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San Antonio police are investigating after a man was found dead in the driver’s seat of a car parked outside a South Side apartment complex.

San Antonio police are investigating a shooting that sent one man to the hospital overnight.

A man is in critical condition after being shot during a robbery outside of a South Side brewery, according to San Antonio police.

The San Antonio Police Department’s Bomb Squad will be conducting training exercises on Sunday.

Taste of the Southside 2022 is an opportunity to experience the culture, food, art and music of San Antonio’s vibrant South Side.

A 31-year-old man is hospitalized after being shot on the city’s South Side on Tuesday night, according to San Antonio police.

San Antonio police and Crime Stoppers are looking for the suspect in a robbery of a Side Side convenience store.

The family of Irene Chavez, an Army veteran, has received a redacted report and been told there's no video in the prison facility.

Two teenagers were taken to the hospital overnight after a shooting at a park on the South Side, according to San Antonio police.

Mora-vation Ministry Toy & Bike Giveaway founder Fernando Mora decided to make the eighth annual event fun and a bit competitive within the community.

Are you tired of looking at the mall for that hard-to-find gift? Then it could be worth a short drive just south of downtown to Pica Pica Plaza, which supports a variety of San Antonio small businesses.

A San Antonio man accused of shooting at a family during a road rage incident last month has been arrested.

A man in his 30s was shot during an altercation with several men outside a South Side bar early Tuesday morning, San Antonio police said.

A man is in critical condition after he was struck by a red SUV while trying to merge onto I-35 overnight, according to San Antonio police.

San Antonio police officers are investigating a shooting that sent one man to the hospital overnight.

Several dozen people were detained, and deputies seized drugs and cash from a rental home that was being used as a gambling operation on the South Side, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

The San Antonio Police Department’s Bomb Squad will be conducting training exercises on Wednesday.

A man was arrested after San Antonio police say he exchanged explicit messages with an officer who he believed was an underage girl.

San Antonio police are searching for three men who they say shot a man after he confronted them about breaking into his vehicle early Tuesday morning.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office has identified a 37-year-old man fatally shot after he intervened in a fight outside a South Side bar on Monday morning.

The new Colt’s Sports Park Bar will be a family- and pet-friendly, indoor and outdoor venue for multiple sports. Amenities will include softball and kickball fields, sand volleyball and badminton courts, and areas for horseshoes and cornhole. The sports park will also have giant Jenga, giant Connect 4, Ring It and other games.

A San Antonio animal shelter had double the trouble after picking up a pair of pigs that were found roaming freely in city limits.

Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly forced a driver to take him to a South Side ATM to withdraw money.

A male driver and a passenger were able to avoid serious injury following a rollover crash on the city’s South Side early Thursday morning, San Antonio police said.

Police have listed 3 people, a woman and two teens, as suspects in a deadly shooting outside a South Side bar.

A man is dead following a shooting outside a bar on the city’s far South Side early Monday morning, San Antonio police said.

One person is dead and another is in custody following a vehicle crash on the city’s South Side late Tuesday night.

Authorities have arrested a man wanted in connection with a fatal stabbing on the South Side earlier this month.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of DWI following a vehicle crash early Wednesday morning, San Antonio police said.

Palo Alto College will once again become illuminated with holiday lights for the festive season.

One of San Antonio’s favorite burger joints is officially opening the doors to its fifth restaurant on the South Side on Monday.

<b>Update (Noon, Monday, Nov. 22): </b>The Amber Alert for a 13-year-old girl who disappeared from the South Side of San Antonio last week has been called off.

Students on San Antonio’s South Side have an opportunity to be featured in a new writers program, Live From The Southside magazine announced Tuesday.

The truck maker Navistar is hiring hundreds of positions for its facility located on the city’s South Side.

A fire, believed to have been caused by an extension cord, has displaced 2 people from their home.

San Antonio firefighters say an electrical problem appears to be what sparked a fire inside a South Side home.

A woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a road rage shooting on the South Side.

Family and neighbors are mourning the loss of the man killed Saturday evening in a house fire.

A woman was fatally struck by a vehicle while walking across a street on the city’s South Side, according to San Antonio police.

One person died in a house fire on the city’s South Side overnight, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.

Patricia Scharmann says her mare, Stormy, was shot at least four times. A blood trail and trampled grass starting about 25 yards from the fence line show where the horse stumbled and collapsed, ultimately dying with gruesome wounds.

An explosion rocked a Southwest Side apartment building, sending one man to a hospital with burns and his neighbors running for safety.

Multiple residents of a South Side apartment complex were evacuated early Wednesday following a fire.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a man fatally stabbed on the city’s South Side early Sunday morning.

An off-duty San Antonio police officer was arrested on an assault charge and suspended following a domestic violence incident, according to SAPD.

Two people were detained overnight in connection with a man’s stabbing death on the South Side, according to San Antonio police.

A South Side home was damaged overnight after a driver crashed their car at the property and fled, police said.

The South Side could get a new San Antonio Police substation as part of the 2022 bond program, which the police department has indicated would also mean expanding the department.

A San Antonio family brought Spooktacular joy to their neighborhood once again, shining a positive light on the southside during Halloween.

A shooting suspect in his 20s is dead after a confrontation with a man who he tried to shoot on the South Side, San Antonio police say.

Why travel out of town to the Hill Country for a market day when there will be one in your own South Side neighborhood?

Palo Alto College has developed a Quality Enhancement Plan, also known as QEP, that...

A planned acute care hospital would provide patients on the South Side of San Antonio better access to routine types of health care services.

At least seven people were killed and 37 were wounded from gun violence in Chicago over the weekend, according to the Chicago Police Department.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected a petition seeking to halt construction of an Obama Foundation library to be built on Chicago's South Side, the latest in a string of judgments by the Trump appointee sure to draw fire from the Right.

Residents of South San Antonio will soon gain a Chipotle, complete with a drive-thru, MySA reports. The build-a-burrito chain operates 14 locations in San Antonio, though...

Former District 3 councilwoman Rebecca Viagran spoke with the San Antonio Report about her time on City Council and what's next for her.

The shootings come a day after police reported that 100 people were shot in Chicago.

Three undercover law enforcement officers were shot and wounded Wednesday morning while driving onto an expressway on Chicago’s South Side, police said. The three were in an unmarked undercover vehicle on their way to an assignment when they were shot, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown told reporters. Two of the officers were agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and one was a Chicago officer, Brown said.

In 2001, Tionda and Diamond Bradley left a note and disappeared from their Chicago home. For two decades, their family has fought for answers.

San Antonio is gearing up to welcome a new dual-language and STEM-focused middle school...

Three women and one man were killed when gunshots rang out following an argument early Tuesday, police say.

Police say four people are dead and four others are injured after gunfire erupted at a home on Chicago's South Side early Tuesday morning.

Identities of the dead weren't immediately released.

One witness caught the shooting on camera during a Facebook Live.

Eight people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in Burnside on the South Side.

The Obama Presidential Center is expected to break ground this fall, and the former president visited with South Side Chicago residents this week.

Barack Obama continued a push to build support for his presidential center on Chicago’s lakefront on Friday, urging business leaders in the city to get involved with the project. The former president announced his choice of Jackson Park on the city’s South Side in 2016 but construction for the $500 million project had been delayed because of a federal review needed in the historic parkland. Chicago officials announced in April that preliminary work at the property was underway, even as activists filed another lawsuit seeking to force its relocation to protect the surrounding environment.

Graduates from the University of the Incarnate Word's School of Osteopathic Medicine have a new residency program option at Texas Vista Medical Center.

Transgender and nonbinary people nationwide have given birth for decades, and many want to see more gender-neutral language in law and medicine.

The family said it's been struggle but they have hope.

Suburban voters reaching both deep into the South Side and across much of the North Side doomed Proposition B in the May 1 election.

As Chicago looks to combat a shortage of affordable housing, its communities face a key challenge: the loss of the city’s iconic two-, three- and four-flats. On the city's North Side, Lincoln Park lost 16% of these small residential buildings between 2013 and 2019. In North Center, the losses totaled 14%. On the South Side, the Oakland community area lost about 11% of two- to four-flats and in ...

“They want a lot of guns,” one soldier reportedly said in a text message to his roommate.

“They want a lot of guns,” one soldier reportedly said in a text message to his roommate.

“They want a lot of guns,” one soldier reportedly said in a text message to his roommate.

“They want a lot of guns,” one soldier reportedly said in a text message to his roommate.

“They want a lot of guns,” one soldier reportedly said in a text message to his roommate.

When Jerry and Daniel Lamb Esquivel decided to build their own "palacio," they wanted a neighborhood with soul and a sense of community.

The pandemic isn’t going to last forever, so the South Side needs to be ready for the...

A survivor of conflict on the streets of Chicago, the author writes of his post-prison experience in trying to inspire youth to develop the emotional skills that will protect them from life-altering, even deadly mistakes.

Does SA really need its own Joe Exotic? Exotic animal breeder Brian Gilroy, CEO and co-founder of WildLife Partners, seems to think so. Gilroy wants to...

click to enlarge Courtesy Burger BoySan Antonio's Burger Boy chain has served up a perfect example of how to take a fan's feedback to heart.When local resident Alfredo Canedo Jr., a die-hard Burger Boy enthusiast, noticed an empty South Side building, he reached out with a proposal. He sent a message describing the vacant building in the McCreless Corner Shopping Center, adding simply, “We would love to have you over here.”Late Wednesday, Burger Boy confirmed it's developing a restaurant on the same spot Canedo identified. When the location opens this summer, it will be the chain's fifth.“Since the announcement of our third location two years ago, our social media fan base has been calling for a Burger Boy on the South Side,” company co-owner Bryce Pohlmeier said in a release. “Well, we heard them, and we’re excited to make our way there and be a part of the community.”Burger Boy will demolish the existing building in the shopping center and replace it with one that replicates the sleek design of its location at Shaenfield Road and Loop 1604, officials said.In addition to its namesake burgers, the chain serves up an array of classic fast-food options such as corn dogs, tater tots and grilled cheese, chicken and fish sandwiches.

Toyota Texas /TNSToyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) will remain closed for production through Thursday to reduce water, energy use as San Antonio grapples with conserving essential resources during historic winter weather event. The South Side plant, which produces the Tacoma and Tundra trucks, said Wednesday that the decision to pause production was made "for the safety of our employees and to minimize further stress on the city's infrastructure."

“I got off the train and was walking down Western Avenue on the South Side of Chicago and found myself standing in front of a cannabis store,” he said. “I must have stood there for nearly five minutes, just watching people walk in the store and walk out carrying a bag.

The year 2021 has arrived and with it a new opportunity to look to the future. Undoubtedly, the year gone by has tested us all, but it has also taught us important lessons on resilience — a quality that will carry us forward in 2021. As a beacon of hope for the South Side community since 1985, Palo Alto College remains committed to keeping students first as they work to fulfill their educational goals. While we cannot know what 2021 will bring, we can control our attitude, approach, and response. Our faculty and staff continue to come together to provide strength and resilience as our students and community look to us for hope and opportunity.

Vitner’s, founded in 1926 on Chicago’s South Side as the C.J. Vitner Company, was one of the oldest family-run snack food companies in the U.S. when it was purchased by California-based Snak King in 2011. Snak King, which has manufacturing facilities in California as well as in Freeport, Illinois, makes private-label snacks for large food corporations as well as under The Whole Earth, El Sabroso, Granny Goose and Jensen’s Orchard brands.

“By the time we put it all together, he’s here in Evanston. All we know at this point is that there’s a Red Toyota with license plate numbers, but again, we don’t have a crystal ball, we don’t know where that red Toyota is anywhere in the city,’' Brown said. “We have no idea that he’s coming to Evanston and nor do we have any motives for any of this at this point.”

A San Antonio man was killed in a single-vehicle crash early on New Year's Day, police said. Officers were called to the intersection of Division Ave. and Pleasanton Road on the South Side for a crash around 2:55 a.m. Friday. A vehicle traveling eastbound on Division struck a large utility pole on the sidewalk, police said. FIND OUT FIRST: Get San Antonio breaking news directly to your inboxThe driver and only occupant of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. Traffic investigators processed the scene.

A 14-year-old girl was struck by a pickup truck while lighting fireworks in a South Side street, police said. Officers were called to the 1100 block of W. Amber St. shortly after midnight on New Year's Day. A man driving a pickup truck struck the teenager, then tried to flee the scene. Other people from the party managed to stop the truck farther up W. Amber St. FIND OUT FIRST: Get San Antonio breaking news directly to your inboxThe 14-year-old was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.

On Christmas Day, Lotus Rios received an unwelcome gift: someone or multiple people vandalized a free South Side pantry she recently helped launch. Rios and her friend Belinda Hernandez created The Harlandale Sunshine Pantry in October because of what they said was a food deficiency in their community. Rios relaunched the GoFundMe page she created in October to raise funds to stock the pantry. When the pantry reopens, Rios said she hopes it can continue to live by its motto: "If you can't find the sunshine, be the sunshine." For more information, visit the The Harlandale Sunshine Pantry Facebook page.

Officers stopped the boy, whose name was not released due to his age, about 11 p.m. in the 200 block of West 73rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side after he was seen driving a stolen Subaru that was used in a fatal carjacking, police said. He turned off the headlights, got out of the car and tried to run away, but officers were able to take him into custody.

The country also wasn't testing as many people for the virus in April, so the death toll for that month could be higher than original data shows, epidemiologists caution. December is on pace to become the deadliest month of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, surpassing April, when more than 60,738 Americans lost their lives to the coronavirus. But health officials and medical personnel are cautioning that a vaccine won't give the country immediate relief from the outbreak. Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of the systemwide special pathogens program at New York City Health + Hospitals, called the latest Covid surge "a terrible case of deja vu." Some state and local officials are implementing new restrictions to curb the spread of the virus and protect hospitals from being overwhelmed.

click image Facebook / Scooby Van of San AntonioLocal nonprofit Scooby Van of San Antonio is expanding with a new South Side chapter, KSAT reports The Scooby Van, which is painted like the Mystery Machine from classic cartoon, acts as a mobile little free library, distributing books to underserved children in San Antonio.The new local, Latina-owned magazine Live from the Southside will take the lead on the new chapter, teaming up with small businesses to install little free libraries on the South Side. "We are all so excited about doing this for our community and hope that these little libraries are cared for and they bring joy to our neighborhoods," April Monterrosa, editor in chief of, told KSAT.Brooster's Backyard Icehouse will host first of the planned little free libraries, and will also have a book drop-off as well.On Saturday, December 26, the South Side Scooby Van will celebrate the launch of the first library at Brooster's Backyard Icehouse with free books and Scooby snacks for kids from 4-7 p.m.

A 44-year-old man died after his pickup truck hit an 18-wheeler on the South Side early Wednesday morning. San Antonio police were called to the 10600 block of U.S. 281 around 1 a.m. for the crash. FIND OUT FIRST: Get San Antonio breaking news directly to your inboxPolice said they believe the driver, Angel Baltazar, was speeding down the highway when he hit the back axle on an 18-wheeler that was turning out of a refinery. Baltazar was extracted from his pickup truck by firefighters and taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Taylor Pettaway is a breaking news and general assignment reporter for MySA.com | taylor.pettaway@express-news.net | @TaylorPettaway

The six men whose cases were cleared Tuesday all alleged they were framed by Watts and his officers, who for years ran a protection racket out of the Ida B. Wells homes on the South Side. All six had already completed their sentences by the time Judge LeRoy Martin Jr. formally threw out their convictions.

A male teenager is in critical condition after a family member accidentally shot him Tuesday, San Antonio police said. A second teen and a family relative around the same age said he accidentally shot the victim while showing him the gun, said SAPD spokesman Sgt. FIND OUT FIRST: Get San Antonio breaking news directly to your inboxBrown said there were multiple juveniles in the home at the time of the incident, but could not say if there were adults present. “These are not cases that we like to have to handle, but when we do, they still need to be investigated to the fullest,” Brown said. “I hope you keep the family in your thoughts and prayers during this time.”

Wright, who grew up in the South Side neighborhood known as “Terror Town,” faces up to about six years in prison if he’s convicted at trial, though there could be later enhancements given his criminal history, which includes a weapons conviction in Cook County, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Breslow told the magistrate judge in Springfield.

On Tuesday, San Antonio police executed search warrants at both homes located in the 300 block of W. Ansley Boulevard. FIND OUT FIRST: Get San Antonio breaking news directly to your inboxSims said most of the roosters and hens are in good condition, which is not uncommon with fighting roosters. According to Sims, roosters are housed in San Antonio before taken to rural areas for fights. ACS spokeswoman Lisa Norwood said the South Side properties had "no legal means for those numbers" of roosters and hens. San Antonio police and ACS did not say if arrests were made in connection with the birds found at the homes.

A 27-year-old man was arrested after allegedly robbing a South Side Pizza Hut on Monday with a paintbrush, San Antonio police said. Jacob Matthew Garza was charged with robbery of a business..Officers were called to the Pizza Hut at 3323 Roosevelt Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Monday night. Employees said a man, later identified as Garza, entered the store wearing a baby-blue hoodie with the hood around his face and told the employee he "needed the money," SAPD said. Shortly after, an SAPD officer saw Garza wearing the baby-blue hoodie at a gas station three blocks from the restaurant and arrested him without incident. When investigators interviewed Garza, he admitted to robbing the store and said he had used a paintbrush to look like a gun, SAPD said.