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Suspect arrested in 2015 murders on Sledge Street
Hays County, Kyle...
Suspect arrested in 2015 murders on Sledge Street
February 10, 2021
Staff Report KYLE — Kyle Police arrested 47-year-old Larry Simon of Louisiana on two capital murder charges on Tuesday, Feb. 2, for a 2015 double homicide. No bond was set. The city asked for a bond of $500,000, given the brutality of the murders and Simon’s previous failure to appear in court. In 2...
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Three years later, questions still linger in Kyle double homicide
Kyle, News
Three years later, questions still linger in Kyle double homicide
June 13, 2018
Former Kyle resident Rebecca Lujan remembers vividly the last conversation she had with her longtime friend Jimmy Wright. The talk they had in late June 2015 centered on a planned motorcycle excursion Lujan, Wright and her husband at the time were preparing for. The conversation soon shifted to an u...
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Two years later: Questions, frustrations linger in unsolved Sledge Street murders
Kyle
Two years later: Questions, frustrations linger in unsolved Sledge Street murders
July 5, 2017
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...
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Sledge St. murder – one year later
July 6, 2016
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...
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Gunshot wound confirmed in double homicide
September 17, 2015
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...
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Investigation continues into Sledge Street double homicide
September 14, 2015
  UPDATE   The final autopsy report into the death of Tina Combs has been completed, this according to Hays County Precinct No. 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith, who received the report at 2:31 this afternoon.  The cause of death is listed as an incised wound and gunshot wound. In addition, the rep...
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Double homicide in Kyle, no cause yet
July 1, 2015
By Kim Hilsenbeck The Kyle Police Department continues its investigation into a double homicide that took place in the 800 block of Sledge Street. According to a city of Kyle release, the victims were identified as Tina Combs, 44, of Arlington, and James Wright, 45, of Kyle.  Kyle Police Chief Jeff ...
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Kyle mayor faces health scare
Kyle, Main...
Kyle mayor faces health scare
March 22, 2023
Mitchell acknowledges cannabis use to dispatch “My heart rate is really elevated. I’m worried that I might be having a heart attack,” the caller said,...
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Suspects arrested for slew of burglaries
Hays County, Kyle...
Suspects arrested for slew of burglaries
By Staff Report 
March 13, 2023
HAYS COUNTY — In a joint investigation with the Hays County Sheriff’s Office and the Kyle Police Department, four suspects have been arrested for mult...
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Costco to hold ribbon cutting celebration
Business, Kyle...
Costco to hold ribbon cutting celebration
March 22, 2023
Kyle — Costco will be opening soon in Kyle. A ribbon cutting will be held at the new 152,000-square-foot warehouse, located at 19086 I-35 in Kyle, at ...
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The face behind the bookshelves
Community, Kyle...
The face behind the bookshelves
March 15, 2023
'We are here to serve' KYLE — Books can be a comfort when craving an escape from reality. For Colleen Tierney, a combination of serving her community ...
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Children’s Lighthouse opening campus in Kyle
Education, Kyle...
Children’s Lighthouse opening campus in Kyle
By By Megan Navarro [email protected] 
March 8, 2023
KYLE — A new early learning school is coming to Kyle. Children’s Lighthouse was first opened in 1997 by brothers Mike and Pat Brown, who were parents ...
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