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Online records are offering more information about what deputies are calling a murder-suicide in northeast Bexar County Sunday evening. Dispatch records show first responders were told to go to the ...

A Bexar County judge sentenced Jer Auntey Pleasant to four concurrent 50-year prison terms after he was convicted in connection with two 2023 murders and two other violent crimes.

SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County District Attorney's Office employee was found dead Sunday evening in an apparent murder-suicide, according to the sheriff's office. Deputies were called to the 2500 block ...

In the days since the Texas primary, both parties are trying to make sense of what it all means for their November prospects.

Judge Ron Rangel, who presides over Bexar County’s 379th Criminal District Court, sentenced Carl Mott, 62, to 70 years in ...

SAN ANTONIO - A Bexar County judge has sentenced Nathan Franklin to life in prison for the murder of Johnny Johnson.Judge ...

A court-documented history of family violence didn’t bar the suspect in the West Sixth Street shooting from owning guns under Texas law.

SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County murder conviction is now backed by the highest court in the country. The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the conviction of David Villarreal in the 2015 stabbing ...

From right to left: Veronica Marie Herrera, Crystal Lee Zepeda, Joshua Ezequiel Herrera, Brittani Nicole Smith, Adrian Daniel Farias, Marshall Van Craig (Bexar County Sheriff's Office) BEXAR COUNTY, ...

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says it has dismantled a criminal network that was smuggling designer drugs into the Bexar County jail. Six people are accused of playing a role in the network, ...

A judge ruled on Friday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can't represent the state in his lawsuit against Bexar County for using tax dollars to pay for legal defense for immigrants, handing the ...