Briarcliff News

Randall "Poodie" Locke, who toured with Willie Nelson for more than three decades, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at his home in Briarcliff, Texas.

"There are no bad days" was the slogan Poodie Locke, Willie Nelson's stage manager of 34 years, put on a sign outside his Poodie's Hilltop beer joint in Spicewood.

Steady growth in the Village of Briarcliff has led to the announced that L.J. "Lou" DeLira will be the community's full-time Police Chief.

BY ELENI HIMARAS reporter@ltview.com As filing deadlines for the May election passed this week, local municipalities announced the candidates for upcoming races.

By Charles McClure news@ltview.com With unemployment hovering at their highest levels in 40 years, area-based social services are finding it increasingly difficult to keep pace with the needs.

BY ELENI HIMARAS reporter@ltview.com After a 3 month reprieve from the barrage of political campaigning that filled 2008, voters will soon get to meet a new set of candidates for their local governments.

An arrest warrant was issued Friday night for Lynda Mescher, the driver in a rollover accident that killed 11-year-old Brianna Plehn on Jan.

New details were released Tuesday about the accident that killed a little girl in Burnet County.

The LCRA has identified the driver of a pickup truck involved in an accident that killed an 11-year-old girl as 47-year-old Lynda Mescher of Spicewood.

An 11-year-old girl died Monday when she was thrown from the bed of a pickup truck at a Lake Travis area park.