Police officers in downtown Austin may soon be outfitted with body cameras pending purchasing approval from the Austin City Council, according to the Austin American Statesman. The successful completion of a pilot program that tested the equipment moves the Austin Police Department closer to its goal of providing 500 officers with lapel cameras. Cops patrolling […]

Teaching at the Texas School for the Deaf brought electroshock survivor Evelyn Scogin, 59, joy and a sense of purpose in life. However, her love for working with disabled children was abruptly taken away when she entered the psychiatric system. Scogin’s remarkable journey, distinguished by strength, persistence and bravery, first began with arthritis and fibromyalgia-related […]

Several counties in Texas have drinking water laced with a group of disinfectant chemicals that may cause damage to the liver, kidney, and thyroid. Exceedingly high levels of trihalomethanes (THM) were recently found in drinking water in Kyle, Blanco, and Hutto. The discovery angered some Texans who say they were not issued proper warnings, and […]

Maintaining a vehicle in Texas could become less costly if Senator Don Huffines (R-Dallas) has his way. Speaking in front of the Senate Transportation Committee in January, Huffines said the state’s vehicle inspection program is nothing but a money grab that provides absolutely no benefit to the community or consumers. “There are 35 states that […]

The Texas Senate Committee on Criminal Justice motioned for the improvement of mental health services in county jails on Wednesday, citing the highly publicized and controversial death of Sandra Bland, an activist against police brutality who was reported to have committed suicide following her arrest after a traffic stop in July 2015. Though the committee […]

A woman from the Austin area has been charged with a Class A misdemeanor after allowing her children to get tattoos. Ashley Weir, 31, permitted her boyfriend’s brother, a registered sex offender, to tattoo her three children, all of whom are younger than 13-years-old. The Austin Police Department got involved after they were contacted by […]

A 14-month-old toddler passed away on Tuesday after visiting a dental office in North Austin to have a cavity filled. Time Warner Cable News (TWC) reports that Daisy Lynn Torres was brought in to Austin Children’s Dentistry for a procedure the office calls “routine.” But something went wrong when the child was given anesthesia. Daisy […]

It’s no secret that California is prone to earthquakes. In 2008, researchers predicted the Golden State has a 99 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger quake before the year 2040, and a 46 percent chance of having a magnitude 7.5 or greater quake. To put that into perspective, the infamous earthquake that […]

Travis County could be forced to throw out dozens of drunk-driving felony cases because the arresting officers failed to obtain a search warrant before testing the suspect’s blood, reports the Austin American-Statesman. While officers say they were acting in accordance with the law, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from April 2013 suggests otherwise. In the […]

Some 50,000 Texans are drinking tap water contaminated with potentially unsafe levels of arsenic, according to a Washington, D.C.- and Austin-based environmental group. The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reviewed more than a decade’s worth of data and discovered that 34 Texas communities “have violated the Safe Drinking Water standard for arsenic,” for at least the […]