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San Antonio police ID deceased Market Square shooting suspects
The San Antonio Police Department on Monday afternoon released the names of the two individuals they said instigated a shooting in Market Square early Sunday as Fiesta revelries wound down. Shortly after midnight, police saw 18-year-old Mikey Valdez fire a gun, striking Albert Cisneros, 20, SAPD officials said in a press statement.
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San Antonio's Texas Black Gold Garlic files for bankruptcy liquidation
San Antonio-based specialty foods company Texas Black Gold Garlic has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. Texas Garlic Inc., which does business as Texas Black Gold, listed no assets and $362,000 in liabilities in a petition submitted late last week to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Antonio. San Antonio chef Stephen Paprocki, founder of the farm-to-table nonprofit Chef Cooperatives, launched Texas Black Gold in 2015.
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You can buy Sarah Silverman’s dress in a New Hampshire PBS auction
The actress and comedian has worn the outfit at star-studded events. Apparently, she’s even ripped it.
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Charles Barkley rips Galveston beaches, San Antonio women in latest on-air rants
NBA commentator Charles Barkley was so disgusted with the New Orleans Pelican's playoff performance that he said the team doesn't deserve a trip to Cancun but rather to Galveston. "We're not even going to send them to Cancun," Barkley quipped Saturday on TNT after the team's 106-85 loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder. "We're going to send them to Galveston, where that dirty-ass water be washing up on the shore, and you people think you're at the beach." Don't worry, Spurs fans.
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More pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at UT-Austin
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Arrests resumed Monday at the University of Texas at Austin amid ongoing demonstrations in support of Palestinians.
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Report shows dating aid Tinder is the app most users want to delete
In news that may not surprise those active in the dating scene, a new study found that Tinder is the mobile app users most want to delete. Online privacy company TorGuard analyzed more than 40 popular U.S. apps and isolated how many times users did Google searches for "how to delete [my] ___ account" or similar phrases. Researchers then compared those numbers to the size of each app's user base to see which had the highest ratio of haters.
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Black Public Media awards $610,000 to filmmakers, honors Sam Pollard with Trailblazer Award
The grants were announced at the 2024 PitchBLACK Forum in New York.
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Texas sues Biden administration to block expansion of LGBTQ+ student protections
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Monday for expanding federal sex discrimination protections under Title IX to include LGBTQ+ students. Title IX is a sweeping civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded colleges and K-12 schools.
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San Antonio-based H-E-B recalls Creamy Creations ice cream products
San Antonio-based grocery chain H-E-B has issued a voluntary recall of multiple Creamy Creations ice cream products, saying they may include metal fragments. The affected products — 12-count packages of 3-ounce cups in Chocolate, Lime/Orange sherbet and Homemade Vanilla and Chocolate combo packs — were distributed to all H-E-B stores in Texas and Mexico along with Central Market, Joe V’s Smart Shop and Mi Tienda stores, company officials said. To date, H-E-B has reported no injuries...
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San Antonio Spurs heading to Paris next season for two-game series against Pacers
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs are heading to the star player's hometown of Paris next season for a two-game series against the Indiana Pacers, team officials said Monday. The Silver and Black will play Thursday, Jan 23, and Saturday, Jan 25, in the City of Lights, according to details shared by the franchise. Fans looking to jet their way to the games will have to wait until a later date to find out the tip-off time, ticket information and other details.
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Companies aim to release more treated oilfield wastewater into rivers and streams
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here.
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Ted Cruz's proposal to let members of Congress skip airport security hits roadblock
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's proposal to let members of Congress circumvent pesky airport checkpoints and get private screenings while traveling by air has been grounded by a fellow lawmaker, The Hill reports. Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, issued an objection dropping Cruz's measure from the current Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, The Hill reports, citing people familiar with the negotiations. Cruz, a...