El Paso VA Medical Center ‘cleared’ after bomb threat led to evacuations
EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Veterans Administration Medical Center main facility was evacuated late Tuesday afternoon due to a bomb threat,…
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3 hurt as crash, fire shuts down U.S. 54 in northeast El Paso
EL PASO, Texas — An 18-wheeler caught fire forcing the complete shutdown of a portion of U.S. Route 54 in northeast El Paso on Tuesday afternoon and…
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2 El Paso police officers among 4 hurt in Lower Valley crash
UPDATE, July 20: Authorities said two El Paso police officers were among four people injured in a late night traffic crash involving two vehicles on…
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West El Paso woman mauled to death by pit bulls in family home
EL PASO, Texas — A pair of pit bulls attacked a woman and mauled her to death inside her family’s west El Paso home, police said Monday, but what…
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East El Paso streets still flooded as storm damage is assessed
EL PASO, Texas — As east El Paso residents on Monday assessed the damage from Sunday’s powerful storms, city transportation officials said some…
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El Paso leaders say no sign of Delta variant, but 277 Covid cases among vaccinated
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego held a joint news conference Monday afternoon from City Hall to…
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Amputation at El Paso plant leads to OSHA fines of $412k
EL PASO, Texas — A gruesome incident triggered an OSHA investigation and 17 citations for safety violations that contributed to an El Paso metal…
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Overturned truck in crash blocks Walter Jones at Spur 601
EL PASO, Texas — A crash involving two semi-trucks, one of which flipped on its side, led to the shutdown of Walter Jones at Spur 601 in both…
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13 more El Paso Covid deaths, youngest victim in his 30s
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County experienced 13 more deaths due to Covid-19, with the youngest victim being in his 30s, and over 300 new infections…
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El Paso storms cause damage, floods with submerged cars; rescue seen on video
(Editor’s note: Use the scroller in the module above to view video and photos of the storm impacts.) EL PASO, Texas — Thunderstorms with…
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El Paso border agents carry migrant on piggyback to safety, find 134 in stash houses, arrest 23 fugitives in week
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers from the El Paso sector just experienced what seemed like one…
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Anthony High School student finally gets diploma after dropping out to support family during pandemic
ANTHONY, Texas — At the age of eight, Edgar Dominguez says he began helping his dad’s construction business. The scorching heat and intense labor…
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Cash incentives offered to rescue partners at El Paso Animal Services to create shelter space
EL PASO, Texas — If you’ve ever thought about rescuing a pet and giving them a forever home, now might just be the purr-fect time. If you bring home…
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Body discovered floating in west El Paso canal near border
EL PASO, Texas — Authorities were working Sunday to recover a body spotted floating in west El Paso canal near the U.S.-Mexico border. The discovery…
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2 severely hurt as car rear-ends police car on Mesa & flips over
EL PASO, Texas — Two people were injured, one of them severely, early Sunday after their car rear-ended a police vehicle and then overturned along a…
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El Paso mirrors nation with rise in drug overdoses blamed on pandemic
EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso doctor says the reason both nationwide and locally that we’ve seen a drastic rise in drug overdose deaths was due to…
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Family planing to open jazz club loses thousands in flooded northeast El Paso storage unit
EL PASO, Texas — The monsoon season has caused havoc with the roads, roofs and now, storage sheds. One family who suffered thousands of…
Continue Reading Juárez smugglers threaten El Paso border agents: ‘Bullets can cross river’
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A sign found hanging this week from a pedestrian bridge near the Rio Grande in Juarez carried a “warning” directed at El…
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Fort Hancock woman killed, Tornillo man hurt in I-10 frontage road crash
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — A Hudspeth County woman was killed and an El Paso County truck driver injured in a crash along a frontage road to Interstate…
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Toll questions still linger 2 years after Border West Expressway opening
EL PASO, Texas — It’s been nearly two years since the Border West Expressway opened. Despite there being toll gantries up, it’s still a toll free…
Continue Reading El Paso doctor: ‘Greater risk of getting in a car wreck’ than developing syndrome linked to J&J vaccine
EL PASO, Texas — It’s another major setback for Johnson & Johnson after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a warning that the J&J…
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El Paso lacks local lab capability to test for Covid’s Delta variant
EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 has learned that the City of El Paso does not have the capability of testing for the Delta variant of Covid-19, which is the…
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Downtown El Paso is holding free parties over the next 3 months and you’re invited
EL PASO, Texas — The Downtown Management District is hosting a free event on South El Paso Street from Paisano to Fourth Avenue. The Downtown…
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I-10 in central El Paso shut down after truck his power pole
EL PASO, Texas – Interstate 10 running through central El Paso was shut down in both directions Thursday night to allow utility crews to make…
Continue Reading Blue Origin launch to space made possible, in part, by UTEP grads
EL PASO, Texas — Jeff Bezos is poised to become the second billionaire to fly to space in the span of nine days, following the trail by billionaire…
Continue Reading Manchin meets with Moody, Texas Dems on federal voting rights
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, on Thursday said he and a group of…
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US 54 motorcycle crash combines with Juarez traffic to create big backup
EL PASO, Texas — A motorcyclist was hurt in a crash along U.S. Route 54 and Montana Avenue Thursday evening that was contributing to a significant…
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Central El Paso man jumped by group of men & stabbed
EL PASO — A man was taken to the hospital early Thursday morning after being stabbed in central El Paso, according to police. Officials said the…
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Beto O’Rourke raises $500k to help pay for Texas Dems in DC
WASHINGTON, DC — As Texas House Democrats settle in for a potentially weekslong stay in the nation’s capital, one question is becoming…
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El Paso’s Moody stripped of speaker pro tem title due to Texas House Dems walkout
AUSTIN, Texas — El Paso Democrat Joe Moody was stripped of his position as speaker pro tem of the Texas House on Thursday in the first…
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