“Multiple” people were injured in an incident in Austin, Texas, early on Sunday, police said, adding that a suspect had been pronounced dead after an officer-involved shooting. The Austin Police Department released a statement urging people to avoid the area near the 600 block of Rio Grande Street. “The incident originated as a shoot/stab hotshot…
Jeff Rowe grinned with satisfaction when the dashboard of his John Deere combine harvester showed the yield of the first run on his family’s farm during this year’s harvest: 253 bushels per acre, equivalent to 13.8 tonnes of corn per hectare. The yield on the 100-acre Schubert parcel was the highest in many years, said…
Losing a cell phone isn’t the sort of fright most people seek on Halloween, but that’s what happened to dozens of people in a bustling area of Austin. Over 100 phones suspected to have been stolen in downtown Austin over Halloween weekend have been recovered, the Austin Police Department announced Friday. The department is asking…
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate…
If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, posing serious health risks to nearby communities, according to a new study. What You Need To Know Researchers identified 5,500 sites that store,…
TEXAS — Illegal entries into the United States from Mexico are at a historic low. The presence of U.S. Border Patrol agents along the southern border has decreased with the lull in migrant crossings. Recently, those agents have been reassigned. What You Need To Know This week, for the first time in President Donald Trump’s…
EL PASO, Texas — A federal court in El Paso ruled on Tuesday that Texas cannot use the new congressional maps redrawn this summer. A three-judge panel enjoined the state from using the updated maps and said that Texas should instead use the previous maps created in 2021. The ruling was a blow to President…
TEXAS — The holiday all about giving thanks is reportedly best celebrated in San Antonio, Texas. WalletHub ranked the best cities to trot to for Thanksgiving, and San Antonio took the cake (or pumkin pie) for No. 1. Dallas also ranked in the top 10 at No. 4. To determine which cities are deemed the…
Slow Traffic, Then Sudden Fireball: CCTV Captures The Delhi Red Fort Blast That Killed At Least 10 A shocking CCTV video has revealed the precise moment of the Red Fort blast in Delhi. The clip shows normal traffic before a Hyundai i20 explodes, sending flames into the sky. Nine people have been confirmed dead. Investigators…
A member of the Connally High School Stars dance team wears an American flag in her hair during last year’s Austin Veterans Day Parade. Aaron E. Martinez/American-State Veterans Day is upon us, a day to honor those who have served and those still serving our country. Here’s which institutions and services will remain open and…