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Drivers plucked from flooded low-water crossings

First responders rescued two drivers — one with three children in the car — from flooded low-water crossings early this morning as heavy rains swamped area roadways.

Police investigate assault at Goodnight Middle School

San Marcos police are investigating an assault at Owen Goodnight Middle School Tuesday morning in which a 13-year old was jabbed with a pen or pencil.

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Brothers face charges in bloody vendetta

Two San Marcos men are accused of attacking their brother-in-law and fracturing his jaw in retaliation for breaking his wife’s nose earlier this fall, police records show.

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Video: DNA match of skull offers closure to Kyle family

After floodwaters swept away his 24-year-old daughter into the Blanco River near Kyle, Ignacio Pineda never imagined the long wait he and his family would endure.

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Police: Development opponents plan to ‘disrupt’ meetings

Officers will stand guard at future town hall meetings about a controversial multimillion development near Sessom Creek after police received a tip that opponents of the project plan to stage disturbances of public forums.

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Dead body found under San Marcos bridge

A homeless man found the body of 52-year-old Augustine Vasquez under a small bridge in the 800 block of Patton near HEB Park on Tuesday morning. The discovery marks the second time in 2011 that a dead body was found under a San Marcos bridge, though the incidents appear unrelated.

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74-year-old charged with child sex crimes

San Marcos Police arrested Francis Hall, 74, on Nov. 1 and charged him with sexual performance by a child and indecency with a child.

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Breaking News: Man with knife spotted on campus

Texas State University police are urging people to stay away from a man with a knife who is moving across campus, last reported in the areas of Sessom Drive and Comanche Street areas.

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Man gets 30 years for convenience store robbery

A 39-year-old Kyle man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for robbing a San Marcos store in March, officials say.

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Baby fights for its life; San Marcos father in jail

Detectives arrested San Marcos resident Lloyd “CJ” McKinney Sunday night on charges of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury after learning that his infant daughter was hospitalized with life-threatening head injuries while she was in his care during a weekend visit.

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