EL PASO, TX – For nearly six years, defense attorney Joe Spencer stood at the legal front lines of one of America’s deadliest mass shooting cases. Representing Patrick Crusius, the gunman behind the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting, has placed Spencer in the eye of a legal and ethical storm. “I have a moral and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Today is National Superhero Day — and while you might not see capes flying across El Paso’s highways, there’s a team working hard behind the scenes to keep drivers safe. The Highway Emergency Response Operator (HERO) program, launched in June 2020 by TxDOT’s El Paso District, is designed to improve
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As of Friday, April 25, the El Paso Department of Health has reported 22 confirmed cases of measles. Of all of the cases, only three are either partially or fully vaccinated. Sunday on ABC-7 Xtra, I sit down with El Paso Health Authority Doctor Hector Ocaranza and Doctor Ogechika Alozie,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — This week, victims of the August 3rd Walmart mass shooting and their families had the opportunity to directly address the shooter for the first time. ABC-7 livestreamed each impact statement in full live. Now, we have produced each statement as an archived video, in order to preserve the words of
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Late Pope Francis will always be remembered as the first Pope to visit the El Paso—Ciudad Juárez border region in 2016. Longtime priest in Juárez Father Javier Calvillo, told ABC-7, when Pope Francis came to Juárez, all he wanted to do was to be at the border wall and oversee
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Watch this edition of “What’s on Doppler’s Radar” above. This episode is all about this year’s irrigation outlook.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — You’ve probably received your letter from the El Paso Central Appraisal District regarding your home’s value. That valuation is what is used to help determine your property tax bill. For the fifth year in a row, property values have gone up in El Paso. According to data provided by the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An ABC-7 investigation has uncovered what’s being described in an investigative report as “inappropriate physical conduct linked to hazing” among teammates on the Franklin High School football team. The school launched its investigation in October 2024 after Franklin High School Principal Amanda Bowser received two anonymous letters alleging hazing was happening
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The state of Chihuahua’s health department released its latest confirmed measles cases, which are 417 and 17 new cases in the last 24 hours. Chihuahua shares border with Texas and New Mexico and is the state south of the border with the most confirmed cases across Mexico. In a news release,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- The Texas House is expected to vote today on a bill (Senate Bill 2) to create a $1 billion private school voucher program. It would create education savings accounts or vouchers. If passed the current bill could fund students’ tuition at private schools. Lawmakers say the bill would provide families over
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Last summer, the city of Socorro was dealing with an unwanted guest – the red flour beetle. The invasive pest, which lives in pecan shells, was making life miserable for both residents and business owners. Now, Socorro and El Paso County are taking measures to prevent a repeat infestation of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — California native, Malachi Nelson, came out of high school as a unanimous five-star recruit listed as the number one ranked recruit in the nation for ESPN. He also won back-to-back Gatorade California Player of the Year awards, which is a National award that’s only given to the most elite high
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service finalized an agreement Monday to provide sensitive taxpayer data to federal immigration authorities as part of President Donald Trump’s deportation push, according to court filings. On ABC-7 Xtra today, we explained how undocumented migrants are able to file taxes. According the
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LAS CRUCES, NM (KVIA) — Violent crime involving children and teens in New Mexico continues to grow, and Las Cruces is caught up in the trend. The most recent example is the mass shooting at Young Park on March 21st. A 20-year-old, two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old have all been indicted by a grand jury on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As consumers and companies in the United States and around the world brace for the impact of this most recent round of tariffs announced by the Trump administration, some may be left wondering how they work, and what this will mean. Simply put, a tariff is a tax placed on imported
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Retired Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston, who served as the 16th Sergeant Major of the Army from 2019 to 2023, became the first noncommissioned officer to lead Army Emergency Relief (AER) when he assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2024. Courtesy: Fort
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Buying a new car and getting your car fixed could get a bit pricier due to President Trump’s auto tariffs. On Wednesday, Trump said he is imposing 25% tariffs on car parts coming into the US, in addition to fully assembled vehicles. The tariffs on the vehicles are set to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — These continue to be challenging times for El Paso’s big three school districts – El Paso, Ysleta and Canutillo. Each are facing declining enrollment, rising costs due to inflation, student funding from the state that hasn’t increased since 2019, and multi-million dollar budget deficits. This week on ABC-7 Xtra Sunday,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– Today, ABC-7 conducted an interview with Joe Spencer the prominent attorney who represents Patrick Crusius. Crusius, the man who killed 23 people and injured 22 others in the August 3, 2019 mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart. We asked Spencer what his reaction was to the District Attorney no longer
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- The Canutillo ISD is reducing its nearly $6 million budget deficit by cutting workforce positions. It plans to lower the deficit from $5.8 million to $2.3 million by restructuring programs such as career and technical education, central office departments and library services. They aren’t the only school in the borderland facing
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– This month marks the somber fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic as it shut down the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. On March 13, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in El Paso. On March 14, 2020, schools
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Water is something we all take for granted. We open the tap, and there it is. But it’s the responsibility of El Paso Water to continually provide us with water that’s safe to use. However, with growing concerns about drought and whether there’s enough river water and ground water, what’s
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Washington Post is reporting the Trump Administration has plans for the Pentagon to have a buffer zone along the border including a section in southern New Mexico. This will allow U.S. Military personnel to temporarily hold migrants who cross the border illegally between ports of entry. “I can’t
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Mexican American Cultural Center is the last of the signature projects from the 2012 Quality of Life bond to be delivered, following the completion of the children’s museum La Nube and with any continuation of the Multipurpose Performing Arts and Entertainment Facility voted down last year. The MACC project has gone through several designs,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The FBI’s El Paso division conducted its annual weapons of mass destruction training exercise, testing key crisis response assets, including SWAT, evidence recovery, bomb technicians and crisis negotiations teams. Agents simulated a high-intensity hostage situation to test their response under real-world conditions. ABC-7’s Isabella Martinez was embedded in the
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ANTHONY, New Mexico (KVIA) — Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D – NM) was in the Borderland Tuesday for the ribbon cutting of a new wastewater treatment plant in Anthony – and to talk about the importance of federal funding of such projects. Afterwards, ABC-7’s Andrew J. Polk sat down with the senator for an exclusive
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso’s job market is always in flux. On Monday, Schneider Electric announced the addition of 300 new jobs, while federal contractor MVF said 247 El Pasoans will lose their jobs next week due to the end of a government contract. Sunday on ABC-7 Xtra, host Mark Ross welcomes Laila Melendez,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Retired El Paso Police Department detective John Guerrero was part of what became known the “Desert Deaths” task force organized in 1987 to at first investigate the disappearances – and then the murders – of girls and young women in northeast El Paso that year. “This girl is missing. That girl
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MERIDA, YUCATAN MEXICO- (KVIA) – Tonight’s ABC-7’s Listens deals with e-mail and social media reactions to KVIA story from Yucatan Peninsula & how Americans living in Mexico are reacting to tariffs that’ll affect -them- and their neighbors in Mexico. Tune in to ABC-7 at 10 pm tonight to see the ABC-7 Listen’s segment. ———– Scores
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