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How K-12 public school funding has changed over the past decade

Child advocates speak on differences between discipline and abuse

June 20, 2025 6:55 PM Heriberto Perez Lara

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Experts and professionals in children’s development say that while people often try to discipline their kids, they…

Juárez’s Animal Welfare Department fining residents over animal cruelty and abuse cases

June 19, 2025 10:11 PM Heriberto Perez Lara

JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The city of Juárez continues to see cases of animal cruelty throughout the area, having recently issued fines to over…

Department of Justice files federal hate crime charges against Boulder terror attack suspect

June 2, 2025 12:59 PM KRDO

WASHINGTON (KRDO) — The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed federal charges against Mohammed Sabry Soliman, the 45-year-old man…

Borderland leaders, officials speak about Texas sheriffs working with ICE

May 29, 2025 12:01 PM Heriberto Perez Lara

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas House approved Senate Bill 8 over the weekend, which is set to mandate some local sheriff’s offices in the state…

New Mexico man accused of murder appears in federal court

May 28, 2025 12:00 PM Heriberto Perez Lara, Yvonne Suarez

Update (May 29, 2025): The man that was extradited by Mexican authorities earlier this week, made his first appearance in federal court this morning.…

Mexican consulates in the U.S. warn of DWI dangers, including deportations

May 28, 2025 7:21 PM Heriberto Perez Lara

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) recently issued a warning on social…

El Paso DWI Task Force arrests more than a dozen Sunday

May 26, 2025 3:33 PM Andrew J. Polk

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso DWI Task Force is on the streets this Memorial Day weekend, and is arresting those that are driving drunk on the…

Police identify victim from deadly shooting Friday night

May 26, 2025 1:18 PM Andrew J. Polk

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Police Department has released the identity of the victim in a shooting Friday night in far east El Paso, and…

Watch: Ride along with DWI Task Force

May 19, 2025 9:32 PM Paul Cicala

EL PASO (KVIA) -The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office headed up a countywide DWI Task Force over the weekend that led to 48 arrests. ABC-7 anchor…

City, County leaders address DWI cases ahead of Memorial Day weekend

May 19, 2025 10:34 AM Heriberto Perez Lara

Watch the news conference below: EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — With the increasing number of DWIs reported, community leaders are coming together to…

An FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference on January 16. The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases.

FBI celebrates 45th anniversary of Joint Terrorism Task Force

May 16, 2025 11:38 AM Heriberto Perez Lara

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — FBI El Paso Field Office celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) with a roundtable…

U.S. CBP El Paso seeing trend of internal cavity smuggling

May 9, 2025 12:00 PM Heriberto Perez Lara

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection El Paso Field Office (OFO) has seen an increase in internal cavity drug smuggling…

Vehicle burglarized after driver visits ATM

May 4, 2025 3:44 PM Jerry Najera

Crime Stoppers of El Paso is asking for the communities help after they say a vehicle was burglarized after the driver visits an ATM in El Paso’s…

ABC-7 at 4: FBI El Paso speaks about the role of the Joint Task Force

April 29, 2025 5:16 PM Nichole Gomez

special agent in charge john morales. El Paso, TX (KVIA-TV)- Special agent John Morale’s joins us to explain why the Joint Terrorism Task…

One-on-One with DA James Montoya after Walmart mass shooting case

April 23, 2025 9:00 PM Paul Cicala

EL PASO (KVIA) – Patrick Crusius, the gunman of the Walmart shooting in El Paso that claimed the lives of 23 people from both Texas, and Ciudad…

Officials: 1 person dead after Northeast El Paso shooting

April 17, 2025 4:25 AM Isabel Garcia, Nicole Ardila

UPDATE: El Paso Police confirm one man was found dead at scene of a shooting on the 4000 block of Leavell Ave. Judy Oviedo, El Paso PD’s public…

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should local law enforcement agencies help enforce immigration law?

April 16, 2025 10:13 AM abc17news

ABC-7 has reported on how lawmakers in Texas have filed several bills that would require local law enforcement agencies to enter into agreements with…