Former Hays football player Shelby Sherman is able to walk again after a paralyzing injury. (Courtesy photo) by JEN BIUNDO When 16-year-old Hays High School football player Shelby Sherman was sacked by a defender during a 2008 junior varsity scrimmage game and landed on the crown of his head, he was...

by JEN BIUNDO Following several years of rapid growth, the city of Buda will issue up to $3.8 million in debt to expand the city’s wastewater treatment plant, councilmembers voted Tuesday night. Rather than issuing revenue bonds, which would only be repaid through money earned from wastewater bills,...

by BRAD ROLLINS State Rep. Patrick M. Rose, a San Marcos Democrat, welcomed Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, a San Antonio Republican, to a fundraising reception last week at a Driftwood winery. The $100-a-person event was closed to the press but people who attended estimated a crowd of at least a co...

by JEN BIUNDO COMPANIE Wimberley area resident David Companie is in the Hays County Jail facing manslaughter charges after he allegedly ran over and killed Wimberley resident Kelly Cabler last Thursday. Investigators say Cabler, 45, was found lying at the intersection of Camino Ashley and Days End R...

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by SEAN KIMMONS A line of cars pass the unsafe stretch of sidewalk frequented by schoolchildren on Burleson Road in Kyle. Renovations this summer will divert sidewalk traffic onto the berm in front of St. Anthony’s Church. (Photo by Sean Kimmons) A dangerous stretch of sidewalk on Burleson Road in K...

by SEAN KIMMONS A picturesque 20,000-square-foot library will be added to Kyle’s old town district after city councilmembers unanimously approved the construction of the more than $3.5 million building on Tuesday night. Inspired by the architecture of the new city hall, the library will cost roughly...

by JEN BIUNDO Hays County officials are investigating a Niederwald-area shooting that left one man dead early Sunday morning. Investigators say the female landowner shot the estranged husband of her tenant, who was living in the second house on the 15-acre property on Kai Vista, east of Buda. Hays C...

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By JASON GORDON Hays junior Chaney Turney won a silver medal for Pole Vaulting in Austin Friday. (Photo by Cyndy Slovak-Barton) Things couldn’t have gone worse for Hays’ Chaney Turney at the UIL class 4A state track and field meet last year. After having aspirations of standing on the state medal st...