Tag: San Antonio

The newest figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show Texas continues to dominate the list of the nation’s fastest growing cities and towns.

A professor of psychology at the University of Texas, San Antonio, argues that Americans are emotionally “fatigued” due to the prevalence of negative news in the media.

A funeral home in Texas is being sued by parents who say the business lost their 25-year-old daughter’s body. Lawyers questioned business owners about a subcontractor whose Facebook “profile picture shows two men singing, with a cover photo of a dark figure eating a severed limb, surrounded by headstones with the names of bandmates above the words ‘homicidal necrophile’.”

A year-end study by Zillow, the real estate website, revealed that U.S. home values soared in 2017 reaching a record $31.8 trillion. Its list of the nation’s 35 largest markets included four Texas metropolitan areas that made impressive gains, notably Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.

Pope Francis has sent a telegram of condolences to the families and victims of the San Antonio slaughter, expressing his grief over the “senseless violence.”

A San Antonio-based Uber driver has been accused of taking an unconscious female passenger to his home where he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

One Texas school board ousted its high school’s Confederate namesake, General Robert E. Lee, on Monday night, unveiling its replacement name: LEE High.

A small group of protesters came out Sunday demanding that San Antonio city officials remove a longstanding statue of Christopher Columbus. They held signs and chanted, asserting that Monday’s federal holiday, which honors the explorer, represents oppression for Native Americans.

A Texas math teacher is accused of having sexual relations with a teenage student for more than a year, including one time at a public park.

A Texas restaurant employee who wrote a Facebook post saying Hurricane Harvey evacuees in the area should “drown” for allegedly not tipping him is now out of a job.

The anti-sanctuary city law in Texas, arguably the toughest in the country, has been incendiary and the fight to its passage has been emotional. Now, two Democrat-dominated cities in Texas are joining the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and other open border and pro-amnesty organizations to block the law.

A man who smuggled illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico Border was sentenced to eight years in prison.

The son of a former Mexican governor fears that U.S. authorities will arrest him when he is expected to travel to a San Antonio, Texas, courthouse for a hearing in connection with an asset forfeiture case.

Air Force troops have been warned not to use certain words and phrases because they might be deemed offensive.

News outlets in Texas are reporting that at least two shooters are involved in what appears to be a robbery gone bad in a San Antonio, Texas, mall. Reports indicate that one person was killed, and five others were taken to area hospitals. A licensed Texas gun owner stepped in and shot one robber after that man allegedly killed a Goood Samaritan.

Authorities continue to look into how two men were shot in a house where Mexican cartel gunmen had been holding three Mexican immigrants for ransom. When authorities arrived to the scene, they discovered the body of a man and a second shooting victim. Authorities also discovered that three men were being held for ransom at the home.

President-Elect Donald Trump reportedly paused to call the family of assassinated San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi on Monday.

The Office of the Texas Governor is offering a cash reward up to $15,000 for information leading to the arrest of anyone connected to the execution of the San Antonio officer this past weekend. This reward will be combined to bring the total reward up to $25,000.

Authorities in San Antonio, Texas continue to investigate a shooting at a Halloween party that sent five people to the hospital.

At a time when taking a “knee” has become the fashionable gesture of today’s youth, one Texas teenager gave the nation nearly 400 reasons why patriotism is still in style, transforming a community service project into a school-wide “thank you” to veterans.

A man revealed to be part of a conspiracy to murder a Texas judge and commit banking fraud is now reported to be on the loose in the Houston, Texas region.

With the 15th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks days away, one Texas mattress store exercised bizarre judgment in posting an online ad for a “Twin Tower” sale that ended with the collapse of two twin mattress “towers”.

A teen in San Antonio, TX struggled to find work, so he created his own way to make money. Fox 59 reports that Todd Arredondo was driving in downtown San Antonio when he noticed teen selling candy apples and bottled water. Arredondo gave

A former employee of a daycare in northwest San Antonio is facing federal charges related to production and distribution of child pornography with contacts made on Grindr and other mobile communication apps.

A jury took just two hours to sentence a Texas mom to 99 years for failing to seek medical care for her five-year-old step-son. The boy had been beaten and weighed just 38 pounds when he died.

Not since 1985 has San Antonio enjoyed a professional football team within its immediate media market. If the Oakland Raiders have their way, the Alamo City could be competing with Las Vegas for Texas’ third franchise, at the expense of local taxpayers according to a Breitbart Texas interview with Stanford University economics professor Roger Noll.

A mother has pleaded guilty in the starvation case of her five-year-old son. The boy’s father and step-grandmother will face a jury on charges that they starved and beat the little boy.

A San Antonio public relations expert and mentor heavily engaged with Israel’s startup tech scene was killed Saturday night when a driver plowed his car into a Tel Aviv café.

Hispanic activists are gearing-up to turn out massive numbers to protest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump while he is in Texas this week. The organizer of the event in Dallas says the event there is being billed as “Dump the Trump,” and “Dump Dufus Donald.”

A couple from San Antonio, Texas, has been charged with child abuse for allegedly making their children eat jalapenos until they threw-up, and then making them eat the vomit.

Two toddlers were found chained like dogs in a Texas backyard late Thursday night. Six other children were found unattended in the San Antonio home. One of the toddlers was chained to the ground, and one was tied with a dog leash, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Officials in San Antonio, Texas, worry that Zika virus may pose a serious threat to the local blood supply. They held a press conference Monday to address these concerns.

A medical examiner’s report has determined that Notre Dame theology professor Father Virgilio Elizondo died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head Monday in his home in San Antonio, Texas. The 80-year-old Elizondo, who was considered the founder of

Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Ted Cruz is “cruzzz’in” through the Lone Star State with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and former Governor Rick Perry on Monday. Both have endorsed their fellow Texan.

The Raiders football organization is at a crossroads, and one influential radio host is suggesting that the team move from its home in Oakland to California’s capital city, Sacramento.