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Bonnie and Clyde: The rest of the story
News
This Week in Texas History
Bonnie and Clyde: The rest of the story
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
February 26, 2025
Twenty anxious defendants waited in a Dallas courtroom on Feb. 26, 1935 for a federal jury to come to a verdict in the “harboring” trial of Bonnie and...
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Rusk Spent Career In Houston’s Shadow
Columns, Opinions
THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY
Rusk Spent Career In Houston’s Shadow
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
February 12, 2025
On Feb. 17, 1848, Thomas Jefferson Rusk stepped out of Sam Houston’s giant shadow long enough to give his maiden speech in the United States Senate, a...
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Fort Clark stands watch on border badlands
Columns, Opinions
THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY
Fort Clark stands watch on border badlands
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
February 5, 2025
After almost a century of standing watch on the border, Fort Clark was deactivated on Feb. 9, 1946 and turned into, of all things, a dude ranch.  Hell...
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Behind the walls of Texas’ first mansion
Columns, Opinions
Behind the walls of Texas’ first mansion
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
January 29, 2025
On Feb. 4, 1896, three days after her drunk of a husband threatened her with a butcher knife, Matilda Brown Sweeney moved back home to Ashton Villa wh...
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Texas crooner toast of the twenties
Columns, Opinions
This Week in Texas History
Texas crooner toast of the twenties
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
January 22, 2025
Gene Austin, the original crooner whose recordings sold 86 million copies in the Twenties and Thirties, lost his battle with lung cancer on Jan. 24, 1...
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Did Sundance’s widow live out her life in Cowtown?
Columns, Opinions
This Week in Texas History
Did Sundance’s widow live out her life in Cowtown?
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
January 15, 2025
Was Eunice Gray, who burned to death in a Jan. 26, 1962 fire that destroyed the Fort Worth hotel she had run for the past four decades, in reality the...
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For once the Indians win a battle
Columns, Opinions
This Week in Texas History
For once the Indians win a battle
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
January 8, 2025
Although everything was in their favor, the Kickapoos, who were only passing through West Texas en route to Mexico, went out of their way to avoid a f...
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Baylor tastes sweet victory in 1957 Sugar Bowl
Columns, Opinions
This Week in Texas History
Baylor tastes sweet victory in 1957 Sugar Bowl
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
January 1, 2025
In just their fourth post-season appearance in school history, the Bears of Baylor University squared off against the heavily favored Tennessee Volunt...
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Texans settled their differences with duels
Columns, Opinions
This Week in Texas History
Texans settled their differences with duels
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
December 23, 2024
Mortally wounded in a Christmas Eve duel at Gonzales, Virginian Reuben Ross survived the Battle of San Jacinto only to die on Christmas Day 1839. The ...
Mysterious death of a comic genius
Columns, Opinions
Mysterious death of a comic genius
By Bartee Haile, Texas History 
December 18, 2024
Ted Healy, the comic genius behind “The Three Stooges,” kissed his wife and three-day old baby goodnight on Dec. 20, 1937 and headed for his favorite ...
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Mom claims Hays CISD could have done more to prevent child endangerment
Buda, Hays County, News
Mom claims Hays CISD could have done more to prevent child endangerment
By Brittany Kelley 
April 30, 2025
BUDA — After discovering that her son’s former teacher was arrested for public intoxication, Christina Nichols was left wishing Hays CISD did more to ...
Kyle Police investigate fatal crash on IH-35 near Yarrington Road
Breaking News, Hays County, Kyle, ...
Kyle Police investigate fatal crash on IH-35 near Yarrington Road
By Staff Report 
March 18, 2025
KYLE – The Kyle Police Department is investigating a fatal collision that occurred at approximately 2 a.m. March 18 on southbound IH-35 near Yarringto...
Joint operation leads to more than 40 arrests in Hays County
Hays County, News
Joint operation leads to more than 40 arrests in Hays County
By Staff Report 
April 2, 2025
AUSTIN — A joint investigation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the San Antonio Poli...
Three-car collision leaves one dead
Dripping Springs, Main, News
Three-car collision leaves one dead
By Staff Report 
March 12, 2025
DRIPPING SPRINGS – A three-car collision left a 79-year-old woman dead March 1. At approximately 6:45 p.m., the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS...
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Former Dripping Springs Middle School teacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography
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Former Dripping Springs Middle School teacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography
By Staff Report 
April 30, 2025
SAN MARCOS — Hays County District Judge Sherri K. Tibbe sentenced Kevin McLean, 33, to a total of 60 years in prison April 29; McLean entered a plea o...
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