Police are trying to identify a man who displayed a gun and knife to rob the Levi store in the Tanger Outlet center in January. Meanwhile, a Buda man has been sentenced to 25 years for a carjacking in May at Prime Outlets across the street.

Hays County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Kyle man accused of shoplifting from Cabela’s and then taking a swing at an officer Friday afternoon.

Ross Milloy, the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council executive director, will headline this month’s San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Issues Breakfast.

A Henly resident is seeking to invalidate development regulations adopted last August with a lawsuit filed in state district court that argues Hays County did not properly analyze the financial impact of minimum lot sizes and other rules would have on property owners.

Hays County and its partners in the Dahlstrom Ranch conservation easement will hold public meetings on March 22 and March 31 to gather input from residents on certain aspects of public access.

Novelist Tim O’Brien, holder of the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University, has received the 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The Native American Student Association at Texas State University will host the 4th Fourth Annual Native American Cultural Awareness Conference 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 6 in the LBJ Student Cente

Jerry A. Coyne, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, will present an evening talk and book signing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, at the Alkek Library Teaching Theatre on the campus of Texas State University.

Students in the Texas State University theater department recently participated in the Kennedy Center’s regional American College Theater Festival, garnering 15 total awards and three trips to the national festival in Washington.

The “Empty Bowls Project” in Buda last weekend raised $1,900 for the Hays County Food Bank, with about 100 local residents turning out to the event.