Travis County News

A man whose conviction in the 1991 slayings of 4 teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop was overturned wants compensation for his imprisonment.

To celebrate this week's National EMS Week, STAR Flight hosted an Open House at it's hanger on May 22, 2013.

The Manchaca Optimist Club celebrated its 50th anniversary Friday evening at the sports complex on FM 1626 at Bliss Spillar Road in far southwest Travis County.

Austin police are enforcing a no-refusal initiative for Memorial Day weekend beginning at 9 p.m. Friday and ending at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

A Fort Hood sergeant remained jailed Thursday in lieu of posting $100,000 bail after being accused in the rape of an Austin woman.

Austin has made gains in its efforts to tackle some of its toughest community problems in recent years, improving its crime rate, unemployment numbers and percent of uninsured people, according to a report released Thursday.

The Austin City Council will discuss a number of high-dollar items Thursday, including a $7 million payout to demolish an East Austin power plant.

Central Health officials sought this week to quell concerns about the public agency's deepening relationship with the Catholic Church-affiliated Seton Healthcare Family as the two put the final touches on agreements to deliver health care services to needy residents of Travis County.

As staff and community members worked on the most recent Austin ISD bond package, their mantra was equity: All schools around the city must have access to the same resources, no matter the race, gender, or wealth of the students.

Travis County and SafePlace, an organization dedicated to providing services to domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, have teamed up to provide a new service to families.

A Travis County Commissioner said Tuesday that, after much thought, he believes District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg should resign from office following her drunken driving conviction.

Earlier in the day during the local and consent calendar, Representative Ruth Jones McClendon killed several bills, one later on the general calendar, that were authored by Senator Huffman.

Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe today released the names of 32 candidates who have applied for the interim appointment to the Precinct 2 County Commissioner seat.

A bill to create an exoneration commission that would study false convictions - named for his brother, Tim Cole, a Fort Worth man found innocent of a rape conviction years after he died in prison - appears to be at a standstill in the Texas Legislature.

A housekeeping bill to extend the operations of the Texas Ethics Commission and make administrative improvements to it is poised to force House lawmakers into a lot of tough votes on Monday.

It's been two years since 21-year-old Jennifer Cave was brutally murdered and dismembered inside the West Campus apartment of her friend Colton Pitonyak.

The Urban Farms Process and Code Coordination Working Group of the Austin/Travis County Sustainable Food Policy Board held its last of three working group sessions Wednesday night.

A woman has been convicted on three felony charges in connection with a violent assault on her ex-husband in February 2012, Travis County officials said Thursday.

Country music star Randy Travis has sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Office of the Attorney General after some evidence from his drunken-driving arrest last summer was ordered released to the public.

Travis County and Austin leaders unveiled a new place Wednesday for families to go for supervised visitation and custody exchanges.