By Moses Leos III A Texas State student has been identified as the driver of a Honda Civic that drove the wrong way on Interstate 35 Friday and crashed head-on into a Ford Windstar, killing four people. Hays County Justice of the Peace Precinct No. 2 Judge Beth Smith identified the driver of the Civ...

By Moses Leos III If there was one thing former Hays Rebel head football coach Blake Feldt remembered about Will Trevillion, it was that he was always happy. Feldt, who now coaches at Odessa Permian High School and spoke via phone Monday, recalled a young man who, he said, “always had a smile on his...

By Moses Leos III A woman found dead in a June homicide on Sledge Street in Kyle died as a result of an incised wound and a gunshot wound. That information was part of the completed autopsy on Tina Combs, which was received by Hays County Precinct No. 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith Tuesday. Detai...

W ill Mountain City elections be in Mountain City? No, the City Council voted to have the Hays County Election Office host the elections both Early Voting and Election Day, Nov. 3. Election Day will be at Kyle City Hall. Early voting, starting Oct.19, will include the Precinct 2 offices, just past t...

By Pauline Tom T he newspaper inadvertently labeled last week’s photo of a wheel bug, “rhinoceros beetle” and mentioned, “leave it be”. Contrary to last week’s featured “wheel bug”, the fierce-looking rhinoceros beetle is harmaless to humans. In fact, in Japan they are sold and kept as pets. Still, ...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Keeping an open dialogue flowing between citizens and a police department is an ongoing challenge in cities and towns across the country. That is particularly true in the wake of officer–involved shootings, as well as officers being killed, along with riots and looting in areas suc...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Residents and guests packed into the city hall in Mountain City Monday evening to hear more about the proposed interlocal agreement with the city of Kyle and Hays County involving a transfer of extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ).  Emotions ran high because the deal, as written by ...

Mountain City’s Council Meeting this week started seven hours after my deadline, so please look elsewhere in this week’s paper for a follow-up to last week’s front page story that reported from the Kyle City Council a draft Letter Agreement for the City of Mountain City, proposing a swap that would ...

By Moses Leos III Taxes, business development and infrastructure topped the questions to Kyle City Council candidates at last week’s forum at the Kimbro Building hosted by Hays County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith. Five of the six candidates attended the forum and took submitted questio...

By Andy Sevilla Buda and Kyle, which collectively are owed more than $5.2 million in outstanding citations, have joined more than 300 law enforcement agencies across the state in this year’s Great Texas Warrant Roundup. The statewide effort is designed to target thousands of defendants with traffic,...