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When does fall start? For San Antonio, not until locals spot these signs
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (305+ words) Texans like to say that the state has a few different seasons. As the joke goes, among those seasons are summer, false fall, second summer and then later - much later - actual fall. MySA asked locals how they know autumn has…...
Navy jet may have parked at San Antonio drive-in theater
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (1103+ words) A decommissioned F9F-5 Panther jet used to train pilots at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Kingsville was donated to the city of Kingsville and installed Dec. 15, 1959, at Dick Kleberg Park. Its number 141136 was supposed to denote an F9F-8 Cougar; the plane on display…...
25 years after 9/11, local veterans reflect on the day that changed their lives
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (702+ words) SAN ANTONIO – Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the memories remain vivid for the Americans who watched the tragedy unfold and for those who answered the call to serve in its aftermath. For local veterans at VFW Post 76, the…...
‘We have to remember the sacrifice’: San Antonio man recalls 9/11 from inside the Pentagon
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (766+ words) SAN ANTONIO – For Santiago Bueno, Sept. 11, 2001, is not simply a date in American history. It is a day he remembers from inside the Pentagon. On that significant day, Bueno was serving as a U.S. Army captain, working at the Pentagon when…...
San Antonio to hold memorials, stair climbs, and local events for 25th anniversary of 9/11
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (94+ words) WOAI NBC News Channel 4 San Antonio provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, investigations, and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for San Antonio and nearby towns and communities in South Central Texas, including Windcrest, Uvalde,…...
Correction: Grand Canyon-Flooding story
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (140+ words) In a story published Sept. 10, 2026, about Grand Canyon flooding, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Transcanyon Waterline starts from the North Rim. Wufei Yu And Hannah Schoenbaum Motorcyclist dies after highway crash in New Braunfels, city says A.B. Quintanilla III…...
Smithsonian marks 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a display of rare artifacts
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (295+ words) MySA A purse filled with keys and a wallet recovered from the World Trade Center site The telephone that sat on U.S Solicitor General Ted Olson's desk when his wife, Barbara, called from a hijacked airplane The Smithsonian's National Museum…...
Hurricane Lowell battered Hawaii's western islands and is linked to at least 2 deaths
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (455+ words) Damage caused by Hurricane Lowell is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026 in Poip on Kauai's south shore, in Hawaii. (Kevin Fujii/Honolulu Civil Beat via AP) HONOLULU – Hurricane Lowell's intense winds and storm surge that battered Hawaii's western islands this week…...
Class project becomes 9/11 history
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (282+ words) Tivy's explosive offense meets hungry Churchill team on Thursday Night Lights SAN ANTONIO - Joseph Fenity was just 16 years old when a class project took him to Ground Zero. 25 years later his work is being preserved by the library of congress....
Sept. 11 ranks among the most historic events in many Americans’ lifetimes, polling shows
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (805+ words) A new Ipsos poll finds that about half of U.S. adults name the 9/11 attacks in an open-ended question about the most important historic occurrences in their lifetimes. That's despite other momentous events that have happened since then, including the COVID-19 pandemic…...