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Michael Minasi/KUT NewsJoseph Spees, the 11-year Austin police officer, was fired last month as a result of the incident. -
Lorianne Willett/KUT NewsA Texas appeals court upheld an injunction stopping Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing new reporting rules on large-county prosecutors — including in Travis and Williamson counties — ruling state law does not grant him authority to impose blanket requirements.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send Texas National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor. -
Austin police say Derek Gillespie, 49, was arrested this week and charged with possessing prohibited explosive devices. -
Government sources say that for the last six weeks, they’ve been ordered not to release undocumented children in federal custody to their parents and relatives. -
A group of eight media organizations had requested records in the divorce case between Paxton, who is running for U.S. Senate, and his wife be made public. -
The fire killed three people and more than 15,000 head of cattle and burned over 1 million acres in the Panhandle in 2024. -
Jewish groups and law enforcement agencies across Texas are on alert in the wake of the shooting, in which at least 15 people were killed and dozens more were injured. -
A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list for. -
The two students killed in the attack at Brown University are Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, and Ella Cook, 19. The shooter was still at large as of Monday afternoon, police said. -
Authorities were searching for a suspect described as "a male dressed in black" who fled after the Saturday afternoon shooting, and now have a person of interest in custody. -
Bert James Baker pleaded guilty after yelling racial slurs at a group of friends before stabbing one of them last February.
