KENOSHA, Wisconsin — President Donald Trump toured damaged businesses and met with law enforcement in Kenosha on Tuesday after claiming that the city would have been “burned to the ground by now” had he not intervened, echoing what he says repeatedly on the campaign trail. According to a pool reporter traveling with Trump, the president
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DALLAS, Texas — Dallas police officers found the bodies of three people in an apartment Monday after a man reportedly called and said he had killed his wife and two children. Deputy Chief Reuben Ramirez said James Webb, 57, was taken into custody by officers who arrived at the scene after saying he had “killed
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ODESSA, Texas — Family members of two of the deceased Odessa mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages. The families of 15-year-old Leilah Hernandez and 40-year-old Joseph Griffin are filing a civil lawsuit against Anthony Braziel, from
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Police have arrested a second man and charged him in the kidnapping and beating of a Las Cruces woman. Jacob Gonzales, age 25, was arrested in El Paso. His arrest was announced Monday by Las Cruces Police. Gonzales is being charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault against a household member and
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — A woman who admitted embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from an Alamogordo business faces up to 18 years in prison when she is sentenced later this year, prosecutors announced. Jennifer Najar, 44, pleaded no contest to two felony counts of embezzlement of more than $20,000 at a hearing, according to
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jogging, witnesses said, as officers searched for a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call. Video of the incident posted to social media shows officers forcefully shoving the man into a police vehicle as he
Continue Reading Authorities have found 39 missing children in Georgia during a two-week effort to rescue endangered minors. The US Marshals Service Missing Child Unit led the search, dubbed “Operation Not Forgotten.” It collaborated with the agency’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state and local agencies. The operation
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NEWTON, Mississippi — A suspect in the March shooting deaths of three people, including a Fort Hood soldier, was arrested Friday in Mississippi, according to police in Texas. Officers with the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested the suspected man, identified as Barnard Lnell Morrow, in Newton, Killeen police said in a statement. Morrow,
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SAN ELIZARIO, Texas – El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man who abandoned a sick dog along the side of the road in San Elizario. Security cameras caught the man, in a dark-colored truck, abandon a white and brown female Bulldog which has medical issues including mammary tumors. The incident was referred
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Police are reminding east Las Cruces residents to lock their vehicles after surveillance video captured teenagers opening doors and stealing items inside the cars. The crimes happened in the early morning hours earlier this week off of Roadrunner Parkway, on Cheyenne and Stagecoach drives, according to police. “Ironically, some of
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RUIDOSO, New Mexico — A Ruidoso police detective is facing federal charges for allegedly sending child pornography by email, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico said Friday. The charges against Christopher Bryant, 46, of Ruidoso, come after he was recognized last year as a Law Enforcement Hero of Child Protection by a state agency.
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CISCO, Texas — A woman kidnapped in El Paso by alleged sex traffickers managed to escape when she jumped from an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rig in the north Texas community of Cisco, police said Thursday. The woman was found Wednesday night at a Flying J truck stop along Interstate 20 suffering serious injuries from the jump,
Continue Reading JUSTIN, Texas — Yaser Abdel Said, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, has been “taken into custody without incident today in Justin, TX,” according to a news release from the FBI Dallas Field Office. Said was placed on the list in December 2014 for the 2008 homicide of his daughters Amina and Sarah.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Historical Museum of Lawmen sat for over a decade just to the right of the front lobby at the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department on Motel Boulevard. The county had called it “the region’s only museum dedicated solely to law enforcement.” Now, however, the museum has been permanently closed
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EL PASO, Texas — Police were holding a woman after residents reported shots fired in a east El Paso neighborhood lat Wednesday afternoon. The call came in about 4:20 p.m. and neighbors said police responded in nearly a dozen squad cars. Neighbors told ABC-7 that a woman who lives in a home in the 10200
Continue Reading KENOSHA, Wisconsin — A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were shot to death during a third straight night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was taken into custody in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. Antioch
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Houston police early Wednesday fatally shot a man who opened fire on a car carrying three civilians and at a patrol vehicle, the police chief said. Chief Art Acevedo described the incident, which occurred about 4:30 a.m. in the Hyde Park section, as an active shooter situation. The male suspect shot about
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump highlighted the pardon of a Nevada man convicted of bank robbery as part of the second day of programming at the Republican National Convention. In a video that aired Tuesday evening, Trump says that the story of Jon Ponder is a “beautiful testament to the power of redemption.” Ponder
Continue Reading CORSICANA, Texas — Police took three teenage girls into custody after they were caught on video drinking from two separate juice bottles at a central Texas Walmart store and then returning the bottles to the shelf. The incident was reported late Sunday night, according to ABC affiliate KLTV. The bottles were removed from store shelves,
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso woman has been arrested and charged with possession of at least 400 grams of an unidentified illegal drug, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. Valerie Perez, age unknown, was arrested and charged with possession of a group 1 controlled substance. Under Texas law, that includes primarily
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — A man who drove his car through the front of a Walmart Supercenter in Truth or Consequences allegedly planned to burn it down, authorities said. Police said that after 35-year-old Devon Schinagel of Elephant Butte was taken in custody over the weekend, they learned he had poured lighter fluid
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EL PASO, Texas – A 25-year-old El Paso man has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash involving an all-terrain vehicle. El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested 25-year Erick Hernandez and he has been charged with accident involving death. Sheriff investigators say Hernandez was driving a pickup truck in the desert near
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EL PASO, Texas – A wanted fugitive has been arrested in connection with a 2015 fatal crash, officials with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Deputies received information about the location of 31-year-old Uriel Anchondo, they located him at a hotel along the 3600 block of Joe Battle Boulevard and arrested him. He
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — After breaking up a house party in Santa Teresa earlier this month, the Sunland Park Police Department is reminding residents to avoid large gatherings. “It is very important and we stress that as a community, we abide by state and local ordinances/orders,” the police department wrote on Facebook. Police charged
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man was rushed to the hospital after a Sunday shooting, according to the police department. Officers were dispatched to a report of a shooting on 1900 North Solano, which is the address of the Doña Ana Park Apartments. Police said the man had at least one gunshot
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Rangers are making history with three landmark promotions announced this week. After nearly 200 years, the Texas Department of Public Safety promoted their first female captains, Rangers Wende Wakeman and Melba Saenz. Ranger James Thomas was also promoted to the rank of captain, making him the first known Ranger in
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EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents thwarted a drug smuggling attempt Friday and seized illegal drugs with an estimated street value of about $270,000. An Ysleta Border Patrol agent conducting surveillance saw an individual approach the border fence shortly after midnight on Friday morning. Agents searched the area and found an abandoned plastic
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Las Cruces mother suspected of striking her two young children with a wire cord was arrested Thursday and charged with child abuse. Leonor E. Vasquez, 38, was arrested after her two children ran away and were quickly found by Las Cruces police. The children told police that they were
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, California — A former California police officer dubbed the Golden State Killer told victims Friday hew was “truly sorry” before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decade-long string of rapes and murders that terrorized a wide swath of the state. Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty in June to 13
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EL PASO, Texas — A white pickup truck that was believed to have traveled in the wrong direction along Interstate 10 crashed into a west El Paso gas station a short time later on Thursday evening. Two people suffered minor injuries in the incident and were taken to hospitals; the pickup driver was taken into
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