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Caldwell County and Department of Public Safety investigators are trying to determine the cause of a head-on collision that killed two drivers Thursday morning on U.S. 183 about three miles north of Lockhart. Investigators did not have identification information for the victims, a man and a woman who were alone in their respective vehicles, DPS…

City Council members voted Thursday to settle for $250,000 a lawsuit brought by two men who were struck in 2006 by an Austin police officer’s car while they were changing a flat tire. The money will be used to cover medical expenses and be divided between Marvin Clayborne and Stephan Center, both of whom were…

The Obama administration said Thursday it will seek to ban text messaging by interstate bus drivers and truckers and push states to pass laws against driving cars while distracted. Transportation Secretary Ray La-Hood said the administration also would move to put restrictions on cell phone use by rail operators, truck drivers and interstate bus drivers….

Leander investigators on Friday afternoon continued their investigation into a collision Thursday that killed one woman and seriously injured one man. Maria Teran-Arvizu Of Dripping Springs, a passenger in a pickup driven by Antonio Segura of Leander, died at the scene of the crash at the intersection of the 183-A tollway and Crystal Falls Parkway,…

The Department of Public Safety has identified the victims in a head-on collision Thursday morning on U.S. 183 north of Lockhart, spokeswoman Tela Mange said. Alison Barry, 31, of San Antonio was driving an Acura SUV northbound on U.S. 183 near FM 1185, authorities said. A Nissan Pathfinder driven by Bobby White Jr., 20, of…

A Burnet County sheriff’s deputy was killed early Saturday morning when his car veered off the road, possibly because he struck a deer, officials said. About 1. a.m., Deputy Francis David Blake was responding to a wreck on Park Road 4, about two miles south of Texas 29, when he overcorrected and skidded off Texas…

A death row inmate freed after an appeals court overturned his capital murder conviction has died in an East Texas pickup wreck. Michael Roy Toney, 43, died at 11 a.m. Saturday in Cherokee County when his truck veered off FM 347 and overturned. He was ejected and crushed, the Department of Public Safety said. Toney…

Three years ago, the maker of a surgical clip called the Hem-o-lok issued an urgent recall notice warning doctors to stop using the fasteners on living kidney donors. It said the clips could dislodge in their bodies, with “serious, even life-threatening consequences.” Experts say deaths resulting from missed recalls are the result of a major…

On woman was killed and another person was injured about 6 a.m. Friday in a head-on collision on Texas 21 near FM 3403 near Lexington. Rene Vega, 43, of Dime Box was killed when eastbound pickup driven by Houston Sutton crossed the center line and struck Vega’s vehicle. Vega died at the scene, and Sutton…

The risk of dying in a traffic crash has dropped nearly 18 percent since 2005, according to preliminary statistics released by the Transportation Department, although experts say they are not sure why. The recession and gas prices have reduced the number of miles traveled, and perhaps cutting average speed, at least for part of the…