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A heavily edited video released Tuesday by a conservative activist group purports to show a Republican campaign employee in San Antonio interfering as an elderly woman fills out her absentee ballot in Texas. San Antonio event planner CRE8AD8 told feds he had a deal with food bank officials but they deny it. And the Mayor’s office says Gov. Abbott’s troop deployment won’t include San Antonio.

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Early voting figures in the 2020 election in Bexar County have surpassed the total for the 2016 election. Former mayor Henry Cisneros plans to turn a West Side building that once housed his grandfather's print shop into a workspace for tech employees and entrepreneurs, but it's not easy. The Texas National Guard said it would dispatch up to 1,000 troops to five major cities around the state as early as this weekend, but a top general insisted it was not in anticipation of trouble during the Nov. 3 election. And these Texas women aren't "flocking" to Trump. They made up their minds weeks ago.

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There are more than 250,000 disabled residents in Bexar County older than 18, accounting for about 17 percent of the area’s eligible voters. Many of those have an ambulatory difficulty. While more options are offered for local voters with disabilities, some say more improvements could be made. Business columnist Greg Jefferson tells the story of what happened when Marine Maj. Douglas Burian opened his USAA banking app to discover that $10,000 was missing from his savings account. Texas vet unemployment is up 30 percent since last year, but help is here.

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San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood posed for a photo while eating sushi off of a mostly nude woman at a firefighter’s birthday party this year. No one has been criminally charged with starting the 2018 fire that killed five young people at a San Marcos apartment complex — but the resulting lawsuits have churned out someone to blame. And University Hospital will perform double lung transplants for COVID-19 patients with irreversible lung damage.

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Santikos Enterprises plans test its roughly 300 employees for the coronavirus every week through a partnership with Community Labs, a nonprofit formed by several local philanthropic leaders. As COVID-19 testing ramps up in a San Antonio area school district, some parents are skeptical. And rural school districts outside San Antonio are eliminating their remote instruction options after seeing staggering numbers of virtual learners log absences and fail classes.

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• Texas submits plan for COVID vaccine to federal health authorities
• ‘We still have assistance’ — City stands ready to help San Antonians who can’t pay rent, mortgages or grocery bills because of COVID
• Wary Traveler: Even Aspen is losing flights — a bad omen for small cities like Del Rio
• Remember when Medina Lake looked like a big puddle? It’s headed that way.
• Some bar owners pin hopes on grant program approved by Bexar County commissioners; for others, it’s too late
• Garcia: VIA board chair is treasurer for candidate who opposes public-transit proposition
• Southeast Side site searched for man missing since July altercation
• Bruce Campbell talks ‘Evil Dead’ before San Antonio screening at Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
• 3 scenic drives through Texas Hill Country from U.S. 281 in San Antonio area
• Our reporters are answering your questions: What do you want to know about early voting or Election Day in Bexar County?

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• Texas leads nation in early voting totals, with 4 million ballots cast
• If you’re a fan of the classic Chick-fil-A sandwich, keep an eye on our Taste Team's page
• Skyline: Repairs underway at San Antonio church damaged by scaffolding accident
• ‘That’s unheard of’ — Bexar County elections chief reports 60 percent of mail-in ballots have already been returned
• Retired major helps uncover long-lost African American cemetery in San Antonio neighborhood
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• Tiki-torch Molotov cocktails and a ‘Syrian Hell Cannon’: Ordnance Lab blows up the internet
• Texans cast over 2.6 million ballots in three days of early voting
• D.A. in San Antonio vows more careful scrutiny of police use-of-force cases
• Man beaten by San Antonio police officers remains in prison — even after charges against him were dismissed and the officers were fired
• ‘Never seen people more determined to vote’ —Wolff impressed with voter commitment as hotly contested races attract high numbers to polling sites
• ‘Never seen people more determined to vote’ —Wolff impressed with voter commitment as hotly contested races attract high numbers to polling sites
• John Wayne’s “Alamo” topic of forum, new book
• San Antonio company is pioneer in new era of online conferences and conventions
• This $600,000 outdoor renovation at Hill Country Village home in San Antonio took 2 years

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• Texas nears 2 million ballots cast as early voting surge continues
• Unemployment insurance claims rise in Texas, nationally
• University Health System is ever-challenged — and expanding
• ‘I want my vote to count’ — By the hundreds, voters are hand-delivering mail-in ballots to Bexar County’s elections office
• The pandemic made him walk, and now he knows every mile of San Antonio’s trails
• Team from San Antonio’s Southwest Research Institute hopes to retrieve asteroid chunks
• Gonzales’ Alcalde Hotel, a onetime Bonnie and Clyde hideout and Elvis nap spot, is banking on tourists
• 3 top San Antonio restaurants open new restaurants with style: Jardín, Ming’s and Southerleigh Haute South
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Map: Early voting sites in Bexar County

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FAQ: Voting in Bexar County

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• Texas surpassed 1 million votes on first day of early voting
• Epidemiologists call Texas' COVID uptick a ‘warning sign’
• Texas lawmakers warn of voter fraud, but will they pay to prevent it?
• 3 scenic drives through Texas Hill Country from Interstate 10 in San Antonio area
• San Antonio’s USAA Bank hit with $85 million fine by bank regulator
• Ayala: Metro Health’s newest division aims to prevent violence
• 'You feel the racial tension': Meet the first Black candidate in an 84% white Texas district
• McNay Art Museum in San Antonio opens pop art show ‘Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love’

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Map: Early voting sites in Bexar County

Tracking Covid-19 by the number in S.A.

FAQ: Voting in Bexar County

Interactive Map: San Antonio COVID-19 testing sites that don’t require a doctor’s referral

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