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2/5/2012
Over one hundred people gathered last night at City Hall to protest the city's decision to evict the Occupy Austin protestors. The tone of this protest stayed peaceful and there were no arrests. A silent march across downtown started just after 9pm at City Hall and ended at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless on East 7th St. The remaining protestors cleared out for the new 10p.m. curfew without incident. On Friday evening police forcibly evicted the Occupy Austin protestors from the steps of City Hall, leading to seven arrests.
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2/5/2012
It happened on Shoal Creek Blvd near FM-2222. Just before 2:30am a man in a truck hit and tree and rolled his vehicle. He was pinned inside. Police and EMS tried to free the man, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 3 am. The passenger of the truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. No other vehicles were involved.
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2/4/2012
Several people were taken away in handcuffs from the Austin City Hall encampment late Friday night, we're told.
Austin Police officers and city hall security ordered protesters off the premises at 10:30, in an effort that was captured by protesters' cameras. Just before 11 p.m., police and protesters clashed and the arrests were made. Police warned protesters moments before some were arrested that if they remained on the plaza, they would be charged with trespassing. City Council on Thursday passed tighter measures to ban what was necessary to facilitate the ongoing protest and encampment on the plaza there. It's estimated by Austin Police to have cost at least $750,000, and counting, for police protection for the demonstration.
The entire city hall plaza was clear of all protesters and police officers were all that remained as a downpour moved over downtown at about one in the morning.
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2/4/2012
Austin police exchanged gunfire with a suspect in Northwest Austin early this morning.
Officers responding to a report of shots fired found a man barricaded in an apartment. APD's Vanessa Aguinaga tells us, when police attempted to make contact with the man he stepped out and opened fire. Officers then returned fire. Aguinaga says neither police nor the suspect were hit by the gunfire. Police evacuated nearby residents.They later apprehended the man a without further incident.
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2/4/2012
An Avery Ranch man has been charged with murder after a confrontation outside his home early Friday left a 23-year-old man dead in Northwest Austin, according to police and court records.
Fred Yazdi, 47, shot Enrique Recio three times outside Yazdi's home in the 11300 block of Staked Plains Drive about 3 a.m., according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Minutes earlier, Recio had been involved in a single-vehicle crash less than a mile from Yazdi's home, police said.
Yazdi told police he confronted a man who was lying underneath his wife's car and ordered him several times not to flee, according to the affidavit.
"If you flee, I'm going to shoot you," Yazdi told Recio, the document said. But "Enrique Recio began to flee, so Fred (Yazdi) fired at him," it said.
Yazdi remained jailed late Friday in Williamson County on the murder charge and was held on $250,000 bail, jail records show.
Yazdi, an Internal Revenue Service worker in Austin since 2008, asked for an attorney to be appointed to him, court records show.
The case is now in the hands of a Williamson County grand jury and the district attorney's office, which will investigate the shooting and to ...
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2/3/2012
Police have now charged a homeowner with murder after they say he shot a man dead in a North Austin neighborhood. Corporal Chad Martinka with the Austin Police says the man wrecked his car along Avery Ranch Boulevard and ran several hundred yards to a home on Staked Planes Drive. Martinka says the homeowner Fred Yazdi confronted the 23 year old Hispanic man and shot him to death. Yazdi is being held on a 250 thousand dollar bond. KLBJ’s Todd Jeffries has the latest on the story.
 
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2/3/2012
A man is in police custody after trying to flee the scene early this morning when he ran over three people in a downtown cross walk. Senior Officer Vanessa Aguinaga with the Austin Police says a maroon Chevy Impala ran a red light. Nicolas Colunga is being held in the Travis County jail where Aguinaga says they expect to file charges of failure to stop and render aid and intoxication assault. KLBJ’s Carol Nelson has the story.
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2/3/2012
Senior Officer Vanessa Aguinaga says that means anyone who refuses to give a breath or blood sample will be arrested and have a specimen taken anyway. Aguinaga says it's the third year police have issued the no refusal initiative for Super Bowl weekend. She says last year 24 percent of last year's fatal wrecks were alcohol related. Aguinaga tells KLBJ this weekend's initiative begins 5:30 Super Bowl Sunday and ends at 5 a.m. Monday.
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2/3/2012
During the last legislative session lawmakers cut five billion dollars from public education and now teachers say they are dealing with crowded classrooms, closed libraries and overworked counselors. Democrat State Representative Mike Villarreal plans to help them next session. Villarreal says Governor Perry’s political standing has been “vastly weakened” by his failed presidential run. News Radio KLBJ’s Todd Jeffries reports Villarreal expects big changes in the legislature this November.
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2/3/2012
TAB President Bill Hammond says the commissioner is backing away from holding schools responsible for student performance. Hammond says during the legislative session lawmakers funded education at the level the commissioner deemed adequate so a year later it’s not appropriate to free school districts of accountability. Hammond tells KLBJ that Texas has serious workforce challenges and we need a better educated workforce which end of course exams will show.
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