Elmendorf News

Despite bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for extending a temporary payroll tax cut for the rest of 2012, lawmakers have yet to close the deal.

Police in Elmendorf took a man into custody early Sunday for holding his wife and their 2-year-old daughter hostage at knifepoint for several hours inside their home.

Bexar County sheriff's deputies responded to a call about a burglary Monday at a home in the 4600 block of Red Gum and said they found a woman shaken and visibly upset.A An arrest affidavit stated the woman told deputies a man had forced his way into her home, knocking her over a chair and causing her pain and bruising.

A former Army soldier was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for the intoxication manslaughter of an Alton man.