People stood in lines for one to two hours at a Corpus Christi Home Depot store to purchase supplies and plywood to protect their homes from Hurricane Ike.
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Corpus Christi residents with special needs evacuated the city today on buses headed to San Antonio. They included the elderly, people in wheelchairs, and others with medical needs.
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The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team hosted a week of basic SWAT training for officers from surrounding law enforcement agencies.

A group of Republican party leaders and activists gathered to cheer John McCain as he gave his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

Nine endangered birds — Attwater’s Prairie Chickens — found new homes on a private ranch near Goliad, thanks to bird specialists from SeaWorld San Antonio and the San Antonio Zoo, who raised the birds from eggs.

A three-alarm fire Monday afternoon at the Atlas Pallet Company in downtown San Antonio sent plumes of black smoke hundreds of feet into the air, drawing onlookers who heard multiple loud explosions as propane tanks ignited.

The four-legged, furry evacuees at the emergency pet shelter may be adjusting to their lodgings, but some owners aren’t taking it so well. Evacuees miss their animals, and are frequently visiting them. Some have even taken their pets back.

Some evacuees are driving 12 hours or more to Port San Antonio to run away from Hurricane Gustav. Officials expect increasing numbers of evacuees throughout the afternoon.

Many San Antonio Democrats cheered and clapped, some with tears in their eyes, at a handful of parties yesterday to watch Barack Obama give his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Some kindergarteners at Regency Place Elementary School couldn’t understand much on the first day of class. The children - half Spanish speakers, half English - are in a recently expanded dual language program that will make them bilingual.