SAPD officer Bless Achor surrendered to Bexar County authorities and was booked on counts including injury to a child and abandoning a child; he was released on bond as SAPD opens an internal probe.

A 2-year-old was pronounced dead after a drowning at a Maiden home on High Ridge Circle; Catawba County detectives are investigating.

A school bus caught fire Wednesday on the west‑bank approach to the Crescent City Connection. Fire crews extinguished the blaze while investigators probe whether students were aboard.