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Another lawsuit filed against popular Austin day care for mistreatment of children caught on camera
AUSTIN, Texas — A popular day care in Austin is under fire again after another lawsuit claims to have caught more abuse on camera. An Austin mother claims her 18-month-old suffered serious physical, emotional and mental harm after an incident at The Children's Courtyard in May 2023. According to...
APD seeking public help to find man accused of committing multiple burglaries, forgeries
The Austin Police Department is seeking the public's help to find a 24-year-old man accused of committing theft and forgery in multiple cases over the course of nearly the last two years, the agency said in a news release Monday.
UPDATE: Hip Hop Star No Longer Wanted By Cops In Texas
An Update To A Story That Went Viral This Week: Boosie Clears Up His Austin Warrant. After news spread that Boosie was wanted in Austin for theft of services, the rapper cleared things up and called the whole matter a "misunderstanding". In a video interview posted by The Shade Room,...
'Nonchalant' Grandson 'Calmly' Lit Joint In Front of Police, Before Slain Grandparents Found In Home
According to Austin police, as his grandparents lay dead inside the home, Chevy Kyler Monaghan "calmly" lit up a marijuana cigarette in front of cops, opened a soda can, and said nothing about the couple being dead.
More than a dozen people impacted by South Austin apartment fire
AUSTIN, Texas — More than a dozen people can't return to their homes after a fire Tuesday morning at a South Austin apartment complex. According to the Austin Fire Department (AFD), crews arrived to find the fire burning through the roof of a two-story apartment at 6808 South Interstate 35 southbound.
Atlanta man says over $60K worth of items were stolen from his Austin hotel room
AUSTIN, Texas — An Atlanta man is warning others after he said thousands of dollars worth of items were stolen from inside his hotel room in Austin. "They wiped me out. Literally, they wiped me out," Parris Fleming said. Fleming said he was staying at Sonesta Select Austin North...
Family desperate for answers after UT graduate student, wife go missing in Mexico
A family is “desperately” searching for a couple that went missing while traveling through Mexico. Frank Guzman, an University of Texas at Austin graduate student, and his wife Caroline Katba had planned to drive from Austin to Chile.
5 Austin neighbors lauded as best small cities in America
(CultureMap Austin) Living in the big city isn't for everyone, which is why many are flocking to the suburbs and less-populated cities around Austin. To demonstrate the popularity of suburban and rural communities, a new study by WalletHub has identified five Austin suburbs on their 2024 list of the "Best Small Cities in America."
Do You Know This Important Texas Hotel Is The Most Haunted?
Austin, Texas has a whole lot of history from being named after The Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin, to being the home of the University of Texas and numerous other Fortune 500 Businesses like Dell Technologies, and now more recently Tesla. The various architecture reflects several styles and generational choices, but nothing stands out quite like the oldest hotel in town that is also said to be the most haunted place in the entire state of Texas.
Auditor finds PARD employee improperly used rec center for birthday party
A new report from the Office of the City Auditor found that a Parks and Recreation Department employee violated city policy by organizing a birthday party at a recreation center he oversaw without reserving or paying the proper fees to use the facility. The report also found that Mark Vasquez, a PARD recreation program supervisor in charge of the Montopolis Recreation Center, entered a back-dated reservation into the system used to manage the facility and made a partial rental payment after he learned the auditing staff were investigating the the incident.
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