Scott Huddleston

San Antonio

Reporter at The San Antonio Express-News

Reporter at the San Antonio Express-News, covering education, history and the Alamo. https://t.co/NRyBJ6ZOyN

Articles

Camels remembered at Alamo as quirky part of Texas history

6 days ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

Visitors at the Alamo got a close look Saturday at the sturdy creatures that, for a fleeting period in Texas history, were the U.S. Army's alternative to horses and mules. The humped mammals provided by the Texas Camel Corps, raised on a farm in Central Texas, are a curiosity when they occasionally visit the mission and battle site. Families got to pet the animals and hear stories of the Army's U.S. Camel Corps, which operated during the early years of Texas statehood, from about 1856-1861.
Alamo Colleges ramping up budget, programs to match San Antonio's growth

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

The fast-growing Alamo Colleges District projects it will break another enrollment record with just over 87,000 students in the fall, an increase of about 8,000 from a year earlier.
San Antonio native was 'brilliant' diplomat, Central America expert

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

Cresencio S. "Cris" Arcos Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to Honduras who held high-level State Department jobs under Democratic and Republican presidents and blazed a trail for other Hispanics, has died at 81 after a long illness. Arcos, a Mexican American and a San Antonio native, sought to bolster democracy in Honduras and curb Cuban and Soviet influence during a critical period for U.S. interests in Central America. He died June 8 in San Antonio. John D.
Alamo to host high-energy 'Remembering Juneteenth' song and dance program

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

The Alamo is hosting the return of a poignant live performance of "Remembering Juneteenth," a reenactment of the end of slavery in Texas after the Civil War. The free public program is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the new outdoor Plaza de Valero pavilion in Alamo Plaza.
New San Antonio hospital offers non-opioid surgical pain option

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital says it's the first in Texas to add a new non-opioid medication to its treatment options for pain relief. The hospital, which opened in December and is the newest one in the city, announced last week it has begun using suzetrigine, under the brand name Journavx, following orthopaedic and podiatric surgeries.
Anti-terrorism job given to MAGA loyalist from S.A. called 'insignificant'

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Sig Christenson |Scott Huddleston

In a turnabout, the Trump administration is dismissing as "insignificant" a federal counter-terrorism office led by a Trump loyalist from San Antonio with no known background in the field. Thomas Fugate III, a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, was hired by the Department of Homeland Security after Trump took office and recently was put in charge of the department's' Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, known as CP3.
Two bills passed to guarantee success of $550 million Alamo project

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

Control of the Alamo will likely change hands in a few years, but nothing will be different in the management of a $550 million, public-private expansion and makeover of the historic mission and battle site that's under way, officials said. Two Alamo-related bills were passed by the Legislature and sent to Gov. Greg Abbott in the final days of the session last week.
Documentary explores links between 1813 Battle of Medina, 1836 Alamo

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Scott Huddleston

After trying for 45 years to find the site of the deadliest military conflict in Texas history, Kay Hindes is calling the discoveries of lead balls and other artifacts south of San Antonio "some of the most significant archaeological finds of the 21st century." Hindes, an archaeologist who began working with the Atascosa County Historical Commission in 1980 to find the 1813 Battle of Medina site, initially believed there were two locations where early Texas rebels fought Spanish royalists for...
Young UTSA grad’s first big job? He’s head of federal counterterrorism office.

3 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Sig Christenson |Scott Huddleston

Thomas Fugate is a UTSA graduate and now an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program to help combat violent extremism in communities within the U.S.Department of Homeland SecurityAt 22, Thomas Fugate III is going places fast in the Trump administration.
Young UTSA grad's first big job? He's head of federal counter-terrorism office.

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Sig Christenson |Scott Huddleston

At 22, Thomas Fugate III is going places fast in the Trump administration. A MAGA loyalist, he's risen from working on Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign to heading up, apparently on an interim basis, a counter-terrorism office in the Department of Homeland Security - a job that in the past required the boss to have a thicker resume. Fugate, who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2024, had no previous experience combating terrorism.