A San Antonio police officer suspended earlier this year for his drunken role in an incident with emergency personnel at a New Mexico ski resort has received a second suspension for an unrelated domestic violence arrest in Medina County. Officer Taylor Thompson was handed a 30-day suspension in l...
safety
An age-old problem in a West side neighborhood, prostitution, recently has been getting some new attention from San Antonio police. However, people living in the area say it is only a start in what needs to be an ongoing effort. “It’s still the same. People are still walking up a...
business
Texas now issues permits for companies to store carbon dioxide underground. East Texas residents fear safety risks, and skeptics doubt the climate benefits....
Local
Three more people have been charged in a smuggling operation that left seven migrants dead in Laredo and San Antonio, bringing the total to 14.
News
The president of the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that his government is collaborating with El Salvador’s president and providing him with logistics and intelligence as some 2,500 troops from the Central American country battle violent gangs in Haiti. Dominican President Luis ...
News
The family farm where President Jimmy Carter tended peanuts, corn and sugarcane as a boy and later returned throughout his life will be preserved and opened to the public. Preservation group The Conservation Fund said Monday that it has acquired the farm as part of a 2,458-acre (...
schools
Martha Perez, a bilingual dyslexia specialist at Oak Crest Elementary School in the East Central Independent School District, was named KSAT’s Educator of the Month for October, recognizing her work helping students build confidence and strengthen their reading skills. Perez has ...
safety
Police are investigating whether two Ohio State University students who were treated for deep burns after being engulfed in flames at an outdoor fraternity party were victims of hazing. The university placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after a video c...
schools
Texas Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin is expected to appear on KSAT’s weekly Q&A during the News at 6 Tuesday after defeating Republican incumbent Dan Patrick last week. Goodwin’s political priorities differ sharply from Patrick’s, especially on school vouchers, reproductive rights,...
News
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday for botching the public release of millions of pages of records relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein . In a report scrutinizing the government’s handling of criminal investigations...
government
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he would not be supporting Sen. Chuck Schumer as the Democratic majority leader in the new Congress, setting up a seismic confrontation after the party’s sweep to power in the midterm elections . Sanders was joined by Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotki...
