San Marcos Daily Record

Texas came up $1 billion short of fiscal 2009 projections for sales tax and natural gas tax collections during the recession. Full Story »

Tropical Storm Ida blew ashore with rain and gusty but weakening winds before dawn Tuesday as weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents rode out the rare late-season storm. Full Story »

A check on a family's well-being at a house in rural southeast Texas led deputies to four bodies. Full Story »

Schools closed, people in low-lying areas sought shelter and the governors of Florida and Alabama declared states of emergency Monday as a rare late-season tropical storm churned toward the Gulf Coast. Full Story »

The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it's unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree. Full Story »

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San Marcos’ merchants sold around eight percent less merchandise in September than a year prior, sales tax allocations released on Friday by State Comptroller Susan Combs indicate. Full Story »

San Marcos CISD received 15 Gold Performance Acknowledgements (GPAs) in updated state accountability reports released by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Full Story »

The San Marcos High School’s rookie robotics team charged out of the shoot at their first-ever competition, taking 5th place in a field of 26 high schools with veteran teams and. Full Story »

Projects affecting San Marcos traffic for week of Nov. 8 -14. Online: sanmarcostx.gov/traffic Full Story »

Hays County is offering residents the opportunity to have their sensitive personal papers shredded, free of charge, to help protect them from becoming victims of identity theft. Full Story »

CenturyTel and EMBARQ have officially launched their new CenturyLink brand throughout the company’s 33-state service area. Full Story »

The award-winning Students in Free Enterprise Team (SIFE) from Texas State University-San Marcos is committing many hours to expanding their legacy project, Free Enterprise City, into four additional start-up businesses in local elementary and intermediate schools. Full Story »

Hays County Crime Stoppers is assisting the San Marcos Police Department in solving the following aggravated assault: Full Story »

The San Marcos City Council has approved a Branding Task Force that will consist of eight standing members plus one council member “rotating” through meetings. Full Story »

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story »

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards gave notice Thursday that it will shut down the kitchen at the Hays County Jail effective Nov. 20. Full Story »

Retired Air Force Colonel Theodore Dake Jr. spent 31 years on active duty, serving in Korea, Vietnam and cold war conflicts. Full Story »

When young Bettye Nagy of San Antonio was a student nurse, she had the idea of being an Army nurse, but World War II was over. Full Story »

Brooklyn, N.Y. native George Boemerman, who retired in 1976 after a 24-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, is unique among his fellow Marines. Full Story »

Born in Mexico City in 1922, Thomas P. Ivarra Sr. was four years old when he immigrated to Texas with his family, settling on the land in Martindale that he would farm and ranch for more than 60 years. Full Story »

The public is invited to join a citywide salute to military veterans that kicks off in downtown San Marcos at 10 a.m. Saturday. Full Story »

San Marcos police used their feet and patrol cars to chase down a suspect Thursday morning. Full Story »

The Killeen police officer who shot accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had undergone rapid response training offered at San Marcos’ ALERRT Center. Full Story »

Underwater aquamaids and more made the aqua show at the Aquarena Springs Resort a one-of-a-kind attraction not only for Texas, but for the country at large. Full Story »