By Kim Hilsenbeck Two dogs are now in the San Marcos Animal Shelter after Kyle Police Department’s Animal Control division captured them Thursday in connection with an attack on two other dogs. Diane Martinez, who lives off Old Hwy. 81 in Kyle, said her dogs, Slushie and Toasty, both 14-year-old lab...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Details in the murder of Samantha Dean continue to seep out of the investigation, building what appears to be a connection between her death and the alleged father of her unborn child, Austin police officer VonTrey Clark. Autopsy details show Dean, who was a Kyle Police Department ...

By Moses Leos III With power outages an issue at the Kyle Police Department’s dispatch center on Center Street, the Kyle City Council pushed forward upgrades to help the facility meet electrical standards.  By a 7-0 vote on June 2, the Kyle council approved a $17,393 budget amendment to the city’s g...

By Kim Hilsenbeck After more than three months of being on paid administrative leave, Kyle Police Sergeant Jesse Espinoza was put on indefinite suspension, according to John Moritz, spokesperson of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT). An indefinite suspension is synonymous wit...

By Moses Leos III An increased awareness of parking laws in Kyle area neighborhoods from the Kyle Police Department (KPD) has led to a slight increase in complaints from the public.  Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett said putting the public on notice is the next step as they enforce rules.  “What we wa...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday night following an executive session of the Kyle City Council.  City Manager Scott Sellers appointed an acting police chief to lead the Kyle Police Department “for the purposes of adjudicating an ongoing...

By Moses Leos III Kyle Police Department officer Dago Pates couldn’t hold back a tearful smile Thursday as he recalled his memories of Samantha Dean.  With each story told, Pates detailed the extraordinary person Dean was. From her positive demeanor and humble personality, to even her side job as a ...

By ANDY SEVILLA Compassionate, loving, friendly and with a mission to make a difference in the world is how a father remembers the slain Kyle Police Department employee who was found shot to death in Bastrop last week. “She wanted to do great things for people. She wanted to help people bring closur...

  By Kim Hilsenbeck The organizers of the first ever COPS HD — Citizens Organizations Policing Salutary Honest Dialogue — invite the entire Kyle community to attend an event this Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Dallas Lee of Kyle, who conceptualized this event, said it's a unique opportunity t...

By Moses Leos III A Kyle family was left to pick up the pieces after a pickup truck careened off of Burleson Road in the early morning hours on Dec. 21 and into their living room.  The incident happened around 3 a.m. in the 100 block of Bellair Drive.  According to a Kyle police accident report, off...