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AMBER Alert discontinued for 17 year-old last seen on West Side
UPDATE: An AMBER Alert for Darian Rangel, 17, was discontinued Sunday morning, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. ORIGINAL STORY: An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing 17-year-old last seen Monday night, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. ...
San Antonio City Council approves $102M police union contract
San Antonio City Council approved a $102.3 million police union contract that raises officer pay, changes health care costs and restructures patrol schedules....
At least 2 protesters arrested at anti-Trump march outside GOP midterm convention
Two protesters were arrested at an anti-Trump march outside the Republican midterm convention after allegedly assaulting a religious counter-protester....
25 years later, a Houston firefighter remembers the brother he lost on 9/11
Kevin Maynard's twin brother, Keithroy Maynard, was one of several people with Houston connections killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history....
Man in critical condition after being shot outside Kerrville home, police say
A man was taken to a hospital Thursday after he was shot outside a Kerrville home, according to a news release. Officers from the Kerrville Police Department responded to a shooting call around 8 a.m. in the 100 block of West McFarland Drive to find a 39-year-old man in front of ...
Kendall County approves funds for safety improvements to Texas 46
Leaders of a safety campaign said a section of Texas 46 known as Webster's Curve has been the site of many crashes in recent years.
Surrogate asks the Supreme Court to intervene over care for a sick baby
A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the emergency appeal Wednesday, widening a legal ...
Fire in eastern Congo kills at least 24 students at 2 schools
A fire swept through two adjacent schools Thursday in Bukavu in eastern Congo, killing at least 24 students and injuring dozens, the rebel administration that controls the city and local officials said. The spokesperson for the M23 rebel group, Lawrence Kanyuka, said 19 girls and...
WATCH LIVE: San Antonio City Council to vote on Jesse Salame’s appointment as police chief
San Antonio City Council will vote Thursday on Jesse Salame’s appointment as the city’s next police chief. The vote will happen during the council meeting at 9 a.m. It will be livestreamed in this article. Delays are possible; if there’s no livestream available, check back at a l...
A pilot of the Amazon cargo plane in Miami crash warned it was coming in too fast
For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast, according to flight information....
SAFD: Shed fire spreads to multiple trailers on far West Side, displaces residents
A shed fire spread to two mobile homes on the far West Side late Wednesday night, according to the San Antonio Fire Department. Crews responded to the fire around 11:30 p.m. in the 11000 block of Culebra Road, which is located near Lone Star Parkway. Residents in the affected hou...
25 dead after cargo ship catches fire in China's port, state media says
A cargo ship docked for repairs in a Chinese port caught fire, killing 25 people, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The ship was being repaired in the Beihai Shipbuilding Co. at the port of Qingdao, a major shipping hub on the northeastern Chinese coast. A photo released by ...
Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia's Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze
A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries. Japan deployed 300 crew members, landing ship JS Kun...
Hong Kong court convicts Wall Street Journal publisher of deterring reporter from taking union role
A Hong Kong court on Thursday found the publisher of The Wall Street Journal guilty of trying to prevent one of its reporters from taking a leadership role in a local press union, but acquitted the company of a charge that it fired her because of her union activities. Former WSJ ...
Remuda Ranch residents say cut-through traffic has brought road rage, blocked emergency vehicles
Families in the Remuda Ranch neighborhood on the far West Side say cut-through traffic has grown so severe that they’ve seen road rage incidents and are worried about emergency vehicles getting through. Johnny and Jessica Rivera, who bought their home in the neighborhood in 2018,...
San Antonio stabbing highlights safety concerns for homeless community
A recent stabbing involving a man experiencing homelessness is highlighting the safety challenges people living unsheltered can face in San Antonio. The San Antonio Police Department said the 35-year-old man was stabbed multiple times Wednesday near Jackson Keller Road and Vance ...
A fire on a passenger ferry in the Philippines leaves at least 5 dead and dozens missing
Rescuers struggled on Thursday to get into a passenger ferry that had caught fire and burned overnight off the western Philippines , leaving five people dead and 86 missing, officials said. By nightfall, search and rescue operations were halted but were to resume in the morning. ...
2 men arrested in connection with 2025 fatal southwest Bexar County house party shooting, BCSO says
Two men were arrested last week in connection with a 2025 fatal shooting that resulted in the death of a teenage girl, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Alianna Nicole Ujueta , 17, was shot and killed by Deshawn Suggs on Sept. 28, 2025, at a house party i...
Grass fires in Castle Hills believed to be arson, fire chief says
A recent series of grass fires in Castle Hills appears to be the work of one or more arsonists, according to the city’s fire chief. Chief Jim Ladewig said there have been four fires along a stretch near Loop 410 and West Avenue in the past month. Two of them happened within an ho...
Trump's trip to GOP soiree in Texas is briefly delayed after Air Force One's emergency slide deploys
President Donald Trump had been eagerly awaiting his trip to Texas for his Republican Party's midterm convention. But he was briefly delayed by the deployment of an inflatable emergency slide on the new Air Force One plane that was a gift from Qatar. Trump arrived at Joint Base A...
Cleaning crew killed in Miami cargo jet crash was wrapping up shift at hard, demanding job
Five members of a crew killed when an Amazon cargo jet smashed into their van were wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at the Miami airport when the crash happened, lawyers for one of the victims said on Wednesday. Two other workers in the van were in the hospital ...
As seen on SA Live - Thursday, Sept. 9, 2026
Today @ 10:30 a.m., Brushfire Farms brings game day bites. With the NFL season opening tonight, the founder and CEO of Brushfire Farms brought a full spread of South Texas-inspired game day food to the studio. The lineup included dove Lizzies (what the rest of the country calls p...
Crime Stoppers search for suspect continue 8 years after fatal shooting at East Side restaurant
The investigation of a man killed outside an East Side restaurant continues eight years later, and Crime Stoppers San Antonio is also continuing its search for tips related to the case. Herion Chase , 44, was shot outside what used to be Big Cassel’s Smokehouse on Sept. 8, 2018, ...
Man experiencing homelessness stabbed multiple times on North Side, SAPD says
An altercation on the North Side ended with a 35-year-old man being stabbed multiple times, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to the incident around 4 a.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of Jackson Keller Road, which is located near Vance Jackson Road. According to...
British police open criminal investigation into whether Reform UK broke foreign donation rules
British police said Wednesday that they have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that anti-immigration party Reform UK broke rules against foreign donations. Last week, Channel 4 broadcast an undercover investigation in which two senior Reform UK officials appeared t...
1 dead after single-vehicle crash in Dimmit County, DPS says
A man died after he was involved in a single-vehicle crash Monday morning in Dimmit County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Troopers responded to the crash around 5:26 a.m. on U.S. Highway 83 near Mile Marker 654, which is around 18 miles south of Carriz...
SAPD: Teen found with gunshot wound on West Side after officers responds to prowler call
A teenager was hospitalized in critical condition early Thursday after he was found shot in the chest on the West Side, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to a call for a prowler around 12:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of Melissa Sue, which is located near Culebra Ro...
Yemen's Houthi rebels say Saudi-backed forces launched airstrikes, and other key Mideast news
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said Wednesday that Saudi-backed forces had launched dozens of airstrikes overnight across four Yemeni provinces after rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia ignited fires at several oil facilities and wounded dozens of people. Separately, Iranian st...
A NYC firehouse was first to respond on 9/11. 25 years on, Sal Argano is the last still on staff
Sal Argano got lucky. When the World Trade Center was struck by hijacked jets on Sept. 11, 2001 , the New York City firefighter was in Brooklyn, on loan to another station, rather than at his usual post at the small Manhattan firehouse just across an intersection from the twin to...
KSAT Q&A: Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones discusses new SAPD chief, East Side ICE facility and more
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the KSAT Q&A on Tuesday to discuss the city’s new police chief, a looming budget deficit and a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility on the East Side. Watch the full interview in the video player above. Read also: San Anto...
Alamo Colleges police officer faces family violence charges, records show
An Alamo Colleges police officer is on administrative duty after she was arrested on multiple family violence charges earlier this summer, KSAT Investigates confirmed. San Antonio police confirmed officers arrested Kimberly Ann Villarreal, 31, in July 2026. Records show police re...
Raw sewage flowing through Northeast Side apartment complex, tenants demand answers
Raw sewage has been flowing through the parking lot of a Northeast Side apartment complex for days, and tenants say management has not responded to their emergency requests for help. Residents at the Palms at 8800 said the problem started Saturday and has only gotten worse. Sewag...
SAPD looking for man believed to be in danger last seen on West Side
The San Antonio Police Department is searching for a man believed to be in danger. Joe Gonzalez Munoz Jr. was last seen at the intersection of Bandera Road and General McMullen Drive on the West Side, according to a missing persons report. Last contact was made with Munoz on Aug....
Northeast Bexar County man accused of leaving dogs in hot car, passing out from alcohol
A northeast Bexar County man is accused of leaving two dogs in a hot car for more than eight hours while he drank alcohol, then fell asleep. Bexar County sheriff’s deputies arrested Joseph Paz, 34, Sunday night on two counts of animal cruelty. A report says someone who lives with...
Woman dies after being hit by vehicle while using North Side crosswalk, SAPD says
A woman using a crosswalk on the North Side died Tuesday after a vehicle crashed into her, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded just before 11:30 a.m. near Thousand Oaks Drive and Uhr Lane for a woman with critical injuries, SAPD said. The woman, who has yet to be ...
4 taken into custody after stolen vehicle pursuit on Northwest Side, SAPD says
Four suspects were taken into custody Monday in connection with a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle on the Northwest Side, according to San Antonio police. An SAPD officer noticed a vehicle traveling fast around 11 a.m. in the 6100 block of Northwest Loop 410, located near Warpa...
All 5 killed in Miami cargo jet crash were in a van used by plane cleaners
The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to shuttle cleaning crews to planes to clean them, authorities said. The jet overran the runway while landing Sunday. It slammed into the van on airport pr...
Man arrested after 2 dogs found dead inside vehicle in northeast Bexar County, BCSO says
A man was arrested on animal cruelty charges after two dogs were found dead inside a vehicle Monday in northeast Bexar County, according to the sheriff’s office. Joseph Paz, 32, placed two medium-sized dogs inside the vehicle around 3 p.m. in the 7800 block of Woodlake View, BCSO...
Home north of downtown sustains serious damage in overnight fire, SAFD says
A home north of downtown sustained serious damage early Tuesday morning after a fire, according to the San Antonio Fire Department. Crews responded to the fire around 1:30 a.m. in the 800 block of Ripley Avenue, which is located near West Magnolia Avenue. The flames primarily dam...