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La Salle County Sheriff Anthony Zertuche has reported that anyone found damaging election campaign signs may be subject to arrest and criminal prosecution. The sheriff was joined by Lt. Homar Olivarez in making the statement at the end of December after viewing security camera footage showing a man drawing on and scratching a campaign sign…

A high-speed pursuit involving a suspect with a stolen car ended in a crash in the middle of Dilley after a officers from several law enforcement agencies had tried to stop the driver. According to a report on the case, Frio County deputies assisted Dilley police and US Border Patrol agents on Thursday, December 28,…

Dense fog may be to blame for a two-vehicle collision that ended in flames near the intersection of CR 1670 and FM 462 in far eastern Frio County on Friday, January 5, according to emergency first responders. A preliminary report on the case shows that Moore volunteer firefighters were dispatched to the county road after…

A freight truck driver from San Antonio may have lain dead for more than six hours beside IH-35 before his body was discovered next to the wreckage of his 18-wheel sand hauler at the bottom of an embankment, according to investigating officers. The Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol has begun examining the fatal…

Educators from Pearsall and Devine ISDs were presented with $15,000 in grants from the Virginia Thompson Pearsall Education Foundation during the non-profit group’s annual dinner on Sunday, December 17 at the G2 Ranch in Pearsall. Twenty teachers from both school districts were awarded the grants while $18,000 in student scholarships have also distributed to students…

The deadline to participate in the Government-in-Action Youth Tour, an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC, on June 16-23 is Friday, January 5. The event is sponsored by Medina Electric Cooperative and organized by Texas Electric Cooperatives. The Youth Tour is touted as an ‘action-packed trip to the US capital with more than 150 student peers…

Twenty-one individuals were arrested in La Salle County over a two-week period in December on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges as well as on warrants issued locally and in other jurisdictions. Arrests were made by deputies of the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office, troopers of the Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol,…

An agreement signed in December by La Salle County commissioners and representatives of the First Church of Cotulla will help create an overflow parking area near the courthouse, although the county will pay for paving a property still owned by the church. Negotiating a deal over the past two months, the county has secured a…

COUNTY ARRESTS Seventy-four individuals were arrested in Frio County between Friday, November 17, and Sunday, December 17, 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…

“After an extended period of uncertainty…” At the start of the new year, La Salle County will activate a transition plan in which at least four cemeteries will be put under the authority of a new department whose structure has been drafted this month by commissioners and an attorney consultant. The change was opposed by…