New Orleans terror attack suspect was Texas native with Houston-area ties

The U.S. Army veteran whom authorities accuse of carrying out a deadly truck attack in New Orleans was a Texas native with deep connections to the Houston area, media reports and public records show. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, killed 15 and injured dozens more early Wednesday after plowing through a cr

Mental health advocates ask Texas lawmakers to replace expiring COVID-19 relief funding

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Replacing federal pandemic relief funding critical to community programs could top Texas lawmakers' to-do list for mental health next year as they also address understaffing o

Lawsuit accuses San Antonio's Visionworks chain of failure in major data breach

A federal lawsuit accuses San Antonio-based Visionworks of America Inc. and its chain of more than 700 optical shops of failing to notify 40,000 customers after their data was exposed in a cyberattack. The suit, filed Dec. 23 in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, alleges Visionworks suffered a data

UT scientist to give free San Antonio talk about Ice Age finds in Texas water caves

Geographically, the Edwards Plateau is the heart of Texas. This geological formation stretches from the southernmost region of the Great Plains, from San Angelo to Austin and San Antonio to Del Rio.