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Tropical Storm Nolo strengthened to a hurricane again Friday in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said. The center of the storm was located about 105 miles (165 kilometers) west-southwest of French Frigate Shoals and was heading west at 6 mph (9 kph). Maximum susta...
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The luxurious estate listed for nearly $3 million is fit for a king — maybe even King Louis XIV. The post A French-style mansion for sale in San Antonio comes with a tennis court, a sauna and its own private lake appeared first on San Antonio Current ....
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The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that its inspectors detected cyclospora at the Mexican farm blamed for the largest foodborne illness outbreak of the parasite in U.S. history. Despite the finding, the FDA said it's unclear how the parasite got into lettuce at Taylor F...
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A federal court in Texas on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region, in a victory for opponents who have pushed back against a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump. Lando...
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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...
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Every school has someone who goes above and beyond—the person who inspires students, supports families, brightens the day and makes a lasting difference. Now is your chance to help KSAT celebrate them! Nominations for the 2026/2027 KSAT Educator of the Month Contest open Monday, ...
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The two missions, falling under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, will switch roles onboard the ISS before Crew-12 will fly back to Earth.
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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. General. By submitting an entry to the KSAT Educator of the Month contest (“Contest”), brought to you by Graham Media Group, San Antonio, Inc. d/b/a KSAT (“Sponsor”), entrant ackno...
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From SA to the surrounding Hill Country, lots of places are breaking out the pumpkins and cutting paths through the corn. The post San Antonio-area pumpkin patches and corn mazes to check out for fall 2026 appeared first on San Antonio Current ....
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Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying...
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The cold front has been on an eastern trek across the state all week.
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Police bodycam footage released Friday shows the moment officers located and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. In one video, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask...
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A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration. Republican David Rivera has been...
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The NFL suspended San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York for six games Friday following his arrest earlier this year in a prostitution sting in Ohio. The league announced that York also was fined $500,000 for violating the league's personal conduct policy. York has not attended any g...
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Unlike other states that allow same-day voter registration, Texans who want to participate in the 2026 midterms must be registered in advance. The voter registration deadline for the November midterm election is Monday, Oct. 5 was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 1:13 pm. ©...
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Flu season has arrived. Here's what experts recommend this fall and winter in terms of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines. What to know about this year’s flu and COVID-19 shots in San Antonio was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 1:08 pm. ©2021 " San Antonio Report ". Use of t...
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Today at 10:30 a.m., pumpkin season pies, a costume free-for-all and what’s shifting under your slab. TOOTIE PIE CO. Fall arrived, and a Hill Country bakery known for handcrafted sweet and savory pies leaned all the way into pumpkin. The spread included pumpkin empanadas, a pumpk...
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A group of environmental organizations sued the Trump administration on Friday over its recent relaxation of key vehicle fuel economy rules, a decision that the group says will make vehicles less efficient, contribute to more pollution and increase gas consumption. On Monday, the...
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An 84-year-old Southeast Side man pleaded for his life while two suspects held him down and suffocated him, according to an arrest affidavit. The details of Manuel Mendez’s brutal murder have emerged in the document related to the arrests this week of two suspects in the case. Re...
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San Marcos fire officials are asking for the public’s help after releasing newly surfaced surveillance video tied to the 2018 Iconic Village apartment fire that killed five people and injured seven others. The San Marcos Fire Department shared the footage during a news conference...
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The National Weather Service said an additional 1 to 4 inches of rain could fall across the region, with locally higher amounts possible. Flood threat continues across San Antonio, Hill Country as more rain expected was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 12:25 pm. ©2021 " Sa...
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The FBI is issuing a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau's history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It was unclear what episodes from the FBI's past ar...
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Federal authorities investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students have charged a store clerk and his son with selling an illegal kratom product, prosecutors announced Friday. A drug task force in Mississippi had previously urged people to avoid kratom, an her...
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Families are invited to bring blankets and snacks to the Historic City Cemetery No. 1 on the East Side for a free outdoor screening of “Hocus Pocus.” The event connects Halloween fun with a 19th-century picnicking tradition and ongoing cemetery preservation efforts. The Picnic an...
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Water seeped into a Northwest Side bakery during recent rain, damaging the ceiling and flooding the floor. Sweet Cheeks Bake Shop shared photos and video with KSAT showing water on the floor near the windows and damaged ceiling tiles after Thursday’s rain. In an Instagram story, ...
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A former Florida sheriff's deputy has been found not guilty of manslaughter with a firearm in the killing of a Black U.S. Air Force airman fatally shot at his apartment during a domestic disturbance call. An Okaloosa County jury acquitted Eddie Duran, 38, on Thursday. Duran had f...
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President Donald Trump rallied supporters in deep red Alabama Friday, returning to the place where he drew his first mega crowd, but a state that is hardly considered a top midterm battleground. With just weeks to go before elections that will determine control of Congress, Trump...
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Senate Republicans’ top campaign spending organization is pulling back in North Carolina and pouring money into Kansas, a striking shift that shows how the party’s plan to keep its majority has turned into an increasingly defensive fight ahead of November's midterms. The decision...
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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....
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As Muertos Fest prepares to bring hundreds of people to downtown San Antonio, organizers and artists are highlighting one of the celebration’s most recognizable traditions: Día de los Muertos face painting. Kara McClendon and Yessenia Lerma joined GMSA at 9 to talk about the proc...
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This year's Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington's Capital One Arena, not the riverfront building that's been at the center of a legal fight over adding President Donald Trump's name to the building. The 49th annual awards are set to take place at Washington's downtow...
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The Portland Trail Blazers fired new play-by-play television broadcaster Braiden Bell on Thursday when inappropriate social media posts that he made as a teenager resurfaced just hours after the team announced his hiring. “The Portland Trail Blazers have zero tolerance for racist...
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Saint Laurent sent out a river of gold, as giant chandeliers bathed a glossy black outdoor runway in golden light and the Eiffel Tower shimmered in the background. The extravagant show was attended by Catherine Deneuve, Kate Moss , Hailey Bieber and Rami Malek, while elsewhere at...
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Texas passed the Life of the Mother Act in 2025, aiming to clarify the narrow medical exception to the state's abortion ban. Advocates are still working to spread the word....
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High school football season is underway, and fans looking to support local teams can do so at San Antonio Independent School District’s Alamo Stadium without spending much. The historic venue offers free parking, affordable tickets and low-cost concessions for game days. Alamo St...
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The Group of Seven wealthy democracies said Friday that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel after the fuel recently hit record high prices in the United States. President Donald Trump...
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A San Antonio nonprofit that helps young adults earn their high school diplomas is struggling to keep up with demand as city budget cuts squeeze funding for community organizations. SA Youth President and CEO Maria Benavidez said the organization received only about 10% of the fu...
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The U.S. Department of Labor awarded $10.4 million to Northwest Vista College to help expand access Workforce Pell across Texas colleges. Northwest Vista College gets grant to expand Texas college’s access to Workforce Pell Grants was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 9:00 am. &...
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Commanders quarterback Marcus Mariota will get his second straight start in place of the injured Jayden Daniels on Sunday when Washington faces the Indianapolis Colts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Head coach Dan Quinn announced the decision Friday after practice at the team’s lux...
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Amazon is investing $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry's rol...
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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....
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The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S....
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President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail as he seeks to shore up lagging enthusiasm in the Republican Party ahead of next month’s midterm elections on Nov. 3. He attended a rally in Alabama on Friday and then travels to Ohio on Saturday. He could have his work cut out...
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A bipartisan bill aimed at preventing another emergency alert failure after the deadly Camp Mystic tragedy is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk, after the Senate unanimously passed the Mystic Alerts Act. The legislation would allow wireless emergency alerts to be delivered ...
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San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama says he wants no part of endorsing prediction market platforms, drawing a clear line as sites such as Kalshi and Polymarket gain visibility among sports bettors. Wembanyama made the comments when asked about the platforms at practice ...
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With about 2,000 cold cases being investigated within the San Antonio Police Department, dating back to 1950, some families have felt their cases have been forgotten. Debra Seward lost her daughter, Grace Seward , eight years ago to a shooting after the shooter or shooters follow...
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After Hurricane Helene barreled through Georgia in the fall of 2024, Sen. Jon Ossoff was the first high-ranking official on the ground in Valdosta, where he took in the damage and promised locals he'd help them get the federal recovery assistance they needed. “Just about every we...
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Two women have been charged in the death of a man whose body was found burned in a Southeast Side ditch in March, according to an arrest warrant. Leidy Guadalupe Hernandez, 43, was taken into custody on Thursday on charges of capital murder by terroristic threat/other felony and ...
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The FlyDubai co-pilot who officials said nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns he had adopted extremist views, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday. The co-pilot was subsequently hired by t...
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Russian aerial attacks forced the partial closure Friday of three bridges over the Dnipro River in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, in Moscow’s latest effort to disrupt life in the city. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s top diplomat said officials have received separate proposals fo...
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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...
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A San Antonio data center recently invited the media and others inside the cloud with a tour of its newest highly secure facility. Can small-group tours of data centers change hearts and minds? was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report ". Use...
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Dallas will keep more than 300 Flock Safety cameras originally slated for removal after the surveillance company paused certain agencies’ payments for the devices for 90 days, a move made in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s state funding freeze for the controversial cameras. At lea...
