Among hardcore San Antonio wrestling fans, few names perk up interest like that of Thunder Rosa. The Tijuana native became an Alamo City favorite thanks to her hard-hitting style and fierce persona. In 2020, she gained even more prominence by becoming the first Mexican-born wrestler to hold the NWA World Women’s Championship.
Four senior San Antonio Express-News photojournalists have taken early retirement packages, the daily revealed in a Monday column praising the longtime staffers’ contributions. The departures include Luis Rios, who served as the paper’s photo director for 13 years, along with Jerry Lara, Kin Man Hui and Billy Calzada, each with decades of service at the paper. […]
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a high-profile member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, has a Democratic challenger for his 2024 reelection bid. Scientist Kristin Hook is the first person to file for the 2024 Democratic primary for Texas’s 21st Congressional District. Roy was first elected to represent the district — which spans parts of San Antonio and […]
The Brewsology Beer Fest — billed as a boozy take on middle-school museum field trips — will take over San Antonio’s Witte Museum next spring. The the traveling festival’s inaugural Alamo City appearance is scheduled for March 30 and will feature more than 50 breweries from Texas and beyond, according to its website. Texas craft brewers […]
An employee at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium was arrested Sunday on charges that he let football fans without tickets into a much-anticipated game in exchange for cash bribes, Tarrant County court records show. More than 90,000 folks cheered on the Dallas Cowboys as they defeated the rival Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s stunning 33-12 victory. However, not […]
A 13-year-old cake shop in Northwest San Antonio is asking for community help after a car crashed into its building, causing serious damage. A driver lost control of his SUV and crashed into Letty’s Cakes at 1717 Fredericksburg Road just before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, TV station KENS5 reports.
Erik Cantu, the San Antonio teen whose shooting last year by a then-SAPD officer grabbed national headlines, has been arrested again — this time for failing to pull his vehicle over for police. Cantu, 18, was arrested and charged Saturday with evading arrest in a vehicle and failing to stop and provide information to officers, […]
The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a court order that would have permitted Dallas woman Kate Cox to legally obtain an abortion in the state, the Texas Tribune reports. Monday’s ruling by the all-Republican court states that doctors, not judges, must use “reasonable medical judgment” to decide when a patient qualifies for the procedure […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Tim Dunn, a West Texas billionaire who has used his oil fortune to turbocharge the state’s far-right political movement, sold his oil company Monday in a deal valued at about $12 billion.
The man charged with the murder of a South Texas cheerleader has confessed to the crime, the Victoria Advocate reports. Sixteen-year-old Lizbeth Medina’s body was discovered Dec. 5 in the bathtub of her family’s apartment in Edna, a town of about 6,000 people located between Victoria and Houston. She had apparently been stabbed to death, according […]