Austin County News

An Austin County Grand Jury has indicted a former elementary school teacher on child pornography charges.

TRINITY Former appraisal district chief Allen W. McKinley has announced he will seek the Trinity County judge's nomination in the 2010 Democratic Party primary election.

Can Austin County afford 4 capital cases? PoliceNewsLink.Com Decision still pending on whether to seek death in Bellville slaying, a costly prospect PoliceNewsLink.Com Oct.

Less than an hour's drive from downtown Houston, rural Austin County prides itself on bucolic charm.

Four suspects charged with the murder of Dr. Jorge Gonzalez were indicted on capital murder charges Wednesday in Austin County.

Buescher State Park Superintendent Jamie Hackett releases Houston toads at Bastrop State Park on Monday.

James L. Hutchinson was married to Susan Hightower, daughter of Ephraim & Anne/ Annie Smith Hightower and sister to Charnal all of Laurens County, Georgia, at Bellville, Austin County, Texas in January 1856 .

An alert issued in Sealy in Austin County about two attacks by killer or Africanized bees has been downgraded somewhat today.

An Austin man's fifth conviction for drunken driving has drawn a sentence of 27 years from a Hays County jury.

Authorities have arrested a fourth suspect in the death last month of a prominent Houston doctor who was shot several times as he arrived at his 30-acre ranch with his family.

A third man wanted in the slaying of a prominent Houston physician at his Austin County ranch was captured Tuesday night at an apartment in west Houston, authorities said.

The Texas Rangers remain stumped about why gunmen drove two cars to a doctor's 30-acre spread in Bellville, hid the vehicles in the woods, waited outside for several hours and gunned down one of Houston's most prominent physicians in daylight after he rolled up on the property.

Crime Stoppers of Houston is working with the Austin County Sheriff's Office and Austin County Crime Stoppers to help solve the mysterious murder of Dr.

Two young brothers were arrested Thursday in the murder of a Houston doctor who was gunned down at his Bellville ranch on Saturday.

On the last morning of his life, Jorge Mario Gonzalez drove to his beloved Four Oaks Farm, a 30-acre ranch tucked away in the bucolic Texas countryside, his pregnant wife and 21-month-old son by his side.

A $5,000 reward has been offered in hopes of solving the killing of a prominent Houston doctor, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.

Four suspects are sought in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of a Houston, Texas, doctor, Austin County authorities said Monday.

Four suspects are sought in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of a Houston, Texas, doctor, Austin County authorities said Monday.

The Austin County Sheriff's Department and the Texas Rangers are continuing to search for clues in the shooting death of Doctor Jorge Gonzalez at his ranch home near Bellville.

An Austin County ranch owner is dead after a shooting and several suspects are on the run.