SAN MARCOS — A Hays County Grand Jury determined that the San Marcos Police Department officer who fatally shot 22-year-old Malachi Williams in the H-E-B parking lot, located at 641 East Hopkins St. in San Marcos, was justified in his actions. According to a news release, the Grand Jury received evi...

SAN MARCOS — A Hays County Grand Jury determined that the San Marcos Police Department Officer that fatally shot 22-year-old Malachi Williams in the H-E-B parking lot, located at 641 East Hopkins St. in San Marcos, was justified in his actions. According to a news release, the Grand Jury received ev...

Buda resident visits every state park in Texas July 12, 2023 - By Brittany Kelley Carol Swanson Rodgers, a Buda resident, visited Lockhart State Park with her son years ago as a way to introduce her family to what the state has to offer. Thirty-seven years later, she has visited all 106 state parks ...

KYLE — Five people were arrested in a human smuggling case in Kyle.  On Sunday, Sept. 17, the Kyle Police Department dispatch received a call at approximately 6:30 p.m. from a person saying a relative was being held by human smugglers for ransom. Officers were able to respond to a residence on Voyag...

SAN MARCOS — In the early hours of July 20, 2018, the San Marcos Fire Department (SMFD) responded to calls of an ongoing fire at Iconic Village Apartments. Taking the lives of five young adults, injuring others and displacing over 200 more, the disastrous fire was deemed intentional, but law enforce...

SAN MARCOS — Following the April 19 conviction by a jury, Jeffery Alan Scott Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for attempted capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant on April 24. According to the District Attorney’s Office, Scott was on the run from a murder warrant out of Dallas ...

Family demands transparency for victim of officer-involved shooting SAN MARCOS — “Don’t say no mo’, release the video!” echoed through the crowd that gathered at The Cephas House in San Marcos at noon on Monday for a press conference, hosted by the attorneys for the family of the victim in an office...

Staff Report HAYS COUNTY -- A medical emergency was called for an inmate incarcerated at the Hays County Jail on Aug. 16 at approximately 4:58 p.m. James Warren Knight (photo courtesy of Hays County Jail records) The inmate, identified as James Warren Knight, 41, from Dripping Springs, was seen by j...

By Megan Wehring   Freddie Lee Smith, 38, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole resulting from a 2015 murder-for-hire plot of a 29-year-old woman and her unborn child. Freddie Lee Smith Former Austin police officer VonTrey Clark hired Smith to kill Samantha Dean, who w...

By Moses Leos III Rachael McPherson remembers Jimmy Wright as a person whom she always knew as a fun uncle, or “funcle.”  With a “live life to the fullest” mentality, Wright would do anything for anybody, no matter what their past was or what had happened, McPherson said.  “He’d give you his shirt o...