Jury selection is underway in the capital murder trial of Shane James, who is accused of killing six people and injuring three others during a series of shootings in December 2023. James’ defense attorneys plan to pursue an insanity defense, raising questions about how Texas law defines legal in...
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The annual Love Purse luncheon happened Friday , where city leaders, advocates and survivors of domestic violence gathered for a conversation regarding the resources available for people needing to escape an abuser. Love Purse is an organization that has collected and donated mor...
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Before there was Nine Inch Nails or Marilyn Manson or Fear Factory or Rammstein , before the term industrial rock was being used to describe music that combines electro-collages of avant-garde mechanical sounds with that of rock ‘n’ roll and metal: There was Ministry. And after 4...
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Since launching the war with Iran nearly eight months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump has struggled to quell soaring energy costs, undermining Republicans' attempt to keep control of Congress in the midterm elections next week. Low gas prices were a key campaign pledge during Tr...
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Serbia's populist strongman Aleksandar Vucic dominated the Balkan country's politics for 14 years. Then came the students. The long-ruling authoritarian leader on Sunday conceded the defeat of his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party to a grassroots movement of university student...
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FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS TUESDAY SHOWERS: Spotty rain possible, mostly cloudy THURSDAY/FRIDAY RAIN: Our best shot at rainfall HALLOWEEN: Rain chances will be winding down, mild FORECAST A more active pattern takes shape this week. In a general sense, expect a steady dose of cloud cove...
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An Indian American student who had lived in California their entire life was scared to move to Texas to pursue a doctorate in economics at the University of Texas at Austin. But during the Longhorns’ comeback victory against Ohio State in September, the student taught classmates ...
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No pocket of the country better captured the Republican Party’s courting of Latino voters two years ago than South Texas’ Starr County, a border community that’s 97% Latino and in 2024 voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time since 1896 . On Nov. 3, most p...
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New SAPD data shows overall crime declined through September, despite increases in assaults, human trafficking and kidnapping offenses. San Antonio sees 6% drop in crime, sharp decline in homicides was first posted on October 26, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report "...
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The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebels said Monday it has degraded their ability to strike targets inside the kingdom after destroying tunnels used to store ballistic missiles and missile launchers. In Israel, the country's defense minister strongly denied that th...
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Brazilian voters have denied Latin America’s resurgent right its ultimate prize, snapping a streak of seven straight conservative presidential victories in 18 months. The stunning triumph of leftist incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over Flávio Bolsonaro on Sunday, wi...
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High-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey were in Tehran on Monday for meetings with Iranian authorities to try to avert renewed fighting between Iran and Israel and the United States, Iran's Foreign Ministry said. The talks come as many in Iran are anxious ab...
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Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown avoided prison time Monday for beating a music producer with a tequila bottle at a London nightclub three years ago. Brown was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for a year. Brown, 37, had faced up to three years in prison after pleading gu...
