By JASON GORDON The energy Hays displayed in its furious comeback win over Lehman just seven days earlier was nowhere to be found last Friday night against Alamo Heights. Luke Donnally kicked a 29-yard field goal with just over a minute to play to give Alamo Heights a 17-14 win over Hays at Shelton Stadium. [...]
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An attempted murderer from Nigeria who had been living in Kyle was among more than 2,900 criminal immigrants who were rounded up in a federal sting last week. Ike Romanus Bright, 51, of Kyle was convicted of second-degree attempted murder in 1986. Last week, he was arrested when the U.S. Immmigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a [...]
In college, it was easy. You’d buy a keg of beer and drag it in your kitchen. Maybe you tidied up a bit, but probably you didn’t. You were giving away free booze. And that simple fact guaranteed a night of partying your face off with a few hundred close and personal friends. Things are [...]
Texas State’s Dennis Franchione is among football coaches around the state who are kicking off campaign to help abused and neglected children through Texas CASA. The Texas State football coach will launch the event during Saturday’s game at Bobcat Stadium. Kickoff is 6 p.m. Texas CASA is seeking volunteers to protect Texas children in foster [...]
The city of Buda began its new single-stream recycling program this week. The city’s waste collector, Texas Disposal Systems, has been delivering new 96-gallon recycle carts to Buda residents, and the old 18-gallon bins were scheduled to be picked up Wednesday. Recycling will now be collected as single stream, mixing all accepted recyclables together in [...]
Police arrested a 23-year-old Kyle man who allegedly raped a 26-year-old woman whom he invited to his birthday party, police say. At about 9 p.m. on August 4, police were called out to a delayed sexual assault, in which the victim stated that Martin Vargas raped her as she slept off a night of drinking, [...]
Austin Woodrow Swan Sr., 78, of Buda, Texas passed away on September 17, 2011 at Christopher House in Austin, Texas. He was born in Elroy, Texas to Timothy and Eula Swan on December 22, 1932. He was the fifth child of a family of 11 children. He was drafted into the US Army in 1953 [...]
Lt. Col. Robert Seton Sluter, age 87, of Niederwald, passed away at home Tuesday, September 20, 2011. He rejoins now in heaven his beloved wife of 47 years, “Dotty” who passed away February 4, 1994. Robert was born June 25, 1924 to Ernest and Leona Hoffman Sluter in High Bridge, New Jersey. Bob graduated from [...]
Our beloved Melissa Ann Espinoza Rocha, age 39, from Austin, Texas lost her long, hard, courageous battle with cancer on Wednesday morning, September 21, 2011. Melissa was a lifelong Austinite and worked for the IRS for 22 years, working her way up to the position of criminal investigative analyst. She loved life, her husband and [...]
