San Marcos Record

The San Marcos Police Department’s Blue Santa Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This year, Texas State University’s police department is partnering for Blue Santa. Above, SMPD Cpl. Laray Taylor places gifts that will be given to children this holiday season. Below, toys have been stacked, ready to be bagged. Daily Record photos by Zoe Gottlieb

‘It shows that we care’: Blue Santa celebrates 50th anniversary as largest toy giveaway in San Marcos

Sat, 11/26/2022 - 12:00pm

San Marcos Police Department Cpl. Laray Taylor has spent the past eight years perfecting the art of Christmas toy shopping.

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Amid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy, active-shooter training facility

Fri, 11/25/2022 - 8:01pm

The Texas Department of Public Safety wants $1.2 billion to turn its training center north of Austin into a full-time statewide law enforcement academy — starting with a state-of-the-art active-sho

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Most Fed officials at last meeting backed slower rate hikes

Fri, 11/25/2022 - 7:58pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting favored reducing the size of their interest rate hikes “soon’’— just before raising their benchmark rate by a substantial thre

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Wife of Texas man killed by police in Arizona settles suit

Fri, 11/25/2022 - 7:55pm

PHOENIX (AP) — The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has agreed to settle her wrongful death lawsuit.