At around 11pm on Thursday, Sept. 4, APD Officer Matt Murphy ran the plates of a Toyota Camry driving down I-35 near Parmer Lane and discovered that it had been reported stolen. When Murphy turned on his siren and tried to pull the car over, it sped away and exited 35, stopping only after a crash made it impossible to continue.

No doubt you’ve already signed up for tonight’s first Chronicle 10-1 forum, featuring the District 1 candidates, at 7pm. Wesley United Methodist Church, 1164 San Bernard. The Chronicle has teamed up with KUT-FM, KXAN-TV, Univision, and the Austin Monitor to bring you a series of 10-1 City Council candidate forums. Tonight, we begin.

A motion to suppress evidence was filed in early July, but it appears Jacob Lavoro will have to wait a few more months for adjudication. In a Williamson County court Thursday, Judge Stacey Mathews set the next hearing for the 19-year-old made famous for baking pot brownies to mid-November.

It's all a conspiracy, according to Wallace Hall. In a pugnacious display this morning at the latest in the Texas Tribune's A Conversation With series, the embattled UT system regent painted himself as the last honest man in town, besieged by an unlikely coterie of lawmakers.

On Tuesday night at the North Door, the Travis County Democrats held a public forum on police accountability, a topic that’s received heightened attention since the shooting of Mike Brown and the subsequent response in Ferguson, Mo.

Fancy running Austin ISD? The district has released the candidate profile for the new superintendent. However, very quietly, the hiring process has been pushed back a month.

Update: Suit plaintiff, Whole Woman’s Health, announced today that they will reopen their previously closed McAllen center (shut down in March as a result of HB 2) and continue abortion care services at their Ft. Worth and San Antonio clinics. They also plan to build a new center in New Mexico and begin an advocacy campaign.

Attorney General Greg Abbott may have spiked his Dallas debate with Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, but it seems their arguments over a Rio Grande Valley meeting have paid off. Carlos Sanchez, editor of the McAllen-based The Monitor said, "We've got beyond that impasse, and September 19 we will be having a debate."

As expected, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott filed an appeal to the 5th Circuit Court Sunday to overturn a recent federal court ruling that found parts of Texas’ abortion law, House Bill 2, unconstitutional.