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• San Antonio reports 16 more deaths from the novel coronavirus
• Did George Floyd protests add to S.A’s coronavirus spike? Most likely not, experts say. But don’t take chances: Mask up when you march.
• Can you get evicted for not paying rent? It depends where you live in San Antonio
• Inmate’s mother decries how she was told of his drug OD, visitation rules
• San Antonio Botanical Garden serving as a refuge from the coronavirus pandemic that just won’t go away
• A court case seeking to force the leader of conservative advocacy group Empower Texans to register as a lobbyist could reveal more about the inner workings of the organization
• Jefferson: Weaning S.A. off the low-wage economy — if the pandemic doesn’t kick-start change, nothing will
• Express News Covers project
• Former boxing champion born in San Antonio, still in fit form at 52, seeks one last fight
• Paul’s Cooking Tips: Soak your pasta to speed cooking and reduce steam

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

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• Coronavirus surge has not ended in Bexar County
• Nirenberg, Wolff call on Gov. Abbott for clarity on school reopenings after AG opinion
• San Antonio Food Bank braces for a potential new surge of hungry families as eviction moratorium, extra unemployment benefits run out
• Vanessa Guillén inquiry: 35% of women at Fort Hood said they were sexually harassed
• Students raising livestock for San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo aren’t letting the coronavirus slow them down
• Here’s what going back to school will look like in Bexar County this fall
• Podcast: Express-News Editorial Board speaks to 3 area superintendents
• SAISD gives books away by the bag to keep children reading during coronavirus shutdown
• Travel to Napa Valley from your kitchen with dishes from French Laundry, Model Bakery, Joseph Phelps Vineyards and more

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

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• Watch Live: San Antonio superintendents discuss reopening schools
• Tech-savvy Bexar County courts still need in-person meetings
• Reversing course, TEA won’t fund schools closed solely due to Bexar County coronavirus health orders
• Pastor and congregation pray in San Antonio hospital parking lots for novel coronavirus patients, medical staff
• ‘She never met a stranger’ — social worker who died from COVID-19 remembered for her big heart
• Taylor: Coin collecting a fine hobby, but not a good investment
• S.A.’s Common Critters: The Golden-fronted woodpecker is San Antonio’s original head-banger
• San Antonio Spurs win final scrimmage behind Keldon Johnson and Rudy Gay

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

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• San Antonio teenager Bryce Wisdom taught us how to live like him — strong
• San Antonio school districts still struggle with the city’s segregated past
• U.S. testing czar Giroir, former A&M official, struggles with backlog
• With San Antonio hospitals still filled with COVID-19 patients, doctors are working to preserve bed space as the city dances on the edge of disaster.
•  Ayala: San Antonio mural to Army soldier will be a memorial and reminder to press investigations
• Watch Live: San Antonio superintendents discuss reopening schools
• ‘Hit it hard’ — Latina marketing executive says lessons from her parents powered her rise from modest South Side beginnings

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• Watch Live: San Antonio superintendents discuss reopening schools
• Upgrades to home air conditioning systems may help fight the coronavirus
• USDA testimony shows San Antonio’s CRE8AD8 came up a third short on its contract to deliver food boxes for the needy
• Invisible enemies: 24hrs with a San Antonio ambulance crew
• Seventy years later, San Antonio veteran recalls near-disaster in Korea
• Fact-checking President Trump
• Ayala: San Antonio has hit a census plateau and needs to get past a 61 percent response rate
• This Week In History: In July of 1976, the biggest “enclosed regional shopping center in South Texas”, Windsor Park Mall
• Artists design wildlife viewing blinds for new land bridge at Phil Hardberger Park in San Antonio
• NBA bubble watch: 5 storylines to follow as Spurs reboot season

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•  ‘Preacher of relationships’ — S.A. banker J. Bruce Bugg Jr. is an adviser to the governor, a force in the financial world, a patron of the arts
• San Antonio attorney fraudulently billed millions to client, arbitrator finds
• In a first, Bexar County will attempt to seat a jury via Zoom video conference
•  Garcia: Democrats see hope for flipping U.S. District 21
• Jefferson: Rackspace, you’re bigger, quieter and more indebted than we remembered
• 5 San Antonio restaurants for great lasagna for coronavirus comfort food

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• 5 things to know about the sudden closing of Houston’s Chinese consulate
• Fallen San Antonio soldier buried at Fort Sam
• Travelers must wear masks at S.A. airport. But message has been mixed
• Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert sees his role as a ‘burr’ for reform in novel coronavirus pandemic
•  Ayala: First woman, immigrant to lead UFW sees no benefit in calling farmworkers ‘essential’
• Taylor: Coronavirus aid package includes bankruptcy change to help more small-business owners keep their companies
• What lessons have San Antonio residents learned about life during the coronavirus pandemic?
• Cook a taste of Miami from your kitchen, with Versailles’ Arroz con Pollo, Joe’s Stone Crab’s Key Lime Pie, the perfect Cubano sandwich and more
• Spurs look to unleash ‘juice’ in scrimmage with Bucks

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• UIL reveals plans for fall sports season
• After newborn’s unexpected death, AF officer in San Antonio got another shock
• As many as 500 women represented by disgraced and now-imprisoned S.A. attorney Mark Henry Benavides could have their convictions overturned
• EN- Depth Podcast
• Fellow officers, family and friends gather to honor fallen deputy De La Fuente in San Antonio
• Garcia: Nirenberg’s VIA compromise a win-win for the city
• S.A.’s Common Critters: Nothing big or bad about the wolf spider — no matter how scary it looks
• Chunky's Burgers offering free meals to anyone in San Antonio who needs a hand, no questions asked
• Spurs’ Belinelli focused on more than basketball in Orlando

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• 'We're not interested': Nirenberg's staff shuts down coronavirus conspiracies and 'false narratives'
• Metro Health and city leaders were at war with each other at height of coronavirus outbreak in San Antonio, emails show
•  CEO of Witte Museum in San Antonio talks about safely operating amid coronavirus
•  Ayala: San Antonio activists against police brutality may be quiet now, but they’re just bracing themselves
• Flowers’ love of cooking blossoms into college opportunity
• Chuck’s Food Shack: Take a tasty BBQ flavor trip outside Texas with Alabama white barbecue sauce
• The Spurs are passing time in the NBA bubble by having ping pong, cornhole tournaments
• San Antonio artist Buster Graybill takes his new public artwork on a road trip.

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• Hundreds of COVID cases reported at the state jail in San Antonio
• ‘Last responders’ also feel the stress of coronavirus pandemic in San Antonio
• Options for starting school year range from bad to awful for San Antonio parents, educators
• Garcia: Clay-Flores shakes up Commissioners Court with runoff win
• A retired police officer and two Army vets killed by drunken driver in Hill Country crash, police say
• Gregg Popovich recalls John Lewis as leader who tried to make ‘America live up to its promises’
• July 24, 1994 Emma Tenayuca’s work continues to inspire
• San Antonio Zoo commemorates 50th Anniversary of miniature train robbery

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