Exactly 50 years after Willie Nelson appeared on the debut episode of Austin City Limits, the country legend will once again return to the long-running series for a special concert celebrating its half-century anniversary.
The taping for the Austin City Limits 50th Birthday Bash will take place on October 17th, 50 years to the day when Nelson taped the ACL pilot on October 17, 1974.
The outdoor concert at Austin’s Long Center will be free to the public via registration.
A concert by the band Cigarettes After Sex at the Moody Center was postponed just hours before showtime Friday.
A suspect is in custody following an hours-long SWAT standoff in southeast Austin.
The Austin Police Department said it arrested a man in connection with a series of deadly conduct incidents that began July 14. (KXAN-TV)
A former Chicago police officer is facing a felony charge in Travis County after allegedly impersonating a DEA officer. (KVUE-TV)
Austin’s police force is now 54 cadets stronger.
Thousands of Central Texas neighbors take part in National Night Out traditionally on the first Tuesday in October. It is designed to heighten crime prevention awareness, generate support and participation in crime prevention efforts, and strengthen neighborhood spirit and community relationships.
A kick-off party is being held this morning by the APD.
The Austin Police Department is investigating a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian in southeast Austin, the agency said on social media.
Shortly after 9 p.m., APD said it responded to the crash in the 6100 block of East Stassney Lane, which is near Burleson Road. (KXAN-TV)
Authorities were on the scene Friday night of a fire near a TDS landfill.
University of Texas Police Chief Eve Stephens, who stepped into the position one year ago, resigned Friday. (Austin American-Statesman)
A sixth Hays CISD student has been arrested and charged for making a school shooting threat. (Fox7 Austin)
Austin ISD and several other surrounding school districts are teaming up with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office to address the rising concern about school threats.
At a news conference Friday morning, officials broke down how they handle and investigate the threats along with the consequences for making or carrying out the threats.
A Marble Falls ISD school resource officer is injured after his firearm accidentally discharged while seated inside the holster Friday afternoon.
The Department of Education is investigating Manor Independent School District’s special education department following a complaint of discrimination against a student. (KXAN-TV)
The city of Austin is considering a pet ordinance that would require pet owners to get their pets microchipped. (KVUE-TV)
Close to $2 billion in contracts is set to be awarded for the planned expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. (Austin Business Journal)
The potential for dangerous conditions along the United States Gulf Coast will likely ramp up next week as meteorologists anticipate a tropical storm that could strengthen to a hurricane will enter the region.
Austin reached 100 degrees yesterday. Was it the last time for 2024? Temperatures will start to trend downward over the next couple weeks.
A Texas couple was sentenced to more than a decade in prison each Friday after their pit bulls got loose and killed an 81-year-old man last year. (NBC News)
Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the popular adult party game, has sued SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for $15 million, accusing SpaceX employees of trespassing and damaging land near the U.S.-Mexico border that Cards Against Humanity purchased in 2017. (USA Today)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will appeal to the new 15th Court of Appeals after a Dallas County judge rejected his request to block the State Fair of Texas’ policy barring guns. (Dallas Morning News)
You know the State Fair of Texas is just around the corner when Big Tex makes his appearance.
A jury in Austin began to deliberate Friday whether the so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election in a heated highway encounter amounted to political intimidation. (Politico)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, have agreed to a televised debate next month in Dallas, marking the first onstage faceoff between the two Senate nominees. (Texas Tribune)
Cruz now trails Allred for the first time in new polling. (Newsweek)
Americans began casting their first in-person votes in a presidential election less than seven weeks away. The first in-person voting was in Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota with several more states to follow by the middle of October.
Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in the battleground state of North Carolina today as its lieutenant governor Mark Robinson, whom he endorsed for governor, deals with the fallout from a report that he made disturbing online posts. (New York Times)
Kamala Harris’ election campaign spent nearly three times as much money as her rival Donald Trump did in August. (Reuters)
Six weeks to go…
The top-ranked team in college football hosts Louisiana-Monroe tonight and the talk of the town in Arch Manning.
Complete game program (.pdf file).
Last night’s Central Texas high school football scores. (KXAN-TV)
Austin FC is back home tonight at Q2 Stadium for an in-state rivalry match. The Verde & Black are set to take on Texas rivals Houston Dynamo FC with kickoff at 7:30 p.m. (Austin FC)
In baseball, Kyle Tucker had four hits, including a home run, and Jake Meyers and Alex Bregman both hit home runs as the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Angels at Minute Maid Park last night, 9-7. (Yahoo! Sports)
The free Willie Nelson concert next month outside the Long Center will celebrate fifty years of TV’s “Austin City Limits”. Willie headlined that first episode on October 17, 1974.
