EL PASO, Texas– One woman is dead after being stabbed in central El Paso Sunday afternoon. It happened on the 3700 block of Truman Avenue, near Travis Elementary School. Police say the call came at around 5 p.m. ABC-7 crews at the scene saw police blocking off the street. A police spokesman says the woman was in her
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Greyhound bus lines is once again offering free rides to help people in need this holiday season. It’s part of the transportation company’s ‘Home Free’ program. For 35 years, Greyhound has helped runaways, homeless persons, and exploited youth reunite with their families or legal guardians through a free bus ticket home or to a stable and
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Three buses carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Philadelphia Wednesday morning. Workers were waiting to greet the 140 asylum seekers, who were given winter coats and brought to a welcome center. Many of them also connected with family members already in the U.S. Some children were among the migrants. Philadelphia is just one city Texas
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The National Weather Service says we could see brutal, “once-in-a-generation” winter weather this week. They’re predicting a bomb cyclone will hit the U.S. today into tomorrow. That’s a brutal storm that rapidly intensifies in 24 hours. Winter weather alerts are in store for more than 90 million people with possible life-threatening weather in parts of the country today. Holiday
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Wells Fargo is slapped with a $1.7 Billion fine by federal regulators. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the company took part in quote “widespread mismanagement” for years. Officials say more than 16-million consumer accounts were affected, including wrongful disclosures and surprise overdraft fees. The bureau ordered Wells Fargo to pay more than two-billion in refunds to consumers. Wells
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A Twitter poll created by Elon Musk asking whether he should “step down as head of Twitter” ended early Monday morning with most respondents voting in the affirmative. According to the results, 57% voted yes, with 43% voting no. Musk did say he would follow the results of the poll but has yet to comment on the
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Editor’s Note: This story was changed to reflect the 19-year-old is in custody. It is not clear who stabbed the victim. UPDATE: A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after being stabbed. His 19-year-old partner is in custody, according to El Paso Police. Investigators say the stabbing call came out a little after 5:30 a.m.
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The Federal Government is suing the state of Arizona for creating a temporary wall at its border. It comes after Arizona governor Doug Ducey in August issued an order to use shipping containers to fill in gaps along the border without official permits or authorization. The government claims that the temporary wall curtails access to
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A trio of U.S. lawmakers has introduced new legislation that aims to ban TikTok from operating in the United States. Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill in the Senate this week that would ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. Two Congressmen have also introduced companion legislation before the House. The legislation comes as a
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Twitter’s verification check marks are back. Twitter is now offering gold checks for companies, gray checks for government entities and other organizations, and blue checks for individuals, regardless of celebrity status. The updated verification system, which expands on check mark options with multiple new colors, is part of new owner Elon Musk’s effort to grow
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Railroad workers are hoping President Biden will sign an executive order to provide them paid sick days. The demand was at the heart of negotiations the past few months between the workers’ unions and freight rail companies. Congress stepped in to avert the strike but the legislation failed to include sick leave because it didn’t
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Electric cars may not only be spelling the end of the internal combustion engine, they could also take AM radio off the air. The reason is electromagnetic interference which causes static and noise on the AM dial, annoying motorists. If more electric vehicles drop AM radio, some broadcasters say they could lose their key audience
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EL PASO, Texas– Santa Claus made his way to the Borderland visiting the patients at Providence Children’s Hospital. Holiday magic was seen as he made his way from room to room spreading christmas cheer. Patients shared their many Christmas wishes in hope of receiving a Christmas miracle. Santa even spread a little cheer to nurses and staff collecting their
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EL PASO, Texas– Today the city of El Paso and the El Paso International Airport are hosting a Winterfest Holiday Social. It’s a free family-fun event It will be at the runway plaza, located at 6701 Convair Road in front of the airport’s main entrance. The event will go from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Enjoy delicious
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Today we celebrate Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Each year on December 7th, Pearl Harbor survivors, Veterans, and visitors from all over the world come together to honor and remember the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The next day, Congress would declare war with Japan,
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MESA, Arizona– Shelley and Michael Pelky of Mesa, Arizona started going all out for Christmas about 12 years ago, and now they’re competing on ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” show. They will compete against three other families from across the country that have festooned their houses with holiday lights displays. Their display took about
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The nation’s largest online retailer says this year’s thanksgiving weekend was its biggest ever. Amazon reported a record-breaking holiday shopping weekend… With its customers buying hundreds of millions of products between thanksgiving and cyber Monday. Some of the bestselling items on the website were the Echo Dot, Apple AirPods and Fire TV Stick, with New
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EL PASO, Texas– When photographer Brittany Girle was visiting Uganda and witnessed school kids and women dipping an old plastic bottle into a mud puddle for a drink of water, she was shocked. “I knew in that moment. I have a voice, we all have a voice, what can I do,” Girle asked herself. She knew she had
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EL PASO, Texas– Today The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso will be hosting the 8th annual Cookies, Cocoa and Holiday Cheer. The event will be from 6pm to 8pm at Center of TTUHSC El Paso campus, 5001 El Paso Drive. Cookies, Cocoa and Holiday Cheer will include: A festive light show, Photos with
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Superstar rapper ‘Megan Thee Stallion’ is making history as the first black woman to grace the cover of Forbes 30 under 30. The Houston native earned an estimated $13 million in 2022. She’s partnered with music’s biggest stars such as Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, BTS, and Dua Lipa. In 2020 she collaborated with Cardi B to
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The Biden Administration was dealt another setback in court Wednesday in its effort to revive a student loan debt relief policy. A second federal appeals court rejected a bid to put a ruling blocking the President’s student debt relief policy on hold. The court ruled Wednesday night that it would not pause a ruling from
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Adidas is launching an investigation into allegations of misconduct against the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Adidas cut ties with the artist in October after his anti-semitic tirades and is now looking into his behavior. Rolling Stone says it obtained a letter sent by former high-ranking employees of Yeezy to executive board members on Tuesday about “the toxic
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E-commerce giant Amazon is facing protests and strikes across the globe amid the busy sales of black Friday. Thousands of warehouse workers upset over pay and conditions are planning walkouts and demonstrations in roughly 40 countries, including the U.S. Some protests will highlight Amazon’s environmental and social footprint. The protest campaign is being called “Make
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EL PASO, Texas–Today the Salvation Army will be hosting a Thanksgiving community drive-thru. It will be at 4300 E. Paisano Drive in Central El Paso. The Salvation Army will provide free Thanksgiving meals It will be from 11 am to 1:30 pm. They expect to serve more than 500 people. Meals will be provided through drive-thru.
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If you have federal student loans, you won’t have to resume payments on January 1st. The Biden Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan payments. The extension comes as the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program is tied up in the courts. Officials had told borrowers the forgiveness program, which is worth up to $20,000
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HOUSTON, Texas– Houston Police are confident they will find the person who killed rapper “Takeoff.” According to police, Takeoff, whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was shot and killed outside a downtown Houston bowling alley on Nov. 1 while attending a private birthday party. The bowling alley is in a three-story retail complex with
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A Georgia appeals court has left in place a lower court order ruling allowing counties to offer early voting on November 26th in the state’s Senate runoff election. Election officials said early voting the Saturday after Thanksgiving violated a state law. Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker are in a runoff on December
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Rank-and-file members of the nation’s largest rail union, which represents the industry’s conductors, rejected a tentative labor deal with freight railroads, the union announced Today. That significantly raises the chance that major freight railroads crucial to the nation’s economy could be brought to a halt by a strike early next month. The nation’s second-largest rail union, which represents
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The President of Poland said Thursday he is trying to support the Ukrainian President. That’s following a missile strike that killed two people on Tuesday. The Polish President says it was a quote “unintentional incident”. He adds, all three parties involved, Poland, Ukraine, and the U.S. are collecting information, calling Tuesday’s incident a “tragic” accident. “Nobody wanted to hurt anyone in
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EL PASO, Texas– The 5th annual of the International U.S.-Mexico 10K will happen in December after three years. The event will take place December 10. The run is the only US-Mexico border run that draws more than 1,000 runners from both countries. The race starts at the El Paso Community Foundation on Oregon Street in
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