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Fallen officers from this year and last year will be honored at the Texas Peace Officers’ Memorial Ceremony in the state capital at House Park Field on May 2, at 6:30 p.m.

Police say former sheriff’s deputy wanted in shooting deaths of 3 in Austin, Texas, taken into custody.

My Plates is auctioning 25 rare two-character Texas license plates, the auction is already active, and closes on May 26 where the plates will be sold to the highest bidders.

Law enforcement officials are searching for a 41-year-old man they say fatally shot three people Sunday in northwest Austin.

Three people were fatally shot in Austin Sunday afternoon. No suspect is currently in custody.

Prosecutors say a grand jury will consider whether to bring charges against a man who drove into a crowd demonstrating in Austin against police violence last July and shot and killed an armed protester.

Austin FC is the latest expansion team in Major League Soccer and it opens its inaugural season Saturday night against Los Angeles FC.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper struck and killed a man who was lying in a street near the state Capitol early Thursday, authorities said. According to the DPS, at approximately 3:40 a.m. a Texas State Trooper assigned to the State Capitol detail was patrolling the streets adjacent to the Texas State Capitol when he turned from Colorado Street…

There are about 8,600 incarcerated women in the state of Texas. 20-percent of those are mothers. The Women’s Storybook Project of Texas is trying to connect those mothers with their children through the power of reading.

A police officer responding to an emergency call of a car chase with gunfire was wounded in a shootout with a suspect who was also injured, Austin police said Friday.

Two former Texas sheriff’s deputies were arrested Tuesday on manslaughter charges in the 2019 death of a man whom they shocked with stun guns after a police chase that was filmed by real-time police TV series “Live PD,” authorities said.

A nationwide search is underway for a new police chief in Texas’ capitol city following the retirement of Austin’s former top police officer amid a reckoning over racial injustice and use of force in law enforcement.

From Oracle to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Elon Musk, Texas is luring big businesses and billionaires away from California. This is how.

Alcohol-free bars are opening around the world amid a growing number of people exploring sobriety. Abstinence challenges like Dry January and a growing interest in health and wellness are behind the trend.

Austin and Travis County will continue to require masks to be worn in public for at least two more weeks after a judge put off a ruling on the state’s challenge of that mandate until a hearing later this month.

A murder warrant was issued Wednesday for the arrest of a Texas police officer involved in shooting an unarmed drug suspect.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says he’s suing the city of Austin over a mask mandate the AG says violates an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

A murder warrant has been issued to arrest a Texas police officer involved in the shooting of an unarmed drug suspect.