Новости за 13.10.2021

Five secure juvenile correctional facilities in Texas, including one in Lee County, are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for the possible abuse of children being held there.

Early Saturday morning's shooting is latest in a string of shootings in Austin's Downtown Entertainment District this year. Back in June, a man was killed and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting on 6th Street.

Proposition 1 would allow professional rodeo charitable foundations that are sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association to conduct charitable raffles at rodeo events.

Data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in late September reported violent crime rates rose during 2020, as property crimes and reported rapes declined nationally.

Austin ISD has confirmed to KXAN that at least one incident related to a recent TikTok challenge where students slap educators has happened in the district.

Kyle police are investigating a death at a CVS Pharmacy Wednesday.

Austin police have identified the driver who died in a crash on the Highway 183 flyover to SH 45 on Oct. 4.

A powerful, slow-moving system bringing heavy snow to the Rocky Mountains and severe weather and flooding rain to the south will eventually send our strongest cold front of the season down to Central Texas.

Don Huffines, a Dallas-area real estate developer and challenger to Gov. Greg. Abbott in the 2022 election, posted on Twitter that he got Texas officials to take down pages on the Texas Department of Family Protective Services website and said, "We're just getting started."

Despite that drop, APD said thefts remain high when compared to pre-pandemic cases. Police said they believe the reason for that is because of what is inside these devices. Each catalytic converter carries a small amount of three precious metals — platinum, palladium and rhodium. Prices for these have gone up during the pandemic

House Bill 1, authored by state Rep. Todd Hunter, a Corpus Christi Republican who chairs the lower chamber’s redistricting committee, will now head to the Senate for consideration.

Right now, the city has 850 active and pending short-term rentals (STRs) and city council members are considering more oversight for them, and more than 400 STR owners are voicing concern.

The Travis County Court Administrator told KXAN they plan to start working through the backlog and restart in-person proceedings because of the move from Stage 4 to Stage 3 COVID-19 risk-based guidelines in Travis County.

The Leander Independent School District will return to Phase Yellow of its COVID-19 safety protocols Wednesday, the district announced Tuesday night.

On Saturday, Texas will take the field hoping to shake off the previous week's loss to Oklahoma — the way the Sooners were able to shake off tackle attempts by the UT defense.

The teenager who was shot and killed during a "gun battle" in downtown Austin on Oct. 9 has been identified. Austin police have also identified the officer who fired his gun during the shootout.

A 70-year-old woman with Alzheimer's last seen in Liberty Hill is missing Tuesday, according to the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.

Texas State University is making sure it does everything it can to stay in touch with how its students are doing mentally.

The governor's order, announced Monday, directly contradicts President Joe Biden's own mandate that requires all nursing home employees to be vaccinated in order to receive federal funding.

Former University of Texas men's basketball coach and player Leon Black died Tuesday in Austin, UT Athletics announced in a release. He was 89 years old.

A survey done by Austin’s LGBTQ+ Commission found respondents want the city to create more LGBTQ+ community spaces, keeping people in recovery, queer and transgender people of color and other marginalized communities in mind.

Texas businesses are left questioning to follow the state, or the federal government, the day after Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning any entity in Texas from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine.