Travis County News

Wedding dresses meant for a special day are instead covered in mud and torn by flying glass.

State District Judge Bob Perkins, Travis County's longest tenured district judge, announced today that he would not seek re-election next year.

More than two months after Travis County commissioners fired the county's human resources director, they approved a $40,000 settlement with her Tuesday, in part to head off a potential lawsuit, the county judge said.

Travis County opened a massive new jail wing last week with 1,336 beds, though those will mostly replace so-called "variance" beds that the Texas Commission on Jail Standards previously authorized because of jail overcrowding.

An Austin police officer is suspended for 15 days for not turning on his patrol car camera during an altercation in which a teen was fatally shot.

Six people have died from the H1N1 flu in Travis County so far according to health officials.

A new poll blasted as deeply flawed by some candidates in the 2010 governor's race shows that incumbent Rick Perry holds a 12-point lead over Republican primary challenger Kay Bailey Hutchison and that author-entertainer Kinky Friedman is the front-runner among Democrats.

A 29-year-old man is in the Travis County Jail after being arrested with nearly 3 pounds of cocaine and two handguns, according to an arrest affidavit.

As if things weren't confusing enough for a man named Willis Willis. During a meeting on Monday, the Texas Lottery Commission told the 67-year-old Grand Prairie man that he is not the rightful winner of a $1 million prize - even though its own investigators have told police he bought the winning ticket.

A man sought in an Austin killing is among 11 fugitives extradited from Mexico to face trial in the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said Sunday.

An 18-year-old Del Valle mechanic was killed and three others were injured when the car they were riding in swerved to avoid an animal in the road and struck a tree, Department of Public Safety officials said today.

At around 3:44am Saturday morning, Sheriffa s Deputies were called to 6716 Starcrest Lane in Northeast Travis County.

A third man is being held today at the Travis County Jail in connection with the shotgun robbery of two roommates in the early morning Oct.

Travis County Sheriff's deputies said today that man and a woman were found shot to death in a murder-suicide Monday evening in the 10000 block of McAngus Road in southern Travis County near the Austin-Bergstrom Airport.

The man had underlying health conditions, based on a review of his medical chart, department spokeswoman Carole Barasch said.

In the following press release it was announced that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged Fern Hernandez Realty, Inc ., with defrauding Hispanic home buyers.

A judge on Wednesday dismissed murder charges against two men awaiting retrial in the 1991 slayings of four teens at an Austin yogurt shop, after prosecutors admitted they weren't ready to take the case to a jury.

One person was killed this morning in a collision between truck and a motorcycle at Round Mountain Road and Big Sandy Drive in Northwest Travis County west of Leander, officials say.

Two people are dead in southeast Travis County after an apparent murder suicide.

Austin police made a quick arrest in the city's latest bank robbery. APD Bobby Lynn Frisinger Investigators say Bobby Lynn Frisinger, 37, walked into the Wells Fargo branch at 501 South Congress Monday and demanded cash.