East Austin

55-year-old Katy Lynn Johnson died at the scene.

Last Wednesday parents received a letter from East Austin College Prep,  saying they discovered a bat, but what the letter did not include was that it wasn't just one bat, but a colony of bats.

Austin police say the suspect is still at large and the scene is still active with detectives looking for the suspect.

In a letter addressed to parents, Principal Rick Garner said that eight bats we're removed from the school after one of them came into contact with one a student. According to Garner, the bat only touched the student's jacket, however, Travis County Animal Control Services will be testing the bats for rabies. 

The Salvation Army of Austin area commander Major Lewis Reckline joins Marcel Clarke to discuss their new East Austin homeless shelter which has begun welcoming its first families.

It’s taken more than a week to repair the gas line that feeds for the complex.

The center will provide shelter and 100% housing-focused case management to homeless families with children with a plan to return them to self-sufficiency, according to a release from the Salvation Army.

APD released descriptions of all three suspects and sketches of two of them.

On Sunday, one big rig took out a utility pole, hit a fence and rolled over onto one woman’s front yard. 

Eleven different hearts were designed by local artists with the message to love and care for your community, and the artists hope that the installations will inspire others in their own communities. 

Officers met with a woman who said the man tried to enter her car and steal her purse, then grabbed her daughter's leg while he reached into the car.

Shaw said she hit the floor and pushed her 18-month-old out of the way turned to her 9-year-old, standing there in shock and told her to call for help.

The Travis County Sheriff's Office and the Austin Independent School District Police Department say that several schools are on lockout due to a home robbery in the 7000 block of Northview Lane.

Some items are put up for bid, like the motorcycles, others are sold on the spot. Last year surplus sales generated $6.7 million for the state.

Zamora says many parents are now afraid to let their children outside and noted the silence that seems to have fallen on the once-bustling family filled complex.

Anyone with information about the identity of or the whereabouts of the suspect is asked to call police.

The once mostly empty lot off U.S. 183 and Montopolis in East Austin has become home to more than 100 people without another place to go. 

After a few people pushed back against code citations in South and East Austin for decades-old garage conversions, code enforcement could possibly be getting rid of those citations.

According to witness testimony, Romo hit the victim once in the back and twice in the head/shoulder area.

A burglar used a brick to smash open a bedroom window, walked towards the kitchen and began his stealing spree, not noticing the security camera on the countertop.