Elizabeth Zavala is a Senior Reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, specializing in courthouse reporting. With experience in various news outlets, including the Dallas News and Laredo Morning Times, Elizabeth covers local stories in San Antonio, Texas, focusing on crime, trials, and other significant events in the area.
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Elizabeth Zavala focuses on local crime stories, trials, and legal system news in San Antonio and Texas. She often covers evolving and breaking news related to crime and legal proceedings in the area.
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By: Elizabeth Zavala
More than four out of every 10 drivers involved in a fatal crash in Texas had a blood-alcohol content that exceeded the legal limit.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
Michael Dines told San Antonio police he shot a woman he picked up who turned out to be a man. Turns out he was wrong.
May 7-A San Antonio man convicted of killing a driver in the parking lot of a Northwest Side pancake house in 2022 has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 8-A mother accused of injury to a child in the death of her 5-year-old son, whose badly decomposed body was discovered in a Colorado ravine in 2021, has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against her former boyfriend.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 8-A San Antonio woman has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in the death of a 3-year-old girl who was left in her care in 2022.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 9-A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for sexual assault of a child after a jury convicted him of abusing a teen girl for two years.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 13-Mathew Isaac Ortiz, who shot a man who intervened when Ortiz was breaking up with his girlfriend in a pickup last year, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 15-Former KSAT sports anchor Greg Simmons, for decades one of San Antonio's most beloved TV personalities, has been sentenced to a year's probation on the DWI charge that ended his career.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 16-A Bexar County medical examiner testified at the murder trial of Kevin Young that the man Young is accused of helping kill possibly was paralyzed as he bled to death in a car.
By: Elizabeth Zavala
May 17-A Bexar County jury found a man not guilty of murder in a 12-year-old case in which someone else shot the victim.
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