James K. Sanborn || Multimedia Reporter

PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE — Karl Jack thought a fishing trip would be a great way to spend some time with his daughter Laura, who recently left home in Kerrville to study at Angelo State University...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 1A, Sept. 6, 2008

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Thousands in Valley still wait on power

PORT MANSFIELD — For six days, Peggy Miller has waited.

She has waited for electricity. She has waited for running water. Like more than 24,000 Rio Grande Valley residents still without power and other basic services, she has waited for life to return to normal...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 1B, July 30, 2008

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Slow going as officials assess Valley

HARLINGEN — State and federal officials toured Hidalgo County on Wednesday to conduct preliminary damage assessments, the first step in determining a county’s eligibility for federal disaster relief funds...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 1B, July 31, 2008

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As flood subsides, anxiety mounts

ROMA — Frustration mounted Tuesday among families spending their second night at a Red Cross shelter in Roma after rains Monday flooded their homes with more than 2 feet of water...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 1B, Aug. 20, 2008

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Starr County emerges to look at damage from floodwater

ESCOBARES — Cleanup efforts— and a grim accounting of ruined homes — were well under way Wednesday in Starr County after a Monday deluge left large swaths of land submerged...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 4B, Aug. 21, 2008

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New shelter set to open for business

Animal Care Services' new $12.1 million facility is to open its doors this morning after a speedy weekend move from its old location in Brackenridge Park.

After decades in a cramped, underequipped building and after being revealed three years ago as the deadliest large pound in the country, ACS transferred its services to the West Side. The new 15-acre facility on Texas 151 will offer free sterilization clinics and classes on caring for animals...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 1B, Jan. 7, 2008

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Bernal planted seeds of compassion, activism

Laura Valencia Ibarra Bernal, 81, mother, political activist and beloved neighbor, died of pulmonary fibrosis Thursday in her West Side home...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 4B, Jan. 22, 2008

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McNay on the move

The McNay Art Museum closed its doors Sunday for a five-month hiatus while the finishing touches are put on a new building that will approximately double the McNay's size, museum staff said...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 1B, Jan. 8, 2008

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Area teenagers gain experience with charity work in Mexico

EL MORAL, Mexico — The 15 teens in the Christian youth group that left San Antonio Thursday to renovate Casa del Rey, a girl's orphanage here, all had the birth certificates needed for cross-border travel in lieu of passports.

The children they would help didn’t have birth certificates. Some, left at the orphanage just after birth, didn’t know their last names...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 12B, Aug. 10, 2008

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Steeled for the steer show

Kaitlyn Kempen calmly tended to her steers Wednesday morning as a winter chill blew through the AT&T Center barns.

With the first round of judging at the 45th annual Bexar County Junior Livestock Show fast approaching, steers were pampered from head to hoof as students bathed, blow-dried and brushed them...

-- San Antonio Express-News, 3B, Jan. 3, 2008

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