May 6: Socorro Independent School District Superintendent Jose Espinoza, who resigned from his post at a school board meeting Wednesday night, is being paid $629,308 to depart. That’s according to a copy of his separation agreement with the school district, which was obtained Thursday by ABC-7. The payout reflected in the agreement is the
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EL PASO, Texas — Nestled inside a quiet westside El Paso neighborhood, you’ll find an Alzheimer’s facility transformed into a facility for migrant girls. The facility, called Casa Mariposa, is empty now, but is expected to begin receiving girls sometime this month, according to Krista Piferrer of the non-profit operator BCFS Health and Human Services.
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CLINT, Texas — The Clint Independent School District held a memorial for Leobardo Soria, a security guard at Carroll T. Welch Elementary school, and his wife Rosie on Tuesday evening. Leo and Rosie died after losing the fight to Covid-19 in 2020. ABC-7 has been following their story since last year after their daughter, Bonnie
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to county judges across Texas on Monday requesting that they send his office an estimate of the fiscal impact of the current “border crisis” on their respective communities. According to a statement from Abbott’s office, “The State of Texas will use this information to formally request
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LORDSBURG, New Mexico – For the second time in a week, U.S. Border Patrol agents said they had to rescue a migrant child abandoned in the southern New Mexico desert. After the recent discovery of two young girls dropped over the border wall near Santa Teresa, the latest incident disclosed Wednesday involved an 8-year-old boy
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EL PASO, Texas — Gun sales have soared during the past year and now Borderland gun shops report seeing a shortage of ammunition. Data shows merchants nationwide sold more than 2 million firearms in January of this year, a 75% increase over the estimated 1.2 million guns sold in January of 2020. And since a
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EL PASO, Texas — At a joint news conference Monday, Mayor Oscar Leeser and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego touted El Paso’s progress with declining Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations along with increasing success with vaccination distribution. Samaniego discussed “the increment of the vaccines in our community and some of the rural (distribution) efforts that (we’ve) been
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EL PASO, Texas — With the recent increase of migrants and unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S., new migrant facilities are opening up in El Paso. The site on Fort Bliss is the most recent migrant facility to open up, receiving 500 teen boys between ages 13 to 17 on Tuesday,
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — On Tuesday, 500 unaccompanied boys arrived at the migrant facility on Fort Bliss, according to officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The facility has the potential capacity of 5,000 beds and will hold boys ages 13 to 17. The facility is located inside the Fort Bliss grounds
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EL PASO, Texas — Spring break 2020 was an uncertain time. The virus had made its way to El Paso and teachers and students had no idea if they would return once spring break was over. They didn’t. It’s been nearly a year of remote learning and some are starting to feel fatgued. Roger Isaac,
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar on Monday sparred with Republican U.S. House leaders in dueling news conferences after the GOP toured the Texas-Mexico border in El Paso and labeled the current immigration situation “a crisis.” U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy led the 13-member congressional delegation’s visit. Those Republicans claim
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday that school and child care personnel are now eligible to be vaccinated against coronavirus. According to DSHS, they received a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directing it to expand eligibility to include people who work in school and
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that mandated virus restrictions will be lifted starting March 10, at which time it’ll be up to businesses to decide if they want to keep those restrictions in place. The owner of Pour Judgement bar in central is El Paso told ABC-7 he is excited
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EL PASO, Texas — Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization for the new Johnson and Johnson one-dose coronavirus vaccine. Distribution for millions of initial J&J vaccine doses began nationwide Monday. But El Paso city and county officials told ABC-7 they have not yet received any information about when they
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EL PASO, Texas — On Tuesday evening, the Texas Dept. of Transportation uploaded a virtual presentation on the several options they are considering for the final plans of the Re-imagine I-10 project in El Paso. Tuesday’s upload comes after TxDOT received more than 100 comments on their first draft presented to the public in 2019.
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EL PASO, Texas — The Kemp Smith law office has drafted a letter to downtown El Paso property owners, who are located in a proposed historic district, accusing El Paso County of not being transparent with the public in their efforts to create the historic district. The letter states, “the County, or some of its
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico – A U.S. Border Patrol agent who rescued two migrants who were stranded in the snow near the Santa Teresa airport earlier this week said Wednesday that he was “amazed” they survived. The couple called 911 saying they were dying and needed help. “It’s really cold. Our feet and — my
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CIUDAD JURAEZ, Mexico — Juarez has seen rolling electrical blackouts since the winter storm hit and those continued into Tuesday. As of late Monday night, 87 percent of residents, or 1.2 million people, had been affected by the power outages. Juraez resident Sandy Hernandez told ABC-7 that her electricity has been on again, off again.
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EL PASO, Texas — A winter storm rolled through the Borderland Sunday bringing snow and freezing temperatures into Monday. Around El Paso, pets were left outside to freeze causing Animal Services to issue 70 citations, according to a spokesperson. Animal Services had 15 animal protections officers roaming the street and responding to calls Sunday and
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EL PASO, Texas — In the past two weeks, one person has been shot and killed in the Cincinnati Entertainment District and another was stabbed multiple times and critically wounded. Now, residents in the area are asking for more security following the attacks. Fort Bliss on Tuesday confirmed the stabbing victim was a Army sergeant
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It’s still unclear what the learning hybrid model will look like for the Las Cruces Public School district. Tuesday night, the school board voted to have the administration provide a plan that would allow for more face-to-face instruction following state guidelines to begin Feb. 22. That plan will be presented
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UPDATE, Feb. 9: A legal group calling itself ‘New Mexico Stand Up’ threatened a lawsuit Tuesday against Dona Ana County in the wake of a mandate by the county manager requiring that all first-responders get vaccinated for the coronavirus. In a letter sent to the county, lawyers for the group claim the employment requirement for
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