Georgetown ISD Parents Say Students Involved in Sexual Assault Must Face Consequences

Parents say neither the administration nor law enforcement has done enough to protect their kids

"...Nearly a month after several Georgetown ISD students participated in the violent sexual assault of..."

April 22, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Many Questions Remain After Leander Police Shooting

APD now investigating the killing at a North Austin motel

"...A Leander police officer shot and killed a man at an Austin..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Georgetown Smackdown

Suburbanites Wrestle Over Managed Growth, Smart Growth, and "Stupid Growth"

"...just after 10am on Monday, July 30, and the Georgetown City Council chambers are thick with tension. The seven..."

Aug. 17, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Maspero Heads for Rehab

Williamson Co. Sheriff John Maspero apologizes for public drunkenness, enters treatment.

"...announcement came a week after he was stopped by Georgetown police who had received two 911 calls about a..."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reed Appeal Unearths Grisly Details on Fennell

Jimmy Fennell has a frightening history of violence against women – yet he's not the one on death row

"...new and disturbing revelations about the conduct of former Georgetown Police Sgt. Jimmy Fennell, the man who Reed's supporters..."

May 1, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

More Damning Data Against Racial Profiling

Activists recommend abolishing "consent" searches

"...Justice Coalition's third annual report on racial profiling in police traffic stops reveals that while so-called "consent" searches are..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Williamson Co. investigators build a case against Sheriff John Maspero.

"...Georgetown police stopped Maspero as he walked on Williams Drive,..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rodney Reed Hearing Set for October

Death row case may hinge on deposition of former sheriff's deputy

"...he held her in custody as an officer in Georgetown's police department – was originally a suspect in the..."

July 14, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Reed Loses Another Appeal

Yet another setback for death row inmate Rodney Reed

"...but unsigned), defense evidence demonstrating that Stites' fiancé, former Georgetown Police Sgt. Jimmy Fennell, now in jail for assaulting..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Grown Man Wears Spandex, Touches Balls ...

The Defuser takes to the court.

"...the Defuser, aka Detective Jarrett Crippen of the Austin Police Department, was on court rather than in it today...."

Jan. 31, 2008 News Post by Andrea Grimes

Stomped Out

As Sheffield's case awaits trial, he still wonders why CLEAT took such drastic action against him

"...Austin a decade ago and could name just one police officer, chances are that the cop's name was Mike..."

Oct. 16, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Willful Ignorance

How common is police abuse of force? We don't want to know.

"...man, unarmed, was shot and killed by an Austin police detective. While Jackson's death received local media coverage, it..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

New Evidence Could Clear Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed

Jimmy Fennell's impending trial on kidnapping and rape charges unearths old suspicions that he was responsible for the 1996 murder of his fiancée

"...evidence uncovered about the conduct of victim Stacey Stites' police-officer fiancé bolster Reed's claim of innocence. In court filings,..."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Can Rodney Reed Be Freed?

New testimony rivets court as 1996 murder case reopens

"...her fiancé Jimmy Fennell, at the time a Giddings police officer. Nothing linked Reed to the crime except his..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

News Roundup: Confederates, Cookies, and Cream

Statues taken down, Blue Bell returns, all is well

"...cream slowly returns months after a listeria outbreak; a police chief and an activist ("peacefully") tweet angry remarks at..."

Aug. 31, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Midnight Art Heist at Z'Tejas

Z'Tejas art theft has the artist, restaurant, and police baffled

"...her paintings. She hasn't gotten any word from Austin police detectives, although she said she's left several messages for..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...Sergeant Olsen himself, that he be indefinitely suspended." – Police Chief Art Acevedo, announcing the termination of Sgt. Michael..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...• Fennell Suit Settled The city of Georgetown has settled a civil suit involving former Georgetown Police..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature

County Workers Approved for More Pay

Bigger paychecks on tap for sheriff's deputies and county employees

"...which figured in average salaries paid by the Austin Police Department, Georgetown Police Department, and the sheriff's offices in..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Oops

"...stated that Jimmy Fennell Jr. was working as a police officer in Giddings when he raped a woman he..."

July 21, 2017 Column

Death Watch: DNA Testing Denied for Rodney Reed

Reed and Pruett strike out. But justice for Duane Buck?

"...time of her death Stites was engaged to Giddings police officer Jimmy Fennell Jr., who was considered a suspect..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Naked City

"...he was on duty as an officer with the Georgetown Police Department. When Reed's attorneys learned that Fennell had..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature

High-Tech Heist

A former Power Computing company employee stole memory modules and drew a 25-year prison sentence.

"...property taxes on the house he'd just bought in Georgetown, where he served as chief information officer for a..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Instead of directly dealing with this issue, the Austin Police Department misguidedly decided to shut the entire event down,..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

As Millions Demand Justice, Texas Prepares to Take Rodney Reed's Life

Looking back at a long road of injustice for the death row inmate

"...in a case tainted by racism, investigative bungling, and police intimidation. Many have long believed Reed is innocent and,..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Postmarks

The people want to know: who, precisely, was Bruce Barton quoting?

"...Georgetown Can Do Better..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Column

The People vs. Mike Sheffield

The new APD oversight agreement is a first for Austin -- but will it do what it's supposed to do?

"...morning, but Mike Sheffield is happy that the Austin Police Department will now be monitored by citizens like yourselves...."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...day one of the "Selma to Montgomery"-style march from Georgetown to Austin. The four-day, 27-mile march, organized to demand..."

July 30, 2021 News Feature

Top 10 Public-Safety Stories

"...Time It was a bad year for the Texas Department of Public Safety. On June 8, the night the..."

Jan. 2, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...complaining to the city of illegal harassment by Austin police. In a letter to Mayor Will Wynn and the..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

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