Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said the pro-Palestine protesters on the University of Texas at Austin campus “belong in jail” and that arrests were being made. “Arrests being made right now & will cont...
Mithovar Christopher Antoine Jr. was arrested for a deadly stabbing in South Austin in July 2021. He was arrested last week, and bonded out of jail four days later.
Embattled Austin real estate developer Nate Paul was ordered Friday to report to the Travis County Jail later this week to serve a 10-day criminal contempt-of-court sentence. State District Judge Jan Soifer instructed Paul to begin serving the sentence Nov. 15 related to the contempt finding she first handed him last year, saying he "continuously refused" to comply with a court order in a civil case in which he is accused of defrauding a nonprofit. The sentence had been delayed as Paul sought an...
from jail Thursday. (Fox 7 Austin) Some of the dozens of protesters who were arrested at an anti-Israel demonstration at The University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday have been freed...
Austin Salyer’s killer was initially ordered to serve 180 days in jail for the 2021 accidental shooting, but that sentence was then cut in half without any explanation. Austin’s parents are now dem...
Kaitlin Armstrong arrived in Austin on Tuesday after transferring from a Houston jail.
The suspect on Wednesday pushed past a corrections officer who was opening a door to his housing unit at the Travis County Jail in Austin, according to Kristen Dark, a spokesperson for the...
Phillip Austin was jailed for life in 2001 for the murder of his wife Claire and their two children.
AUSTIN, Texas - People have been camped outside the Travis County Jail all day Tuesday, waiting for protesters to be released. On Monday, April 29, nearly 80 people were arrested on the University of Texas at Austin campus. A UT Austin representative said buckets of large rocks hidden in a breezeway, bricks, steel-enforced wood planks, mallets, guns, and chains have all been found on campus by protesters. "This morning, University staff found a 5-gallon bucket filled with large chunks of concret...
AUSTIN — Rising tensions on school campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas reached university campuses here in Texas. ; Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class in support of Palestinians. Many held up signs calling for a cease-fire or more help for Gaza. ; Protesters are demanding the university system divest from companies that manufacture machinery used in war.