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(Cowboy State Daily Staff) =================================================================================== Every year the Alamo’s March 6 anniversary ignites lively debate among aficionados concerning many details of the battle. The death of David Crockett, the Alamo’s most famous combatant, draws most attention. James Bowie, the Alamo’s other frontier celebrity must shake his head in the Texas Valhalla. His death, as sacrificially heroic as Crockett’s, does not generate the same interest. However, versions of Bowie’s death, while not as numerous as Crockett’s, are as varied and interesting. According to stories spread after the battle, Bowie either died: as a murder victim; a suicide; a battle casualty; or...

Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, has once again used an NBA press conference as a platform to attack Donald Trump with a 15-minute tirade delivered ahead of Saturday’s game. Popovich kicked off his attack by calling Trump “pathetic,” Fox News reported. Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, has once again used an NBA press conference as a platform to attack Donald Trump with a 15-minute tirade delivered ahead of Saturday’s game. Popovich kicked off his attack by calling Trump “pathetic,” Fox News reported.

An infant was shot and killed by a toddler-aged sibling in an accidental shooting in the San Antonio Medical Center on Monday. The incident occurred as four people were in a parked vehicle Monday afternoon in the parking lot of the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital. "What we have here is a terrible, terrible tragedy that just occurred," Police Chief William McManus said during a news briefing. Inside the car were a woman and three children, ages 3, 2, and an infant, aged 10-11 months old. One of the two older children, whom are toddlers, got a hold...

Bloodthirsty gang Tren de Aragua moves HQ to outskirts of El Paso in TexasA dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.Dubbed the 'epitome of evil', Tren de Aragua (TdA) is known to run drug smuggling, child prostitution and human trafficking rings in South America, with its members crossing over into the US in recent years amid a wave of Venezuelan migrants. The tattooed mobsters have since unleashed a wave of crime across the country from Miami and Texas to...

San Antonio's massive apartment complex, Palatia Apartments (678 units), has been taken over by Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal organization from Venezuela. This has caused fear and concern in the city. Four male members, who were documented Tren de Aragua gang members and had been previously detained by the U.S. Border Patrol but were later released. The gang has been involved in drug activity and human trafficking. It has been collecting rent from illegal aliens living at the complex. Additionally, a murder has occurred at the complex, according to interviewed residents. This alarming situation in San Antonio, a sanctuary...

Texas law enforcement raided a vacant San Antonio apartment complex that had fallen under the “control” of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang, which was using the building as a base for crime, officials said. A multi-agency task force cleared more than 300 vacant units at the Palatia Apartments on the North Side of the city on Saturday morning, San Antonio Police Chief Chief McManus told reporters at a press conference. SAPD had received several complaints from the apartment complex regarding narcotics, human trafficking and threats to apartment personnel, according to police. “We had information that members of the transnational...

SAN ANTONIO - Two teenagers were arrested in connection with several shootings recently around Joint Base San Antonio where several suspects fired numerous rounds at Air Force Security personnel at the gate. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Joseph Anthony Jimenez, 19, and Ricardo Samaniego, 19, were arrested and charged with deadly conduct with a firearm after a multi-agency investigation that included the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or ATF. Two shootings happened on Aug. 17 near JBSA-Lackland gate off Medina Base Road. The first shooting...

Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago. The complaint, filed Thursday at a federal court in San Antonio, mirrors legal arguments the tech giant made in front of the agency earlier this year after NLRB prosecutors accused the company of maintaining policies that made it challenging for workers to organize and retaliating against some who did so. In the new legal filing, attorneys for Amazon pointed back to a lawsuit...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police said it is investigating what led to a man defending himself against two armed suspects. Officers received a call about a man who was shot just before 3:50 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Ranch Valley Drive. Police later learned that a second man arrived at a nearby hospital who was shot in the waist. However, after further investigation, authorities said both men were armed and involved in a robbery attempt of a 34-year-old man. During the robbery, SAPD said the 34-year-old man pulled out a weapon and fired at the men in...

Security forces at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) returned fire early Saturday on at least one drive-by suspect who is accused of firing upon the main gate at the JBSA-Chapman Training Annex, a JBSA spokesperson tells Fox News Digital. The officers were fired upon at around 4:30 a.m. by at least one suspect in a sedan and immediately returned fire. There were no injuries reported, and the gate was shut for a number of hours.

Officials at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) said its security officers returned fire on multiple active shooters who fired upon the main gate at the JBSA Chapman Training Annex early Saturday. The incident occurred Saturday morning around 4:30 am when at least once suspect in a sedan fired at security officers. . San Antonio police were also on the scene, according to local news outlet KSAT 12. Authorities did not say if anyone was hurt or how many individuals were involved in the exchange of gunfire. Officials did indicate that the shooters were not known to have any military connections.

Nurit Baytch  @NuritBaytch Aaron Bushnell's Reddit account has been located, and it turns out he used genocidal rhetoric about Israelis ("there are no Israeli 'civilians'") and justified the Nova massacre: [old.reddit.com/user/acebush1/comments/?count=700&after=t1_k6kzlf7] (acebush1: same username as his original Twitch username) h/t @LupusErogare11:13 PM · Feb 27, 2024Duckie🎗️ @spaced_out_duck Aaron Bushnell’s radical ideology completely dehumanized the people of Israel, asserting that 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱. Meanwhile, he accused others of being brainwashed.1:13 AM · Feb 28, 2024Ella Travels (Ella Kenan) @EllaTravelsLove This is what Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. soldier who burned himself alive in front of the Israeli embassy in D.C....

If you had told the average person that an anarchist or an airman had set himself on fire to protest Israel’s campaign against Islamic terrorists, you would get two very different reactions. Unsurprisingly the media led with the data point most likely to produce a favorable reaction. And Aaron Bushnell cynically played the same game, wearing (the wrong) uniform to his Hamas suicide attempt rather than the Antifa red in which he had been previously photographed. The Washington Post gets around to admitting that Bushnell was an “anarchist”. Less than two weeks before Aaron Bushnell walked toward the gates of...

A popular haircut known as 'The Edgar' has sparked a major backlash - with some restaurants and schools seeking to ban those who sport it. The bowl-shaped style *** is typically favored by Mexican-American young men who are known as 'Edgars'. But the trend is causing widespread division in Hispanic communities as locals increasingly link the haircut to crime, while others accuse critics of being racist. One of the suspects Mikey Valdez, 18, an 'Edgar ', had just been let out of jail on unrelated car burglary charges and was killed alongside his accomplice by police who rushed in to...

A dying Marine veteran was finally handed his high school diploma while receiving hospice care after dropping out to fight in World War Two over eight decades ago. Richard Remp, a 98-year-old marine veteran in hospice care, left school at 17 years of age to serve in World War II, before later continuing his service in Korea and Vietnam. But on Friday he was finally handed the high school diploma he had longed for all these years but never received. Remp told local San Antonio NBC affiliate NEWS4SA: 'On behalf of myself and the Marine Corps, I thank you very...

Five shot in Northeast Side home At around 7:40 p.m. Wednesday evening, May 8, Bexar County deputies were called to home on the Northeast Side of San Antonio after reports of shots fired. Investigators would arrive to a grisly scene where some 30 rounds of ammunition were fired into the home of a family, including two adults and five children under the age of 10. All five of the family members were transported to a local hospital in critical condition, and Bexar County Sheriff Salazar said the shooters – two men donning balaclavas spotted from security cameras on neighboring homes...

Bexar County Sheriff’s lieutenant, who was fired from her job after posting pictures from the Jan 6 Capitol protest, has secured a $395,000 legal settlement. The county’s insurer will pay Roxanne Mathai the federal out-of-court settlement.

Two people were killed and four others wounded after two men opened fire on each other just after midnight Sunday in San Antonio. ABC 7 Amarillo reported that police heard gunshots during Fiesta San Antonio at Market Square and ran toward the sound. They soon found two armed men, one of whom was 18 years old and the other is 20 years old. The men began to flee and, while so doing, the 18-year-old allegedly shot the 20-year-old. Police then shot the 18-year-old, killing him.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott hit out at musicians on Tuesday who are pulling out of the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) over the U.S. Army's sponsorship of the event, telling them "Don't come back" to the state. The internationally recognized event brings thousands of visitors to Austin each March, showcasing music, film and interactive media. This year's festival is running from March 8-16 and includes live panels and special events. However, it comes amid heightened tensions in the U.S. and around the world due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. is currently the foremost supplier of weapons to Israel,...

SAN ANTONIO – Over the past month, KSAT 12 has been investigating the relationship between the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office and the Wren Collective, a criminal justice reform group based out of Austin. KSAT 12 originally unearthed hundreds of pages of text messages between Gonzales, his staff and the founder of the Wren Collective, Jessica Brand, through a public information request. Now, we’ve obtained more than 400 pages of emails between Brand and Gonzales’ personal email that suggest Brand played a larger role at the DA’s office than Gonzales has admitted. Since our first report on Jan. 30, Gonzales...