Bexar County

Bastrop, Texas -- A huge wildfire raging near Austin has destroyed nearly 1,400 homes and is still spreading, officials said Thursday. Victoria Koenig, spokeswoman for the Texas Forest Service, said the Bastrop County fire has destroyed 1,368 homes --...

SAN ANTONIO -- A jury will decide if a Texas mother accused of decapitating her 3-week-old son is competent to stand trial. Otty Sanchez appeared in court Thursday for the first time since being charged with capital murder in the July slaying of her...

A Texas architect who admitted paying bribes to influence the awarding of school construction contracts in that state later helped manage major construction programs at community colleges in Southern California. Most recently, Louis M. Cruz was a project...

Johanna Reznicek Rasmussen, 98, of Sturgis died Saturday, July 16, 2011 at the Sturgis Regional Senior Care Center. Visitation will be Wednesday, July 20, 2011 from Noon until 9:00 p.m. with a rosary service starting at 7:00 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral...

Texas Tribune In a state that bans same-sex marriage, it would seem to be easy to know who can legally marry. Texas county clerks will tell you it is not. A two-year-old state law says a court order recognizing a sex or name change is acceptable for...

You can tell it gets Jerry Weaver irritated just by talking about it. “I’ll be honest, it is all about the money,” said Weaver from his Lyon County home.  “I’m not greedy, I just want what’s mine.” In 2008,...

The Texas Tribune HONDO — From Marcy G. Rothe’s hillside home, she can see oaks and grasses and a creek bed spread out, looking much the same as when her grandfather first arrived here in the 1920s. In June, she sold a conservation easement...

SAN ANTONIO -- Rodney J. Smith, the former general manager of the Denver Performing Arts Complex, died from an apparent heart attack at his home on Sunday, according to FOX29 News in San Antonio. Smith was the managing director of the Bexar County...

Joshua Maxwell was portrayed with his girlfriend as living out the violence-glorifying 1990s film "Natural Born Killers." Now he's winding up the title character in a for-real version of the prison movie "Dead Man Walking." His final scene could be...

Two condemned Texas inmates set to die this month have lost appeals at the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices on Monday refused a petition from 31-year-old Joshua Maxwell. He is set to die next week for abducting, robbing and fatally shooting off-duty...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A tip about a Texas death row inmate's photo online led investigators to determine he took the snapshot with a smuggled cell phone and sent it via the Internet. John Moriarty with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says the...

Human remains found in San Antonio have been identified as a former Iowa man who was reported missing more than two years ago. Boys playing in a wooded area found the remains Friday, and the Bexar County medical examiner's office on Monday identified...