A “serial bomber” is likely responsible for four explosions in Austin this month, the latest of which injured two people on Sunday night after they crossed a trip wire, possibly made with fishing line, officials disclosed Monday. Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference Monday morning that although the bomb that injured […]
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Austin police have accused an 18-year-old of killing one man and wounding another in a shooting in North Austin on Thanksgiving Day. Edgar Perez-Gamez, 18. Austin police Edgar Perez-Gamez was booked into the Travis County Jail on a murder charge Saturday in connection with the death of Samuel Charlez, according to an arrest warrant […]
An Albuquerque man drove 10 hours to Austin, where police said he broke into the home of a famous YouTube couple before officers were dispatched and he was fatally shot. Police believe that before the fatal shooting, the New Mexico man became obsessed with Meg Turney, an Austinite with nearly 400,000 YouTube subscribers and […]
by Associated Press & CBS Austin Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Texas Rangers to begin handling sexual misconduct complaints against lawmakers, judges and other elected officials (Photo: Office of the Governor of Greg Abbott) AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the state’s top criminal investigators to begin handling sexual misconduct
Updated 8:47 am, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A man who’s a suspect in the death of a Texas woman has been indicted on two counts of kidnapping after authorities say he abducted the woman’s two daughters and took them to Colorado. A federal grand jury returned the indictment Tuesday in Austin […]
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying a driver in a hit-and-run that injured an Austin police officer. Police said the officer had been working at the scene of an earlier crash around 9:40 p.m. Saturday in the 3900 block of FM 973 near Texas 71 in Del Valle when he was […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Court documents show an Austin-area boy can be heard in a 911 call pleading with his stepfather to stop stabbing the boy’s mother. The woman, Emily Martinez Villarreal, 36, died at the scene as deputies arrived Saturday and took Roberto Degollado, 51, into custody. An arrest affidavit shows Degollado was walking […]
A 44-year-old man named as a person of interest in the death of a woman and the abduction of her two daughters in Texas is in custody in southern Colorado. Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks tweeted late Wednesday that Terry Allen Miles was “caught in Colorado without incident” and that the 14- and […]