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The NBA told sportsbooks on Friday that they will not be permitted to offer certain types of wagering this season, including which players record the first stat of a game, the outcome of the opening tip and taking the “under” involving players not expected to play more than a few...
Tejano music star Michael Salgado is postponing upcoming performances for the next couple of weeks after suffering a stroke earlier this month, according to a statement from the singer. In a news release posted on Facebook on Thursday, Salgado said he suffered the stroke on Oct. ...
The doorbell chimed “The Star Spangled Banner” as retired Col. Lou Christensen stepped inside the large house on the northeastern edge of Colorado Springs. The registered Republican and 28-year Air Force veteran was doing something he never expected to do — attending a party for ...
Acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Yiyun Li discusses Music Against the Night, a sweeping historical novel set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Through the lives of two musicians, Li explores artistic ambition, sacrifice and the elusive promise of being remembered....
Confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have surpassed 9,000, with more than 4,300 deaths, as health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak spreading across seven provinces, according to government figures released Tuesday. The Health Ministry reported 9,066 confirmed case...
Two were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning in Uvalde Estates, according to the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office. One of the people injured was airlifted to a San Antonio hospital, Sheriff Ruben Nolasco said in a Facebook post , after a shooting off Bobwhite Loop. The sheri...
Cowboys Dancehall said legal battles with their landlord and nearby construction forced the venue to close in an interview with KSAT 12 on Saturday, after announcing it would not reopen in a Facebook post Friday. “There’s a lot of factors that came into that Facebook post,” spoke...
A reflection on Mavis Gallant’s “My Heart Is Broken,” a powerful story about violence, silence and the limits of our ability to understand another person’s suffering....
Fiction by Edwidge Danticat , Valeria Luiselli and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among this year's finalists for the National Book Awards , with many of the books taking on such contentious issues as gender identity, criminal justice and the Middle East. Tuesday's announcement by the N...
A year ago, the Golden State Valkyries made history by reaching the playoffs as an expansion team, then had to host their only home game nearly 50 miles away because Chase Center had been booked before they even existed by the Laver Cup tennis showcase. They wound up losing to th...
Calling all ghosts and ghouls, it’s officially spooky season! “Orange” you excited for Halloween? October features an exciting lineup of events, including classic Halloween activities such as pumpkin patches and corn mazes. But you can also check out book festivals, celebrities a...
MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Vincent Valdez will share prints of drawings from his "The New Americans" series on Saturday at the Guadalupe Latino Bookstore as part of the ACLU of Texas’ artist-in-residence program....
Move over, beach reads. With the fall equinox behind us, we can now curl up with cozy autumn books. There are new titles coming from Barbara Kingsolver, Chad Harbach, Jasmine Guillory and more....
It’s October and time for flu shots . Medical experts urge getting a flu vaccination soon, before influenza starts spreading widely — and to get up to date on protection against other fall respiratory viruses, too. Updated COVID-19 shots are available now, plus shots for people e...
A review of Madeleine Thien’s story collection, "Simple Recipes." It's a quietly powerful collection about family, displacement and the ways love, memory and history shape the lives we inherit....
A Stone Oak restaurant announced it plans to close permanently on Sunday, Oct. 4, according to a Facebook post. The Old English Tea Shoppe announced the closure as two of its co-owners, Sandra and Peter Marley, made the decision to return to the United Kingdom for “circumstances ...
A group of San Antonio authors is establishing a co-op publishing house to give writers more support publishing and marketing their books. San Antonio authors launch their own book publishing co-op was first posted on September 26, 2026 at 2:00 pm. ©2021 " San Antonio Report...
A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform in the latest legal setback against the social media giant that has already cost it billions of dollars. The jury found over 43 million violations of state consumer pro...
The book "Homeboys Forever" by sociologist Avelardo Valdez examines how violence, addiction, and imprisonment affected the lives of young gang members in San Antonio....
Leaders floated major cuts to Fiesta, Book Festival and other major changes. Here’s where the San Antonio and Bexar County budgets landed.
Housing affordability challenges are spreading to higher income brackets, according to new research, which found one in five renters struggled last year to pay for their housing in full and on time....
A visit to a neighborhood library reveals what a loneliness researcher calls a "third place" in action: ESL classes, new parents bringing their toddlers to storytime, remote workers on their laptops, and neighbors who show up just to be around other people. It's one solution to t...
A book published Tuesday by the brother of the late Princess Diana has made headlines around the world with its damning allegations about Diana's ex-husband, now King Charles III , and reopened decades-old wounds within Britain's royal family. In “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” Ch...
An investigation is underway after skeletal remains were found in Caldwell County, according to the sheriff’s office. On Friday evening, the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a report of skeletal remains in the 1400 block of Biggs Road. In a Facebook pos...
The appeal of telehealth is easy to explain: Instead of calling a doctor, booking an appointment and hoping to eventually get a prescription, you can log onto an app or website and get approved for a new medication within minutes. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, scores of online hea...
Christian Castro, a federal immigration officer, made his first court appearance in Minnesota since he was booked Wednesday into a local jail. Castro faces multiple state and federal charges in connection with a shooting during the immigration surge in Minnesota....
Residents, renters, businesses and nonprofits affected by the Aug. 28 storms can apply for low-interest federal disaster loans. SBA representatives are available at San Antonio's Las Palmas Library to help with applications....
Books that educators and researchers often call “mirror books” are those that reflect a reader's own experiences, identity or culture and can be used to encourage reading and support family literacy....
A Florida woman who was paid $750,000 by a fund for people sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to falsifying records she used in her application for the money. Jennifer Percival, a scholar who has written books on autism, entered the plea in federal court in New...
Dolly Parton ’s megawatt smile and big wavy locks are gracing fields across the U.S. and Canada this fall. Twenty farms have carved out large corn mazes to honor the late country music icon, actor and philanthropist and raise money for her Imagination Library, which provides free...
During the recent budget hearings, officials have proposed staffing cuts and restructuring, including the library and historic preservation. City looks to cut 101 positions in 2027 budget, including library staff and cultural historian was first posted on September 14, 2026 at 12...
This year’s Texas Tribune Festival opens and closes with keynotes from two of American politics’ most closely watched, and least predictable, voices. In candid interviews with national journalists, former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and U.S. Sen. John Fetterman bookend our t...
Dora Rivera, described by Pete’s Tako House as the restaurant family’s matriarch and a beloved member of the community, died Thursday, according to a Facebook post from the restaurant. Pete’s Tako House said Rivera’s legacy will continue through her family, including her son, Pet...
Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died. She was 85. Morgan, who was still working on new books and poems, died Saturday in New York after suffering a s...
A deadly fungus that spreads most often in healthcare settings has infected 459 people in Texas since mid-August, the third-highest total in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has reported more than 4,500 cases of Candida auris natio...
The staff caring for Jakob Blodgett said he already had been sneaking candy and refused to take his insulin. An employee at the Arizona group home where the 9-year-old boy was being cared for texted a supervisor about the boy's elevated blood-glucose reading. The response? Give h...
The Dakota East Side Ice House has officially closed its doors. The popular East Side gathering spot signed off with a Tuesday evening Facebook post with the simple message: “As a wise pig once said … ‘A-buh-dee, a-buh-dee, a-buh-dee … th-that’s all, folks!’” The post also includ...
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases, the latest government data showed Wednesday, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and slow it. Data from Congo’s Ministry of Health showed th...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he's urging some of his G20 counterparts to take a page from the Trump administration's playbook of using tariffs and other measures to crack down on trade imbalances. Bessent told reporters that he had warned other nations at the beginning o...
Congo’s authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths. More than 1,360 people have recovered from the virus, in what authorities said was an “encouraging” development. The outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading...
There’s no shortage of delicious places to dine in San Antonio, but online restaurant-booking network OpenTable has unique insights into customers’ favorites thanks to the 500,000 new diner reviews it analyzes monthly. While OpenTable primarily ranks restaurants based on the numb...
