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FILE — Donald Trump stands in a slots parlor at hisTrump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J., March 16, 1990. Printouts obtained by The New York Times from Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, including figures from his federal tax form for the years 1985 to 1994, reveal that Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker By the time …

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales announced Tuesday that he would seek the death penalty in the case of a man accused of killing a San Antonio Police detective in 2016. Otis Tyrone McKane, 33, is currently awaiting trial on one count of capital murder of a police officer, accused of shooting Detective Benjamin Marconi on Nov. 20, 2016. The …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodyguard for a prominent Mexican journalist thwarted an attempt to steal the columnist’s car in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood Monday, killing one of three armed robbers and wounding another in an exchange of gunfire, authorities said. Columnist Héctor de Mauleón, who was inside a nearby restaurant and not injured, is known for his critical …

San Antonio-area law enforcement agencies arrested 44 people on felony drunken driving charges in April 2019, court records showed. Suspects were arrested on charges that include intoxication assault, intoxication manslaughter, driving while intoxicated with a child and a third or more DWI offense. Joseph Robles, 38, faces the most serious charges. On April 20, Robles was allegedly involved in a …

Hundreds of students were stuck at schools in three counties after rising water kept them from getting home safely on Tuesday. At Southside Elementary School in Cleveland, about 800 students who couldn’t get home at one point were fed snacks as school officials worked to reunite the children with their parents. As of Wednesday morning, about 60 students are left …

Donald Trump has done a few good things. To be clear, he’s done mostly bad ones. He’s more personally corrupt than Chester A. Arthur, more surrounded by criminals than Ulysses S. Grant, and more shamelessly duplicitous than Richard Nixon. I believe the only reason we have not seen a national catastrophe costing tens of thousands of lives is due to …

A woman was killed after hitting a downed tree in a Kingwood street on Friday night, according to Houston police. The driver hit the fallen tree around 8:30 p.m. in the 4500 block of Kingwood Drive, a business and tree-lined thoroughfare near  the HEB grocery store, according to officials. An officer was flagged down to the crash and the motorist …

Police have arrested two men accused of breaking into Houston mayoral candidate Tony Buzbee’s River Oaks mansion and making off with more than $5 million in fine art, guns and watches, according to court documents. A female tipster called Buzbee in February and later helped Houston police identify Nicholas Johnson, 36, and Julian Franklin, 33, as the suspects in the …

More than two dozen people were arrested in Galveston County for felony driving while intoxicated charges throughout March 2019, according to records from a public information request filed by the Chronicle. In Texas, a person is charged with DWI if their blood or breath alcohol concentration (BAC) is .08 or higher, according to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT.) Driving …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Good morning! Our severe weather threat is now over. Today will be quite nice by the afternoon, with temps in the low 80s and mostly sunny skies Collin says an unsettled weather pattern is likely to return next week, keeping a chance for daily spring thunderstorms in the forecast most of the work week. SHARE YOUR …