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.

The Austin City Council told employers Thursday that they must allow construction workers to take rest breaks.

At its meeting Thursday, the City Council: Agreed to buy a Budget Rent A Car service center at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for $312,500 to use as a staging area for taxis, limos and other vehicles, and to convert a building there into a climate-controlled waiting area for cab drivers.

The Save Our Springs Alliance has sued to stop work on a $500 million water treatment plant that would draw from Lake Travis, hoping partly to buy time to change Austin's political picture.

AUSTIN 25 charged in no-refusal push Austin Police Department officials announced that during the Fourth of July no-refusal initiative, which began at 9 p.m.

The state Legislature could reduce spending on financial aid for college students by as much as $108 million in the next two-year budget, based on an appropriations request approved Thursday by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

After a day of drama and suspense, Austin City Council members Thursday night narrowly rejected a $750,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer last year.

As he sits in the Bell County Jail, accused of the Nov. 5 Fort Hood shooting that left 13 dead, Maj.

Since its creation, the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. has guaranteed $41.6 billion in loans for millions of Texas students.

The family of two slain stepbrothers is suing the strip club where the men were killed for damages and loss of companionship, according to court records.

Austin Community Foundation Executive Director Ken Gladish is heading to a new job. Gladish, who has run the community foundation since April 2008 , will step down in November to become president of the Seton Foundations .

This ain't Monaco. F1 racing out here? Are you kidding? Maybe an F1 tornado. As you drive into this tiny, rural town 15 miles southeast of downtown Austin, you won't see any zippy, low-slung foreign sports cars.

AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE Graduates rank high in passing CPA exam ACC graduates ranked highest among Texas community colleges and eighth among all institutions of higher learning in the state in passing rates on the exam for qualifying as a certified public accountant.