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Mary Pearl Williams, Travis County's first female judge, dies
Update: A memorial service for Mary Pearl Williams is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday March 5 at University United Methodist Church Mary Pearl Williams, who in 1973 became Travis County’s first female...
View ArticleSupreme Court delivers major ruling on water regulation
Updated at 11:25 a.m. with reaction from the Sierra Club. Updated at 4 p.m. with reaction from supporters of the decision. In a ruling likely to have a wide impact on the regulation of water use in...
View ArticleRound Rock lawyer sentenced in connection with choking daughter
A criminal defense lawyer was sentenced today in connection with assaulting her 17-year-old daughter in Round Rock. Allyson Rowe, 46, received five years of probation and was ordered to pay a $2,000...
View ArticleOral arguments set in Open Meetings Act challenge
A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments on April 5 in a lawsuit that claims the Texas Open Meetings Act unconstitutionally limits the free speech rights of elected officials. The 5th Circuit...
View ArticleMan on trial for murder of man killed waiting at bus stop
A Travis County jury began hearing evidence today in the murder trial of Charles Wesley Roberts Jr., a 23-year-old accused of driving his van into a South Austin bus stop while fleeing a sheriff’s...
View ArticleJudge grants gag order in Norwood case
A Williamson County judge has granted a gag order in the Mark Norwood case. The order means that lawyers, witnesses and law enforcement involved in the murder case may not talk about it outside of...
View ArticleCedar Park man gets 41 months in visa fraud scheme
A federal judge in Austin today sentenced a Cedar Park man to almost three and a half years in prison for spearheading a scheme in which his company fraudulently obtained work visas on behalf of...
View ArticleJury: Man guilty of murder in bus stop crash
Update 5:27 p.m.: A Travis County jury has found Charles “Chas” Roberts Jr. guilty of murder for speeding away from a sheriff’s deputy and crashing into Rondal Lynn Brooks while Brooks waited at a...
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Man charged in fatal strip club shootings gets almost 20 years in drug case
A Manor man facing a capital murder charge in the shooting deaths of two stepbrothers outside a Travis County strip club in 2010 has been sentenced to almost 20 years in federal prison in a separate...
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Witnesses say man who caused fatal crash had drug problem, ADHD
A Travis County jury heard sentencing testimony today in the trial of Charles “Chas” Roberts, who has been convicted of murder for evading a sheriff’s deputy and crashing his car into a man waiting for...
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25-year sentence for man convicted of murder in bus stop crash
Update 3:17 p.m. A Travis County jury has sentenced Charles “Chas” Roberts Jr. to 25 years in prison for killing a man waiting at a bus stop when Roberts lost control of his van while evading a...
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Emotions high in fatal hit-and-run hearing
This story has been updated with comment from Gabrielle Nestande’s lawyer Perry Minton. Emotions ran high this morning at a routine pretrial court setting for Gabrielle Nestande, a former Capitol...
View ArticleTaylor man sentenced to 30 years in family violence case
A Williamson County judge sentenced a Taylor man who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend to 30 years in prison. Marcus Sherrod Pope, 37, pleaded guilty today to assault, according to a news...
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No felony charge for woman accused of ramming pedicab
A Travis County grand jury has declined to indict a 20-year old woman who was accused of committing aggravated assault by ramming a pedicab with her BMW SUV while driving downtown in October. Elle...
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Man gets probation in sexual assault of boy
An Austin man has pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a disabled person and was sentenced to ten years deferred adjudication, a form of probation, in an attack on a 14-year-old autistic boy at the...
View ArticleSecond man involved in deadly Big Lots burglary gets probation
John Michael Rodriguez, who was with an Austin teen fatally shot by police at a South Austin Big Lots store in 2010, pleaded guilty today to burglary of a building in the case and was sentenced to...
View ArticleIntoxication manslaughter charges in crash that killed Hyde Park pastor, wife
A Wimberley woman has been charged with two counts of intoxication manslaughter in a November crash on U.S. 290 West that left an Austin pastor and his wife dead. Terri Munoz Elmore, 40, faces up to 20...
View ArticleAssistant DA Case to challenge Pemberton for appellate seat
Travis County District Attorney’s Office appellate bureau director Bryan Case today vacated a run for the 167th District Court in Travis County and filed paperwork to run for the 3rd Court of Appeals...
View ArticleProsecutor named in Anderson inquiry
Noted Houston trial lawyer Rusty Hardin has been appointed to act as special prosecutor for the court of inquiry that was convened last month in the Michael Morton case. The court of inquiry will...
View Article'Cell' of cocaine traffickers arrested, officials say
Authorities announced today that they have charged 22 people who they say were responsible for selling more than 5 kilograms, or more than 11 pounds, of cocaine per week in the Austin area during the...
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