A final decision on the Guaranteed Maximum Price of Hays County’s jail expansion may not be made until after the New Year.  On Nov. 7, Hays County Commissioners considered withdrawing the contract with Turner Construction Company (TCC) for its Public Safety Bond Program Phase II. By doing so, it cou...

Seven million dollars is how much over budget the voter-approved project to expand and renovate the Hays County’s public safety facilities, including its jail, is. As a result of the overrun, Hays County Commissioners took no action Tuesday on accepting or declining the proposed guaranteed maximum p...

Authorities arrested a San Marcos man Saturday who had been charged with intoxication manslaughter after he allegedly was twice the legal alcohol limit in a fatal June collision in Kyle.  Cory Wayne New, 22, was booked into the Hays County Jail on one count of intoxication manslaughter, which is a f...

A Kyle man was booked in to the Hays County Jail in early March 2017 for multiple counts of sexual assault of a child and is currently being held for a bond total of $565,000. Eric Martinez, 38, was indicted earlier this month on a total of 14 counts of various degrees of sexual assault of a child s...

Giancarlo Arman Perez, 18, of Kyle was arrested on July 12 as a suspect of an aggravated robbery that took place at Carl’s Jr. on July 11. Perez, a former employee of Carl’s Jr., allegedly approached the building and knocked on the glass door before being let in by an employee of the restaurant. Per...

Continued capacity issues at the Hays County Jail led county leaders to approve a pair of interlocal agreements to potentially outsource prisoners to two new locations. Per the agreements, which were approved by a 3-0 vote, Hays County would be able to send prisoners it cannot house to McLennan Coun...

A recent welfare check on occupants in a suspicious vehicle ended in the arrests of two Kyle residents who police believe stole more than $300,000 in checks along with about a dozen credit cards. Joshua James McGlasson, 30, and Melissa Moncada, 27, were charged with fraudulent use/possession of iden...

With a jury trial on the horizon, a prominent Buda realtor charged with murder and intoxication manslaughter was booked into the Hays County Jail after violating conditions of his bond. Jason Tarr, 45, was booked into the Hays County Jail April 13 on $300,000 bond. He was released April 14. Wes Mau,...

Props 1 & 2 pass As Americans were glued to Tuesday’s stunning presidential election results, those in Hays County gave the green light for a pair of bond propositions that total $237 million.  According to unofficial, final results on the Hays County website, Proposition 2, which called for $131 mi...

Staff report   A 99-year prison sentence was handed to a San Marcos man Thursday after a Hays County jury found him guilty of his eighth DWI conviction.  Jose Marin, 64, was found guilty of felony DWI Monday, which stemmed from his arrest on Jan. 17, 2015, for DWI, which was a violation of his parol...