Two local men were indicted August 2 in separate cases alleging difficulties they gave local police.

Christopher Villarreal was charged with "escape while arrested" and currently is being held on $46,000 bond.

Police allege the 17-year-old Karnes City resident was at a home on North Market Street when they arrived there July 15 to investigate a disturbance report. Karnes County Sheriff Deputy David Kunschik was one of the officers at the scene.

"Rain, rain. Go away. Come again some other day." It’s not a nursery rhyme altogether popular in Karnes County, but what local farmers were hoping would be a record year is turning to a soggy mush out in the fields.

Stunning amounts of precipitation are to blame as standing crops are denied necessary oxygen and nitrogen. Some fields are almost entirely ruined.

Local cotton, grain sorghum, and corn crops will be harvested soon, but yields are expected to be flat. Standing water has stunted growth in some fields and in others has pummeled the crops’ harvestable parts beyond use.

Karnes County Agriculture Extension Agent Dennis Hale said at this point, more rain is not necessarily better.

The Karnes City Public Library was vandalized the morning of August 6.

The front two windows and glass door were damaged. Police found small holes in the glass of each of the two front windows, which were left standing. The front door’s glass was shattered entirely.

Karnes City Police Chief Eddie Salas said an individual used a slingshot to fire three steel ball bearings, one through each panel of glass.