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FROM THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT: The Austin Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in identifying individuals who have been targeting males in the Sixth Street area stealing credit or debit ...

APD: Men drugged, credit cards stolen after meeting women on 6th St. 11:34 AM CST on Thursday, December 4, 2008 KVUE News Austin police have a warning for men partying on 6th Street in downtown Austin -- watch ...

The University of Texas at Austin honored former Gov. Dolph Briscoe Monday. The Center for American History will now go by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, partly because his donations totaled ...

Paul Mix and his wife thank mall employees for saving his life. An Austin man reunited for the first time with the men that saved his life when he collapsed in a mall.

Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick is facing an ethics complaint over campaign payments and state health insurance benefits he has provided for his daughter, a former lobbyist who's employed by her father as ...

The Associated Press reports that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, has been suspended after the possibly alcohol-related death of a freshman after ...

Wall Street begins a new month of December after a five-session winning streak for the blue chip averages.

A Central Texas woman who prosecutors say robbed several Austin-area banks with her then16-year-old son was sentenced to 35 years in prison Monday.

A background check system used by many Texas schools to spot visitors who are sex offenders is being challenged by two parents who say the process violates their privacy and other rights.

The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday that further interest-rate cuts are "certainly feasible," but he warned there are limits to how much such action would revive an economy likely to stay weak ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers played on the TV screens Sunday afternoon but at Scholz Bier Garten in downtown Austin, the majority of the crowd both young and old could only think Longhorns.

An Austin man is taking action after he says a group of football fans were ripped-off Thursday night.

Travis and Caldwell County firefighters battled a 30-acre brush fire early Wednesday afternoon.

Austin's Nicole Lowrance , with Jenny Dare Paulin, Hallie Foote, and James DeMarse in Dividing the Estate It isn't as if an Austin actor has never made it to Broadway.

Riley Winebarger, 12, lay on the grass in her South Austin front yard while a pug tore around her in circles.

Austin police released a photo Monday of a suspect in a North Austin bank robbery.

Richard Gibbons was evading San Marcos police in 1999 when his pickup truck smashed into Greg and Maribel Tanner's car at an intersection.

San Antonio-area rancher Debbie Davis usually sees green clover and winter grasses this time of year across her pastures.

Another cell phone charger and SIM card have been recovered in the cell of a Texas death row inmate -- the latest in a series of similar discoveries.