After a body was found floating in a San Antonio sewage tank Saturday, online speculation has tried to link the discovery to a separate corpse found in Corpus Christi — and blame both deaths on a serial killer. Law enforcement officials in San Antonio and Corpus Christi have said there’s no evidence of foul play […]
Charity art event CowParade has extended its San Antonio application deadline to Sep. 16 in a bid to attract additional artists, event organizers said. The first San Antonio Cow Parade in more 20 years will begin exhibition next spring, displaying 75 life-size fiberglass cows around the city — each painted by local creators. Later, an […]
A free-speech watchdog group is accusing San Antonio’s Animal Care Services Department of violating the First Amendment by deleting Facebook comments critical of the department’s euthanasia practices. In a Tuesday letter, the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) alleges ACS deleted 400 comments on its Facebook page this May. About 80% of those deleted comments […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas’s highest criminal court on Wednesday declined to stop the execution next month of Robert Roberson, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter, but who has consistently challenged […]
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. WASHINGTON — Two years ago, Joey Reed excoriated U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for not doing more to help free his son Trevor, who was being held […]
As billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX awaits federal approval to conduct another test launch, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined the firm more than $148,000 over environmental issues at its South Texas site. In documents posted online, EPA officials said SpaceX agreed to pay the penalty over a spill of 36,000 gallons of liquid oxygen into […]
A Uvalde Police Department employee was put on leave this week and now faces disciplinary action after failing to submit body-cam footage related to the Robb Elementary School shooting, the Uvalde Leader-News reports. Department officials began an investigation in August into whether footage from the mass-shooting response was missing. The inquiry came after a district judge […]
In the dark crime comedy Greedy People, British actor Himesh Patel stars as Will Shelley, a rookie police officer in Providence, Rhode Island, who finds trouble when he accidentally kills the wife (Traci Lords) of a local seafood tycoon (Tim Blake Nelson). Things get more complicated when Will and his eccentric partner, Terry Brogan (Joseph […]
Music for Listeners, the taste-making indie-music program on Trinity University’s KRTU-FM, celebrates its 25th birthday this weekend. The crew behind Music for Listeners will celebrate with two free concerts, both at the campus’ Laurie Auditorium. The first, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 14, will include San Antonio’s quirky popsters Buttercup along with Austin indie-rockers Voxtrot and […]
Yellowstone prequel 1923 is shooting in San Antonio until the end of the month, and the series is urgently seeking background actors. Legacy Casting posted on Facebook this Wednesday that the extras are needed on Monday, Sept. 23, for a full 12-hour day of shooting. Shooting is likely to start around 5 a.m., according to […]