KYLE — Kyle Police arrested 47-year-old Larry Simon of Louisiana on two capital murder charges without bond on Tuesday, Feb. 2, for a 2015 double homicide. in 2015, Kyle police officers responded to a home in the 800 block of Sledge Street in reference to a welfare call, after a relative was concern...

Every day for the past two years, Indiana resident Rachael McPherson and her family have anxiously waited by their phones. They do so with the hope that the person on the other end of the line could give them the answers they seek. It’s been over two years since the bodies of Jimmy Wright, McPherson...

By Moses Leos III Rachael McPherson remembers Jimmy Wright as a person whom she always knew as a fun uncle, or “funcle.”  With a “live life to the fullest” mentality, Wright would do anything for anybody, no matter what their past was or what had happened, McPherson said.  “He’d give you his shirt o...

By Moses Leos III Seven months after a double homicide along Sledge Street, the Kyle Police Department (KPD)continues to push ahead with its investigation into the crime.  According to Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett, the department is making steady progress on the case.  “We work on that (case) almo...

By Moses Leos III A woman found dead in a June homicide on Sledge Street in Kyle died as a result of an incised wound and a gunshot wound. That information was part of the completed autopsy on Tina Combs, which was received by Hays County Precinct No. 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith Tuesday. Detai...