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This Food Critic's Quest To Eat A Taco A Day For A Year Is Almost A Wrap

4:36pm December 06, 2017

by Laurel Dalrymple

Mike Sutter has eaten 1,300 tacos so far this year. And it's been tough: He tells NPR's Kelly McEvers about dealing with offbeat taquerias, getting thyroid cancer, and why it's good to have a quest.

Law enforcement officials gather Monday at the scene of a deadly shooting the previous day at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas.

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What We Know About The Texas Church Shooting Suspect

4:53pm November 06, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Authorities say that 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley had a brief and troubled enlistment in the U.S. Air Force before being court-martialed and discharged in 2014 for assaulting his wife and child.

James Mathew Bradley Jr., 60, (center) is escorted out of the federal court house following a hearing Monday in San Antonio. Bradley was arrested in connection with the deaths of 10 people packed into a broiling tractor-trailer.

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Truck Driver Charged With Human Smuggling After 10 Die In Stifling Conditions

2:20pm July 24, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

James Matthew Bradley Jr., who could face the death penalty if convicted, says he didn't know dozens of immigrants were crammed in the back of a tractor-trailer he parked in a San Antonio parking lot.

San Antonio police officers are seen in a parking lot where eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer that contained at least 30 others outside a Walmart store.

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At Least 9 Dead, Dozens More Found In Tractor-Trailer In San Antonio

10:05pm July 23, 2017

by James Doubek

A 60-year-old Florida man is in federal custody over a case of apparent human trafficking in Texas. San Antonio emergency personnel found 39 people in the back of a truck in a Walmart parking lot.

San Antonio Express-News food critic Mike Sutter has already eaten about 700 tacos during his yearlong taco-a-day quest.

Food Critic Now Halfway Through Taco-A-Day Quest. Will He Fold?

6:26pm June 02, 2017

by Kelly McEvers

In January, Mike Sutter of the San Antonio Express-News began his great adventure by eating at a different joint every day for a year. And six months in, we thought we'd taco bout how it's going.

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Physician assistant James Williams, right, describes the treatment of burn patients as "a very tactile type of medicine."

Civilians With Severe Burns Treated At Texas Military Hospital

4:50pm April 11, 2017

by Wendy Rigby

The U.S. military's burn center in San Antonio is responsible for treating service members who are badly burned. But, to stay sharp, the medical teams there also treat civilians.

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An immigration detainee stands near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) grievance box last month in the high security unit at the Theo Lacy Facility, a county jail in Orange, Calif., that also houses immigration detainees arrested by ICE.

Spotlight On Migrant Crimes Drums Up Support For Trump's Immigration Dragnet

4:50pm April 03, 2017

by John Burnett

A double murder allegedly committed in San Antonio by an immigrant in the country illegally is gaining attention. President Trump has pointed to similar crimes as justification for more deportations.

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Sports

5-Time NBA Champion, Former Demon Deacon Tim Duncan Retires After 19 Seasons

11:38am July 11, 2016

by Neal Charnoff

San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan is calling it a career. The former Demon Deacon announced his retirement Monday, marking the end of an era for the Spurs and the NBA.

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Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry drives to the hoop during Thursday's game against the San Antonio Spurs. The Warriors won 112-101.

The Golden State Warriors Are On The Brink Of History — Will They Go For It?

9:30pm April 08, 2016

by Laura Wagner

If the Golden State Warriors win their last three games of the regular season to reach 73 wins, they'll break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls' record for most wins in a season.

In Conservative Town, Faith-Based Group Tackles Minimum Wage Hike

7:15pm November 09, 2015

by Wade Goodwyn

Texas has no state-mandated minimum wage and forbids cities or counties to pass their own. But a group of religious activists in San Antonio is making headway on a living wage for city employees.

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