Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is celebrating a win after an appeals court temporarily blocked the federal government from destroying the razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Biden administration was trying to stop the state from placing the razor wire to prevent people from coming into Texas from Mexico. The Fifth Circuit Court of … Read more
AUSTIN – Austin police have released officer body camera video from a shooting on Dec. 5 involving a 34-year-old San Antonio man arrested in connection with a string of attacks that left six people dead and at least three others injured in Austin and Bexar County. Police in Austin said the victims were found dead … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio nonprofit recorded the deaths of 326 people experiencing homelessness in Bexar County so far in 2023 — a figure nearly double its previous high last year. The deaths included people living on the streets or in shelters, with ages ranging from 94 years old down to an 11-day-old infant. … Read more
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar is one of several leaders across Texas reacting to Senate Bill 4, a new law that will give state and local police the authority to arrest people they suspect of being undocumented anywhere in the state. Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to the Rio Grande Valley on Monday to sign the … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – The City of San Antonio funds the only residential facility in Bexar County that treats co-occurring conditions, meaning people with both substance use and mental health disorders. It’s called the Integrated Treatment Program (ITP) facility and it’s run by the city’s Center for Health Care Services. A drop in funding this fiscal … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – State and county leaders held a memorial Tuesday for a little boy who was tragically killed 20 years ago. Jovonie Ochoa was 4 years old and weighed 16 pounds when he died on Christmas Day in 2003. Family members starved him over several months in his grandmother’s West Side home. The investigation … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – Jesse Munoz was fueling up his “sleigh” for his holiday Uber rounds. It doesn’t run on reindeer. “I wish it did,” he said. “I really wish it did.” Local gas prices are down 25 cents in the past month to an average of $2.57, according to AAA fuel reports. That’s roughly the … Read more