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Saturday, 7-17-2021, at 9 a.m., thieves stole a 1 ton truck from my friend's oilfield service business east of Austin, TX. My friend was home and did not notice the brazen theft right under his nose. He noticed Monday morning when his crews needed the truck for work. The GPS unit hidden in the truck allowed him to find it in Austin where it had been stripped of all equipment/tools on the bed and left near a homeless encampment. The police were not eager to enter that area according to my friend. He was only able to recover what was...

Look at the happy picture that the the ridiculous Democratic Party legislators took while they flee jobs in Texas to hang out with parasites in Washington, D.C.All of the young metrosexual manlet communists should pay attention to the new socialist hierarchy in case you were not paying attention: black women, white women, and lastly, beta white males.Those sad cucks in that picture will not even show their faces as they hide behind the seats.

South Austin resident Gina Daniel walks past the intersection of Curlew Drive and Crownspoint Drive each day with her dog to admire the rows of sunflowers growing along the sidewalks. For the past year and a half, she said the sunflowers have been a bright spot amid the coronavirus pandemic. Then, the City of Austin’s code enforcement department issued a notice last week, requiring the property owners to remove the sunflowers. The notice cited right-of-way mobility concerns and an ordinance prohibiting weeds and grasses over 12 inches tall from growing on a property.

Meanwhile in the Democrat hell hole of Travis County… Sgt. Daniel Perry, an army soldier who shot and killed an armed BLM-Antifa protester in Austin last July was indicted on a murder charge on Thursday. Perry’s lawyer, Clint Broden, argued his client, who was driving Uber when rioters mobbed his car, was acting in self-defense after the BLM activist, Garrett Foster pointed a gun at him.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man who previously said he shot and killed a protester out of self defense in downtown Austin in July 2020 has been indicted on felony charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a misdemeanor charge of deadly conduct, according to a statement from his lawyer. The lawyer says Daniel Perry posted a $300,000 bond and has been released from custody. Perry “will vigorously fight all of these charges,” the lawyer says. Police identified the man killed in the July 25, 2020 shooting as Garrett Foster. Austin Police identifies man killed in shooting...

The Austin Police Department revealed a brightly-colored PRIDE car Wednesday, the final day of Pride Month, and says the vehicle will join the department’s celebrations during Austin’s Pride parade in August. The department said this month it also became the first department in Texas to adopt a Pride patch for its officers and civilian staff to wear in June and during the parade. The department worked with the Lesbian and Gay Peace Officers Association and Cops for Charities to create the patch and an accompanying hat.

Californians are fleeing the state to live where they can find more affordable housing, better schools, and a more rural lifestyle. A large percentage of them are choosing Austin, Texas. The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the phenomenon of more people opting for permanent telework in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the trend of people choosing to live in GOP-led states that didn’t impose draconian lockdowns: Experts say Austin’s boom, particularly during the pandemic, has been accelerated by Californians and Bay Area giants like Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla that are all hiring in Austin. Last year, a...

A White House staffer and former Texas state representative are among those suing several participants of a "Trump Train" that allegedly harassed a Biden campaign bus last October in Texas, claiming in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the Trump supporters engaged in coordinated, illegal political intimidation in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act. The complaint was filed on behalf White House staffer, David Gins; former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis; former Biden campaign volunteer Eric Cervini; and the driver of the Biden campaign bus, Timothy Holloway. The plaintiffs wrote in their complaint filed in the Western District of Texas...

The Kinky Curly Coily Festival celebrated everything about black hair. Black hair is versatile. You can braid it, fro it, loc it and so much more... I actually do some of my student's hair as well," said Worlds. "It helps me form better relationships with my kids. I am pretty sure I use a hair analogy with my kids to tell them why we use math in the real world." For local artist and songwriter Ivy Roots, her natural hair is a symbol of freedom... "We like to change our hair up," said Worlds. "I wear wigs all the time."

The City of Austin’s biomass power plant sat idle again, producing no power, during another statewide electricity shortage last week, according to the city’s electric utility Austin Energy... “Last week when ERCOT called for conservation, we started the 24 – 48 hour process to start the plant back up. Upon startup, we discovered an issue that needed repair... Austin’s biomass plant produced no power. The grid alert last week unnerved many Texans, but it registered as a relatively minor inconvenience compared to the winter storm crisis Texas experienced in February. The Nacogdoches plant was powered off during that event as...

One too many scandals hit incumbent Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren to survive this time around. The embattled Democratic mayor took a shellacking in the polls Tuesday night to primary challenger, fellow Democrat Malik Evans. Warren, who was first elected in 2013, will not run on another party line, essentially assuring city councilman Evans will become mayor of Rochester. Evans handily took the race, snagging 66% of the vote. Warren sparked national headlines last year for her handling of the Daniel Prude case. In September, the entire Rochester Police Department (RPD) command staff, including then-Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, resigned over the...

KILLEEN, Texas (KTRK) -- Police have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in the mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Thursday. De'Ondre Jermirris White was arrested in Killeen around 2:30 p.m. He was taken into custody without incident and transported to the city jail.

Austin has long been a liberal dung hole but it's been a hotbed of commie activity for several years with active cells of 'The Red Brigade' and 'Antifa' among other who were very active in last year's riots and remain very active. I spotted this fresh mural today at William Cannon and I-35.

The affidavit says as the group Tabb was in walked by the other group, Tabb said, “What y’all wanna do? Y’all wanna fight?” A minor from the other group replied with, “it’s whatever,” and then the affidavit says that’s when Tabb pulled out his gun and started shooting. The same juvenile said Tabb shot him in the leg a few days before in Killeen, the affidavit said. A police report from Killeen police supported the juvenile’s claim that Tabb was the primary suspect in that shooting, as well. Another minor police interviewed said the group immediately starting running away and...

Austin, Texas, Savanah, Georgia, Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago all saw mass shootings earlier on Saturday A man was killed in Savannah, with seven others injured, while a woman died in Chicago, with nine injured Three died and four were injured in Cleveland - with the victims identified as two men both aged 40, and a third man aged 36 No-one was killed when two gunmen opened fire on drinkers in Austin, but 14 were injured, two of whom remain critically-ill Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter Jr and Police Executive Research Forum Director Chuck Wexler fear a summer of gun violence...

Early Saturday morning, a gunman shot and injured at least 19 people outside an Austin, Texas, bar. Rick Moran reported: Sixth Street in Austin, Texas, was crowded with post-Covid revelers on Friday night when a man described as “black” with a thin build and “dreadlocks” opened fire outside a bar. At least 13 people were taken to the hospital. Of the 13 wounded, 11 were in stable condition with two critical. On Saturday afternoon, the Austin Police Department updated its website to say that one suspect is in custody, while another is still at large. Earlier in the day, police...

Beginning in the fall, the Austin Independent School District will be significantly scaling back the way it disciplines children who act up. The goal is to reduce racial disparities, which show Black and brown students are being disproportionately punished compared to their white classmates. According to data compiled by the district, Black children at AISD were nearly five times more likely than their white peers to receive disciplinary action, include suspensions, being placed at a disciplinary campus or being expelled.

.... social justice advocates were surprised this summer when Austin became one of the only cities in the nation to successfully begin reallocating significant funding from its police department to other city programs. In August, the council voted unanimously to eliminate upcoming cadet classes in the troubled police academy, diverting $20 million to programs that address homelessness, mental health, and family violence prevention. Over the course of the year following the budget vote, another $80 million will be reallocated from the department by placing some functions, such as forensics and 911 dispatch, within other parts of the city’s government. The...

My colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported earlier on a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, late Friday night.Fourteen people were wounded, with at least two critically-injured during a shooting in downtown Austin.Two men are suspected of being involved in the shooting, according to the initial reports; although the police later said the number was unclear, but there was a description of one of the suspect.But it’s what the Austin American-Statesman said about that suspect that is causing a lot of talk today.At the bottom of its article on the shooting, the paper included the following. Editor’s note: Police have only released...

A gunman opened fire early Saturday in a “pre-pandemic” sized crowd in the entertainment district in downtown Austin, Texas, wounding at least 13 people before slipping away from the scene undetected. There were no fatalities, but at least two victims were fighting for their lives, police said. Police told the Austin American-Statesman they had zeroed in on two suspects involved in a previous dispute. Interim Police Chief Joe Chacon expressed confidence that investigators would soon be able to untangle the details to explain what prompted the gunfire. The shooter or shooters appear to have fired randomly into the crowd at...