The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office on Monday dismissed a first-degree felony assault charge against James Brennand, who lost his job as a San Antonio police officer after he opened fire on an unarmed teenager in a McDonald’s parking lot. A grand jury indicted Brennand on an assault by a public servant charge in December […]
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, sent a letter late last week to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) demanding it detail the extent of its involvement in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s fatal shooting of a Houston man. An ICE agent fired on Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three last […]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa on Monday blamed her Republican opponent, Gov. Greg Abbott, for Texas falling from No. 2 to No. 4 in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business rankings. CNBC attributed Texas’ step backward in the ranking to the state’s poor quality of life, which the media outlet chalked up to “persistently high […]
Prominent GOP leaders are sounding the alarm about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign as the scandal-tarred Republican faces new controversy and his Democratic rival breezed past him in fundraising. Recent media reports have again highlighted accusations about Paxton’s marital infidelity and suggested he may have engaged in voter fraud. Meanwhile, Paxton’s opponent, […]
It’s easy to get the summer travel blues. The dollar is dropping against foreign currencies, airline tickets are soaring, crowds in some European destinations have brought foot and vehicle traffic to a virtual standstill. In others, special fees, visitor limits and even water pistols are used to discourage tourism. Which explains the popularity of the […]
Last week, the Pentagon released a trove of documents relating to reports of UFO sightings around the country, including one of particular interest near a nuclear weapons facility in North Texas. The Lone Star State incident occurred in September 2015 at the Pantex nuclear facility in Amarillo, according to documents detailing it at the time. […]
Charley Crockett, an alt-country artist from San Benito, Texas, has deleted nearly all of his Instagram posts after getting intense backlash for booting Twin Temple, a self-styled Satanic doo wop duo, from two West Coast dates they were scheduled to open. “Today we were informed that Charley Crockett has decided to remove Twin Temple from […]
A total of 68 data centers are currently operating or in the planning stage within a 50-mile radius of San Antonio, according to a database recently collated by the Texas Tribune. More than half of the San Antonio-area facilities listed in the database haven’t reported the amount of energy they require to operate. However, those […]
Inside a packed San Antonio Shrine Auditorium during the last weekend of June, a multi-generational crowd of collectors gathered for the San Antonio Collectors Expo with a mission: to buy, sell and showcase their prized cardboard investments. People of all ages swarmed the floor. Young kids dressed in suits carried briefcases full of sports cards […]
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. In brief remarks to reporters Monday at the White House, President Donald Trump noted that he was shocked to learn how much energy developing artificial intelligence requires and said […]