Jackpot for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing jumps to $700 MILLION
The jackpot for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing has increased to $700 MILLION with a cash value of $443.3 MILLION! Numbers will be drawn…
Continue ReadingDocument: Driver in Sierra Blanca human smuggling bust hired in Juarez
A complaint affidavit obtained by the ABC-7 I-Team states Border Patrol agents in Sierra Blanca suspected a truck driver was trafficking humans when…
Continue ReadingCalm conditions for Tuesday afternoon
A bit drier air will move into the Borderland today. However persistent low level moisture will fuel isolated thunderstorms. On Wednesday and…
Continue ReadingAnthony ISD looks ahead to new year
Anthony Independent School District is in the first week of class for all three of its campuses, an elementary, middle and high school. The district…
Continue ReadingNOW ON GMEP: Anthony ISD’s plans for the school year, suspect in Barcelona attacks shot dead
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Continue ReadingNext total solar eclipse set for 2024
You might want to hold onto your eclipse safety glasses for a little longer. The next total solar eclipse will be seven years from now, and it turns…
Continue ReadingThe Borderland Views the Partial Eclipse
People of all ages gathered across the borderland to view the partial eclipse. While we were not in the path totality, more than sixty percent of the…
Continue ReadingEl Paso city reps pitch last-minute budget requests, baby changing stations, municipal IDs
El Paso City Council is getting closer to passing a 2017-2018 budget. At Monday’s special City Council meeting, representatives decided they…
Continue ReadingAaron Jones reflects on first NFL touchdown
Former UTEP running back Aaron Jones says that midway through the 2nd quarter in Saturday’s game against Washington, Packers quarterback Brett…
Continue ReadingEl Paso City Council votes not to fund municipal IDs
A municipal ID proposal has been voted down by El Paso City Council. Mayor Dee Margo broke a 4-4 tie vote. Reps. Michiel Noe, Henry Rivera, Sam…
Continue ReadingStudents at Jornada Elementary School take creative approaches to viewing eclipse
While many eclipse-watchers used solar glasses to view the phenomena, students at Jornada Elementary School in Las Cruces grabbed handmade crafts to…
Continue ReadingNew lawsuit alleges Baylor failures under new rape policies
A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit Monday against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the…
Continue ReadingSouth Carolina couple welcomes their own Eclipse, a baby girl
Once upon a time they were falling in love. A South Carolina couple has welcomed a baby girl whom they named for the celestial event that had…
Continue ReadingFormer priest for the Diocese of El Paso allegedly admits to sexual misconduct with a minor
The Diocese of El Paso announced on Monday Miguel Luna, a former priest, allegedly admitted to sexual misconduct with a young girl in the 1980s. The…
Continue ReadingDocument: Truck driver offered $11,000 to transport immigrants to California and North TX
A routine traffic stop led to the arrest of the Georgia truck driver accused of transporting 23 undocumented immigrants and more than 200 pounds of…
Continue Reading60 undocumented immigrants found in refrigerated tractor trailer
Sixty immigrants have been found in a load of ice-covered broccoli in a refrigerated trailer that was searched at a South Texas border checkpoint,…
Continue ReadingPresident Trump watches eclipse from White House
President Donald Trump squinted and pointed skyward before donning protective glasses to take in the solar eclipse at the White House. The president…
Continue ReadingJudge denies witness chance to view eclipse
A federal judge in Florida ruled a trial couldn’t be postponed just because one of the key witnesses – a federal agent – had travel…
Continue ReadingAmericans are dazzled as eclipse turns day into night
Millions of Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the sun in the…
Continue ReadingUniversity of Texas in Austin removes Robert E. Lee statue
The University of Texas quickly removed statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures overnight from the main area of the Austin…
Continue ReadingNew Mexico delegates make plea for 2 national monuments
The Democratic members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation have issued another plea to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to keep intact two…
Continue ReadingWATCH LIVE: Moon blots the sun out of the sky in historic US eclipse
Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the midday sun in the first…
Continue ReadingStudents, teachers gear up for first day of classes in EPISD
Thousands of students gear up for the first day of classes in the El Paso Independent School District Monday morning. There are nearly 60,000…
Continue ReadingSolar eclipse will help scientists learn more about ‘space weather’
The solar eclipse later this month will be the most studied of all time, with some of the data collected coming from ordinary folks volunteering…
Continue ReadingWATCH LIVE: ABC-7’s Live Eclipse Coverage from the ‘Path of Totality’
Americans with telescopes, cameras and protective glasses staked out viewing spots along a narrow corridor from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the…
Continue ReadingWomen’s gun group in Amarillo concentrates on teaching
M’Lynn Miller, 48, is comfortable with a .22-caliber handgun. And, and as she said, is getting better with a 9 mm, too. She has attained the…
Continue ReadingNMSU team to release balloon into atmosphere to record eclipse
An NMSU team traveled nearly one thousand miles to release an eight-foot-tall balloon into the atmosphere to record the solar eclipse. “I just,…
Continue ReadingUS warship collides with tanker near Singapore; 10 missing
A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a tanker early Monday in waters east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca, and at least 10…
Continue ReadingCouncil to discuss installing baby stations in all city restrooms
As El Paso and its families grow more diapers need to be changed and one city rep is hoping to give families more places to safely and cleanly take…
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