By Nicole Chavez, CNN Fearing the scorching Texas heat could only get worse, Lisa Vogt stopped buying meat and drove her pickup truck as little as possible to save money for two months to purchase window air-conditioning units. The air conditioner at the home that Vogt, 32, her three children and teenage nephew rent in
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Health experts in Texas and the U.S. believe that monkeypox infections will continue to rise exponentially. The disease is not deadly and doesn’t usually lead to hospitalization, although symptoms can be much more severe in patients who are immunocompromised. The current outbreak is the second in the U.S., but by far the largest. Here’s what
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Tina Burnside, CNN Former sports star Bo Jackson covered all funeral expenses for the families of the victims of the Uvalde school massacre “so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved,” according to a statement from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told CNN
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The Uvalde, Texas, schools superintendent has recommended the firing of Pete Arredondo, the school police chief who oversaw the response to May’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, according to a Board of Education meeting agenda. The board announced Wednesday it will hold a special meeting Saturday at 10 a.m. for “discussion and possible action
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Students at a university in Texas will have the chance to study Harry Styles next spring as part of the first-ever college course dedicated to the British pop star. “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture,” will be available for honors students at Texas State University in Spring
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EL PASO, Texas — Candidate for governor of Texas, Beto O’Rourke is kicking off his 49-day statewide tour today. O’Rourke’s first stop: El Paso, his hometown. During the rally, O’Rourke touched on numerous topics including healthcare, immigration, gun violence and abortion rights. Over 455 people were present on the first night of his campaign tour.
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Chuck Johnston, CNN The Dallas school district announced Monday that it will require students to carry clear or mesh backpacks to class, joining other Texas districts in implementing new security measures following the Uvalde school massacre. The new rules apply to 6th-12th grade students at Dallas Independent School District — the
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UVALDE — The Texas Department of Public Safety is reviewing how 91 state troopers and Rangers responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting to determine if any violated policies or laws. The agency’s announcement Monday that it had formed an internal committee for the inquiry comes nearly two months after an 18-year-old gunman killed 19
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UVALDE — A city police lieutenant who led the department the day it was part of the fiercely criticized response to the worst school shooting in Texas history has been placed on administrative leave, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin announced Sunday. [“Systemic failures” in Uvalde shooting went far beyond local police, Texas House report details] Lt.
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 breaks down the Uvalde school shooting report that the Texas House Investigation Committee released Sunday.
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The 18-year-old who massacred 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde on May 24 had no experience with firearms before his rampage began. He targeted an elementary school with an active shooter policy that had been deemed adequate but also a long history of doors propped open. No one was able to stop the gunman
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker US Customs and Border Protection officers in Texas have seized nearly 90 pounds of hard narcotics with an estimated street value of more than $690,000, the agency said. Border Patrol officers and Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers seized 32 packages containing nearly 90 pounds of alleged cocaine, CBP said in a
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EL PASO, Texas — Police say one person is dead after being struck by a train. Fire dispatch say it happened on North El Paso St and Franklin Ave at 1:26 P.M. Special Traffic Investigators are on scene at this time. Check back with ABC-7 for any updates.
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EL PASO, Texas — Mental health resources have always been a phone call away, but now it will get even easier to speak with a mental health professional. 988 will become the new number to dial nationwide to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline starting Saturday. The goal is to have an easier number that
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EL PASO, Texas — Both Texas and New Mexico are seeing a dip in gas prices this week. In Texas, the statewide average price of a gallon of unleaded gas is $4.14, according to Triple-A. That’s 19 cents less than last week but still $1.31 more than this time last year. In El Paso, the
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Texas is suing the Biden administration over guidance released Monday telling the nation’s doctors they’re protected by federal law to terminate a pregnancy as part of emergency treatment — and threatening to defund hospitals that don’t perform these procedures. The Biden administration’s guidance states that federal law requires doctors to perform abortions for pregnant people
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HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is touring Houston’s Department of Public Safety Crime Lab. Gov. Abbott and held a news conference on the growing fentanyl crisis in Texas. Abbott said that DPS seizures of fentanyl have “skyrocketed” 1000 percent in one year, but that the efforts of law enforcement alone are not enough
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UPDATE: El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser made a statement in response to Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa. “The Office of the Mayor is a non-partisan office and I was sworn to represent 100% of our constituents, not any particular group,” said Leeser, “Chairman Hinojosa did not reach out to me to discuss this issue.
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After leaked surveillance of law enforcement responding to the Uvalde shooting was published earlier this week, angry snap judgments and criticisms of individual officers flooded the internet. Media organizations and social media users were up in arms over an image pulled from the video posted by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV that showed a policeman
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas — Several Republican lawmakers led by Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn will visit the Texas-Mexico border later this week. Thursday and Friday, both Cruz and Cornyn will take four of their Republican colleagues on a night border tour with law enforcement and a Customs and Border Protection aerial border
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua — Juárez officials worry the number of water rescues and recoveries in El Paso canals will not stop anytime soon. They’re sending out a call for migrants not to risk their lives. Unlike Juárez, U.S. water rescue teams train constantly to respond to any emergency. The river situation on the Mexican side presents
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In the spring of 2009, Elliott Naishtat persuaded his colleagues in the Texas Legislature to pass a bill that he believed would require the state to report court-ordered mental health hospitalizations for Texans of all ages to the national firearms background check system. Nearly two years had passed since a student with a history of
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EL PASO, Texas — Former U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte joined ABC-7 at 10 to give his reaction to the Uvalde shooting video.
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Federal officials say a Louisiana man was sentenced to life in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. According to court testimony and documents, Marco Antonio Abundiz, 33, sexually abused a child at Fort Bliss on multiple occasions. Officials say a 6-year-old made an outcry against Abundiz in October 2020. According
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UVALDE, Texas — The Uvalde school shooting video has been obtained by the Austin American Statesman and KVUE. The video shows the gunman entering the school, walking through the hallway and shooting toward a classroom before walking in. The video shows law enforcement arriving three minutes after the gunman. The officers run toward the classroom
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First Lady Jill Biden apologized Tuesday after she said during a San Antonio speech that the Latino community was “as unique as the breakfast tacos” in the city. “The First Lady apologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino community,” her spokesperson, Michael LaRosa, said in a tweet. Biden
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves, Andy Rose and Steve Almasy, CNN The Austin American-Statesman newspaper published Tuesday edited portions of school surveillance video showing officers retreating from gunfire in the hallway of Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, during the fatal shooting May 24. The edited video on the newspaper’s website is just more than four
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Vivid Seats determined the oldest major league sports venue in Texas
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The Democratic challenger will hold 70 public events in more than 65 counties as part of the tour, according to his campaign. The trip will start July 19 in O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso and reach every region of the state, including a spate of little-visited small towns. It is an ambitious itinerary even by
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend,
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