San Antonio Express-News courts reporter Elizabeth Zavala gives updates on continued legal action against former Bexar County attorney Mark Benavides and a verdict for accused brother killer Gregorio Barrera.

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Dismissal of prominent San Antonio businesswoman’s DWI charge

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bexar-County-DA-candidates-weigh-in-on-dismissal-12909982.php

Early voting for runoffs start Monday

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/c-12911286.php

Chip Roy profile

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/Chip-Roy-s-plan-to-get-Washington-out-of-the-12911492.php

District 21 candidate profile

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/CD-21-candidate-Matt-McCall-wants-to-shake-up-12911485.php

Punishment phase begins for San Antonio man convicted of killing brother

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Punishment-phase-begins-for-San-Antonio-man-12911363.php

SAFC invests in teen sensation

https://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/roy-bragg/article/SAFC-investing-in-teen-soccer-phenom-12911407.php

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City Hall renovation

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/City-Council-approves-38-million-in-tax-notes-to-12904526.php

HEB’s new distribution center

https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/H-E-B-plans-distribution-center-on-San-12903944.php

Reform group bails two moms out of jail

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bail-reform-groups-free-moms-from-Bexar-jail-12905621.php

San Perdro Creek Soap Factory Apartment

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Tenants-complain-of-displacement-as-new-park-opens-12904846.php

New Edgewood ISD superintendent

https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Edgewood-ISD-could-pick-new-superintendent-this-12904533.php

In February, a magistrate judge ruled that police could use “all reasonable force necessary” to draw the blood of Catherine Amato, who was refusing to submit to any sobriety tests or provide samples of her breath or blood after being pulled over, with the presiding judge finding that a San Antonio police officer had “probable cause” to believe that Amato was driving while intoxicated on NW Loop 410, the second time in less than two years that the prominent local businesswoman had been charged with that offense.

But on April 24th, less than two months after Amato’s blood was forcibly drawn, outgoing Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood’s office dismissed the DWI charge, and Amato is now seeking to have all records of the case destroyed, with an expunction hearing set for next month.

San Antonio Express-News metro columnist Brian Chasnoff discusses his investigation into the what happened that day in February and the story behind how the DWI charge came to be dismissed.

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Pre-K for SA questioned

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/Council-briefed-on-Pre-K-4-SA-12902267.php

SAISD teacher layoffs

https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Facing-enrollment-decline-SAISD-begins-teacher-12901421.php

Boerne businessman creates billboard supporting Trump

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/Council-briefed-on-Pre-K-4-SA-12902267.php

Hurricane forecast gets worse

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hurricane-forecast-gets-worse-12902150.php

Host Gilbert Garcia and a team of San Antonio Express-News political reporters give their take on how transparent Mayor Ron Nirenberg & the City Council have, or have not, been in their decision to not submit a bid for the 2020 Republican National Convention. That and more on this week's episode of Puro Politics.

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DA investigation

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/Brockhouse-requests-DA-investigate-possible-12898722.php

Spurs lose assistant to charlotte

https://www.expressnews.com/spurs-nation/article/Spurs-assistant-headed-to-Charlotte-12898043.php

Bill Nye visits SA

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bill-Nye-predicts-today-s-youth-will-change-the-12898516.php

$1.2 million Kentucky Derby bet

https://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/mike_finger/article/For-Retama-regulars-woman-s-big-win-something-12894932.php

On San Antonio's last windy and rainy day of the season, the gang visited celebrity food outposts for both Paula Deen and “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro. But there can only be one winner! That discussion, the gang's favorite recipes from their moms (Happy Mother's Day!), restaurant reviews & news, live ice cream sampling, our weekly food rant & more on today's episode. Find additional info about all the topics the gang discusses at ExpressNews.com/food/.

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Slain SA policeman honored by Abbott

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/Slain-San-Antonio-policeman-honored-at-memorial-12895313.php

Tamaulipas begins exhuming bodies from the drug war

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Tamaulipas-begins-first-of-its-kind-exhumation-of-12895131.php

San Antonio Express-News courts reporter Elizabeth Zavala has an update on a man who turned himself in for a 55 year old murder case, followed by a preview of the second week of a trial for a man accused of murdering his brother.