Two men fell through a window at a downtown San Antonio bank building, trapping them inside for an hour-and-a-half, police said.(from KSAT-12)
The incident happened at the Broadway Bank building at Pecan St. and Soledad around 4:30 Saturday morning.
Police said the two men had been drinking and started to fight. They fell against the window, breaking it and crashing more than 20 feet to a floor below, investigators said.
The man were trapped inside an enclosed area away from the bank itself.
One of the weirdest burials in the world was right here in an East Side cemetery. Sandra West was the young widow of Texas multimillionaire oilman Ike West. When she died in 1977 the Beverly Hills socialite left a handwritten will saying she had to be buried in her lacy nightgown sitting in her 1964 powder blue Ferrari 330 America in a comfortable reclining position.And it includes plenty of quotes from the wonderfully-named owner of Mission Park Funeral Chapels and Cemeteries, Dick Tips, including a sneak peek at the plans for his own funeral.
If she wasn't buried as instructed, her brother-in-law would get nearly nothing. A court battle lasted two months before she finally rode off into the ground. Hundreds showed up at the Alamo Masonic Cemetery to see the spectacle, but the funeral director kept West all crated up. The onlookers couldn't see West inside the crate, even though she was dressed in her nightgown in the car. The court had ordered it to be respectful and discrete.
“I'm going to have different costume changes,” says Tips. “I was a Rey Feo here in San Antonio. I'm very proud of it,” said Tips.That's going to be some send-off.
“Absolutely. The Masonic Lodge, Rey Feo, Cavaliers, and, of course, the suit,” said Dick's wife Kristen, who is also a funeral director.
Dick Tips plans to show off and celebrate what the family business can do. Someday, not soon, in the very same solid bronze casket with the gold hand bars that Michael Jackson was buried in.
Officers said the woman fell 75 feet from I-10 just south of Crossroads Blvd. Police are now trying to figure out what caused her to fall.(from KSAT-12)
They said it appears the woman was driving on I-10 and hit a wall, but they're not sure whether she was ejected from her car or got out on her own.
Investigators said another car then hit the woman's car from behind, and they believe she either was tossed, or jumped to avoid the impact. She then fell to the access road 75 feet down and was killed.
(from KENS-5)SAN ANTONIO -- Lately, the Alamo City has seen its name on a variety of lists -- some good, some spotlighting our range of waistlines.
But this time, we love seeing San Antonio at the top of The Daily Beast's "50 Best Cities for Love."
According to The Daily Beast's story, its staff ranked our nation's largest cities based on marriage and divorce rates, happy population and wealth of bars and restaurants.
And here's the rankings for other Texas cities on the list:
Singles: C
Social life: A
Emotional health: A
Marriage: B
Divorce: C
Romantic hotspot: Omni La Mansion del Rio
#3 -- AustinFeel the love, yet?
#40 -- Houston
#41 -- Dallas
First obvious problem with this? The executive director of the group that runs the pageant (Miss Bexar County Organization, Inc) is named Caroline Flores. Granted, that may well be her married name, but methinks not too many Mexican-haters marry them.Make sure you click the link.
Second obvious problem? This is the runner up:
ATF agents say drug gangs are buying old grenades to do their dirty work across the border. Agents are going undercover to catch them.(from KENS-5)
Unfortunately, the black market for explosives in San Antonio is booming. ATF agents say Mexican drug cartels are snatching up pipe bombs and old pineapple and baseball grenades in our back yard.
They say the grenades dint [sic] have to be live to be lethal in the wrong hands.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- Relatives of a missing New Braunfels toddler said police are asking them to undergo polygraph tests in an effort to locate the 18-month-old boy.(from KSAT-12)
Joshua Davis Jr. was reported missing by his parents, who told police they last saw their son around 8 p.m. Friday inside their home in the 2600 block of Savannah Hill Circle.
Police, along with other law enforcement agents and volunteers, combed a wooded area near the family's home all weekend but did not locate him.
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"We're going to be retracing some of our steps," Lt. Mike Penshorn said Monday morning. "Also, we are still interviewing a number of the people associated with the child and, of course, we're expanding that where we have quite a few people that we are bringing just to talk to find out what did happen in this case."
According to Jerome Davis, Joshua's grandfather, that also includes administering polygraph tests to everyone who lives in the household.
Prickly political comedian Lewis Black is a big boy and certainly doesn't need my help in handling obnoxious hecklers.(from the Express-News)
But his thought-provoking jowl-shaking performance at Majestic Theatre on Friday was marred by drunken audience outbursts of the Tea Party variety that, for any comedy lover, were cringe-worthy and a black eye to this city.
Especially since Black opened his show with a hilarious, self-deprecating five-minute warning about his brand of caustic, unforgiving comedy which has made him a Comedy Central star and best-selling author.
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Friday's show, with talented opener John Bowman, took a darker turn when Black — who skewers the left, right and middle — touched on provocative issues of gun control, abortion and taxes.
“When people ask next year why Lewis Black left comedy, you've seen the pivotal moment,” said Black, 62, utterly exasperated with a woman near the front who rudely and repeatedly interrupted a riff about taxing the rich and Black proposing — sarcastically — a “Rich People's Day” to honor them.
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To a man who screamed ideological nonsense from the back, Black responded, “You're in love with your guns and you're a (expletive) happy person. And you make a scary sound like the (expletives) wolves at night.”
The ruckus broke out when Black said, “The one thing we don't argue about is gun control. It's off the table.”
When mindless whoops went up, Black looked genuinely stunned. “What does that (expletive) mean?” he asked.
The same man yelled out, “I love guns!” Black simply stared and implored, “But stop making that scary (expletive) noise.”
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Years ago, the late George Carlin had two heckling jerks removed from the Majestic for lesser offenses. To his credit, Black kept his cool and stayed in control — though the vast majority likely wished he'd taken that page from Carlin's playbook.
A 41-year-old man crashed his van into the wall of a brick home on the Northeast Side after suffering a seizure Thursday afternoon.(from the Express-News)
Police said the driver had been traveling east on O'Connor Road when the attack caused him to lose consciousness and swerve into the 6300 block of Kings Crown Street, where he hit the house.
His Jeep Liberty punched a hole in the side wall of the garage. [emphases added]
Rather said that when it comes to the media, this country is “in a state of crisis.”Seriously? This guy -- who had to step down from his job because he presented a news segment on 60 Minutes Wednesday bashing then-president George Bush just before his re-election (and the entire segment was based on fake documents!) -- this guy is accusing others of "tart[ing] up the news with ... scandal and sensationalism"? This guy is worried about news that is "scripted and rigged behind the scenes"?
“Those who dumb down the news, trivialize the news with in-studio shouting matches passing for debate,” Rather said, “those who tart up the news with celebrity gossip, scandal and sensationalism are playing right into the hands of those that stand to gain the most from the news being seen as irrelevant and trivial and no more or less worth your attention than the next episode of ‘American Idol.'”
He elaborated: “I worry that if it becomes no more than a reality show, something that could be scripted and rigged behind the scenes without anyone really getting upset about it, that our freedom of the press will become another one of those constitutionally granted rights that can be watered down and eventually taken away from us.”
Part of a upper level storm system over the Rocky Mountains will move eastward into Texas. It will help draw moisture from the Pacific Ocean over our area.(from KSAT-12)
This will also enhance lift in the atmosphere causing precipitation to fall. Since we are below freezing at the surface and aloft in the atmosphere most of the precipitation will fall in the form of snow.
SAN ANTONIO -- One of San Antonio’s premier research facilities has a new name and an expanded mission.(from KENS-5)
The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research is now the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
You might know it as the place with the monkeys on Loop 410, often confused with the Southwest Research Institute next door. The scientists who work at Texas Biomed hope there won’t be any more mistaking who they are and what they do.
The bust was a joint investigation between DPS and ICE that resulted in the seizure of 28 pounds of crystal meth.(from KENS-5)
Investigators say that's worth about $2 million to $5 million on the street. Authorities did make two arrests in the sting.
The San Antonio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force started investigating the men in March of 2010.
A federal complaint says the men had plans to move some crystal meth to Houston. Authorities say they were storing the meth at a Mini Storage unit in the 3500 block of S.W. Military.
Edguardo Joel Berrios, 24, is set to be booked in Bexar County Jail on one count of driving while intoxicated. A judge set bail at $5,000.(from the Express-News)
Berrios was reportedly driving on West Durango Boulevard around 10:30 p.m. Saturday when an allegedly intoxicated man tried to run across Old U.S. 90 in front of him, according to police.
SAPD spokesman Officer Matthew Porter said the victim sustained injuries not thought to be life-threatening and was hospitalized.
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.I guess that's why he only cuts men's hair.
An allegedly intoxicated passenger grabbed the wheel of a moving pickup and steered it into a Chinese restaurant on the Northeast Side early Tuesday, where it ignited a fire that heavily damaged the eatery, San Antonio Fire Department and police officials said.(from the Express-News)
The blue 2002 Chevrolet truck had been headed north on Nacogdoches Road and crashed into the side of Chin San Chinese Restaurant near Wordsworth Street at about 1 a.m., bursting into flames, SAFD Battalion Chief Bill Bochat said.
Driver Jonathan Puga and his passenger Sean Gardner, both 33, were able to get out safely, police said. Puga was treated at the scene for minor injuries and released to relatives.
A police incident report states that Gardner was intoxicated when he called Puga to ask for a ride home. Puga had picked him up and was traveling down Nacogdoches when Gardner said he wanted to go to a female friend's house and yanked the steering wheel, police said.
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio police arrested a south side woman who they said played a big role in a robbery which led to the death of at least one person.(from KSAT-12; video here)
Police said Avelina Perez, 22, was one of two women who helped to lure the actual robbers to a home in Universal City back in November.
During the robbery, the victims said four men pointed guns at the them and beat them with a club.
According the arrest warrant, their neighbor called police while the robbery was taking place and officers arrived and it led to a car chase and crash.
One of the suspected robbers was killed and a woman was critically injured, the arrest warrant said.
(from the Express-News)Members of the city's Dangerous Structure Determination Board were discussing the Oaks on Bandera, an apartment complex on the city's Northwest Side where a stairway had collapsed on Jan. 7, fatally injuring a resident.
During the meeting, small white and blue pieces of plaster broke free from the high, decorated ceiling in the council chambers. The largest pieces almost struck a city inspector. No one was injured.
“Legally Blonde,” the latest film-to-stage musical adaptation to play the Majestic Theatre, opens with a big burst of energy and never lets up.(from the Express-News)
The show follows the 2001 film's storyline pretty closely. Elle Woods (scrappily portrayed by Nikki Bohne), a sunny sorority gal who virtually everyone dismisses as vapid, is crushed when her beloved boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Ragas) dumps her the very night she was expecting a marriage proposal. To win him back, she follows him to Harvard University's law program, where she surprises everyone, including herself, when she scores a spot on the defense team for a high-profile murder trial. (No one is terribly surprised when she winds up seeing Warner for the jerk that he is and upgrades to a better guy.)
Heather Hach, who wrote the show's book, makes a few small changes that serve the story well. For one thing, there are just enough updated references — Bruiser, Elle's fashion-forward Chihuahua (played by the adorable Frankie) is a “Glee” fan, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is name-checked — to make the show current without going overboard.
SAN ANTONIO - Fire officials were called out to a home on the West Side after a car drove right through the garage. It happened at a vacant home in the 100 block of Villa Arbolitos near Culebra Road and 24th Street.(from WOAI-TV)
Police got the call just after 3:00 a.m. Tuesday. They say the car drove into the garage and came out the other side. Officials on scene say the fire department was called after a tow truck driver was worried the house could collapse.
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio police officers arrested a man at the Alazan Apache apartments on suspicion of sexual assault, after neighbors told them the man assaulted at least two young girls in the complex, police said.(from KSAT-12)
Officers forced their way into the apartment on Friday evening after the resident refused to allow them inside, enlisting a San Antonio Housing Authority employee to drill through the door lock, then entered with guns drawn.
After searching for several minutes, detectives said they found the man hiding under the cushions of a couch. They said the woman who lives in the apartment was sitting on the couch and insisted no one else was home.
UVALDE, Texas -- Her admission to Southwest Texas Junior College in Jennifer Gellar's hometown of Uvalde is not the issue.(from KSAT-12)
Willie Edwards, SWTJC spokesman, said what is still "under review" is which dormitory the transgendered student will be moving into when classes begin next Monday.
The campus of 1,700 students has a coed dorm and another for women.
Formerly John Brigman, who said he served in the U.S. Navy and in military police Reserves, now 51 years old, Gellar said "going over to the female side," resulted in a medical discharge from the military in 2008.
Now in her final year at the two-year college, Gellar said she would feel safer living in the women's dorm.
"Actually, I'm afraid of men," Gellar said.
"We gave him all of our savings," said homeowner Diana Acosta, who said she hired the contractor who installed the system. "My husband worked so hard to get all this money."(from KSAT-12)
Acosta said she hired Mamadou Barry, of World Sun Technology, to install the [solar] panels. She said she gave him a check for $8,000 and another for $5,448.04 from her savings account to pay for the system.
Acosta said Barry came to her door and told her that her panels had been purchased and then were stolen.
"It was lie after lie," Acosta said. "Then he came crying. He convinced me to buy the other set of panels."
Acosta said she paid for another set of panels with her credit card and that Barry did install them -- badly -- but never paid her back and never paid the electrician who helped install them.
SAN ANTONIO - Police are looking for a man who walked into a store with a butcher knife. It happened at the Dollar General on Blanco Road near Basse. Witnesses say the man walked in with a butcher knife and made demands. Police say the man just took off without hurting anyone or even taking anything.(from WOAI-TV)
Four Shetland ponies wandered the area around SW Military and Whitewood just after 8 a.m.(from KSAT-12)
Police tried to capture the horses and finally managed to get three of them contained. But a fourth pony proved a harder catch.
He roamed around and police weren't able to catch him.
Frustrated police called in an officer they say had experience with roping horses. That officer arrived and, after several attempts, was finally able to throw a rope over the pony.
What a tasty experiment: San Antonio, with a twist of Austin.(from the Express-News)
That's how many described Saturday's grand opening of the Boardwalk on Bulverde, the Alamo City's first mobile food truck park, serving up a smorgasbord of gourmet dishes in an outdoor atmosphere not unlike a backyard barbecue.
But these aren't your neighborhood taco trucks.
“It's pretty cool,” said Cory Jernigan, 25, shortly after he chowed down on a salmon sandwich from the Wheelie Gourmet, one of 11 trucks open for business at the park on Bulverde Road, between Loop 1604 and Thousand Oaks Drive. “It's very Austin.”
“I didn't think many people would be here actually,” said Jernigan's girlfriend, Erin Shoemaker, 23. “Because I feel like in San Antonio this kind of thing hasn't really hit — like the trendy stuff.”
Besides the variety of food, the Boardwalk is also something new to the North Side, area resident Shawn Meek said.We're perfectly capable of having fun and chilling without having to go to a trendy food truck park to do it.
“To see people in this area congregating, having fun, chilling, it's a good thing,” Meek said.
(from the Express-News)A man was in critical condition and two others were hurt Saturday after an apartment complex stairwell collapsed under him as he chased a burglar, police said.
Paul Sambrano, who turns 45 today, was injured Friday night when he fell on his head at the Bandera Oaks apartment complex in the 1100 block of Bandera Road on the Northwest Side.
Police said Sambrano, his wife and a niece were chasing a man they'd been told was seen coming out of a nearby apartment window. As they yelled for him to stop, the stairs suddenly gave way, police said.
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Police investigated a 25-year low of 79 murders in 2010, the third straight year murder rates declined, said Chief William McManus.(from KSAT-12)
After 119 murder investigations in 2008, the number dropped to 99 in 2009, then dropped again by 20 this past year.
"This is very welcome news, and I think it's indicative of the hard work of our police department," said San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro.
An attempt to reorganize the beleaguered Bexar County Democratic Party collapsed in chaos Tuesday night.(from the Express-News)
After an hour of raucous argument among executive committee members, a faction of party activists blocked Chairman Dan Ramos' attempt to designate new precinct leaders.
Ramos adjourned the meeting before any significant action was taken.
Precinct 2 Commissioner Paul Elizondo, who was there to swear in the new precinct chairpeople, left without performing the ritual because the meeting was short of a quorum.
The meeting in the Granada Homes ballroom opened with a tussle between two women over a sign-in sheet, a flare-up that resulted in an assault charge being filed.
The tension only rose from there, as some members yelled to get attention and others shouted in support of Ramos, who slammed the gavel repeatedly to try to regain order.
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio police arrested a man Friday who is accused of pulling a boy's tongue during in argument with the boy's mother.(from KSAT-12)
Investigators said Chadwick Benoit, 38, pulled the 12-year-old's tongue because the boy stuck it out at him.
The San Antonio Express-News reported the boy got in between Benoit and his mother during the argument.
For the second time in about five years, someone has vandalized historic structures at Mission San Juan.(from the Express-News)
Black spray-painted symbols resembling the acronym “ATM” now mark one wall of the more than 200-year-old church and another structure that surrounds human remains on the South Side park's grounds.
The Rev. Jim Galvin, pastor for 12 years, said the same symbol appeared on a church wall four or five years ago. Whoever painted it was never caught, he said.
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Visitors to the park Sunday, taking advantage of the warm weather and clear skies, were equally disgusted by the graffiti. The mission dates to 1731.
“The mission is part of the South Side,” said Mary Herrera, 47, who stopped at Mission San Juan to stretch her legs while teaching her 15-year-old daughter, Gabrielle, how to drive. “You're hitting home here — it's personal.”
First-time visitor Erica Ances, who toured all of the local missions Sunday, said she thinks the vandals should expect more than a possible federal charge.
“They're going to get haunted,” said Ances, 33.
A couple of burglars stole a purse from a car parked at San Fernando Cemetery on Saturday afternoon, but they didn't get far with it.(from KSAT-12)
Several witnesses jumped into their cars and chased the burglars for a few miles. The chase ended at the corner of Calaveras and Buena Vista when the burglars crashed into a man in a pickup truck.
That crash caused the pickup truck to hit a utility pole, which then fell on top of the truck. The driver was not badly hurt.
The witnesses then began chasing the burglars on foot and helped officers catch one of them. He was charged with burglary of a vehicle. The purse was returned to its owner.
SAN ANTONIO -- A man driving a truck early New Year's morning slammed into an apartment building, taking out the wall of one of the units.(from KSAT-12)
It happened on the 1200 block of Patricia Avenue just after 3 a.m. Saturday morning.
Police said after the crash, the driver backed up and drove off.
He made it about a mile down the road and crashed into a fire hydrant, police said.
SAN ANTONIO -- Nearly 12 hours after a man was found beaten to death, San Antonio police named a suspect in the slaying.(from KSAT-12)
An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for Gabriel Reyes Castillo, 33.
Castillo is accused of killing a man in his 30s at an apartment complex in the 2500 block of Clara Lane on the city's Northwest Side at around 6 a.m. during a confrontation, police said. Police said the victim was assaulted with a shovel and had blunt force trauma and lacerations on his body.
SAN ANTONIO -- Police arrested a man suspected of murdering another man on the Northeast Side last month.(from WOAI-TV)
The suspect, 26-year-old Troy King had a smile on his face as he was led out of the police department Wednesday night. King is accused of killing 22-year-old Troy Skidmore.
Police say King and another man, Leroy Peterson, chased Skidmore through the Spring Hill Apartments in the 4800 block of Raybon and then pulled out a gun and shot him several times.
SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio Police Department helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday night on Highway 281 at Nakoma.(from KSAT-12)
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Traffic on Highway 281 was backed up for miles.
[SAPD Sergeant Daniel] Alonzo said the store clerk told officers a man walked in, pointed a gun at him and demanded cash. But the gunman ended up leaving the store empty-handed.(from KSAT-12)
"Basically, the clerk just stood his ground and said he didn't have any money to give him," Alonzo said. "The suspect really wasn't too threatening with the weapon. He just asked him for the money twice, and turned around and walked out."
Alonzo said witnesses reported seeing the robber casually walking down a nearby street. The clerk told police he thought he recognized the man as a customer who lives in the area.
SAN ANTONIO - An update to an emotional story we've been tracking here at News 4 WOAI. A South Texas man lost his truck, trailer and best friend while shopping at The Rim. But now Chris Cooley and his dog JB are now back together for Christmas. True to his word, the finder was rewarded with a $10,000 dollar check. Still no sign of the stolen truck or trailer.(from WOAI-TV)
Officers say the two suspects pried open the back door of a Burlington Coat Factory store on Southwest Military early Wednesday morning.(from KENS-5)
Then, in their haste to get away, they dropped several items. All officers had to do was follow a trail of stolen backpacks and clothing to a nearby apartment where both men were arrested.
SAN ANTONIO -- It appears a burglary suspect's fingers did the talking, helping San Antonio police to identify him as the person who broke into a west side home in September.(from KSAT-12)
The arrest warrant affidavit showed police found fingerprints on a liquor bottle in the home, in the 400 block of S. Sabinas Street, which they traced back to Jesse Moreno, 43.
Moreno was arrested Thursday on a charge of burglary.
The homeowner reported the break-in, telling investigators that no one actually lived there, the affidavit said.
However, the homeowner said there were several items still in the residence that belonged to his now-dead parents.
The robber is described as a black male in his late teens or early 20’s. He has black hair/short dreadlocks and brown eyes and is 5’09” to 5’10” tall and weighs about 160 - 200 lbs. The man was wearing a black baseball cap, black jacket, blue jeans, black t-shirt, and a gold-colored necklace with a gold-colored headphones pendant.(from WOAI-TV)
SAN ANTONIO -- Three CPS Energy employees have been fired after being found with what could be stolen utility poles.(from KSAT-12)
The investigation into the case started when a concerned citizen followed a speeding CPS Energy truck to a rural East Bexar County road.
Thomas Robles said he was suspicious of the truck's driver.
"They ended up going into this road behind me where they went to the back and I just gave them a little time and went back and checked and that's where they were unloading the poles like they were in a hurry," said Robles.
Robles took photographs and said wooden utility poles were being used as fence posts on the property.
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Robles said he saw about 10 new poles on the truck and suspected that the wire being used in the fencing is from CPS Energy as well.
Police said several people were at a party at this home in the 300 block of Mount Vernon Court. The party began Saturday night and lasted throughout the night into the morning, but shortly after noon on Sunday, two brothers, 26 and 25, at the party, began arguing.(from KSAT-12)
According to police, the argument spilled into the street and that's when the older man shot his younger brother several times in the stomach[.]
"Some of the witnesses decided, you know what, enough is enough, we're leaving, we're getting out of here. Next thing you know, they turn their head because they hear shots being fired," said Sgt. Steven Trujillo with the San Antonio Police Dept.
SAN ANTONIO - Around 3 am Sunday morning a pair of brothers got into fight, sending the oldest to the hospital. According to police, a family argument got out of hand on the Southeast Side. That's when one of the men allegedly pulled a knife on his older brother and stabbed him several times in the stomach. After that he took off. The brother that was stabbed was taken to the hospital for his injuries.(from WOAI-TV)
SAN ANTONIO -- A bull escaped from the L&H Meat Packing Company Friday afternoon. It sent people on a chase for nearly an hour, and ended up on the campus of the Blessed Sacrament Academy a little over a mile away.(from WOAI-TV)
Witnesses say the bull followed a lady walking her dog in the area. Students from a high school campus and a child development center were outside at the time. They were told to stay indoors until the bull was caught.
Police said Isidro Palomo's Chevy Blazer smashed through a wall of Huisache Baptist Church just before 7 a.m. Thursday after he jumped out of the moving vehicle.(from KSAT-12)
Palomo told police he was driving along Interstate 10 near Woodlawn Avenue when his accelerator suddenly hit the floor and became stuck. He said it sent the vehicle barreling down the highway at speeds of up to 90 mph.
"He tried to put it in neutral and use his emergency brake to slow his vehicle down and it kept on accelerating, so he exited the highway," said Officer Art Knox, with the San Antonio Police Department.
Knox said the vehicle hit a curb and Paloma jumped out, suffering a few minor cuts and bruises on his knees.
Meanwhile, the SUV kept rolling, first through a chain-link fence, then through the church wall.
"It just goes to show you that God will use extreme measures to get somebody to church. If you won't go, He'll take you," said Bez Cummings, the church pastor, jokingly.Well, technically it was the SUV that went. Apparently Mr. Palomo thought he didn't need no churchin', because he jumped out before he got there.
(from KENS-5)A Dream Act supporter is a free woman after sitting behind bars for a week.
Reverend Lorenza Smith was released from jail a short time ago. She was the lone protester who decided to not bond out right away in order to make a point. Smith says she has no regrets! [Nice editorial use of the exclamation point. No bias there, nosirree. --ed.]
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Reverend Smith, along with 14 other UTSA Dream Act supporters were arrested last week for trespassing at the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Hutchison does not support the legislation that would pave the way to citizenship for undocumented students - also known as the Dream Act.
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[Smith] stopped her 12-day fast Monday after medical issues [such as impending death, maybe? --ed.] necessitated its end. Now two other church leaders will take on her fast.
Watch your back, tortillas — you have some serious competition in the form of flatbread.(from the Express-News)
Known the world over in many forms — naan, foccacia, saj, pita, chapatti — flatbreads or unleavened breads are staples in Middle Eastern, Italian and Indian cuisines.
When police arrived at a home in the 11000 block of Whisper Willow they found the suspect armed with a gun. Police say the suspect then set the house on fire and made a getaway on his motorcycle.(from KENS-5)SAPD followed in patrol cars along with Boerne police and Kendall County Sheriff's deputies.
Authorities say during the chase the gunman turned towards police several times and pointed his weapon towards them but it wasn't until the suspect jumped off his bike that they reacted.
"He jumped off his motorcycle and was running along the bike." SAPD Police Chief William McManus said.
Mario Fuentes and Jacob Pena tell KENS 5 they were among a few people parked in a downtown parking lot at the corner of South Presa and Durango Saturday afternoon.(from KENS-5)
The men claim when they drove into the lot the signs said to pay $5. Fuentes said the booth was unattended but they used the pay box to pay.
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But when they returned an hour later, Fuentes said the price on the signs was changed and several cars were booted.
"Not all the signs were covered. There was still a few signs that had $5 written on it. That's when we questioned is it $5 or $8" Pena said.
Angry and frustrated, Pena and Fuentes claim they began questioning the attendant who worked for Boot man Inc.
According to them, the attendant said "It's not my job to dispute. Just to put on the boot and take off the boot."
"We asked for a supervisor. He said there was nobody to call. There was no supervisor to be found," Pena said.
"I gave him my credit card and he processed the payment right there on the spot," Said Fuentes, "He released the cars right away."
Terrance Cooksey, 36, Jeffrey Schauble, 26, and Christopher Zigalo, 25, were arrested on charges of arson and engaging in organized criminal activity.(from KSAT-12)
The three are accused of setting 10 fires and attempting to set three others in the Marion area of Guadalupe County between April to July of this year.
One resident told KSAT on Tuesday what was even more shocking to her is the fact that the men accused of starting the fires were all members or prospective members of the Marion Volunteer Fire Department.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- A downtown museum, which had faced some financial trouble in the past, is celebrating a grand opening with a new exhibit.(from KSAT-12)
The Museo Alameda, which is located in the historic Market Square in downtown San Antonio, was shut down back in August to prepare for the new exhibit.
On Saturday, the museum opened again, showcasing its "Revolution to Renaissance" exhibit.
But creating a hyphenated museum is not always a smooth enterprise, as can be sensed at the Museo Alameda, which opened here to great fanfare on April 13 [2007].(from the New York Times)
"We're hoping that this exhibit will encourage everyone to come down here and convince everyone that we have begun a new," said [Chairman of the Board Rolando] Pablos. "This exhibit will be the starting point for many great things to come for this institution and we're hopeful that everyone in town can come look at it."And the exhibit they're hoping will be the successful rebirth of the Museo Alameda? It's about the Mexican Revolution.
SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio police spokeswoman said the adult wild cougar that escaped from the Wild Animal Orphanage on the city's far Northwest Side Friday morning has been located.(from KSAT-12)
Spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said the around 3 p.m., "Sarah," the cougar, was found in a wooded area near the intersection of Leslie Road and Loop 1604.
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Jamie Cryer, of the Wild Animal Orphanage, said he and orphanage staff walked up on Sarah in a dry creekbed behind the property.
He said after the fired the tranquilizer dart, they walked her back on a stretcher and she was checked out by a veterinarian, who said she was fine.
SAN ANTONIO -- Family and friends gathered to say goodbye to a loved one when, San Antonio Police said, some unwanted guests showed up.(from KENS-5)
Mourners asked the pair to leave and they did, but the two returned some time later with guns.
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They fired three shots into the air and took off.
SAN ANTONIO -- Arm wrestling is not exactly one of the top sports in the country. For some it ranks up there with "rock, paper, scissors." But for 16-year-old Crystal Yeary, it is more than just a recreational sport. It has become her passion.(from KSAT-12)
Yeary said she was visiting her cousin, who is [a] pro arm wrestler living in New Mexico, this past summer and he talked her into arm wrestling at a tournament.
She said she won and she was hooked.
"When you're up there, (it) gives like a huge adrenaline rush," said Yeary, a junior at MacArthur High School.
In August, Yeary accompanied her cousin to the Arm Wrestling Federation national tournament in Montana. She said they arrived just in time for Yeary to sign up. She wound up finishing first as a left-hander and third as a right-hander -- good enough to get an invitation to the world championships.
"It's like, all right, I want to do this for a while," she said.
SAN ANTONIO -- Pledging not to eat as long as necessary and drink only water and juice, a dozen University of Texas-San Antonio students said their hunger strike is an act of solidarity with similar demonstrations across the U.S. in support of the controversial Dream Act.(from KSAT-12)
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Among the students is Pamela Resendiz, a political science major who said she plans on becoming an immigration attorney.
Resendiz said she is undocumented, having been arrested and detained in the Travis County Jail and later a federal detention facility in Hutto, Texas. She said she now awaits her deportation proceedings.
The Blue Wing Solar project went on-line Nov. 4. An official ribbon cutting will take place on Nov. 9.(from KSAT-12)
Sen. John Cornyn, U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro were among those who joined Duke Energy, CPS Energy and Juwi Solar Inc. dignitaries for the ceremony.
The solar farm, which is located near Interstate 37 and U.S. Highway 181 on the far Southeast side of the city, is the largest solar farm in Texas.
The project is part of CPS Energy's 2020 vision, which calls for 20 percent of its power to come from clean renewable energy resources by 2020.This project will provide power to about 1,800 homes per year. There are over 400,000 households in San Antonio. The green effect is negligible.
"That means there's less emissions we put into the air and less pollution," said CPS Energy President & CEO Doyle Beneby.
However, Beneby added, solar energy is 2 to 3 times more expensive than traditional sources. The drawback may be a slight increase in monthly energy bills for CPS Energy customers. Beneby estimated it will only add up to a few cents extra per month on the average bill.
"Hopefully, it's going to be somewhat unnoticeable, but we are very cost conscious. We have the lowest rates of any major city and even with the addition of solar to our portfolio, we're going to keep it that way," said Beneby. [emphases added]
A federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for an area podiatrist after he failed to show up for a hearing Thursday on charges of cheating on his taxes.(from the Express-News)Donald E. Robinson, 66, faxed papers to the federal courthouse in San Antonio stating that his hearing had been “canceled,” and that he had issued a $300 million warrant naming himself as the surety, though he has no authority, Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said at the hearing.
“As long as we get the $300 million I don't care if he shows up or not,” Biery said in jest. “The government could use that money.”
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[Robinson] said he did not show up to his hearing because he believed he was working it out with the IRS.
“The Bible says you take it to your brother and try to settle it in the private. That's what I tried to do.”
SAN ANTONIO -- A 19-year-old woman was arrested after Kirby police said she bit a child hard enough to leave a bruise and visible teeth marks.(KSAT-12)
According to an arrest affidavit, Olivia Ramirez admitted to a relative that she bit the child Oct. 23.
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This is not the first time that Ramirez has been arrested for the offense.
The affidavit stated that she was arrested in June 2009 for the same charge and was indicted by a grand jury.
Police said Vicente Cerna stayed the night at a woman's apartment. When she told him to leave the next day, he got mad and picked up a muffin and threw it at her. She then threw it back. The fight escalated, and police said Cerna pulled out a gun and threatened the woman.(from WOAI-TV)
SAN ANTONIO -- Besides the usual loot taken by burglars -- electronics, jewelry, cash -- Betsy Kinsey said whoever broke into their Northeast side home last Friday stole a source of strength for her 12-year-old son, Stephen, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.(from KSAT-12)
"It helps me a lot," he said.
His mother said Stephen, who had his first chemotherapy last Christmas, is looking at five years of cancer treatments.
Kinsey said her son told her, "Mommy, I wish they'd taken everything in my room and left my Bible."
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"Bring my Bible back," Stephen said.
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She said the thieves also stole from her daughter's diabetic supplies and her son's chemo medicine.
SAN ANTONIO -- A 24-year-old driver allegedly slammed his car into the front of a home in the 400 block of Clark, on the city's east side, police said.(from KENS-5)
He then attempted to run from the scene. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday.
