Three men are in the Hays County jail charged with burglarizing a home in Wildcat Hollow off Old Stagecoach Road south of Kyle.

Hays County commissioners on Tuesday voted to ask for taxpayer approval to sell $207 million in general obligation bonds to fund road improvement officials call critical to the quickly growing county.

Roads included in the $207 million proposed bond package.

It isn’t quite accurate to say Elizabeth Sumter got ran out of Kyle on a rail when she held a town hall-style meeting there back in February. Rather, the county judge left in a hurry on one of many roads in her county in critical need of widening.

A jury found Keith Edward Holt, 51, guilty of four sexual assault charges and two counts of prohibited sexual contact with a minor.

Hays County could receive big help in funding a $10 million purchase for conservation rights on 2,400 acres of Dahlstrom Property. Considering the land’s significant location over the Edwards Aquifer, the City of Austin and the Hill Country Conservancy could chip in about half of the money.

With deadlines before a November bond election built into their pass-through agreement with TxDOT, the Hays County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to work towards right of way purchases along Interstate-35 in Kyle.

San Marcos businessman Jeff Etheredge improperly diverted money from an elite Christian school to secure a personal bank loan, a lawsuit filed in state district court by The Master’s School of San Marcos alleges.

One of Hays County’s most prominent Democrats, attorney and former state party chair Charles Soechting, has resigned as a precinct chair over Steve Klepfer’s campaign for county commissioners court.

Former Hays County Judge W.W. “Bud” Burnett did not show up on Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify at a congressional hearing on mismanagement of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative and is believed to be hiding out at a “remote ranch in New Mexico.”

Rose testifies before U.S. House committee on Pedernales Electric Cooperative excesses.

Hays County State Representative Patrick Rose will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Thursday as Congress looks into abuses at Pedernales Electric Cooperative. The committee already has subpoenaed former PEC General Manager Bennie Fuelberg and former President of the Board of PEC W.W. “Bud” Burnett.

The Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District has declared an alarm stage drought, meaning all its permittees must reduce water use by 20 percent. The district cited dry conditions since last September.

Patrick Cox of Wimberley won the 20-candidate battle royale to join the Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) board of directors in voting completed Saturday.