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The City of Austin’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (Austin HSEM) successfully tested the City’s alerting authority in the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) on Monday afternoon. A Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA)…

The Austin Police Department (APD) Cold Case Homicide Unit has made a major development in the 1991 I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt murder case. Through a wide range of DNA testing, Robert Eugene Brashers has been identified as a suspect in these murders…

Austin Police have made a significant breakthrough in the 1991 I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt murder case and we have new information. Our team never gave up working this case. For almost 34 years they have worked tirelessly and remained committed to…

Late Friday evening, the City of Austin and the Austin Firefighters Association reached a tentative agreement on a four-year labor contract. The tentative agreement includes the following key elements: Pay increases for firefighters in all four years…

Case: 25-2630951 Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 Time: 1:37 p.m. Location: 8600 N Lamar Boulevard Suspect: Neli Dinora Rivera Felipe, Hispanic female, 22 years of age On Saturday, September 20, 2025, at around 1:37 p.m., Austin Police Department…

In a concerted effort to address public safety concerns, the Austin Police Department (APD) North Metro Tactical Unit has successfully conducted an extensive investigation over the past two months into seven high-crime areas identified as “hotspots”…

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Case: 25-2610110 Date: September 18, 2025 Time: 2:16 a.m. Location: 12300 Block of IH35 NB Deceased: Victor Lamar Evans II, Black male, DOB 9/26/2001 On September 18, 2025, at 2:16 a.m., Officers from the Austin Police Department (APD) responded to a…

Case: 25-2650055 Date: September 22, 2025 Time: 12:50 a.m. Location: 9600 Block of N Lamar Boulevard Deceased: Unidentified male On Monday, September 22, 2025, at approximately 12:50 a.m., Austin Police Department (APD) officers responded to a…