HOUSTON (AP) — For more than seven years, no one has known what happened to $600,000 in checks and cash that was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country.
The Peter Baen "Hair Raisin" fundraiser for the Rotary Club of San Marcos raised $8,113 for the Rotary International Polio Eradication Program. Photo submitted by Rotary Club of San Marcos
The Peter Baen "Hair Raisin" fundraiser for the Rotary Club of San Marcos raised $8,113 for the Rotary International Polio Eradication Program. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will match that amount two-for-one, so more than $24,000 was raised to fight polio in developing nations. More than 40,000 children will receives vaccinations from this fundraising effort.
Managing Editor Nick Castillo, known as “Saint Nick,” reads a copy of the Daily Record, while elves Colton Ashabranner and Alyssa Gonzales prepare gifts donated during our toy drive. Daily Record photo by Lance Winter
The San Marcos Daily Record and San Marcos CISD Christmas Toy Drive is underway and continues until Dec. 8.
Texas State University President Denise Trauth and Dr. John L. Huffman hosted a Community Holiday Open House on Wednesday at the university's Grand Ballroom at the LBJ Student Center. Daily Record photos by Lance Winter
The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand its spread as scientists study how contagious it is and whether it can thwart vaccines.
Chabad of San Marcos hosted a menorah lighting ceremony on the Hays County Historic Courthouse lawn on Wednesday. Above, community members take a group photo following the lighting event. Daily Record photo by Nick Castillo
San Marcos residents and visitors packed the northwest corner of the Hays County Historic Courthouse lawn for a menorah lighting.
Daily Record photos by Lance Winter
Sights & Sounds of Christmas hosted a Lighting of the Park on Wednesday ahead of the start of the festival.
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