San Antonio attorney Jerry V. Hernandez and his wife Sonia were found dead Wednesday morning in what police are describing as a murder-suicide, News4SA reports. Authorities found the bodies of the 61-year-old lawyer and his 52-year-old spouse at their home in the Shavano Park suburb, the TV station reports. Police were dispatched to the residence just […]
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this week executed search warrants in Bexar County, one of the state’s most-populous Democratic strongholds, explaining that he’s trying to root out election fraud. In a statement, Paxton’s office said it also executed search warrants in Frio and Atascosa counties as part of a two-year investigation into claims of “election […]
Chicken Salad Chick is opening a new location near UTSA as it continues to grow its San Antonio footprint. The new location will debut Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 6010 Road Runner Blvd. It’s the fast-casual chain’s fourth in the Alamo City metro.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For more than two years, Gov. Greg Abbott has sent thousands of migrants who’ve recently arrived at the southern border to cities run by Democrats. But in border towns, the buses have largely […]
Most of us have come into contact with an unforgettable teacher at one point in out schooling, and San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B wants to award those integral educators with cash prizes. The 2025 H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards are now open through Oct. 7, and the company is seeking nominations of outstanding educators. The supermarket […]
From the mayor and the county’s top cop to a Desperate Housewives actress and a conjunto legend, San Antonio repped big at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. On Monday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg made headlines by calling Donald Trump a “clown” during a speech to Texas Democrats at the event. The same day, San Antonio […]
After winning the Women’s Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this month, former state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte lamented the growing political divide in a discussion with the Texas Business Minds podcast. “We began to see over the progression in 2000 — certainly in 2011, 2013 — the beginnings of some real divisiveness [in the […]
Adventurous, metal-tinged rock trio Donella Drive is playing a benefit show this Saturday to raise money to cover the cost of mixing and mastering a new album and the release of additional music videos. The San Antonio band will headline a show at Crows, located in the same east-of-downtown complex as The Rock Box. The […]
Texas’ newly enacted ban on people changing the gender listed on their driver’s licenses will create hurdles for transgender people at the ballot box, officials with a top voter-education group caution. The warning from national organization VoteRiders comes a day after the Texas Department of Public Safety adopted a block on people changing the sex on their […]
Born in the Netherlands in 1889, Han van Meegeren aspired to be recognized as a great painter but got pigeonholed for his obsession with bygone eras, specifically the Dutch Golden Age. After finding limited success with his nostalgia-fueled originals, he began forging works by 17th-century masters including Johannes Vermeer.