TRAVIS COUNTY CENTRAL TEXAS SCHOOLS Four area students were among the 800 Black American high school seniors nationwide who won Achievement Scholarship awards through the National Achievement Scholarship Program. The winners include: Caleb C. Blackerby, a student at Anderson High School in the Austin school district, who wants to study ...
A man was stabbed outside of an East Austin grocery story Tuesday night, according to police.The incident was reported about 6:10 p.m. at the H-E-B in the 2700 block of Seventh Street near North Pleasant Valley Road. The caller told police that somebody was yelling and had been “cut in ...
Former President Jimmy Carter talked expansively about life before, during and after his White House term before an appreciative crowd Tuesday night at the LBJ Auditorium on the University of Texas campus. Carter’s interview with LBJ Presidential Library Director Mark Updegrove, on the opening day of the Civil Rights Summit, ...
A lawyer for University of Texas System Regent Wallace L. Hall Jr. criticized a state House committee Tuesday for the selective release of a draft report that contends there are grounds to impeach his client. The lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said in a letter to the committee’s co-chairs that the release ...
“Every concert that I do today, I’m still singing freedom songs. I’m not going to let it go, because I’m a witness.” That was Mavis Staples’ testimony to a near-full house at the LBJ Library Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon during the “Music and Social Consciousness” panel of the Civil Rights ...
President Jimmy Carter stood — grinning, of course — in awe. Before him hung original copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the framing documents of the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library. “A remarkable pairing,” Carter told LBJ Foundation chairman Larry Temple, ...
Conference to include disability expert People with disabilities will be represented in the Civil Rights Summit after a national campaign yielded several letters and calls to politicians and organizers. Bob Kafka of ADAPT Austin wrote an email to organizers a couple of months ago after noticing that people with disabilities ...
The Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library began Tuesday on the University of Texas campus with a classic rock performance, reflections from former President Jimmy Carter and discussions of some of the hottest issues — including gay marriage and immigration reform — facing the country today. The conference ...
Three people were taken to the hospital after a multiple-vehicle crash in western Travis County.The crash involving three vehicles was reported in the 1900 block of South RM 620 after 8 p.m., according to Austin-Travis County EMS. Three people were taken to the St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center with ...
Conservatives — especially in Texas — might not see eye-to-eye with liberals who argue that states can’t ban same-sex marriage, but there are plenty of reasons for right-wingers to come around, two lawyers said at a Civil Rights Summit panel Tuesday. Republican Theodore Olson and Democrat David Boies are an ...
Some Congress Avenue property owners say they are worried a proposed 32-story hotel project could create more parking problems downtown and have a negative impact on views of the Capitol. The project, planned for Seventh Street and Congress Avenue, calls for two Starwood-brand hotels under one roof and would go ...
The defense attorney for Lt. John Foster spent much of Tuesday challenging the trooper who arrested the former Williamson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Foster was arrested June 29, 2013, on Interstate 35 near Jarrell after an off-duty deputy reported that Foster was driving ...
Hours after he beat his girlfriend and slashed her throat, Ryan Kyle Clarke was found disoriented and slumped over in the driver’s seat of his Chevy Trailblazer, Travis County prosecutor Aurora Perez told jurors Tuesday.His wrists appeared to have been slit, his lap was covered in blood, and in a ...
A quick storm that blew through Central Texas on Monday night knocked down power lines and a construction site in Austin but did little damage elsewhere, according to officials.The show lasted between 7 and 9 p.m. in the Austin area, dropping pea-size hail across the region with wind gusts up ...
5:20 p.m. update: Power has been restored all customers who lost it during Monday’s night storms, according to Austin Energy.Spokesman Carlos Cordova said that crews are working on restoring power to about 150 customers at 48 different locations that were affected by strong winds Tuesday.3 p.m. update: About 200 customers ...
A Leander man who burned 40 percent of his body on Saturday was trying to light a fireplace with gasoline, according to officials.The injured man was reported to Austin-Travis County EMS about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The man was burned at his home in the 10000 block of Lindeman Loop in ...
Tom Leonard, the superintendent of a suburban Chicago school district and a former school board member, has been named the lone finalist to lead the Eanes school district beginning the next school year.Leonard has been superintendent at the Barrington 220 School District, a district similar to Eanes in size and ...
The transportation hubbub associated with Thursday’s visit to Austin by President Barack Obama will mean detours and delays for various Capital Metro bus routes, the agency said Tuesday.Beginning mid-morning and continuing for a few hours, routes will be changed for eight fixed route lines, University of Texas shuttles and paratransit ...
Update 3:45 p.m. A retired Dallas-area police officer has just testified that the trooper who arrested Lt. John Foster for driving while intoxicated did not perform the field sobriety tests correctly.Charles Foster, who is not related to John Foster, said he conducted about 500 DWI arrests during his law enforcement ...
The Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library kicked off Tuesday afternoon.The three-day summit celebrating the 50th anniversary of Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the library on the University of Texas campus will feature discussions, talks and speeches by four presidents, including Barack Obama.Singers from ...
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