Update (2:00 PM): Vice President JD Vance took to X today to jokingly name U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio the new host of ABC’s late night show. “Everyone please congratulate @marcorubio, the new host of ABC’s late night show!” Vance posted on the social media site. Update (1:48 PM): President Donald Trump is doubling
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)— A brand new esports lab at Guillen Middle School is boosting overall attendance. The lab is the first of its kind within the El Paso Independent School District. It features PCs, gaming consoles and several different monitors. Esports involves competitive gaming, but it also teaches essential skills such as communication, teamwork
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces Police are warning of scammers calling, texting, and reaching out to people on social media looking to steal residents’ personal information. “The scams usually have the same basic theme: provide personal or financial information – or simply send cash – to invest in some type of deal
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By Angélica Franganillo Díaz (CNN) — A federal judge has blocked the US government from repatriating some Guatemalan minors in its custody, citing concerns the Trump administration may be violating their legal and constitutional protections. The decision Thursday from Judge Timothy Kelly halts the removals while the court considers a lawsuit that argues that the
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Watch the launch below: Update (September 18, 2025): Blue Origin’s 35th New Shepard flight and 15th payload mission successfully launched from Launch Site One outside of Van Horn, Texas this morning. The flight carried a payload from students at Tornillo High School, as well as payloads from other students, NASA, research institutions, and commercial companies.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Storm chances still remain through the region today The National Weather Service has issued a weather alert for today through Lincoln County NM. This includes Ruidoso area: Flood Watch in effect from September 18, 12:00 PM MDT until September 18, 06:00 PM MDT Today temperatures through the region will be
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September brings many asthma triggers that cause more asthma attacks, emergency room visits, and hospital stays than any other during the year. Asthma is a disease that narrows the airways and makes it harder to breathe, which is caused by swelling, small muscles squeezing around the airways, and extra mucus. It can get worse by
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By Donald Judd, Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time. It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A man became emotional during his arrest after leading deputies on a chase. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office released the body cam footage today. Deputies were dispatched to a possible burglary near John Christopher Drive in the far east, not far from Montana. The sheriff’s office says 34-year-old Daniel
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police just identified the motorcyclist who died in a crash on the 1400 block of Zaragoza Road on Monday afternoon as Anthony Jerome Harris, 34. Special Traffic Investigators say that Harris was traveling south on Zaragoza “weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed.”
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Update (September 18, 2025): Court documents newly obtained by ABC-7 reveal that Alejandra Ramirez, the woman charged with the murder of Jorge Serna, was captured on security footage allegedly running away from the crime scene with a knife in her hand. The court documents state that investigators were able to identify Ramirez based on a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responding to claims made by the Washington Post that the new ICE detention center on Fort Bliss allegedly violated 60 federal rules in its first 50 days of operation. The Washington Post claimed that Camp East Montana failed to monitor some detainees’
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector’s Interim Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar recently posted on social media the deployment of 500 Texas National Guard soldiers to El Paso to support the border mission along with DHS. The soldiers will be performing various duties, including working on infrastructure. “The technology
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Editors note: this story has been updated to reflect the case against Max Grossman was dismissed by an El Paso judge. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A misdemeanor case involving well-known watchdog and University of Texas at El Paso associate professor Max Grossman will be dismissed after he completes the conditions of a pretrial diversion program, according
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Rent a UTV in El Paso offers a compact and high energy way to squeeze adventure into your weekend. The operation features the largest and newest Polaris UTV fleet plus Slingshot street-legal rides weaving desert trails with city cruises.Located near Red Sands and a short drive from the airport and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has obtained new documents revealing what led up to the murder that happened in East El Paso on September 9, 2025. The court documents state that officers arrested Manuel Gonzalez and charged him with murder. The officers were called out to the 1700 block of Larry Hinson Place on
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The central bank aims to revive a flagging labor market. By Max Zahn September 17, 2025, 12:56 PM The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, opting for its first interest rate cut this year in an effort to revive the flagging labor market. The central bank
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FABENS, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Sheriff deputies arrested Janely Reyes, 26, after her daughter was found wandering the streets of Fabens with her dog at 2:00 a.m. A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office says that Good Samaritans had found the girl walking with her dog, Rocky. They waited with her until the deputies arrived.
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Update (11:35 AM): An El Paso Police Department spokesperson says that at 8:37 a.m., police officers got reports of a man fighting a dog. The spokesperson says a 53-year-old man was walking up the street when a dog, walking by itself, started to attack the man. The man jumped onto a car and called for
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso celebrated the groundbreaking of the Fox Cancer Center, El Paso’s first comprehensive cancer center. Texas Tech Health El Paso, along with its hospital partner University Medical Center of El Paso, describes the new facility as “transformative” for the Borderplex region. The new
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials with the Reeves County Sheriff’s Office say that Jeffrey Scott Baker, 35, the man wanted for killing his parents in Oklahoma, is dead. Baker was spotted in El Paso’s Upper Valley earlier this week. The Reeves County Sheriff’s Office says its deputies found Baker walking on I-20 eastbound 16
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Before the borderland sees a cooldown, Las Cruces Public Schools wants to make sure every kid has a warm coat. Coats for Kids has been doing this over 30 years, but this year, they won’t be accepting used coats — Instead, now they’re asking for donations. They’ve partnered up with Love Las Cruces this year
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City of Sunland Park is requesting Dona Ana County Commissioners to delay the final vote on Project Jupiter, the proposed $165 billion dollar data center that’s planned for Santa Teresa. Last week, Sunland Park City Council unanimously passed a resolution directing staff to assess the center’s impacts. The city
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El Paso, TEXAS (KVIA) — The Texas Department of Transportation held a community hearing today at the El Paso Convention Center to get comments on their proposed alternative for the I-10 widening project. The proposed alternative is known as “Revised I”, and is set to begin construction in 2027. The project will add an extra
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A Mexican man stopped with hundreds of boxes of ammunition in Las Cruces now faces more than a decade in jail from federal criminal charges. According to a release, Mexican citizen Luis Carlos Martinez Monge was pulled over by a Las Cruces Metro Narcotics officer for speeding on August
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso woman was speeding after leaving a house party in the early morning hours of August 31st when she crashed into a motorcycle, killing the rider, according to new court documents obtained by ABC-7. As ABC-7 reported, 20 year-old Marissa Arlene Dominguez was arrested booked into the El
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Leadership for the Border Patrol El Paso Sector says they are still seeing properties being used by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) as stash houses. Agents have found more than 158 so far in the 2025 fiscal year, which ends in October. For comparison, Border Patrol agents in the sector found
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By Chris Boyette, Aditi Sangal, Michelle Watson, Tori B. Powell, Maureen Chowdhury PROVO, UTAH — Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, appeared virtually for his first court hearing since he was formally charged with aggravated murder on September 16. Judge Tony F. Graf said Tuesday that Tyler Robinson, the
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by Robert Moore September 15, 2025 Sign up for essential news about El Paso. Delivered to your inbox — completely free. El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday approved a wrongful termination suit brought by John Briggs, a veteran prosecutor who said he was fired in 2022 because he refused to participate in activities involving the Walmart
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale of 45 acres in the Campo del Sol master-planned community to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The amendment clears the way for the construction of a new DPS regional headquarters in
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