The man who spent a quarter of a century helping thousands across the country heal is retiring from his self-appointed role of creating crosses for shooting victims, he confirmed to ABC-7. “Our country experiences this so much,” Greg Zanis told ABC-7 over the phone. It’s the norm. It’s a warzone.” Through his organization, “Crosses for
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas grand jury has indicted a former Fort Worth police officer who two months ago fired through the window of a home, killing Atatiana Jefferson. Early on October 12, Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her nephew when Officer Aaron Dean and another officer arrived at her home. A
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EL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso Congressman and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has announced his next move. In an email sent to his supporters, O’Rourke said he’s creating a grassroots organization called Powered by People. O’Rourke said the goal is to help Democrats win elections in Texas. “It will give us a shot at
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EL PASO, Texas — If Texas residents want to know more details about the El Paso mass shooting that left 22 dead and more than two dozen wounded or injured four months ago, the state attorney general says tough luck. While Texas law gives officials the discretion to release as much information as possible about
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AUSTIN, Texas — After Cesar Fierro spent 40 years on death row, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals tossed out his sentence Wednesday. The state’s highest-ranking criminal judges unanimously agreed to vacate Fierro’s death sentence, citing faulty instructions given to his 1980 trial jury. The court sent his case back to El Paso for a new punishment
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Four people were taken to the hospital after a shooting at South Park Mall on San Antonio’s south side on Wednesday night, according to police and fire officials. Two of the victims were transported to the hospital in serious condition, ABC affiliate KSAT reported. The other two had injuries that were
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DALLAS, Texas — A federal agency has imposed a $26,000 fine against the owner of a crane that slashed through an apartment building near downtown Dallas, killing one resident and displacing hundreds. The citation issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t explain the cause of the collapse. Another nearby crane wasn’t affected by
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HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas — The Department of Public Safety is investigating a crash that involved a semi-truck and a passenger vehicle. A spokesman for the department tells ABC-7 that two people were hurt and were taken from the scene in a medical helicopter. It happened on Interstate 10 in Hudspeth County at mile marker 125.
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ANTHONY, Texas — The Anthony Police Department is investigating a traffic incident that left at least one person dead Tuesday night. Police dispatchers said they received the call at 6 p.m. It happened in the 3000 block of Mountain Pass Boulevard. There is a Love’s Travel Stop at that address. A witness told ABC-7 that
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA TV) — One Fund El Paso on Monday approved the final distribution of the $11,518,558.30 in donations to the victims of the Aug. 3 mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart. Of the 441 applications received a total of 363 were approved by the National Compassion Fund. One Fund El Paso
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Utilities Commission denied a request Friday by the city of El Paso that sought a 30-day delay in the timeline for approval of a proposed El Paso Electric Company sale. The city had sought to push back a Dec. 17 deadline for its negotiators to resolve issues involving the
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NASA’s Juno mission spotted a new cyclone the size of Texas during a close flyby of Jupiter in November. The gas giant is already home to several giant cyclones, and this newly discovered storm will offer even more insight into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Juno’s cameras spied giant cyclones gathered at Jupiter’s poles soon after its arrival
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A former Socorro Independent School District superintendent is being held on $50,000 bond on federal corruption and conspiracy charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. Sylvia P. Atkinson, 48, currently the vice president of the Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees, was indicted by a
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Likely Democratic primary voters in California are about evenly split among the top three candidates — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — in the race for the Democratic nomination, while Texas Democrats tend to favor Biden, the nationwide frontrunner, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in two of the largest early
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — More children here in Texas left foster care for permanent homes than entered the child welfare system this year, according to Child Protective Services. CPS data from 2019 was released last week. It shows that more than 20,000 kids in Texas exited foster care and of those, more than 6,000 were
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VAN HORN, Texas — Blue Origin, the stealthy company founded by Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, just launched another test flight of its tourism rocket as it steadily inches toward sending paying customers into space. The rocket took off from a test site near Van Horn in rural west Texas on Wednesday and soared more
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Naval Air Station Corpus Christi was placed on lockdown for about an hour Wednesday morning after someone reported hearing another person allegedly make statements that sounded threatening, a law enforcement source said. A suspect was taken into custody, NAS Corpus Christi said on Facebook. No shots were fired and no injuries
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A one-of-a-kind lighted Christmas tree made its way from San Anonio to El Paso Tuesday afternoon.
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — Mexico’s former public security secretary has been arrested in the United States and charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved taking millions of dollars in bribes from imprisoned drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, who was secretary of public security from 2006
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EL PASO, Texas — Bad weather conditions can make roadways more dangerous. The Texas Department of Transportation suggests that, during rain, it is important to increase distance between your car and the car ahead of you. TxDOT also recommends reducing your speed to a third of the speed you would normally drive. TxDOT reports that
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Monday was the filing deadline for the March 2 “Super Tuesday” primary in Texas. Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who dropped out of the presidential race on Nov. 1, did not file for the Democratic primary for either president or for the U.S. Senate. Since ending his White House bid,
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican lawmakers for not reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act and taking action against gun violence, asking them in emotional remarks to choose between the nation’s foremost gun lobby and “the children that are getting gunned down in this
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EL PASO, Texas — A 57-year-old Texas truck driver made an initial appearance in federal court Monday afternoon following his arrest by the FBI in what agents called a “violent crimes against children” investigation. Travis Wayne Vavra of Anthony is charged with interstate transportation of minors with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
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DALLAS, Texas — Children’s Medical Center Dallas last week relocated 28 patients after routine air tests showed higher-than-normal levels of Aspergillus and Penicillium molds, according to Virginia Hock, a Children’s Health spokesperson. When mold results were identified on December 4, patients were moved from the cardiac intensive care unit at Children’s Medical Center Dallas to
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FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys have waived struggling kicker Brett Maher and replaced him with eight-year veteran Kai Forbath. Maher is the only kicker in NFL history with three field goals of at least 60 yards, but the Cowboys couldn’t count on him for the shorter ones that are often more critical. In his
Continue Reading Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, is running for Congress in Texas. Bush, a nonprofit executive, is seeking to succeed Rep. Pete Olson, a Republican who announced in July he will not run for reelection to represent Texas’ 22nd Congressional District. Bush announced his candidacy in a campaign video in which
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Beto O’Rourke reiterated to ABC-7 on Friday that he is not running for U.S. Senate next year as speculation swirls ahead of the upcoming Monday filing deadline. The former El Paso congressman has long said he would not challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, but since he dropped out of the presidential race
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HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas judge has temporarily halted the construction of a private wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, delivering a blow to the group that has ardently supported the President Donald Trump’s push for additional border barriers. “We Build the Wall,” a group founded by an Air Force veteran, kicked off new construction on
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EL PASO, Texas — Both independent school districts and charter schools all across Texas are working on a new medical emergency program for their students and staff. It is called the “Stop the Bleed” and will result in special classes being taught to kids in thousands of Texas schools. The “Stop the Bleed” campaign is
Continue Reading A mandatory evacuation order issued after a series of explosions at a Texas chemical plant has been lifted, a county official said Friday morning. Tens of thousands of residents within a 4-mile radius of the TPC Group plant in the small city of Port Neches had been told to leave their homes Wednesday after explosions
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