ELKTON — A new criminal case has been filed against a convicted sex offender who, while on probation, allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl near Elkton last month — after befriending
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Trauma Service Area O, which includes Hays and Travis counties, broke a 15% COVID-19 hospitalization-to-capacity rate for the third consecutive day Tuesday, according to Hays County Emergency Management Coordinator Alex Villalobos.
Villalobos reported the news in Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting to alert the commissioners that should the 15% rate continue for seven consecutive days, certain restrictions on places of business, occupations and hospitals will be triggered due to Gov. Greg Abbott’s Executive Order No. 32.
Counties with high hospitalizations are excluded from the reopenings that occurred on Oct. 14, per GA-32. Areas with high hospitalizations means any Trauma Service Area that has had seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID‑19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of total hospital capacity exceeds 15 percent.
CAR-ANIMAL ACCIDENTS
Victor McDow Jr., 49, of Paola, was driving a 2019 Ford pickup north in the 25100 block of Old KC Road at 8 a.m. Oct. 28 when it struck a deer. McDow was not injured.
Sara Rhynerson, 38, of La Cygne, was driving a 2015 Buick south on Jingo road near West 399th Street at 8:35 a.m. Oct. 28 when it struck a deer. Rhynerson was not injured.
Scott Gregory, 47, of Amsterdam, Mo., was driving a 2019 Kia west on Kansas Highway 68 near New Lancaster Road at 5:20 a.m. Nov. 2 when the vehicle struck a deer. Gregory was not injured.
Erick Pennington, 41, of Blue Mound, was driving a 2007 Ford south on Plum Creek Road near West 383rd Street at 11:40 p.m. Nov. 2 when the vehicle struck a deer. Pennington was not injured.