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12+ min ago  (225+ words) A worker purportedly injured in Valero Energy's Monday-night refinery explosion in Port Arthur has sued the San San Antonio-based oil-and-gas company, alleging it failed to properly maintain its equipment, Reuters reports. The claim, filed in Jefferson County District Court in…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago  (150+ words) SAN ANTONIO " State authorities have identified the man shot and killed by a Castle Hills police officer who was responding to a hit-and-run incident Wednesday morning." The Texas Department of Public Safety said 24-year-old Jazz Joseph Fernandez died after an…...

47+ min ago  (148+ words) SAN ANTONIO " A fire that's scorched part of northern Atascosa County has destroyed four homes, local officials said. As of 3:30 p.m., the fire was about 75% contained." The flames sparked around 1:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Way Cross, near the Atascosa-Bexar line, according…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago  (53+ words) YWCA San Antonio opens Harvey E. Najim Early Childhood Education Center'Community Impact | News YWCA San Antonio opens Harvey E. Najim Early Childhood Education Center The new education center is located within the YWCA Women's Live and Learn Center. (Parks Kugle/Community Impact)…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (466+ words) Pedro'Lozano Moreno (center) and Rodrin Alexis Garcia Rivera (right) are taken to the Bexar County jail to be charged'with engaging in organized criminal activity and theft. The two men are accused of stealing at least 1,000 circuit breakers and 800 bundles of…...

13+ hour, 59+ min ago  (409+ words) The U.S. can continue to detain immigrants without bond, an appeals court ruled Wednesday, handing a victory to the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. The opinion from a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overturned a lower…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (371+ words) CHARLOTESVILLE, Va. " A professional cornhole player with an inspirational story as a quadruple amputee will be moved from a Virginia jail to face charges in Maryland, where he is accused of fatally shooting a front-seat passenger in a car he…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (827+ words) Hillel Italie And Jocelyn Noveck NEW YORK " Singer-songwriter Darrell "Dash" Crofts, who teamed with childhood friend Jim Seals for such 1970s soft-rock hits as "Summer Breeze," "Diamond Girl" and "Get Closer," has died. He was 87. Crofts died Wednesday of heart failure…...

3+ hour, 54+ min ago  (404+ words) A revised version of the House's aviation safety bill now has the backing of the NTSB, but most of the families of the 67 victims of last year's midair collision near Washington, D.C., still want to see tougher requirements to ensure the…...

3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (626+ words) WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump may believe the adage that the pen is mightier than the sword " as long as it's a Sharpie. During a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the…...