Bastrop County News

A 21-year-old Elgin man has been arrested and charged with online solicitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.

A 21-year-old male from Elgin has been arrested for sending sexually explicit text messages to an underage female.

Officials say a woman died in her travel trailer home on Ponderosa Loop in Bastrop County early Thursday morning.

One person died this morning in a fire that destroyed a camper trailer in Bastrop County, according to officials.

On Monday a small plane crashed into a cow pasture near an unpaved road in Bastrop County at 2856 Highway 71 in Cedar Creek.

Two people died in a house fire in Bastrop County Saturday, according to a Bastrop County dispatcher.

A small plane made an emergency landing in a Bastrop County pasture Monday morning.

Earnest Harkins sifted through the rubble left by a house fire Saturday. The blaze killed both his parents and destroyed the home he shared with them.

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that killed an elderly couple in Bastrop County.

By MITCH MITCHELL An agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission was arrested this week after a girl working with him in an alcohol-sales sting in Bastrop County accused him of sexual assault.The agency has suspended such sting operations to review policies and procedures regarding the use of minors in undercover work, commission officials ...

An agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is in jail in Bastrop County, accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old volunteer for the agency.

A Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent has been arrested and charged with two counts of sexual assault, and one count of official oppression.

Bastrop County animal control and sheriff's officials yesterday seized 87 schnauzers that had been living in a home strewn with animal feces and smelling of dog urine, officials said today.

Mindi Morris went to the Bastrop County Animal Shelter Saturday to rescue a Schnauzer.

Bastrop County Animal Control seized 87 dogs from a home Thursday evening. The dogs are all Schnauzers and were living in inhumane conditions according to a search warrant.

A high-speed chase that started in East Austin last Wednesday and ended on dirt Roads in rural Bastrop County has some residents questioning the Austin Police Department's pursuit policy.

Police have arrested a man who they say posed as a police officer and sexually assaulted a woman in an Austin hotel room last week.

Travis County Sheriff's Office Spokesman Roger Wade said the man who was shot had a shotgun.

Austin Police chased a suspected tire thief in a high speed chase from East Austin all the way to Bastrop County.

Austin police say they were involved in a highway pursuit this morning after catching a group of people stealing tires from a vehicle in East Austin.