Texas – Southwest Journalist

China donates huge rock to San Antonio museum

ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 3, 2019

SAN ANTONIO — A museum in South Texas has welcomed a big boulder. A crane was used to maneuver the more than 6-ton rock donated to the San Antonio Museum of Art from a sister city in China. The San Antonio Express-News report...

Coastal flooding strands endangered turtles

ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 3, 2019

CORPUS CHRISTI — High tides and flooding associated with May storms that buffeted parts of Texas caused the stranding of about 100 young sea turtles along part of the Gulf coast, experts say. Jesse Gilbert, Chief Operating ...

Lawsuit says oil boom imperils national park

ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 3, 2019

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. land managers violated environmental laws and their own regulations when issuing dozens of leases to drill in one of the nation’s busiest oilfields, environmentalists claimed Monday in the latest lawsuit ...

1 killed, 3 hurt during shooting at car wash

ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 3, 2019

DALLAS — Police in Dallas said one person was killed and three others wounded after a shooting at a car wash late Sunday. The shooting happened at Jim’s Car Wash in south Dallas, which has long been blamed for crime in th...