DALLAS (AP) — Personal information for more than 8,000 applicants to become pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines was stolen when hackers broke into a data base maintained by a recruiting company.

The breach at Austin, Texas-based Pilot Credentials occurred April 30, and the airlines learned about it on May 3. They notified affected job seekers last week.

According to letters that the airlines were required to file with regulators in Maine, hackers gained access to names, birth dates, Social Security and passport numbers, and driver and pilot-license numbers of applicants for pilot and cadet jobs.

According to filings, 5,745 applicants to American and 3,009 at Southwest were affected, many of whom were hired by the airlines.

The Allied Pilots Association, which represents pilots at American, said 2,200 of its members were affected by the breach. Spokesman Dennis Tajer said the union is upset that American knew about the breach for more than seven weeks before it notified victims.

LAREDO, TX. (KGNS) -After five years, the trial for the ex-Border Patrol Agent Ronald Anthony Burgos-Aviles who is accused of killing Grizelda Hernandez, 27, and their son Dominic Alexander Hernandez, is finally underway at the 49th District Court.

It’s a trial that took years of preparation and postponements but after five years, the trial for Ronald Anthony Burgos-Aviles is officially underway.

During the opening statements, the Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz recalled the final moments of Grizelda and Dominic for more than an hour.

After Judge Joe Lopez instructed the jurors on the trial instructions, the opening statements got underway at 10 Monday morning.

Alaniz told jurors, the state will show evidence pointing towards Burgos and how he is guilty of the double murders.

Along with video and photographic evidence, Alaniz started with the graphic details of the murders telling jurors that Grizelda was found with 27 stab wounds, some of which were her head, face, shoulders, back, arms and ears.

As for baby Dominic, the state claimed Burgos took his knife and stabbed the baby in the sternum, but the baby was still not dead; Dominic also sustained a stab wound to his throat.

Alaniz then began to give a background into Grizelda who was a single mother of two.

Alaniz told jurors Burgos was the father of Dominic and Grizelda who was seeking child support from Burgos.

The two began an affair in 2015; however, Burgos was already married and had two children of his own.

A few days before the double murders on March 25, Dominic met his father and sustained an injury.

After going into details about it, the district attorney then went back to the day of the murders, April 9.

The district attorney told the jury they will hear testimonies from officers, as well as agents who were at the crime scene. Alaniz said they will also show video of the interaction between Burgos and law enforcement.

Meanwhile, opening statements for Burgos were shorter.

Representing Burgos are Eduardo Pena and William Boggs.

His attorney told jurors to evaluate the prosecutor’s evidence and hopefully they will consider life in prison instead of the death penalty if Burgos was found guilty.

After the opening statements ended, the trial took a five-minute recess.

After the break, the first witness, Angelica Hernandez, the sister of Grizelda took the stand.

During an emotional testimony, Angelica provided the courtroom with a deep insight of who Grizelda was and the events that took place prior to her and her son’s death.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) of leaking their tense argument in the House chamber to the press, calling it “unfortunate” that she did so.

“I find it unfortunate that Lauren Boebert leaked that conversation that we had to the press. But once she leaked it out, I had to confirm that that’s, in fact, what I said,” Greene said in an interview on Fox News’s “MediaBuzz” with Howard Kurtz.

The Daily Beast first reported the argument between the two conservative lawmakers, citing two sources who saw the exchange and a third who was familiar with the matter. Greene confirmed the story later to reporters in which she called Boebert a “little bitch” after the Colorado lawmaker sought to force a vote on her impeachment resolution against President Biden. 

Since the sources in The Daily Beast story are unnamed, there is no public evidence that Boebert “leaked” the story. When reached for comment by the publication, neither lawmaker denied the reporting. 

The Hill has reached out to Boebert’s office for comment.

Greene has long pushed to bring impeachment articles against Biden — pledging to do so even before he was sworn into office. She introduced her impeachment resolution the day after he was sworn into office.

Greene said she was frustrated with Boebert since she had asked the Colorado congresswoman to support her impeachment articles — which she introduced in May for the 118th Congress — but Boebert had taken independent action without discussing it with other GOP members. 

“But here’s the real issue: I’ve introduced articles of impeachment, and each time I do so, along with my other bills, I communicate with all of my Republican colleagues and ask for support by asking their co-sponsorship, because I co-sponsor many other Republicans’ bills,” Greene said.

“In order to pass things on the House floor, we have to get 218 votes, and that means that we have to work together. I’d asked her to co-sponsor my articles of impeachment against Joe Biden on the border, and she never responded and, apparently, refused to do so,” she said.

“Then, when she introduced her own and forced them to the floor with a privilege resolution — without even having the courage to talk to any other Republican in our conference before doing so except Speaker McCarthy and, apparently, a few others — yes, we had a tense conversation when she confronted me about things I had said about it,” Greene added.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A victim who escaped his captors helped Mexican officials arrest two bus drivers allegedly paid to deliver African and South American migrants to an organized criminal group in Sonora.

The information provided by the escapee led to the rescue of 26 migrants from Africa and South America being held for ransom in the town of Sonoyta, the Sonora Attorney General’s Office said.

“The investigation began after we received information that migrants were being hit with wooden boards and recorded to demand a ransom from family members in the United States,” said Brando Saul Muñoz Felix, a prosecutor assisting the anti-kidnapping unit of the Sonora state police.

Investigators showed the escaped migrants photographs of suspects possibly involved in migrant trafficking activities and he was able to identify two of them, the prosecutor said.

“We established that two bus drivers were tasked with transporting these (migrants) and delivering them to accomplices. They took photographs of migrants who go on the bus in Mexico City and then delivered them to their captors in Sonoyta,” Muñoz said in an online broadcast.

The prosecutor said the filmed beatings were a way for the kidnappers to put pressure on the migrants’ relatives and expedite the ransom.

The bus drivers were arrested last week in the state capital of Hermosillo while transporting a separate group of migrants traveling with false Mexican immigration papers. The passengers included 24 citizens of African countries and two South Americans.

The transportation of undocumented African migrants is on the rise in the Sonora, Mexico-Nogales, Arizona corridor, according to Mexican officials.

The Mexican National Guard said four commercial buses transporting 191 migrants were stopped late last week on the Hermosillo-Nogales highway.

The migrants were coming from Angola, Cameroon, Morocco, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal and did not have travel permits to be in Mexico, the National Guard said in a statement. Other migrants traveling in the buses included citizens of Ecuador, Venezuela, China and Nepal.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows migrant activity picked up in May in the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol, which includes Nogales.

The Tucson Sector is now No. 2 in the country in terms of migrant apprehensions, ahead of El Paso and Del Rio, Texas.

LAREDO, TX. (KGNS) - A man is charged in connection to a shooting that left a teenager shot in the head over the weekend.

Laredo Police arrested Carlos Sanchez, 24, and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault causing injuries.

The incident was reported on Sunday at around 2 am. near Willow Street and Jarvis Avenue.

According to police, the incident took place during a large party involving teens.

Police say Sanchez targeted a 17-year-old who was driving away from the party and fired shots in his direction, but the gunfire struck an unintended victim in the head, an 18-year-old man who was present at the scene.

The injured 18-year-old was taken to the hospital and later airlifted to San Antonio.

The investigation into the case remains ongoing.

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) -While the hottest part of the desert air aloft has shifted north, bringing 110F heat to San Angelo southwest into the Permian Basin and Trans Pecos, we are still under it’s control. The combination of humid air late morning and early afternoon, and hotter conditions with slightly less humid air mid afternoon are still producing Excessive Heat Warning Conditions in our area, and will continue to do so into this week. 

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Ten suspects across the Borderland are now facing felony charges after the Texas Department of Public Safety conducted an anti-prostitution operation, the agency announced Sunday night, June 25. The operation was conducted June 21-22 and was spearheaded by the Criminal Investigations Division of DPS.

“The goal of the operation was to target individuals seeking to exploit and victimize prostitutes,” read a release announcing the operation and the arrests. “Also, to identify and apprehend individuals suspected to be involved in human trafficking by utilizing the Internet to solicit sexual acts from minors and adults.”

The following adults were arrested and booked into El Paso County Jail.

• Kevin Larry, aka Larry Bertrand, 41, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• John Enrique Cordova, 38, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Francisco Camacho Jr., aka Francisco Martinez, 29, of Socorro, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Carlos Eduardo Ortiz, 22, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Terry Roland Green, 47, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Pedro Martin Rodriguez Jr., 41, of Las Cruces, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Manuel Alejandro Rivera, 39, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Benjamin Olivares Mendoza, 49, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Humberto Valenzuela, 37, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony;

• Javier Arturo Trejo, 65, of El Paso, solicitation of prostitution, state jail felony.

Multiple agencies assisted in the investigation: DPS (special agents and Highway Patrol); Homeland Security Investigations; Border Patrol; Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; Fort Bliss Criminal Investigation Division; the Western District of Texas United States Attorney Office; and the Border Prosecution Unit for the El Paso District Attorney’s Office.