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Central Texas schools sharing news of budget shortfalls for next school year
School districts across Central Texas are reporting they're ending the school year the way they started. They're running a deficit. This week Round Rock ISD (RRISD) is letting their families know what their financial situation is and how they are going to handle it. RRISD managed to budget in a...
Police investigating Northwest Austin fatal shooting with 'large crime scene'
Detectives are investigating a Northwest Austin shooting in which one man died and another was injured in what police called "a large crime scene." About 6 p.m. Monday, police responded to reports of a shooting and stabbing in progress in the 11100 block of Research Boulevard, senior officer Wesley Belcher said at a press conference Monday night. Police found a deceased man and another man with life-threatening injuries, who was taken to a hospital. Several bullet casings...
Texas politics leave transgender foster youth isolated — during and after life in state care
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. It was near midnight just a couple days before Thanksgiving 2020 when 17-year-old Kayden Asher arrived at yet another temporary home during his yearslong tumble through Texas’ chaotic foster care system.
KXAN News Today | Monday, April 22 morning headlines
A semi-truck driver was taken into custody after hitting ten parked vehicles overnight, and Austin leaders are nearing the deadline to finalize how they're going to spend millions of dollars in pandemic relief aid. Plus, a look at the forecast. More on kxan.com.
No arrests made in Mueller-area neighborhood park homicide, police say
No arrests have been made in connection with the slaying of a 33-year-old man at a Mueller-area neighborhood park in East Austin on Wednesday night, a news release said. Tayjay Stephens died after suffering an apparent gunshot wound, the release said. Police found Stephens inside a vehicle in the parking lot near the basketball court in Bartholomew Park, near East 51st Street and Berkman Drive. He was shot in the abdomen, senior officer Wesley Belcher previously...
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