The new strain of the COVID-19 virus considered more contagious has been identified in the Houston area. Nearly 100 employees at the only oil refinery inside San Antonio city limits — and at related operations in the region — may be out of work next month. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said he reassigned the almost two-year-old probe of the shooting deaths of a mother and her two daughters to a cold case detective because his department’s original investigation was insufficient.

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