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San Antonio police have arrested a Northeast Side man they say was responsible for a burglary in June.According to an arrest warrant affidavit, 18-year-old Aldrain Johnson was arrested after his friends identified him as a suspect.The affidavit said the...

A Southwest Side woman is in the hospital after being shot in the face overnight, San Antonio police said Thursday.The shooting was reported just before midnight in the 5100 block of Red Hawk Street, found not far from Old Pearsall Road.Police said a car...

The San Antonio Police Department and Crime Stoppers want the public's assistance in tracking down the people responsible for an aggravated robbery.According to police, on June 2 around 3:30 p.m. a man and a woman arrived at a Express Mart located in the...

An inmate who was missing in the Bexar County Jail was found hiding inside the ceiling, authorities said early Thursday.The inmate, who was in the mental health section of the jail, was unaccounted for starting around 3:45 a.m. Officials said the jailers...

More than a dozen registered sex offenders, including several designated sexual predators, have listed a Florida Walmart as their home address, a move officials said is completely legal but has left shoppers and residents stunned.Fifteen men and two...

An alien was discovered by the men in blue -- not the Men in Black -- safely buckled into the passenger seat of a car that officers had pulled over for speeding.Police in Alpharetta, Ga., say they clocked a driver speeding at 84 miles per hour Sunday and...

All around the world, there are animals and insects on the threatened or endangered species list. Many of those species find homes in zoos or animal sanctuaries.In San Antonio, the San Antonio Zoo and SeaWorld do a lot of work to protect these animals. ...

A New York man has been cited for keeping a wild deer on the second floor of his home.State Department of Environmental Conservation Officer Jerry Kinney says his office received a complaint that a neighbor was harboring a wild animal in his Jamestown...

"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli is either a con man who scammed hedge fund investors of millions or a nerdy genius who made them even richer.The conflicting portraits were offered Wednesday at opening statements of Shkreli's securities fraud trial, a case...

A wildfire burning Wednesday through a dense Arizona forest has forced thousands of people from their homes, closed a major road and created a huge plume of smoke over the same area devastated by a blaze that killed 19 firefighters four years ago.The...

Hundreds of inventors have flocked to Walmart's headquarters in Bentonville to find out if the country needs a few more secret sauces, prettier mouse pads or "instant hair gel" packets for the on-the-go clubber.The 500 businesses selected to take part in...

Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis' top advisers, took a leave of absence as the Vatican's financial czar on Thursday to face multiple criminal charges in his native Australia that allege he committed sexual assault years ago.Pell appeared before...

The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a "close" family or business tie to the United States. The move came after the Supreme Court partially restored...

San Antonio's Tim Duncan asked a federal court to properly sentence his former financial adviser, who defrauded the Spurs legend out of millions of dollars.
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A strain of the herpes virus is causing cancerous tumors to appear on Texas sea turtles, resulting in multiple surgeries a week, according to reports.
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A protest is being planned against a Central Texas bar after several patrons said employees, and the bar's owner used hateful rhetoric in responding to criticism of the establishment online.
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A 28-year-old man who was placed on probation and ordered to register as a sex offender for life by a San Antonio judge on June 9 was arrested in McAllen, Texas, on Friday on charges of inappropriately touching a child.
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Oklahoma police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found inside a Sand Springs Walmart bathroom three days after she entered the store.
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Ida Grace Tavarez, who as a single mother of three children put herself through beauty school to become a hair dresser before transitioning to retail, died June 20 at 79.
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Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time convincing his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest. [...] on Monday evening, the young couple positioned...

Mauricio Sánchez Garza laundered money from Mexican drug cartels through an apartment complex on the Northwest Side, and extorted a business partner for his stake in a prequel to Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.”
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