SAN ANTONIO – Just days before the one-year mark of her death, Melissa Perez’s family still can’t believe what happened. “I wish I could just go back and tell her how much I loved her,” Alexis Tovar, Perez’s daughter, said. “I’ll never be the same. I don’t have my mom with me anymore.” San Antonio … Read more
On Tuesday afternoon, San Antonio police said that a 16-year-old boy shot his mother in the back of the head with a shotgun in the 1500 block of Delgado Street.
Social Security is the backbone of our retirement system. But right now, it’s facing big challenges. The program’s trust fund is being depleted. Trustees say if Congress doesn’t do anything to shore up Social Security’s finances, beneficiaries will see 17% cut in benefits by 2035. Social Security benefits help older Americans, disabled workers, wounded warriors … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – Wednesday marked Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston and announced that enslaved people in the United States were free. San Antonio organizations honored the holiday with educational events, festivals and more. One of the celebrations was held at Second Baptist Church in the 3300 block of East … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – Higher fines and a new surcharge for heavy water users are among the new proposed drought rules up for a vote before the San Antonio City Council on Thursday. Officials with the San Antonio Water System say current drought restrictions are not doing enough to save water. So SAWS officials have proposed … Read more
NACIMIENTO, COAHUILA – Although they’d never been enslaved, after the Seminole Indian Wars in the mid-1800s, Black Seminoles were pursued by slave catchers when they were forced to leave Florida and join the infamous Trail of Tears. But even after finally reaching Indian Territory in Oklahoma, their descendants said the slave catchers didn’t give up. … Read more
San Antonio police and Crime Stoppers are seeking information leading to an arrest in connection with a fatal April shooting.