EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Fire Department officials say three girls have now been charged with arson after a fire at Pebble Hills Elementary. Four girls were taken into custody, they were charged with burglary of a building. Police say they caused $100,000 in damage at Glen Cove Elementary School and Pebble Hills Elementary
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EL PASO, Texas – Arturo Hernandez of Vinton was arrested and charged with injury to a child by the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called out to the 200 block of Holguin on a family violence call on Saturday, Feb. 5. Deputies say a preliminary investigation revealed Hernandez had intentionally struck a one-year-old
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By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press The U.S. Air Force has been ordered to pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families for a deadly shooting at a Texas church. The ruling comes from a Texas federal judge who earlier decided that the Air Force was liable for the massacre carried out
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UPDATE: El Paso police say an 18-year-old and 30-year-old man were injured after their car was shot at this morning after leaving a “gentleman’s club” in east El Paso. Three other men were in the car. The three others were not injured according to police. The victims’ injuries are described as non-life-threatening. Police say all
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EL PASO, Texas — One person was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after they were assaulted in south central El Paso. Police say it happened just after midnight at the corner of Texas avenue and Brown street. Dispatch told ABC-7 that one person has been arrested in connection to the assault. We’re still
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EL PASO, Texas — The FBI of El Paso warns the public of an increase in kidnapping and virtual kidnapping extortion. According to the FBI El Paso Field Office, they continue to see an increase in these crimes over the last year. The agency is offering advice so that El Pasoans do not fall victim
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Two Barrio Azteca gang members were found guilty in the 2010 murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband, and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee. A federal jury in El Paso convicted Jose Guadalupe Diaz Diaz, 43, and Martin Artin Perez Marrufo, 54, of the murders. Both men are
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has announced the creation of a new Cyber Safety Review Board that will have public and private sector experts examine significant hacking incidents and recommend improvements. The new board is modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, which reviews plane crashes and other major accidents, and was
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The FBI has identified people suspected of making bomb threats this week directed at historically Black colleges and universities — which the bureau is investigating as hate crimes, a law enforcement official said. No arrests have been made, the official said. At least 14 HBCUs reported bomb threats
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police say two officers encountered a ‘violent confrontation’ when a man approached their patrol car, which was stopped at a south-central El Paso intersection. Police say Darnell Lenard Smith walked into the intersection at 100 Noble and began yelling profanities at the officers from the patrol car’s passenger side.
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EL PASO, Texas– You may not have known it, but for the last couple of months gunshots sensors have been an extra set of ears for the El Paso Police Department, allowing them to respond faster to these calls. The city got these sensors last year from a company called ShotSpotter, joining a list of
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Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The first surprise for a pair of suburban homeowners in New Mexico was finding an armed burglar in their house. The second was that he apologized, and gave them $200 before fleeing the area. A Santa Fe County Sheriff’s report says the man left the money for a
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police say they have taken four juveniles into custody after they caused about $100,000 in damage at two elementary schools. According to police, officers were first called out Sunday at 6:50 p.m. in response to a business burglary. Investigators say they would later learn four juveniles had entered two
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have had to lock down or postpone classes due to bomb threats on the first day of Black History Month. At least 14 HBCUs reported bomb threats Tuesday. At least one of them, Howard University, also
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, CNN In what would be his last moments, the 12-year veteran deputy constable sat in his squad car minutes after midnight as the driver’s door of the car ahead of him opened. Cpl. Charles Galloway had just made the traffic stop and was trying to contact a dispatcher when a man got
Continue Reading By Stella Chan, CNN A captain in the Stockton, California, fire department has died after a man shot him at the scene of a fire, officials announced at a news conference Monday. Capt. Max Fortuna and other firefighters responded to a dumpster fire early Monday, Stockton Fire Department Chief Rick Edwards said. The Engine 2
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso man has been arrested for animal cruelty. According to police, 34-year-old Roland Heras was seen dragging and kicking a Husky near a Circle K in northeast El Paso on Jan. 13. Police arrested Heras on Jan. 26. He has been booked on a $3,000 bond. Police say Heras
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Angela Barajas and Melissa Alonso, CNN A federal judge Monday rejected the plea deal reached by prosecutors and Travis McMichael on hate crime charges, an agreement that would have precluded his federal trial in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. Earlier, McMichael had agreed to plead guilty to a single hate crime charge —
Continue Reading CNN By Whitney Wild, Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drove within several yards of a pipe bomb lying next to a bench outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 6, 2021, and remained inside the DNC for nearly two hours before the bomb was discovered, according to multiple law
Continue Reading By Sarah Fortinsky and Kelly Murray, CNN The Washington Metropolitan Police Department and Amtrak Police announced Saturday the arrest of a man for allegedly spray-painting swastikas on columns at Union Station and for defacing three other buildings. Police say the vandalism occurred Friday, a day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For the graffiti at Union
Continue Reading Every 8 minutes someone dies from an accidental drug overdose. Most of the time, it’s from fentanyl.
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EL PASO, Texas-The bodies of four women found in Juarez inside plastic bags raises concerns about a possible uptick in violence against women in Juarez. Two of those women were found dismembered inside those plastic bags. They were a married lesbian couple with children. Chihuahua and Juarez officials find these and other crimes so alarming
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Chauhtemoc Sanchez Espinoza, 40, is accused in the murder of a 78-year-old man. UPDATE #1, JAN. 29: Deputies arrested a man Saturday in connection with the murder of a 78-year-old man in a Socorro grocery store parking lot. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office arrested 40-year-old Chauhtemoc Sanchez Espinoza in connection with the deadly attack
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A shooting at a trailer park in south central Las Cruces left one man dead and another person injured on Saturday, police confirm. Det. Frank Torres told ABC-7 that a call came in at 11:20 a.m. Saturday morning about a shooting at the Las Brisas trailer park on Turquoise Avenue
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Joe Exotic, of Netflix’s “Tiger King” fame, aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, has had his sentence in the murder-for-hire plot reduced by one year to 21 years, according to the courtroom sentencing sheet from the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma – Oklahoma City. “We are unsatisfied with the
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, CNN Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who was allegedly defrauded by Michael Avenatti, testified Thursday in federal court as part of the criminal trial against the celebrity attorney. Daniels testified that Avenatti said he was going to get “a big payday” from winning her lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump and a
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UPDATE #3: – The person suspected of shooting three Houston officers has been arrested, police said Thursday night. UPDATE #2: Police are talking to a suspect who is holed up in an apartment complex according to ABC-13 in Houston. The television station is reporting they understand the suspect has been shot, but do not know
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EL PASO, Texas — Two separate seizures of pork bologna at two El Paso ports of entry netted 243 pounds of processed meat. The unrelated discoveries were made at the Paso Del Norte and Ysleta ports of entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists say one incident happened on Jan. 13. Officials say a 40-year-old
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s office has turned off public comments on its social media posts because too many people are reporting crimes there rather than calling 911 or submitting tips through the agency’s website. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office has for years maintained popular accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts, CNN An Oklahoma death row inmate who had requested execution by firing squad was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, according to the state Department of Corrections. The execution of Donald Grant “was carried out with zero complications” at 10:16 a.m., state Attorney General John O’Connor said in a statement. In October
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