It's a best kept secret that's continuing to face a big problem: there's a shortage of court reporters in Bexar County. President of the Bexar County Court Reporters Association, Mary Scopas has ...

Under the more than 60-year-old system in Bexar County, pretrial hearings are assigned to different civil court judges rather than staying with the same jurist all the way through the case.

All Bexar County District Court Judge Christine Hortick wants to do is hear cases from start to finish. This is how the justice systems works nearly everywhere else in Texas and beyond.