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A drunken driver involved in a 2008 crash that killed an Austin woman has been sentenced to three years in prison. According to court documents, 35 year-old JAmes Kevin Blackerby had been convicted of driving while intoxicated three times prior to his 2008 arrest after the crash that killed 21 year-old Heather Heyns. The arrest [...]

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Police in Austin have arrested a man accused of assaulting a restaurant employee in an alleged dine-and-dash incident. According to officials with the Austin Police Department, the incident occurred last month at Antonio’s Restaurant on Highway 183 on Austin’s Northwest side. Police say a man, identified only by his last name – Bounds, and another [...]

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A man is facing felony charges after police say he fired several shots in the air at a North Austin apartment complex Monday afternoon. According to an arrest affidavit filed Thursday, 24 year-old Alan Carrillo fired several rounds from a .40-caliber Glock handgun shortly after 4:00 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of St. John’s [...]

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Central Texas is launching a new campaign to stop people from drinking and driving. The campaign is called “Drink and Drive, and Got to Jail” and police officials use a cop-cab to\help show there point; take a cab if you have been drinking or you will end up in the back of a cop car. [...]

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