Area News

In an effort to conserve energy and save money, Pearsall councilors are considering moving forward with a plan to convert the city’s streetlights to light emitting diode (LED) lights. The consideration for the pivot from the city’s present high-pressure sodium lights to LED follows a presentation by American Electric Power (AEP) External Affairs Manager Jimmy…

Pearsall ISD has announced that students will only be allowed to carry transparent backpacks when the new academic year begins. The new requirement puts PISD in line with other Texas school districts responding to a recent increase in security threats. A recent PISD survey showed 76 percent of school employees favored students using only clear…

A teen driver was arrested after a failed smuggling attempt of five undocumented Guatemalan immigrants in southern La Salle County on Friday, July 7. Encinal police say they attempted to initiate a traffic stop on the driver of a white GMC Sierra pickup truck traveling 21 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. The…

  A 68-year-old man was taken to an area hospital Monday, July 10, for injuries he sustained after a tire on his sports utility vehicle blew out, causing the car to flip four times. According to first responders at the scene, the man was traveling north on IH-35 shortly before 11 a.m. when the accident…

A new piece of legislation has been signed into law that establishes a grant program to offer financial assistance to law enforcement in rural communities. State Representative Ryan Guillen announced the signing of the bill aimed at establishing a grant program to provide financial assistance to sheriffs’ departments, elected prosecutors’ offices and constables’ offices in…

New security measures coupled with police enforcement have proven effective in curbing illegal freight truck parking and theft of shopping carts at a grocery store in Pearsall. Police Chief Daniel Flores said officers focused patrol along IH-35 and the east side access road that runs adjacent to the HEB grocery store during one weekend in…

La Salle County Judge Leodoro Martinez III (Photo below, left)was host on Friday, July 14, for the monthly Coffee With the Chamber, organized by the Cotulla – La Salle County Chamber of Commerce and held this month at the Cattlemen’s of Cotulla private venue in the historic Gallman Building on Front Street, one of the…

COUNTY ARREST Thirty-four individuals were arrested in Frio County between Tuesday, June 20, and Saturday, July 8, on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges. Arrests were made by deputies of the Frio County Sheriff’s Office, troopers of the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol, and officers of the Pearsall Police Department. In addition to…

A Cotulla man who was charged in March with burglary of a home in the 900 block of Tilden Street has been remanded into custody and faces bond revocation after he was found in possession of methamphetamine last week. Jose Enrique Rodriguez, 62, had been released on bond after his arrest earlier this year and…

COUNTY ARRESTS Thirty-one individuals were arrested in La Salle County over the past two weeks on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges and on warrants issued locally and in other jurisdictions. Arrests were made by deputies of the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office, troopers and special agents of the Texas Department of Public Safety…