Bastrop News

The Bastrop County Sheriff's Office Thursday arrested and charged two men for holding illegal immigrants against their will.

The Bastrop County Sheriff's Office has identified a woman who died Thursday morning in a fire that destroyed a camper trailer in the 300 block of Ponderosa Loop, northeast of Bastrop near Texas 21.

According to an announcement today from the Bastrop school district: Bastrop Independent School District Superintendent Roderick Emanuel announced today that he is resigning as head of the district effective immediately.

Austin Police and Fire Departments are teaming up to enforce the fireworks ban this weekend, saying the last few days of rain have done little to ease the dry conditions.

Officials say a woman died in her travel trailer home on Ponderosa Loop in Bastrop County early Thursday morning.

A woman has died from a camper fire in Bastrop County. Bastrop County Sheriff's Office says that the Bluebonnet, Bastrop and Smithville Volunteer Fire Departments responded to the fire on the 300 block of Ponderosa Loop around 3 a.m. Thursday morning.

One person died this morning in a fire that destroyed a camper trailer in Bastrop County, according to officials.

A pilot had to set his single-engine plane down in a pasture after experiencing engine trouble on a flight to Austin.

Originally published June 28, 2009 at 7:57 p.m., updated June 28, 2009 at 8:58 p.m. BASTROP, Texas a ' Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that killed an elderly couple in Bastrop County.

On Monday a small plane crashed into a cow pasture near an unpaved road in Bastrop County at 2856 Highway 71 in Cedar Creek.

Earnest Harkins sifted through the rubble left by a house fire Saturday. The blaze killed both his parents and destroyed the home he shared with them.

Two people died in a house fire in Bastrop County Saturday, according to a Bastrop County dispatcher.

Texas National Guard instructors, from left, Sgt. Juan Rivera, Spc. Mathew Hopper, Spc.

Man faces child porn charges The Texas attorney general's cyber crimes unit arrested an Austin man Tuesday, accusing him of possessing and transporting child pornography.

Durham School Services, the provider of bus and transportation services for the Bastrop Independent School District, has withdrawn its bid for those services and will lay off 133 workers at the end of the month.

He was one of the first Rangers during the Revolution and an Indian fighter who lived with Comanches.

Successful revolutions have three phases. First, a strategically located single or limited segment of society begins vocally to express resentment, asserting itself in the streets of a major city, usually the capital.

There's always something that needs fixing, whether it's a family heirloom or an everyday item.

West Austin will undergo a breathtaking makeover when and if University of Texas Systems regents give final approval to recommendations to develop the Brackenridge tract.

Nisbett's Intelligence And How To Get It: Why no mention of Milwaukee Project fraud? As a follow-up to my last VDARE.com column , let me add that in psychologist Richard E. Nisbett's much-lauded new book Intelligence and How to Get It , he devotes pages 124-126 to recounting the successes at raising black test scores achieved by Rick Heber's ...