For the second consecutive year, more than two of three schools statewide earned top academic honors exemplary and recognized ratings Texas Education Agency officials announced Friday.

While maintaining his position, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell said Friday that he regrets hurting some in the community with his decision to reject a controversial $750,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer.

A morning crash that triggered a backlog of traffic for South Austin commuters Friday drew plenty of heroes to the scene after a man lost control of his pickup, according to witness reports.

If you've been to a Travis County farmers market in recent weeks, you might have seen them: people in their 20s in bright orange T-shirts printed with purple dialogue boxes that say, "Join In a Healthy Conversation." They are trying to take the community's pulse on behalf of Central Health, formerly the Travis County Healthcare District.

A woman accused of smearing feces on a catheter leading into her daughter's bloodstream was taken into custody Friday after she was found this month with a child, a violation of her pretrial release, a judge ruled .

Sunlight is free. But it's not cheap or easy to wring abundant amounts of power from it. Enter some tiny crystals known as quantum dots and a chemistry professor at the University of Texas named Xiaoyang Zhu , or, as his students call him, XYZ.

The troops, fresh from the war zone, stood at attention in the hulking Austin Army Aviation hangar at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Friday morning.

AUSTIN Detroit fugitive nabbed in Austin A fugitive accused of abduction and sexual assault in Detroit was arrested Friday afternoon at an eastern Travis County home, according to an official with the U.S.

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