EL PASO, Texas — A 19-year-old pregnant woman from Guatemala died this week from injuries suffered when she fell trying to climb the U.S. border wall near El Paso, both U.S. and Guatemalan authorities said Thursday. Guatemala identified the woman as Mirian Stephany Girón Luna. Media reports there indicate she was the former beauty queen
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Officials in Texas have decided to postpone the boys’ state basketball tournament after the Thursday afternoon session for Class 3A schools. The University Interscholastic League, which governs extracurricular activities in Texas’ public schools, said it made the call due to growing concerns about the COVID-19 virus. For most people, the new
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One of the largest livestock exhibitions and rodeos in the world is being shut down early amid the growing concerns over the spread of coronavirus, according to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Turner has declared a health emergency for Houston, which impacts the rodeo and a number of other events in the
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EL PASO, Texas — For what would have been the fourth year in a row, city officials were looking forward to showcasing the Sun City at South by Southwest but that came to an abrupt halt after the city of Austin decided to pull the plug on the festival due to coronavirus concerns. Destination El
Continue Reading OAKLAND, California — The cruise ship forced to idle for days off the coast of California because of a cluster of novel coronavirus cases aboard arrived in port Monday afternoon as state and U.S. officials prepared to transfer its thousands of passengers to military bases for quarantine or return them to their home countries. The
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — The City of Austin has prohibited events larger than 2,500 people as coronavirus concerns spread across the state and country, ABC affiliate KXXV reported. The city announced Monday that large events are prohibited unless “organizers can assure Austin Public Health that mitigation plans for infections diseases are in place.” Austin-Travis County leaders declared a local
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HOUSTON, Texas — GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday he will self-quarantine at his home in Texas after learning that he shook hands and briefly chatted with a man at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference who has tested positive for coronavirus. Cruz, the first member of Congress to announce such a step, said in a
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Numerous Americans on a cruise ship off the California coast will be transferred to a military base in San Antonio for testing for the coronavirus and the COVID-19 illness it causes, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday. RELATED STORIES: California prepares to dock cruise ship with 21 virus cases33 states now have
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AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Austin announced Friday that the South by Southwest arts and music festival has been canceled over coronavirus fears. The decision by city authorities came just two days after Austin public health officials said the event could proceed as planned despite despite a string of high-profile dropouts and widespread calls to
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SANTA FE, Texas — A teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 was able to buy more than 100 rounds of ammunition online because his age was not verified, according to a lawsuit alleging that the website involved broke federal law. Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a 17-year-old junior at
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HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — The number of Houston-area residents testing positive for the new coronavirus has reached eight with the positive tests announced Friday of two suburban Houston women in their 60s. The results on the two women from Fort Bend County, located just southwest of Houston, came after Houston reported its first city residents
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Some people are attempting to counter the spread of coronavirus by making their own hand sanitizer out of rubbing alcohol and aloe. But vodka? Don’t do that. “Per the CDC, hand sanitizer needs to contain at least 60% alcohol,” Tito’s Handmade Vodka tweeted on Thursday. “Tito’s Handmade Vodka is 40% alcohol, and
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 has learned the association representing El Paso police officers is being investigated by the Texas Rangers. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed Thursday that the Texas Rangers are conducting an investigation of the El Paso Municipal Police Officers Association. DPS said it is an ongoing investigation and as a
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AUSTIN, Texas — Six Texas public health labs are now capable of testing for the new coronavirus, state officials announced Thursday, as the number of infected Americans continues to climb and the nation’s testing capacity struggles to keep up. Another four labs are expected to begin testing nose and mouth swabs from patients to determine if
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PHOENIX, Arizona — A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday that a partial ban on asylum doesn’t apply to anyone who appeared at an official border crossing before the policy was announced last summer. The Trump administration announced in July it would deny asylum to anyone who traveled through
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SAN FRANCISCO, California — In the latest twist on a key Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court said it will prevent the government from making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings starting next week unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in sooner. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Continue Reading Pink indicates counties that voted for Biden, Blue for Sanders and Orange for Bloomberg. (Map: Texas Tribune) EL PASO, Texas — Former vice president Joe Biden bested Bernie Sanders in Texas on the strength of Election-Day ballots that heavily favored him in the state’s most populous counties, according to a Texas Tribune analysis. Hours before
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PORT ARTHUR, Texas — A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video last August of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson, 24, also was sentenced to an additional
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AUSTIN, Texas — Former Vice President Joe Biden has won the Texas presidential primary, continuing a stunning revival of his once-struggling campaign that has helped him solidify himself as one of the two leading contenders in the broader race for the Democratic nomination. Despite early voting returns putting U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders ahead of the
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AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Biden ended a triumphant Super Tuesday with a narrow victory over Bernie Sanders in Texas, the giant red state where Democrats are seeking a rare return to power in 2020. The former vice president’s victory over the Vermont senator capped a resounding and resurgent string of victories across the South for
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former White House physician whose nomination by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs was derailed by allegations of drinking on the job and over-prescribing drugs has advanced to a Republican runoff for a rural Texas congressional seat. Former Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson emerged Tuesday from a
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn were renominated Tuesday evening by Texas Republicans as primary polls across the state closed. Most polls closed at 7 p.m. CST, with El Paso and other areas in the Mountain Time Zone closing an hour later. Texas’ Democratic primary was being closely watched nationwide
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO, Texas — More than 120 people quarantined in Texas after a coronavirus outbreak aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, have completed their 14-day confinement and were released Tuesday, local and federal officials say. Another 15 people who were repatriated from the cruise ship remain “locally in medical care or quarantine
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DALLAS, Texas — What’s more Texas than Whataburger? Appearing Monday night at a Dallas rally to endorse Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke told the crowd he was taking Biden to Whataburger afterward. And yes, it did happen. O’Rourke made good on his promise. O’Rourke posted video to
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DALLAS, Texas — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden came to Texas on Monday looking to capitalize on his big win in South Carolina — and eager to ride the momentum into the state’s delegate-rich primary Tuesday, when 13 other states vote, too. On Monday evening, the former vice president won the endorsements of former candidates
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DALLAS, Texas — Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced an end to her presidential bid on Monday and will endorse Joe Biden, campaign aides said. The Klobuchar campaign confirmed that the senator was flying to Texas to join the former vice president at his Dallas rally, where she will give her endorsement on the eve
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A woman in San Antonio who had previously tested negative twice for the coronavirus, and was released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is now back in quarantine after a subsequent test came back positive. Calling it a federal “screw-up,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg is requesting that Americans
Continue Reading LEWISVILLE, Texas — Police dog Stryker proved himself to be the ultimate good boy when he sniffed out approximately 595 pounds of methamphetamine in the largest drug bust of his career. Last Sunday, Stryker and his human partner Officer Pat Robey responded to the scene of a suspicious tractor trailer parked near a major highway
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HOUSTON, Texas — Businesses and schools shut down Thursday after a main line from a plant that supplies water to about half of Houston burst open, submerging vehicles on a flooded freeway and prompting emergency officials in the nation’s fourth-largest city to deploy tanker trucks to mitigate any fire hazards. “This was a major, a
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