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CHASNOFF – At the urging of Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood’s campaign consultant, Chasnoff reviewed “attorney involvement” files at the district clerk’s office and found that as a defense lawyer, LaHood not only solicited clients accused of sexual offenses, he and his former law partner, Andrew Del Cueto, represented at least seven clients accused of sexual crimes, some against children; three accused of assaulting children; and another three accused of violating their sex offender registries.

DACA -- A bipartisan bill to protect “Dreamers” engineered by San Antonio Republican Rep. Will Hurd drew Senate backing on Monday along with a dismissive tweet from President Donald Trump. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hurd-s-DACA-bill-gets-McCain-s-support-12553235.php

HOT CAR DEATHS -- A second Kerr County resident faces charges over the deaths there in June of two toddlers left overnight in a vehicle, joining the victims’ mother behind bars, and authorities say misdemeanor charges are forthcoming against other suspects. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Second-suspect-charged-in-toddlers-deaths-in-12553148.php

MOTT TRIAL -- The brother of a San Antonio woman whose body went missing from a funeral home in 2015 testified Monday that once he was told that his sister’s body was “stolen,” he concluded based on information given to him that it must have been her ex-boyfriend. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Brother-accused-Mott-s-ex-boyfriend-on-Facebook-12552742.php

URESTI -- State Sen. Carlos Uresti’s lead lawyer resumed cross-examination of the government’s star witness Monday morning, trying to dissect her testimony to show jurors that it doesn’t square with what happened. http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Star-witness-Cantu-back-on-the-stand-today-in-12552000.php

MARKETS -- http://www.expressnews.com/business/national/article/S-P-and-Dow-plunge-extending-stock-sell-off-12552892.php

San Antonio Express-News Spurs Reporter Jabari Young breaks down several topics of concern for the Spurs followed by discussion of the Super Bowl.

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URESTI -- State Sen. Carlos Uresti’s legal team Friday sought to discredit the government’s star witness in his criminal fraud trial by questioning her about a sexual relationship she had with the CEO of the bankrupt oilfield services company prosecutors say was a Ponzi scheme. Trial continues today. http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Will-Uresti-testify-in-his-own-defense-12549407.php

CARTEL DEATHS:  Violence continues to escalate in this border state, which recorded 805 homicides last year, a 35 percent increase over 2016. That figure doesn't include victims such as those in the carjacking, whose bodies vanish without a trace.  http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Tamaulipas-security-forces-struggle-to-rein-in-12549243.php

VIEWSHEDS — The city is starting a process to determine what buildings, landmarks and public spaces are worthy of "viewshed" protection, similar to those already in place at the Alamo and the missions. There's a meeting tonight.  http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Ideas-needed-on-views-that-matter-in-San-Antonio-12550802.php

BOERNE GROWTH — Boerne officials were all smiles at the recent groundbreaking for a Hilton Doubletree Hotel that will provide coveted meeting spaces for conventions and other gatherings to boost local economic activity during M-Th when patronage traditionally lags. The hotel, whose developer received incentives, is among several new projects in the south Boerne area branded as "SoBo." http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Boerne-s-new-SoBo-scores-a-coup-with-custom-12550760.php?t=527247a887

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Texas residents planning to take part in the March 6 primary elections have until 5 pm today to personally deliver a voter registration application to the local elections office or to send it in by mail. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Monday-is-deadline-to-register-to-vote-in-Texas-12549536.php

SPURS -- After a surprising 111-120 loss to the Utah Jazz, Spurs star Manu Ginobili says, "It feels like we are terrible." The Spurs play again Wednesday against Phoenix. http://www.expressnews.com/spurs-nation/article/Spurs-fall-to-Jazz-12549810.php

San Antonio Express-News Courts reporter Elizabeth Zavala breaks down the first week of the Mott family lawsuit against Mission Park Funeral Chapels and Cemeteries. Robert “Dick” Tips, owner, and his wife, Kristin, who is president of the San Antonio-based funeral business, are being sued in civil court by the family of Julie Mott, 25, who died from cystic fibrosis in August 2015. Relatives learned her body went missing from a damaged casket the day after her memorial service, held at the Cherry Ridge facility on the Northwest Side, and before she was to be cremated. The body has not been found.

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MOTT UPDATE – http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Testimony-contradicts-statements-made-in-missing-12545014.php

REALIGNMENT - http://www.expressnews.com/sports/high-school/article/South-San-to-consider-appealing-alignment-with-12544309.php

http://www.expressnews.com/sports/high_school/high_school_football/article/SAISD-gets-surprise-on-realignment-day-12544285.php

ICE-McMANUS -- Thomas Homan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that he doesn’t think San Antonio is a sanctuary city and has moved beyond SAPD Chief McManus’ release of 12 undocumented aliens from a semitrailer. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Top-ICE-official-says-December-trailer-incident-12544803.php

URESTI – Denise Cantu, the government’s star witness in Uresti trial, takes the stand. Prosecutors allege state Sen. Carlos Uresti had financial difficulties that led him to “groom” a relationship with Denise Cantu and convince her to invest in a frac-sand company that later collapsed. http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Denise-Cantu-the-government-s-star-witness-in-12544040.php

BORDER SECURITY EXPO – Top Department of Homeland Security officials in San Antonio this week called on Congress to remove what President Donald Trump's called during the State of the Union address "deadly loopholes" in the immigration system. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/DHS-officials-in-San-Antonio-call-for-tighter-12544720.php

BATTLE FOR DA -- District attorney race takes a nasty turn as Nicholas “Nico” LaHood and Joe Gonzales ramp up attacks via video, mailer and campaign appearances. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/District-attorney-race-takes-a-nasty-turn-12545135.php

T-6As GROUNDED – A key Air Force training plane is grounded over hypoxia concerns. Novice pilots at several Air Force bases around the country take their first flights aboard the T-6A Texan II and solo in it. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Air-Force-s-mainstay-T-6A-trainers-grounded-12544926.php?t=7d4a8b8e6d

TONY PARKER – Wants to stay. http://www.expressnews.com/spurs-nation/article/Tony-Parker-on-future-with-Spurs-My-priority-12544411.php

San Antonio Express-News business reporter Patrick Danner discusses the history & latest updates for the trial of Senator Carlos Uresti, now finishing it's second week.

Find more of Patrick Danner's reporting at http://www.expressnews.com/author/patrick-danner/.

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CITE & RELEASE – Caught with a small amount of pot? Starting today, you may not have to go to jail for that. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Caught-with-a-small-amount-of-pot-Starting-12540678.php

LAREDO WALL -- The Trump administration is planning to build 250 miles of new fencing between Laredo and Brownsville, according to a Texas congressman. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Plans-for-Trump-border-fence-released-12539732.php

TRUMP IMMIG GANGS -- President Donald Trump’s references to violent gangs when speaking of immigration in his State of the Union address further inflamed passions even as he called for bipartisan acceptance of his “down-the-middle” compromise. (awaiting link; story has been sent online.) http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Immigrant-advocates-Trump-likened-Dreamers-12541398.php?t=48c3925e2c

URESTI -- State Sen. Carlos Uresti incurred more than $5,400 in bank fees from 2012 through 2015 for writing checks that he or his law firm couldn’t cover, . http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Retiree-tells-Uresti-jury-he-lost-2-1-million-12539747.php

LONESTAR -- The owner of the Lone Star Brewery is facing foreclosure again — this time, on an abandoned industrial site on the western border of the brewery, which remains vacant after plans for a $300 million redevelopment project fell through. http://www.expressnews.com/real-estate/article/Lone-Star-Brewery-owner-faces-foreclosure-12540864.php

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A host of hot-button issues in Texas – from immigration to border security to disaster relief – got high-profile attention Tuesday night in President Donald Trump’s first formal State of the Union address. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Latinos-slam-Trump-as-divisive-hours-before-they-12537902.php

San Antonio man shot by police after stealing a bicycle from Target has been identified: http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-man-shot-during-struggle-with-police-12538423.php

State Sen. Carlos Uresti convinced a pair of Mexican business partners to invest in an oil field startup called FourWinds Logistics, even though they were leery of the company’s erratic CEO, the pair testified Tuesday in Uresti’s ongoing criminal fraud trial. The two businessmen and others who were part of an investment group ended up losing all but about $200,000 of their $1.4 million investment. http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/FBI-accountant-back-on-the-witness-stand-for-7th-12536669.php

UT Health San Antonio announced a Mays Family Foundation gift of $25 million to kick-start its cancer center’s new partnership with the Houston-based M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. The Cancer Center was renamed in honor of the Mays family, a move that Dr. William Henrich, the president of UT Health, called an inflection point in its history. http://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/25-million-donation-bolsters-S-A-cancer-center-12537696.php

Map: Which San Antonio ZIP codes are paying the most rent? http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Map-Which-San-Antonio-zip-codes-are-paying-the-12537233.php

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Day 7 of the criminal fraud trial against state Sen. Carlos Uresti continues Tuesday. Members of a group of Mexican businessmen, some of them recruited by Uresti to invest in FourWinds, may testify Tuesday. The group includes Salvador Vasquez, an accountant who took office space inside FourWinds and was tasked with trying to keep tabs on their investment. Earlier this week on day six of the criminal fraud trial against Uresti and co-defendant Gary Cainan, an FBI accountant testified that money that originally belonged to FourWinds Logistics investor Denise Cantu went to accounts belonging to state Sen. Carlos Uresti to keep them from having negative balances. Monday, Former FourWinds Logistics marketing director Eric Nelson also testified that the head of the company threatened to shoot him if he didn’t alter a bank statement to make it look stronger than it was in 2014.http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/FourWinds-investor-first-on-the-stand-in-second-12533368.php

San Antonio Republican Will Hurd is pressing Trump administration NAFTA negotiators to back off demands that he believes would damage the U.S. auto industry in Texas and beyond. His concerns come as Round 6 of the troubled negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement concluded Monday, with trade ministers sounding guardedly optimistic that the negotiations could be completed by the end of March. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Rep-Hurd-hopeful-after-final-round-of-NAFTA-12534367.php

A luxury hotel and condo tower being built on the River Walk has received a $10 million incentive package from the city through a program to encourage downtown housing. The city awarded the incentives in August for the Arts Residences and Thompson San Antonio hotel, a $116 million construction project set to break ground Tuesday across the river from the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. The $10 million package is the largest ever awarded through the city’s Center City Housing Incentive Policy, which was created in 2012 as part of former Mayor Julián Castro’s push for a “Decade of Downtown.” Earlier this month, City Council voted to put the program on hold after criticism that incentives are no longer needed downtown. http://www.expressnews.com/real-estate/article/City-awards-10M-in-incentives-for-luxury-condo-12534839.php

A rare and wondrous confluence of events not seen in our solar system since Jesse James was robbing banks will cause a full, rust-colored, lunar eclipse Wednesday -- a so-called Super Blue Blood Moon -- that, with luck, will be visible in San Antonio’s western horizon for about 30 minutes before sunrise.  Not since 1868 have the Earth, moon and sun aligned perfectly so that on one day we can see astronomy’s trifecta of a full moon in total lunar eclipse, a blue moon and a reddish super moon. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Wednesday-May-Hold-a-Super-Blue-Blood-Moon-12534828.php

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SAPD SHOOTING – For the second time in less than one week, San Antonio police officers killed someone who had called authorities for help.http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/SAPD-police-kill-second-San-Antonian-in-less-than-12531300.php

VOTE BY MAIL — During the last special session of the Legislature, Republicans who intimated that absentee voter fraud was rampant in Texas got a small change inserted into a bill that will make it more difficult for Texans to vote by mail. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Mail-in-ballot-applications-now-must-be-sent-by-12532112.php

TRUMP TEXAS — How does Trump Country view President Trump’s first year in office? We’re headed to rural Brownwood, suburban Montgomery County and urban Tarrant County - the birthplace of the Texas tea party - to take the pulse in deep red Texas. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Trump-true-believers-stick-by-their-man-12532109.php

URESTI ANALYSIS – We’re one week into the salacious trial. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/A-duped-politician-or-a-willing-fraud-accomplice-12530686.php

VICIOUS DOGS – In the wake of a high-profile dog mauling case that left a senior woman without most of her left arm and its two owners sentenced to prison, the Express-News looked into the number of dog bites in San Antonio. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Biting-dogs-are-a-vicious-problem-in-S-A-12531052.php

BORDER WALL -- The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is at an ecological crossroads, where the coast meets the desert and the endangered ocelot roams among Sabal palms and prickly pear cactus. It’s also in the crosshairs of a political tug of war over President Donald Trump’s border wall. http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hundreds-turn-out-for-rally-opposing-border-wall-12531021.php?t=5fbec77148