Crime and Public Safety

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (775+ words) Americans have long been divided over the death penalty, with nearly half of states banning capital punishment outright and just a handful of others carrying out most of the nation's executions each year. When Christa Pike was sentenced to die…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (163+ words) SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County jury found Eric Vasquez guilty of murder Friday in the 2025 shooting death of Jay Whitemountain Morales following a road rage incident. RELATED | Eric Vasquez on trial for murder after deadly road rage shooting Around 6:10 p.m....

4+ hour, 43+ min ago   (643+ words) Ed White And Claudia Lauer Any effort to challenge the Trump administration's plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan might rest solely with the man sentenced to death for killing 13 people at the Texas…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (373+ words) ENSENADA – A local judge on Friday found three Mexicans guilty of the murders of two Australian brothers and their American friend in April 2024 in the Mexican state of Baja California. The trial for the triple homicide that shocked Mexico and…...

6+ hour, 57+ min ago   (298+ words) JERUSALEM – The axe-wielding co-pilot who attacked the captain of a FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv last month intended to seize control of the airplane and fly it into the passenger terminal at Israel’s main international airport, authorities in the United…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago   (335+ words) A San Antonio town hall put a spotlight on what happens after a domestic violence victim asks for help — and how often the systems meant to protect them fail to talk to each other. State Sen. Jose Menéndez hosted the…...

9+ hour, 23+ min ago   (159+ words) WILSON COUNTY, Texas – A man was sentenced to eight years in prison for stabbing his brother in Wilson County in 2024, according to the 81st Judicial District Attorney. Dagoberto Rivera-Martinez pleaded no contest to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Oct....

12+ hour, 29+ min ago   (82+ words) Bloomberg Law News A Texas car dealership operator will pay $430,000 and provide additional relief to settle sex discrimination and retaliation allegations brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The settlement comes after a federal district court denied Benson Enterprises…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago   (307+ words) Benson Enterprises Inc., which owns three San Antonio car dealerships, will pay $430,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, federal officials said Friday. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Benson in 2021, alleging that a male manager at Ingram Park…...

10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (238+ words) The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of a criminal hacking group that said last month that it had breached the bureau’s jobs portal and obtained sensitive and personal data on nearly all employees of the law enforcement agency, Director…...