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Texas’ Travis County Getting Serious About Property Crime Backlog

A fingerprint examiner for the Travis County sheriff’s office in Texas will devote the next six months to clearing a backlog of more than 600 property crime cases that piled up over the past 17 months. Most of the cases …

Texas Official’s Dog Bites Twice; Cases Settled for $11,600

A central Texas official has paid settlements to two Travis County workers after they said his dog bit them. Travis County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Glenn Bass is running for re-election next month. The Austin American-Statesman reports he …

Insured Property Losses for Central Texas Halloween Floods Top $30M

Final figures released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) show that insured losses to residential and commercial property from flood waters which swamped Central Texas on Halloween night 2013 totaled $30,183,611, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. The insured …