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A Mexican mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy's birthday dinner, inches from his face.

Newly released surveillance camera footage shows a Jack-in-the-Box employee shooting at a customer and his family at a Houston area restaurant in March 2021.

The video shows drone footage captured over Morgan County, Utah, just northeast of Salt Lake City.

Giffords, a former U.S. representative, and Kelly, a U.S. senator, spoke to Katie Couric about combating the epidemic of gun violence.

The former member of Congress spoke with moderator Kara Swisher, in a recording of the “On” podcast, about the Republicans running the U.S. House, threats to democracy and his forthcoming book.

The veteran journalist looks back at her career and ahead to where the media business is going.

An untimely haircut turned viral on TikTok for one group of Texas sisters.

It’s spooky season and once again, a home in the U.S. is being accused of taking it too far with its Halloween displays.

A man who fell off a tanker 10 miles off the shore of Galveston had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard last week.

Organ donors are some of the most selfless people in the world, so it’s always emotional when someone who received an organ from a donor can meet their family.

An enormous 920-pound alligator was captured in a small Florida lake in late August and it could be the second heaviest gator in the state’s history.

A rare okapi calf was born at the San Antonio Zoo earlier this week — a conservation win for an endangered species.

This happened in March and is part of a series where we are looking back at viral videos.

A Canyon Lake couple made a strange discovery in their rain gutter on Wednesday and it’s left wildlife officials guessing at what the mystery animal might be.

A man in Nebraska was pulled over earlier this week after police got reports that someone was driving down the highway with an unusual passenger.

A house renovation led to a unique discovery.

A Texas man has a pretty impressive fish story after spotting the world’s largest species of shark off the coast earlier this month.

A driver in Pennsylvania somehow managed to crash their car into the second story of a home earlier this week.

U.S. Border Patrol agents found seven spider monkeys in a backpack earlier this month at the Texas border.

This Florida deputy pulled off a move that’s typically seen in action movies.

This happened in 2019 and is part of a series where we are looking back at most-watched viral videos.

A current and former NASA astronaut visited Texas Children’s Hospital recently and got to hang out with patients at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center.

This was an unusual circumstance that had a couple panicking.

A man who was cut by a propeller during a fishing trip 130 miles off Corpus Christi had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.

With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip. Even for a bear.

This happened in 2022 and is part of a series where we are looking back at most-watched viral videos.

People just don’t accidentally fall from bridges every day, and if they do, it’s normally not caught on a surveillance camera.

Two Texas teachers have been fired after attending a drag show in downtown Houston earlier this month.

A Colorado State Patrol (CSP) trooper had to jump off a bridge to avoid being struck by his own patrol vehicle over the weekend after a suspected drunk driver crashed into the trooper’s car.

After the tragic Uvalde school shooting in 2022, Abel Ortiz, an art professor at Southwest Texas Junior College, asked artists from across the state to come together to use the power of art to heal. See the results of their efforts in this video.

Police in North Texas were called to rescue a dog from underneath a shed earlier this month and the incident was caught on video.

Police body-worn camera footage shows a citizen tackle a suspect during a chase in Oklahoma earlier this week.

Employees with the City of Corpus Christi found a teenager’s four rings, including one that contained her father’s ashes, in the dumpster after she lost them at McGee Beach.

OceanGate produced a collection of pictures and footage taken from the Titanic wreckage that is narrated by Rory Golden, a Titanic dive veteran and expert.

The Dallas Police Department has released body camera footage of a near drowning at a lake.

Formerly conjoined twins are now home after spending four months in the neonatal intensive care unit.

An Amarillo boy is sharing a message of kindness after a viral video showed him going door-to-door and asking for friends.

A cute video from the Round Rock Fire Department shows firefighters rescuing even some of the smallest animals from a tight situation.

A boat estimated to be up to 500 years old was found after an explosion at a Ukranian dam in early June.

An ornate tomb discovered in 2008 in Valencina, Spain was previously thought to belong to a high-status young man but new research shows it was actually the tomb of a woman.

A semi-trailer was seen driving through floodwaters in north Texas, where the weather has been active but drought remains in the San Antonio area.

Crime Stoppers of Greater Atlanta released a video of his botched attempt to get away with some cash — and it’s awkward.

Video shows police in Kentucky hamming it up on camera earlier this week while officers in Arizona chased down some bleating bandits.

The video shows Candler County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Ashleigh Taylor responding to a call for a crash and then discovering the vehicle was on fire.

A North Carolina amusement park closed one of its roller coasters Friday after a crack was found on a support beam.

Rip currents have claimed the lives of 60 people so far this year in the U.S., including two Texas teenagers in March, but there are steps you can take to help get out of a rip current if you ever find yourself in danger.

A 28-year-old chimpanzee saw an open sky for the first time in her life and her reaction, which was caught on camera, has since gone viral.

A Florida man is avoiding charges thanks to the castle doctrine after firing 30 shots from his rifle at the family’s pool cleaner.

The Queensland Department of Environment and Science has released video footage of two recent dingo attacks.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials said five asteroids will pass directly by Earth Friday and Saturday, including one the space agency redirected last September.

Footage from a previous OceanGate expedition to the Titanic wreckage shows a previous successful tour of the Titanic wreckage.

The Escambia County deputy was sucked in a drainage tunnel for about 30 seconds.

A Roman mausoleum has been unearthed in London and researchers are calling the discovery the “first of its kind.”

A woman crashed and flipped a car during her driving test in Argentina last week and the whole thing was caught on video.

The black bear splashed around in the gulf and drifted to shore, eventually making it to the beach where he shook off his fur and ran off.

A corpse flower, dubbed “Meg,” bloomed inside the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the museum, which is located at 555 Hermann Park Drive.

A sea lion that was wounded by industrial plastic was returned to sea Tuesday after spending three weeks in recovery.

D’Andray Thomas shaved his head after growing out his dreadlocks for nine years to show support for his daughter Brielle, who goes by BriBri, who was diagnosed with stage 4 nasopharyngeal cancer this past February, according to News 9.

Carnival Cruise Lines says that one of its ships that navigated rough seas off the South Carolina coast has resumed sailing on its next cruise. Terrified passengers on the Carnival Sunshine took to social media over the Memorial Day holiday weekend to post video of water pouring through a flooded hallway on a cabin level and pictures of on-board stores in shambles as large waves swelled on the sea.

Helicopter cameras and police body camera video captured by the Volusia Sheriff’s Office shows a car in tire-deep water at a Florida beach shortly before the driver was taken into custody over the weekend.

An escaped steer that was on the loose for weeks in Michigan is back in its pasture after being captured on a Detroit-area freeway.

A man in Florida lost his arm after being attacked by an alligator behind a bar, according to wildlife authorities.

Officer Matheny with the Clearwater Police Department in Florida wrangled a 5-foot snake from a business storeroom Monday morning and video of the animal rescue was caught on video.

Evadulia Orta’s son, Rojélio Torres, died in the school shooting in Uvalde last year. Her other children still collect Pokémon cards to add to his collection, and his cousins play with his football.

Baby elephant rescued after it fell into a two-meter-deep well at the Chatrium golf course in Chanthaburi, Thailand.

Oregon State Police said the driver of the RV, 35-year-old Michael D Battle of Virginia, was ticketed for an unlawful lane change for colliding with the truck at mile marker 177 on Interstate 84 outside Pendleton.

A Florida stormwater crew found a five-foot alligator hiding inside a pipe on Friday, May 5.

According to NBC New York, the hundreds of pounds of pasta found dumped in Middlesex County, New Jersey in late April was left there by a military veteran moving out of his mother’s home after her death.

Remains of a 19th-century quarantine hospital and cemetery were found submerged at Dry Tortugas National Park near the island of Garden Key, Florida in August 2022.

Fancy a party in a cave? Natural Bridge Caverns has a new tour experience that allows guests to rent out one of the newly accessible caves known as the “ballroom.”

A bizarre find in the woods of New Jersey has left locals scratching their noodles.

A koala is seen crossing a road as brush fires engulfed a nearby forest, and then is taken off of a tree by a women who stopped on the road and then went into the woods to help.

A police officer remarkably escaped injury when a car careened across a highway at 120 mph while he conducted a traffic stop.

A deputy in Hillsborough County, Florida, seems to have the magic touch after helping deliver his third baby over the weekend.

A Minnesota state senator is getting social media attention after casting what should have been a routine vote at a legislative commission hearing.

In this video, Trey Yarbrough explains how he created the jet ski to ride on the road, and shows off how it drives.

Initially, Senate Bill 147 would have prevented legal Texas residents from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying land. Pushback from immigrant groups persuaded senators to soften the proposal.

Show me your shoes! You can be part of the famous Fiesta Flambeau parade as you watch the action from one of the floats.

Fiesta fans can get a bird’s eye view of the famous, illuminated night parade Fiesta Flambeau on Saturday.

Storms in Central Texas Wednesday evening dumped giant hail in the Waco area and one homeowner caught it on video.

Fans of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury will be able to get a look into this personal collection of artworks, costumes and instruments for the first time since his untimely death in the early 1990s.

A moose at the movies might sound like the title of a children’s book but it’s actually a headline out of Alaska last week.

Given its jumping ability, you would think the deer would make one awesome outside hitter!

Emerald Downs, a racetrack in Auburn, Wash., had a bunch of people dressed in T-Rex costumes get into the start gate like any horses normally would to being a race.

This took place earlier this year and is part of a series where we are looking back at most-watched viral videos.

Michael Prado, with the grassroots organization West Texas Harm Reduction, is on a mission to distribute fentanyl test strips, syringes and overdose-reversing drugs like naloxone to his community.

The city attorney in Columbus, Ohio released a video showing a child finding a gun in a couch cushion and firing it “nearly pointed at his face” as a warning to other parents about gun safety.

A massive volcanic eruption is spewing out ash for a second day on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, throwing clouds of dust high into the sky and blanketing wide areas.

Army Staff Sgt. Lucy Trevino was deployed in Bulgaria since last June

A video from the civil guard in Spain shows a whale with a serious spine deformity swimming off the country’s eastern coast.

A North Dakota family hooked a great white shark while on a fishing trip in For Lauderdale and they have some cool footage to prove it.

The heart-stopping video shared by a school district in North Carolina illustrates the importance of stopping for school buses.

Abbott is on track to becoming Texas’ second-longest-serving governor, behind Rick Perry, who served more than 14 years. Abbott enters his third term after a decisive reelection win in November.

Hard news headlines dominated KSAT.com in 2022 but there are other stories that caught the attention of viewers this year as well.

“A year like this, where everything is disaster, is just, I’d say, devastating,” cotton farmer Steven Walker said.

A 2-year-old had to get rabies shots after she was attacked Friday by a coyote in a Los Angeles neighborhood.

A viral video posted to Facebook Tuesday shows someone clinging to the back of an H-E-B truck on a highway in Corpus Christi.

Some parents and family of the students killed at Robb Elementary in May campaigned for Democrats. They were hoping for stricter gun control laws in Texas.

Texans are headed to the polls for the first time since the procedure was essentially banned across the state. Texas Tribune women’s health reporter Eleanor Klibanoff explains how each ballot cast influences the future of abortion policy.

Democrat Olivia Julianna and Republican Joel Castro talk about why other young Texans should get involved in politics.