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Cincinnati Bengals running back Cedric Benson was arrested on assault charges in Austin Saturday. According to officials with the Austin Police Department, Benson was arrested in downtown Austin on a misdemeanor assault with injury charge. The arrest came after an altercation with Clavens Charles, his former male roommate. The football player was released from jail [...]

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An Austin woman was arrested Tuesday after a fight outside of the Community Court building. According to officials with the Austin Police Department, 34 year-old Ann Martin was lying in the street at 700 block of East Sixth Street when 45 year-old Mary Johnson began yelling. An officer leaving the courthouse saw the confrontation, noticing [...]

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A 17 year-old boy was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault and simple battery. According to officials with the Salt Springs Sheriff’s Department, the teen bullied two 14 year-olds and threatened to kill them. A parent of one of the younger boys told a deputy his son was being bullied and threatened with scissors. [...]

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An Austin man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in an acid attack on an Alamo teacher he formerly dated. According to court documents, a judge Wednesday sentenced Eugenio Martinez, of Austin, to 15 years in federal prison. Martinez had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. Martinez [...]

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A woman in Austin has been charged with injury to a child and resisting arrest after, police say, she punched a 13 year-old. Austin School District Police arrested 38 year-old Yolanda Washington at Garcia Middle School in Northeast Austin Friday. Police say Washington was outside the school at 3:30 p.m. and saw her daughter fighting [...]

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