WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: SAN ANTONIO – If you’re involved in a serious car crash, you expect the police and fire departments to respond. What you probably don’t expect is to get a bill for that response, but that’s exactly what some San Antonio area municipalities are doing: charging drivers for cleaning up accident scenes.Cities with tight budgets say it helps cover their costs, but critics call it a hidden tax. In June 2018, Ana Gutierrez was hit near the intersection of Bandera Road and Eckhert in Leon Valley.“I was at a stoplight and all of a sudden...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: SAN ANTONIO – If you’re involved in a serious car crash, you expect the police and fire departments to respond. What you probably don’t expect is to get a bill for that response, but that’s exactly what some San Antonio area municipalities are doing: charging drivers for cleaning up accident scenes.Cities with tight budgets say it helps cover their costs, but critics call it a hidden tax. In June 2018, Ana Gutierrez was hit near the intersection of Bandera Road and Eckhert in Leon Valley.“I was at a stoplight and all of a sudden...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: SAN ANTONIO – Jessica Lerma was scheduled to start a new job March 16, right around the time many San Antonio businesses began to react to the COVID-19 pandemic or in some cases even shut down.Lerma’s position was postponed indefinitely.Now she’s among the growing number of San Antonio residents who are fending off landlords or apartment managers while trying to also qualify for assistance and find new employment.“It’s defeat and frustration,” said Lerma, when asked to describe the last two months.Lerma, a single parent, is among...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: SAN ANTONIO – Jessica Lerma was scheduled to start a new job March 16, right around the time many San Antonio businesses began to react to the COVID-19 pandemic or in some cases even shut down.Lerma’s position was postponed indefinitely.Now she’s among the growing number of San Antonio residents who are fending off landlords or apartment managers while trying to also qualify for assistance and find new employment.“It’s defeat and frustration,” said Lerma, when asked to describe the last two months.Lerma, a single parent, is among...WW…

, Investigative Reporter, Photojournalist, Executive Producer, InvestigativePublished: July 10, 2020, 4:29 pmUpdated: July 10, 2020, 6:44 pmTags: , , , , Sign up for our Newsletters, Investigative Reporter, Photojournalist, Executive Producer, InvestigativePublished: July 10, 2020, 4:29 pmUpdated: July 10, 2020, 6:44 pmTags: , , , , SAN ANTONIO – Staff at an east San Antonio nursing home designated earlier this year to house COVID-19 positive patients say elevated room temperatures over the weekend caused medical distress for a number of patients, at least two...…, Investigative Reporter, Photojournalist, Executive Producer, InvestigativePublished: July 10, 2020, 4:29 pmUpdated: July 10, 2020, 6:44 pmTags: , , , , Sign up for our Newsletters, Investigative Reporter, Photojournalist, Executive Producer, InvestigativePublished: July 10, 2020, 4:29 pmUpdated: July 10, 2020, 6:44 pmTags: , , , , SAN ANTONIO – Staff at an east San Antonio nursing home designated earlier this year to house COVID-19 positive patients say elevated room temperatures over the weekend caused medical distress for a number of patients, at least two...WW…

, Reporter/AnchorPublished: May 24, 2020, 10:32 pmTags: , , , Sign up for our Newsletters, Reporter/AnchorPublished: May 24, 2020, 10:32 pmTags: , , , SAN ANTONIO – Ryan Shows said he was just dropping something off at work when he was viciously attacked and nearly killed earlier this year. Weeks later, he learned the man accused of repeatedly stabbing him was out on bail for a previous alleged violent attack."I didn't realize I had been stabbed. I thought I had just been punched," Ryan Shows said. "Turned out he got me twice in the shoulder, once in the back of the neck...…, Reporter/AnchorPublished: May 24, 2020, 10:32 pmTags: , , , Sign up for our Newsletters, Reporter/AnchorPublished: May 24, 2020, 10:32 pmTags: , , , SAN ANTONIO – Ryan Shows said he was just dropping something off at work when he was viciously attacked and nearly killed earlier this year. Weeks later, he learned the man accused of repeatedly stabbing him was out on bail for a previous alleged violent attack."I didn't realize I had been stabbed. I thought I had just been punched," Ryan Shows said. "Turned out he got me twice in the shoulder, once in the back of the neck...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio resident Kelvin Taylor lost his job in May when the pandemic forced his company to lay off workers.Taylor did what hundreds of thousands of Texans have done this year: he applied for and got unemployment benefits. But within months, he got something else from the state: a notice he had to pay a lot of that money back, amounting to thousands of dollars.“It’s a little over $4,000. My initial reaction was shock,” Taylor said. “It’s not like I used this money just to play with. It was to take care of me...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio resident Kelvin Taylor lost his job in May when the pandemic forced his company to lay off workers.Taylor did what hundreds of thousands of Texans have done this year: he applied for and got unemployment benefits. But within months, he got something else from the state: a notice he had to pay a lot of that money back, amounting to thousands of dollars.“It’s a little over $4,000. My initial reaction was shock,” Taylor said. “It’s not like I used this money just to play with. It was to take care of me...WW…