May 24 2012 - VIA unveils design for a new hub
The public got an idea Tuesday of what VIA Metropolitan Transit's long-awaited West Side Multimodal Center could look like after the agency's board members were presented with a conceptual design plan for the second phase of the transit hub project. VIA hopes that the center, located west of Interstate 35 in the shadow of the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus, will become a ... |
May 10 2012 - Party bus shooter receives 25-year sentence
After finding Rogelio Alaniz Jr. guilty on three counts of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a Hays County jury ordered Alaniz to serve 25 years in prison on each charge. Alaniz, age 29, of San Antonio was charged with the shooting of three people on June 19, 2011 at a residence on Alabama Street in San Marcos. |
May 03 2012 - Federal judge stops Texas law on women’s health
Associated Press In this March 6 file photo, Mary Green, Peg Armstrong and Jan Perrault hold up signs during Women’s Health Express, a bus event held in San Antonio to protest the attempt to cut Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Women’s Health Plan. |
April 19 2012 - 3 years later, what's become of the tea party?
SAN ANTONIO — Three years ago he was merely a face in a very large crowd, standing outside the Alamo on Tax Day as Glenn Beck spoke of drawing a line in the sand. A businessman, husband, father of... |
April 15 2012 - Is the Tea Party dead?
SAN ANTONIO -- Three years ago he was merely a face in a very large crowd, standing outside the Alamo on Tax Day as Glenn Beck spoke of drawing a line in the sand.A businessman, husband, father of five and grandfather of 14, Bruce Baillio bought a mi ... |
April 15 2012 - NISD school bus involved in accident on Interstate 10
SAN ANTONIO -- A Northside Independent School District school bus was involved in a collision with two other vehicles on Interstate 10 at the Boerne Stage Road exit on Friday afternoon. Choir students from Earl Warren High School were on board the school bus headed to Hunt, Texas for a choir weekend trip. No injuries were reported on the school bus, but the driver of another vehicle involved in ... |
April 04 2012 - SA's first poet laureate Carmen Tafolla on literature, literacy, and the music of bus stops
Named by Mayor Julián Castro as San Antonio's first poet laureate, Carmen Tafolla is truly one San Antonio's greats. As one of the most anthologized Latina writers and author of more than 15 books of poetry and fiction (not to mention her screenplays), she is often referred to as one of the madrinas of Chicana lit. She spoke to the Current last week about her new position and about how poetry ... |
April 01 2012 - McCarthy left legacy of inspiring math students
Each day at Health Careers High School, math teacher Beverly McCarthy wrote a quote on the blackboard that pushed her students to strive for excellence. While studying for her master's degree, she would take her daughter, Anne, on the bus to preschool and then continue to the University of Texas at San Antonio. Anne followed her mother's example and teaches Algebra I to freshmen and advanced ... |
March 31 2012 - Math teacher left legacy of inspiring students
Each day at Health Careers High School, math teacher Beverly McCarthy wrote a quote on the blackboard that pushed her students to strive for excellence. While studying for her master's degree, she would take her daughter, Anne, on the bus to preschool and then continue to the University of Texas at San Antonio. Anne followed her mother's example and teaches Algebra I to freshmen and advanced ... |
March 17 2012 - More commuters hitch rides on Bobcat Trams
Ridership on the Texas State University Shuttle Systems buses has increased due to passengers commuting from Austin and San Antonio to San Marcos, Tram officials say. |
March 12 2012 - SXSW Day 1: Startup Buses Take Texas
Fast pitch: They've created a company over the past 72 hours. Now they're pitching the idea to a panel of investors, which includes Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Robert Scoble of Rackspace, and Luis Robles of Sequoia.' Arriving in San Antonio, 10 busloads worth of brand new companies unload their ideas on venture capitalists. And it gets crazy. Strobe lights are pulsing and MGMT's indie anthem ... |
March 09 2012 - Trip could shape Rivermen’s fate
The Peoria Rivermen gathered at Carver Arena for a 3:15 a.m. bus ride Thursday morning to the airport and a flight to Abbotsford, British Columbia, to launch the last long road trip of their season. Peoria, locked in a tie with San Antonio for the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference playoff race, will play five games against Abbotsford, Chicago and Midwest Division leader Charlotte in the next ... |
March 09 2012 - StartupBus To SXSW Day Three: Las Cruces To San Antonio [TCTV]
StartupBus , the hackathon-on-wheels in which busloads of entrepreneurs make the journey down to the South By Southwest conference with the goal of teaming up to create viable web apps by the time they arrive in Austin, rolled into its third day yesterday. in this video you can see how the buspreneurs' apps have gone from concept to code with demos from customizable breakfast cereal app ... |
February 28 2012 - Mexico official seeks to reassure Texans on tourism safety
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Mexico's tourism chief met with Texas officials in Austin on Monday to head off a potential warning against visiting Mexico during the lucrative Spring Break and summer vacation seasons, a mission complicated by last week's robbery of a tourist bus in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. "Mexico received 22.7 million tourists last year," Rodolfo Lopez Negrete, Chief ... |
February 18 2012 - ULM players savor season
Before the ULM baseball team boarded the bus to San Antonio, each player expressed how long it felt since he had played in a real game. |
February 17 2012 - Will bus cameras stop drivers endangering S.A. school kids?
SAN ANTONIO -- School districts throughout San Antonio face a common problem that puts children in danger every day, but it often goes unnoticed and undetected. That problem is motorists driving by school buses loading and unloading students. “Some days are worst than others, and some areas are worst than others,” said Emery Hutzler, a bus driver for the Northside Independent School District ... |
February 06 2012 - Condemned killer from San Antonio dies in prison
Condemned killer from San Antonio dies in prison The cause of death was septic shock and multiple organ failure. The mother of two was abducted from a bus stop in San Antonio and taken to a motel where she was raped and killed. |
January 25 2012 - Thunderstorms pound Texas; tornado hits Austin
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A tornado hit Austin, Texas, and thunderstorms pounded San Antonio, Dallas and Houston on Wednesday, bringing the parched Lone Star State drenching rains and destructive winds that knocked out power, flooded streets and kept emergency workers busy rescuing drivers stranded in high water. The tornado touched down early Wednesday in northeast Austin, tearing across U.S ... |
January 25 2012 - Thunderstorms pound Texas; tornado threat looms
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Thunderstorms pounded San Antonio, Austin and Dallas on Wednesday morning and moved into Houston, bringing the parched Lone Star State drenching rains and destructive winds that knocked out power, flooded streets and kept emergency workers busy with water rescues. Springlike moisture from the Gulf of Mexico dropped the heaviest rainfall - 6-8 inches - on an area east of ... |
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