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Police arrested a man Wednesday who is accused of forcing a pregnant woman to-drive him away from the scene of an accident, according to an arrest affidavit. The rollover collision happened about 12:20 p.m. Wednesday near the FM 969 and Blue Bluff Road. Kyle Jay Jones was the driver of the rolled-over vehicle and was…

A pedestrian was stuck by a vehicle and killed Thursday morning near the Y intersection in Oak Hill. The accident at U.S. 290 West and Circle Drive shut down several lanes of the highway for hours, officials said. Texas Department of Safety troopers said Daniel Jandle, 57, was trying to cross several lanes of traffic…

A wreck that killed two truck drivers and spilled hundreds of gallons of raw sewage onto a Bastrop County highway Wednesday was caused by a tire blowout, officials said Thursday. Department of Public Safety officials said that George Center, 37, of Austin was driving a UPS truck south on Texas 95 and that Larry Goodwill,…

Several people, including a 4-year-old boy, were injured during a boat collision on Lake Austin at dusk Saturday, according to emergency officials. The boy was taken to the hospitale with a head injury. The collision occured just before 8 p.m. when one recreational boat ran into the back of another near the Watersedge neighborhood and…

A man living at Fort Hood died Sunday evening in a Burnet Count wreck involving three motorcycles, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Albresie Latrell Williams, 20, died in th wreck on FM 963 about a mile and a half north of U.S. 183, according to police reports. Williams was driving a motorcycle…

A tractor-trailer slammed into backed-up traffic on Interstate 35 near the Texas-Oklahoma border on Monday, killing three people. The wreck occured on a section of I-35 where two lanes narrow to one because of work being done on a bridge, about two miles southwest of Gainesville and about thirteen miles south of the border with…

A treatment that uses medical cement to fix cracks in the spinal bones of elderly people worked no better than a sham treatment, the first rigorous studies of the popular procedure show. Pain and disability were about the same up to six months later. The treatment is so widely thought to work that the researchers…

The state dental board gives the public “inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data,” about Texas dentists and other dental profes sionals, a long-standing problem that a state audit released last week says weakens the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners’ ability to police dental professionals. The report by the State Auditor’s Office notes that unreliable and…

On Monday, August 10, 2009, Luke Anthoney Looshchen caused a three-car accident going eastbound on Highway 29.  He was driving on the wrong side of the road when he collided with a jeep and a van which was carrying seven people.  Pete Mendez and Paula Martinez were both pronounced dead on the scene, and Crystal…

A new state law that is going into effect on September 1, 2009, is restricting the use of cell phones in school zones. However, the only way to enforce this new law is by installing signs notifying drivers of the new law because the absence of signs is a defense against prosecution. This law is…