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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs like Medicaid, affordable housing and subsidies. There is a vast web of entrenched companies that profit from regulating the lives of the poor with business models that depend on exploiting low-income Americans. The new book Poverty for Profit explains.

Texas leads the nation in utility shutoffs; Two SA-area schools boards see upsets in May 2 election; San Antonio Spurs face Minnesota Timberwolves tonight

Local gas prices head toward record territorty; San Antonio Spurs fall short of a Game 1 win; Civil rights groups sue over Texas immigration law

For 26 years, April Burrell was lost to a psychosis that defeated every treatment. Then a doctor asked a different question: what if her immune system was the problem? Dr. Anthony Zoghbi worked on the team that discovered Burrell's immune system was attacking her brain. Now he's searching for a blood test that could identify millions of others who may have been misdiagnosed and could be treated.

Lawmakers call for release of family detained at bus stop; Texas invests millions into flood warning system; SA Phil announces two concerts this month amid legal and financial challenges

The relationship between George Jones and Tammy Wynette, two of country music’s biggest stars, is one of the most tumultuous and legendary in the genre’s history. But it's also been largely misunderstood. Podcaster and author Tyler Mahan Coe sets the record straight in "Cocaine & Rhinestones."

The race is on to get humans to Mars. But what will they find? Not little green men, despite that’s what many believed about the red planet. In the early 1900s it was thought that Mars was inhabited and was home to a utopian society in the grip of a planet-wide drought. How did Mars mania grip the nation, influence pop culture and give us cause to stare into the night sky and wonder?

Patrick Strickland discusses his story collection "A History of Heartache." These are stories set in North Texas that chart the small moments of grace, and the almost insurmountable mistakes boys inherit. These are gritty, sometimes violent stories, but there is a tenderness, too, and the knife’s edge here bends toward a kind of hope.

SA could raise property tax rate for the first time in 33 years; Spurs blow past the Timberwolves; SAWS reaches new ater conservation milestone

San Antonio City Council takes up SAWS rate hike, Project Marvel, and veteran housing; Cyberattack on grade platform impacts UT San Antonio; Spurs take on Timberwolves again tonight