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'Unprovoked', 'random' hatchet attack at Hutto Home Depot leads to arrest; victim speaks out

An Austin man has been arrested for allegedly critically injuring a 79-year-old man in an “unprovoked and random" hatchet attack at a Hutto Home Depot last week.

Pflugerville gun store break-in: Teens arrested for stealing 34 firearms, fleeing in stolen vehicle

1 dead, 3 others injured in Round Rock crash involving dump truck

'Dog's Head' in Austin: Developer gives inside look at controversial project

Leander ISD asks voters to approve tax rate election amid growing budget gaps

Man arrested for peering into windows near UT Austin's West Campus

Texas News

'Unprovoked', 'random' hatchet attack at Hutto Home Depot leads to arrest; victim speaks out

An Austin man has been arrested for allegedly critically injuring a 79-year-old man in an “unprovoked and random" hatchet attack at a Hutto Home Depot last week.

1 dead, 3 others injured in Round Rock crash involving dump truck

CAIR calls Abbott’s DFW Airport criticism an ‘anti-Muslim political stunt’

Leander ISD asks voters to approve tax rate election amid growing budget gaps

Abbott suggests banning public schools from using H-1B visas

South Texas man sentenced to 9 years in prison, linked to 56,000 child sexual abuse files

National News

Ohio couple accused of barging into cruise ship cabin, attacking family and 9-year-old

An Ohio couple was arrested after authorities said they forced their way into a family's cruise ship cabin and attacked two adults and their 9-year-old child after being asked to quiet down.

CBP officers seize $67 million in illegal drugs at San Diego border ports, DHS says

Pickled goat and chicken products sold nationwide recalled for not being inspected

Chaos breaks out in Dearborn as anti-Islam protest draws Nazis sympathizers, large demonstration

ICE proposes offering insurance for local police that arrest immigrants

Cancer treatment delays surge across US as doctor warns system ‘needs fixing immediately’

Crime Coverage

'Unprovoked', 'random' hatchet attack at Hutto Home Depot leads to arrest; victim speaks out

An Austin man has been arrested for allegedly critically injuring a 79-year-old man in an “unprovoked and random" hatchet attack at a Hutto Home Depot last week.

Pflugerville gun store break-in: Teens arrested for stealing 34 firearms, fleeing in stolen vehicle

CBP officers seize $67 million in illegal drugs at San Diego border ports, DHS says

DOJ to give some felons second chance to restore gun rights

South Texas man sentenced to 9 years in prison, linked to 56,000 child sexual abuse files

Man arrested for peering into windows near UT Austin's West Campus

Politics

CAIR calls Abbott’s DFW Airport criticism an ‘anti-Muslim political stunt’

CAIR-Texas blasted Gov. Greg Abbott’s criticism of proposed ablution stations at DFW Airport as an “anti-Muslim political stunt.”

Abbott suggests banning public schools from using H-1B visas

DOJ to give some felons second chance to restore gun rights

Trump's approval rating falls to new low in latest poll

Supreme Court asked to review Texas Ten Commandments in schools law

Talarico pulls former Cornyn staff member to campaign team

Sports

ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen dies at 93

Bill Rasmussen, the founder of the 24-hour cable sports network, ESPN, has died at the age of 93 from the effects of Parkinson’s disease, the network said in a media release today.