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Power outages reported across Austin due to severe weather
AUSTIN, Texas — Nearly 20,000 Austin Energy customers were without power Sunday morning as thunderstorms moved across the region. According to Austin Energy’s outage map, 19,217 customers were affected at 8:43 a.m. The majority of the outages appeared to be in south Austin. ALSO | 2-year-old San Marcos...
Woman shot 5 times after road rage incident; 25-year-old suspect arrested
AUSTIN, Texas — A 25-year-old man has been charged with second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a road rage incident escalated into a shooting. Michael Rivera is accused of shooting a woman five times in an incident that occurred just after 8 a.m. on April 24. According...
Police investigating shooting death of man in downtown Austin's Rainey Street District
Police are investigating the shooting death of a man Saturday morning in the Rainey Street district of downtown Austin. Police Sgt. Destiny Silva said several people called 911 around 6:30 a.m. to report hearing multiple gunshots and seeing a victim in the 90 block of Red River Street. She said officers arrived at 6:35 a.m. and found the man with obvious signs of trauma to his body.
Ice cream recall: H-E-B issues voluntary recall for some Creamy Creations flavors
AUSTIN, Texas - H-E-B is issuing a voluntary recall for some of its Creamy Creations ice cream for potential metal. H-E-B says the impacted ice cream is 12-ounce packages of 3-ounce cups in three flavors: lime/orange sherbet combo, vanilla/chocolate combo, and chocolate. The affected products were distributed to all H-E-B...
College protests live updates: Police crackdown leads to hundreds of arrests
Hundreds were arrested at USC, Emerson and UT Austin in the last day. Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish...
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