San Antonio sports fans were quick to congratulate former Spurs guard Derrick White on winning the 2024 NBA Championship as part of the Boston Celtics. White’s new team beat the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 at the TD Garden Monday night. That win secured the Green’s 18th NBA championship.
The family of a San Antonio man who died while being booked into jail has filed a federal lawsuit against two Bexar County deputies, alleging the pair used unnecessary lethal force to restrain him. Emmanuel Mora, 37, died Aug. 27 while being booked at Bexar County’s Justice Intake and Assessment Annex. He was arrested by […]
Over the weekend, Southtown nightspot Hands Down announced via an Instagram post that it’s closing. Its final day of service is this Saturday.
San Antonio arts group Urban-15 will present its 23rd annual Summer Solstice dance performance on Thursday, June 29, beneath the lighted squares of Christopher Janney’s public artwork Passing Light, a solar sculpture installed 20 years ago at the San Antonio International Airport. The free performance begins at 2 p.m., the moment when the sun reaches its […]
A North Texas woman will serve 40 days in jail after pleading guilty to charges related to a racially charged tirade she directed at a group of Indian American women two years ago. A now-viral video of the incident showed Esmeralda Upton of Plano mocking the group for their accents, referring to them as “curry-ass bitches” and hurling punches. […]
Chalk up a loss for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s anti-cannabis crusade. A Travis County district court judge last week dismissed a suit the Republican AG filed to strike down voter-approved decriminalization ordinances adopted in five Texas cities, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Judge Jan Soifer last Wednesday ruled there was no legal justification to try the […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. EL PASO — An El Paso judge heard arguments Monday from a lawyer in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office who claims that a migrant shelter is violating state law by providing shelter […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. CIUDAD JUÁREZ — National Guard members on the Texas-Mexico border have added pepper ball guns to their arsenal, firing at migrants who are gathering on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande or […]
A federal court sentenced a San Antonio woman to 14 years in prison on charges that she misrepresented herself as a legal advocate to help to smuggle immigrants into the country, according to federal authorities. People hoping to cross the border provided Kimberly Cruz, 35, with packets of information, which she used when misrepresenting herself […]
A San Antonio man who’s alleged physical altercation with a woman in a north-of-downtown park went viral in a video clip last summer is now going to trial on a felony charge, court records show. The trial of Noah Ochoa, 25, will get underway June 24 in Bexar County’s 290th District Court. He faces charges […]