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San Marcos had the game in their hands until they didn’t.

Texas State clinches team's first At Large bid in program history under motto 'Leave No Doubt'

DEAR ABBY: I was married young to my high school sweetheart. We had five children together. During that time, I joined the Air Force. After six years of marriage, I discovered my wife was cheating on me. Once I realized we couldn’t reconcile, I told her I wanted a divorce and custody of the children. She agreed. It cost me my career with the USAF.

A man was taken into custody late Monday by members of the San Marcos Police Department SWAT unit following a call at approximately 4:30 p.m. to the department that an individual had been shot in the vicinity of an apartment complex on El Rio Street.

The Youth Service Bureau– a local after school and summer program that provides free opportunities for youth from ages 11 to 17–is hoping to recruit additional kids for the program.

Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Texas State University, and Bradley Borges, a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Sciences, have received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to promote STEM-based careers in the welding industry among high school students.

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to the most amazing woman for 30 years. She became a personal trainer and is in incredible shape. I’m not in her kind of shape, and I can’t perform too well sexually, even with ED meds. She recently asked if she could have her (sexual) needs taken care of by a young client she trains. I’m OK with it, since I’m sympathetic to her desires, as long as she doesn’t fall in love. Your thoughts? – WANTS WHAT’S BEST FOR HER DEAR WANTS: The three of you are adults and capable of making your own decisions, but I am hesitant to bless this because it is so risky. Make sure to iron out all of the variables that may occur. She might fall in love with her client; he may fall in love with her. (Or not.) If he decides to move on, what will the effect be on her and you? Before you agree to this arrangement, think long and hard.

Each year the weekend after Thanksgiving, I sense an innate urge to risk life, limb and public humiliation by festooning the exterior of our home with several hundred C9 incandescent lights. [I’m still resisting the whole LED craze– also known as “the Devil’s bulbs.”] My mild-mannered next-door neighbor and I always engage in an unspoken competition to see who can get their Christmas lights up first, but since I have the holiday sleeping habits of an inebriated grizzly bear in mid-hibernation, he consistently wins–after which he undoubtedly enjoys shouting, “Let me know if you need any help up there,” as I cling desperately to the shingles while those little granules clatter in the aluminum rain gutters –portending my likely doom.

As congestion and accidents plague our roadways, innovative transportation solutions are key to sustaining our region’s rapid growth. Though it seems utopian in Texas, highspeed rail could be a huge boon for the state if implemented strategically.

I wrote this column in view of the Arno River, celebrated in operas, paintings and literature.