On Tuesday, Austin’s police presence increased, some of its streets were shut down and flights there were restricted. All in anticipation of Vice President JD Vance arriving for an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. CBS Austin caught footage of the heavy police presence outside of Rogan’s studio ahead of the visit. […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to crack down on “birth tourism” after a right-wing blog reported on a mysterious website advertising “birth packages” to foreigners wanting to have their children in the Lone Star State. The Health and Human Services Commission has since referred the matter to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office. “This conduct […]
Texas Republicans plan yet another full-court press to in the upcoming legislative session to ban all THC products, the Houston Chronicle reports. “I’m filing the ban again,” state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, said during a hearing at the Texas Capitol last week. “There’s nothing good in this stuff. There’s no virtue in it.” Perry sponsored […]
Stone Oak brunch staple Full Belly Cafe + Bar closed on July 1, owner Blade Haddock told the Express-News. The dining spot at 427 N Loop 1604 West, Suite 202, opened in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and weathered a series of closures and re-openings, including a brief expansion to a second […]
Erik Cantu — the young man shot multiple times by a former San Antonio police officer almost four years ago — was arrested and charged with felony evading arrest at around 9 p.m. Monday night, the Express-News reports. Cantu’s arrest came mere hours after the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office dismissed its case against James Brennand, the […]
The devil works hard, but apparently, Twin Temple works harder. Texas country artist Charley Crockett made headlines by kicking the Satanic doo-wop duo off a couple of recent dates, but the pair have plenty of other shows lined up, including one this fall in San Antonio. First, Jack White invited the husband-wife act to open […]
In April 2024, the Biden administration cleared the way for more than 4 million low-wage workers to collect overtime pay. People earning less than $58,656 were to be paid time and a half if they worked over 40 hours a week, a shift that would put $1.5 billion into workers’ pockets, according to the Economic […]
McALLEN — Last week’s killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was the latest test of an already strained relationship between the two nations that share a border in Texas. On Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that her government will file complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice […]
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 […]