Haunted Forest, DNA Kits: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week

A wide and zany variety of topics piqued Current readers’ interests this week.

Among our most-read stories this week was a report on the Express-News‘ firing of high-profile reporter Bruce Selcraig and a drive-thru haunted forest evening coming to a San Antonio neighborhood.

Plenty of folks also read up on Texas sending DNA kits to the parents of public school children, so that law enforcement can identify bodies in the event of a mass shooting. Hey, if state leaders can’t find the backbone to regulate guns, they might as well make sure they can better manage mass shootings, no?

In music news, a planned fall festival at Willie Nelson’s ranch was cut from its planned 10 days to just three, and ’80s radio-rock purveyor Journey will stop in San Antonio as part of its 50th anniversary tour.

Read on for more.

10. San Antonio-based H-E-B announces second Dallas-Fort Worth store will open Nov. 2

9. Little Carver to screen San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea ‘Vocab’ Sanderson’s The Echo Project

8. Bad Takes: San Antonio radio host’s defense of Herschel Walker is disingenuous flatulence

7. Fall music festival at Willie Nelson’s ranch cut short due to market uncertainty, organizers say

6. Rock band Journey popping into San Antonio as part of 50th anniversary tour

5. Iconic San Antonio costume shop Starline to continue operations under new ownership

4. Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan talks happy accidents ahead of the band’s San Antonio concert

3. Texas sending families DNA kits to help identify their children in case they’re slain in school shooting

2. Top San Antonio Express-News reporter fired after complaint from Bexar judge hopeful Trish DeBerry

1. Drive-thru haunted forest event returns to San Antonio’s Castle Hills neighborhood Oct. 22

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This article appears in Oct 19 – Nov 1, 2022.