The San Antonio Current was recognized in four categories at this week’s 2026 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards. Freelancer and copy editor Dean Zach won second place in the Immigration Coverage category for his cover story “Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II inte...
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The three men with the 52-year-old Houston man who was fatally shot by an immigration agent earlier this week disputed the federal government’s narrative of the deadly episode, saying Lorenzo Salgado Araujo never tried to run over anyone, according to the Washington Post. Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, an...
The move comes after an ICE agent fatally shot 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an enforcement operation in Houston on July 7.
Police are looking for at least two people caught on camera stealing an ATM early Friday morning.According to a preliminary report, the San Antonio Police Department responded to a burglary call at approximately 6:15 a.m. at a barbershop in the 2300 block of Quintana Road. An SAPD sergeant on sce...
Two adults were seriously injured Friday morning after a crash on the Southwest Side, the San Antonio Police Department said.A man driving a Chevrolet Camaro crashed into a woman driving a Chevrolet Cruze just before 11 a.m. as she turned onto Zarzamora Street from Elmo Avenue, according to polic...
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico revealed during a Thursday press conference that the Texas Attorney General’s Office denied his request for files related to a Waco man who served just 29 days in jail on charges that he sexually abused a child. The announcement comes nearly a month...
American actor Dustin Hoffman and cricket great Sachin Tendulkar were among the celebrities at Wimbledon on Friday to watch defending champion Jannik Sinner play Novak Djokovic on Centre Court.British actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Laurie and Damian Lewis watched from the Royal Box, as did fas...
Crews are again draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as President Donald Trump’s problem-plagued efforts to revamp the waterway pushes well past his initial goal of having it ready by July 4 to mark the nation’s 250th birthday.The president at first suggested his renovations would last a...
Council member Aaron Dahl died after serving more than 15 years in Place 5, according to the City of Live Oak.Dahl moved to Live Oak in 2003, according to his city bio. He joined the planning and zoning board in 2010 before his May 2011 election to Place 5. He founded his own architecture firm, w...
The San Antonio Current was recognized in four categories at this week’s 2026 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards. Freelancer and copy editor Dean Zach won second place in the Immigration Coverage category for his cover story “Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II inte...
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British actor Micheal Ward was acquitted Friday of rape and other charges in a London court on allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in the back of a friend's Mercedes in 2023.Ward, 28, who starred in the Netflix crime drama “Top Boy,” sobbed after a jury in Snaresbrook Crown Court found him ...
A pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday night on the Southwest Side, according to the San Antonio Police Department.Officers said they were dispatched to the incident just before 10 p.m. in the 8600 block of Five Palms Drive, located near Old Pearsall Road.The pedestrian attempted to cross th...
The three men with the 52-year-old Houston man who was fatally shot by an immigration agent earlier this week disputed the federal government’s narrative of the deadly episode, saying Lorenzo Salgado Araujo never tried to run over anyone, according to the Washington Post.Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, an ...
Federal officials are refusing to release the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot a Mexican man during a traffic stop in Houston, and scrutiny of the shooting is growing after authorities said the man killed was not the person ICE was trying to find.The shooti...
A dramatized execution scene opens the trailer to the movie Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas. An actor dressed as a terrorist gestures to a man on his knees as the words “The Peak of Islam Jihad” flash across the screen. “This American man must pay the price for America’s failure to surr...
FIFA had nearly 1,200 category two tickets priced at $7,380 on sale Friday for the World Cup final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.The governing body's last-minute tickets sales site, which at times had listed the game as sold out, had 1,178 seats available across fiv...
Supporters packed the Paper Tiger on Thursday evening, waving "Money in Your Pocket" signs as Gina Hinojosa campaigned for governor.As Texas governor’s race tightens, supporters rally behind Hinojosa in San Antonio was first posted on July 10, 2026 at 10:14 am.©2021 "San Antonio Report". Use...
Two transgender girls who were the first to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” have withdrawn their lawsuit in New Hampshire based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls' sports and their ...
A new cold storage facility is set to rise along the northeast corridor.Houston-based real estate firm Boomerang Industrial broke ground on a 325,274-square-foot cold storage project in Schertz, the company announced Monday. The project, a speculative development, is a joint venture with Houston ...
Bexar County’s far West Side continues to see rapid growth, bringing new stores, emergency care access and other developments. Over the last five years, the area’s population has increased by nearly 21,000 people, along with the creation of approximately 20,000 new jobs, according to greater: SAT...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air-defense systems could mark a major breakthrough for Kyiv, but experts and Ukrainian officials warn that turning the idea into real weapons would likely take years.Speaking Wednesday alongside Ukrainian President...
Attorneys for the family of a Mississippi 18-year-old who was found dead after a July 4 boat trip with friends to an island off the Gulf Coast called for a deeper investigation and greater transparency at a news conference Friday with the Rev. Al Sharpton, saying many of the details they're disco...
A weeklong preliminary hearing was nearing its conclusion Friday for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Prosecutors aimed to show they have enough evidence against Tyler Robinson to proceed to a trial.The 23-year-old Robinson decided not to testify in the hearing. He's...
President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill that he has been pushing.“I will not sign the Housing B...
A Bexar County jury sentenced a “habitual offender” to a 42-year prison sentence Thursday afternoon, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office. Court records show Ceasar Gonzalez, 45, was convicted Wednesday and received his sentence Thursday before Judge Joel Perez in Bexar County...
The 52-year-old Houston man fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this week was not the target of the agency’s operation, said U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, who has called for release of any video footage capturing the deadly episode. Garcia told The Texas...
SAN ANTONIO – Today on SA Live, Jada heads to Family Power Sports to experience the thrill of off-road adventure. She learns about the longtime San Antonio business, takes ATVs and UTVs for a spin, and finds out why it’s become a go-to destination for powersports enthusiasts across South Texas.Th...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three, was on his way to work when he encountered federal immigration officers in Houston’s East End.
Scottie Scheffler was headed for his first missed cut in nearly four years Friday when he missed two key putts in the final holes of the Scottish Open, the last from 6 feet that gave him a 2-over 72 and put him two shots outside the cut line.Instead of trying to make up ground on the weekend at T...
San Antonio barbecue duo Esaul and Grecia Ramos are bringing South Texas flavors to a national audience on Food Network’s new competition series Pitmasters. The husband and wife, who own the two-time James Beard Award semifinalist 2M Smokehouse, 2731 S. WW White Road, will show off their live-fir...
Eight South Carolina National Guard helicopter pilots have been returned to flying duties following a suspension over a low-flying sweep over beachgoers as part of a July 4 event honoring servicemembers."Effective immediately, the suspension of all involved South Carolina pilots has been lifted,"...
Most of America's Lower 48 states are about to swelter under an unusually large, strong and long-lasting heat dome that will spike temperatures in a way that the National Weather Service calls “significant and dangerous.”The heat wave will start this weekend and last at least a week, with some ar...
President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that lacks sufficient support to pass.The housing measure will become law without Trump’s signature because he didn’t veto it. Still, the preside...
President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering. The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Com...
Western leaders came to Turkey to discuss security in an increasingly perilous world. They each left with a revolver and six rounds.The unconventional gift from the host of this week's NATO summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was meant to showcase his country's growing defense industr...
If there were any lingering questions over Jannik Sinner’s physical status after his meltdown at the French Open, they should be answered now.Sinner blasted his way past seven-time champion Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to reach the Wimbledon final — showing off the kind of dominance he ...
Shares of South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix rose 14% as they made their debut on Wall Street, at a time when demand for chips is surging thanks to the frenzy around artificial intelligence. The company is already one of the largest in South Korea, along with Samsung Electronics, and is a mem...
Volkswagen reported weak sales numbers on Friday, a day after the giant German automaker announced plans to slash the number of models by nearly half as sales plunged, particularly in China. The Wolfsburg, Germany-based company said group sales fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just under 2.1 mi...
Mexico seeks criminal investigations for ICE-related deaths; New poll shows mixed feelings on Mayor Jones' first year; SpaceX could launch AI data centers into orbit
Last December, after Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities that his agency would pursue, including protections against harmful chemicals and other hea...
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