Austin News

Originally published July 9, 2009 at 8:36 a.m., updated July 9, 2009 at 9:37 a.m. OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Four workers at American Heart Association offices in Tulsa and Oklahoma City have been laid off as part of staff reductions.

With temperatures hitting triple digits, Austinites are searching for ways to cool off.

Texas' hot summer weather is leading to record electricity use. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said it set a new record Wednesday afternoon as consumers used an hourly average of 62,786 megawatts of power between 4 and 5 p.m. That broke the record of 62,339 megawatts set on Aug.

Austin Police are investigating a traffic fatality that happened early Thursday morning at 51st Street and Springdale Road.

Austin Police have arrested one of several people involved in a human trafficking operation.

Parts of Texas are beginning to look like they did in the 1950s. Nationally, Central and South Texas were alone Tuesday in experiencing the two most severe stages of drought - extreme and exceptional.

Natalie Antonetti was murdered in October 1985. Austin police say they've solved a murder from 24 years ago.

Austin school district superintendent Meria Carstarphen announced Wednesday that the district will close Pearce Middle School in East Austin due to low performance.

An SUV crashed through the front of a Northwest Austin grocery store Tuesday morning.

Austin water officials are urging swimmers to stay away from Bull Creek after thousands of gallons of sewage spilled into a tributary of the creek Saturday.

The owner of a tire shop in North Austin is charged in the shooting of a former employee, Police said Sunday.

Electrical fire destroys family's mobile home Austin Fire Department officials said Saturday that an electrical fire destroyed the North Austin mobile home of three adults and three children.

Firefighters are fighting a fire in east Austin where officials say three adults and three children all made it out alive.

Texans tired of big government and taxes rallied on courthouse and Capitol lawns, at times interrupting the remarks of Sen.

From hundreds of miles away, Hondurans in Austin are following the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.

The upcoming fourth of July holiday is a time of celebrating America's freedom, but a disabled veteran says his patriotism has sparked a fight over a flag.

The Austin Police Department said that two people were stabbed at the Zeta Psi fraternity house on 29th Street and Guadalupe at 2:53 a.m. Thursday.

Herald/DAVID MORRIS Tim Cole holds out a turtle as he parades it around the Harker Heights library during the weekly program for the summer readers.

Joe the Plumber, who gained his fame from the recent presidential election, was in Austin July 3rd.

Auditorium Shores in Austin is hosting a spectacular fireworks show on July 4. Organizers are encouraging people to come early and stake out their spot because 100,000 are expected.