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New transit service launches in rural Central Texas town Monday
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LOCKHART, Texas (KXAN) — Beginning Monday, Lockhart neighbors can request a journey from the Capital Space Rural Transportation System.
Individuals request a journey utilizing the CARTS Now app. As soon as ordered, a CARTS car will choose them up inside quarter-hour and take them to their vacation spot inside the Lockhart service space. For the reason that service is launching right now, for a restricted time, CARTS will function totally free in Lockhart. They stated they’re doing this in an effort to encourage new riders to strive the service.
As soon as they do begin charging, it prices $2 a journey with fares half off for seniors, individuals with disabilities and kids 12 and below.
The Capital Space Rural Transportation System offers transit service in a number of counties surrounding Austin.
Together with Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Travis, Williamson and Bastrop counties.
In late 2020, the Bastrop service was launched and has seen as much as 100 riders every day. They’re seeing half of that in Taylor, the place it launched in July 2021.
“The inhabitants will increase right here, and the Metropolis of Austin and individuals are beginning to transfer outwards and to the agricultural areas, transportation goes to be wanted,” stated Dana Platt, the CARTS neighborhood outreach director. “Then we’re going to wish to make connections, and it’s all a part of an enormous community and system and so we proceed to develop like the agricultural communities proceed to develop.”
The Eastside Bus Plaza in east Austin helps join CARTS and CapMetro providers. 9 CARTS routes connect with 4 CapMetro strains.
A state report exhibits over 1 / 4 of individuals in rural areas use public transportation to get to and from work at 27% within the metropolis versus 21% in rural areas. Nonetheless, rural riders usually tend to depend on the service for medical care than these in cities at 26% versus 18%.
Members of the Black and Latino communities are additionally extra prone to be public transit riders, in response to Census information.
CARTS will host a ribbon-cutting to launch the CARTS Now on-demand transit service Monday from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. at 308 W San Antonio St, Lockhart, TX 78644.
The neighborhood is invited to attend and may have the chance to get a primary take a look at the CARTS Now van. CARTS officers stated there will likely be refreshments, giveaways and actions. Attendees can anticipate to listen to from Lockhart Mayor Lew White, Metropolis Supervisor Steve Lewis and the CARTS Common Supervisor David Marsh.
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Texas
Texas Authorities on Hunt for Possible Serial Killer After Two Murders Are Linked Via DNA
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While the two murders occurred six years apart — one in 2018, another this past June — police say DNA evidence reveals the suspect to be the same in both cases.
Texas authorities have made headway into their investigation into the recent killing of Alyssa Ann Rivera, after linking DNA at the murder scene with another unsolved murder. The two crimes occurred six years apart and police are now on the hunt for a suspected serial killer.
Rivera, 34, was found dead inside an abandoned home in Austin, Texas on June 21, 2024 — while, on April 7, 2018, Alba Jenisse Aviles was found in a car on Old San Antonio Road in Bastrop County. Per authorities, Aviles left Club Caribe on Felter Lane in Austin the night she was murdered — just 3 miles away from the Rivera crime scene.
The Austin Police Department, in a new release, said both murders appear to be sexual in nature — with detectives adding in a press conference that they were both strangled and sexually assaulted. There’s no known link between the two women outside of their murders.
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While there has been no suspect identified in either case, authorities now say “DNA evidence reveals the suspect to be the same in both cases.”
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a person of interest, after Rivera was seen in recently released surveillance footage walking with an unknown male shortly before her murder (video below).
Authorities believe the man could be who killed her — with police describing the person of interest as a “possibly short, Hispanic male.”
Police have also shared a photo related to Ms. Aviles’ murder: a photo of a silver Ford in a ditch (above right).
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“There was a DNA link found between this case, and April 14th, 2018, in the unsolved murder of Alba Jenisse Aviles,” said Sgt. Nathan Sexton of the Austin Police Department per CBS.
“Both victims are believed to have been sexually assaulted — it was DNA found in both scenes, like multiple sources of DNA at both scenes,” added Sexton.
“Unfortunately that suspect does not come back to CODIS, what we call the national database, so they’re not in that system,” he said, meaning the suspect hasn’t been previously charged or arrested for any crimes.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Austin Police Department, and/or Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office.
Texas
Stretch of excessive heat, triple-digit temperatures ahead for North Texas
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NORTH TEXAS – The hottest days of the year are on the way to Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend, including a stretch of excessive heat. The weather alerts from CBS News Texas are in place Friday through Tuesday – that is five consecutive days of alerts in place.
The high-pressure ridge out west continues building towards the east the next few days and will bake North Texas even more from Sunday to Monday.
The heat dome expands through the weekend and into next week, which keeps high temperatures in the triple digits for an extended stretch.
By late Wednesday, the ridge shifts west and North Texas is on the eastern edge. This weakness allows a surface front to slide into North Texas late Tuesday into Wednesday. With the slightly cooler temps in the forecast, CBS News Texas meteorologists dropped the weather alert for Wednesday. High temperatures drop to 100 degrees and then into the upper 90s by Thursday.
The European forecast model brings some spotty showers into the forecast Tuesday night into Wednesday but there isn’t a high confidence that is going to happen so don’t expect any precipitation.
The heat alerts are in place Friday for North Texans as the heat is in full force. A heat advisory is in place for all of North Texas until 9 p.m. At noon, an excessive heat warning is in effect for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and all the counties in pink.
Dangerous “feels-like” temperatures are in the forecast through the weekend where some spots could feel up to 112 degrees. Be sure to limit time spent outside and expect these alerts to continue into next week.
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Tim Walz’s overture on Texas border crisis a welcome olive branch
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What Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t say about immigration in a recent CNN interview speaks volumes about why the nation has not had serious immigration reform in decades.
Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee, recently conceded that there is a border crisis and Democrats need to acknowledge it, something this editorial board has urged Democrats to do.
“When they’re asked if it’s a crisis, you need to answer, ‘Yes, it’s a crisis.’ And then deal with it,” Walz said in an interview on the Ezra Klein Show, days before he became Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.
It’s important for leading Democrats to get serious about acknowledging what Walz did in plain language. Conservatives are fairly skeptical about the left’s willingness to engage in strong border enforcement, but Walz didn’t mince words.
“Leaving it and saying it’s not a problem is a political detriment to Democrats,” he said. “Just acknowledge it is. You’re not denigrating anyone, and you’re not helping them — being the immigrants — by saying it’s not a problem. Because they know better than anybody it’s a problem. Because they’re stuck at a border community with nowhere to go.”
Abbott’s decision to bus migrants out of Texas to deep blue cities got near universal condemnation from the left. The reality was that it demonstrated states like Texas cannot and should not be forced to bear the burden of an unmanaged border. And it helped wake up the country to the problems at the border.
Walz characterized Abbott’s busing program as cruel and inhumane. That’s unhelpful. The governor was fairly criticized in 2022 for dropping off more than 100 migrants near the Naval Observatory in below-freezing temperatures without coordinating with local groups. But Texas has bused more than 100,000 people without incident, and many have expressed gratitude for the free trips.
Walz did concede that the action “suggests the problem in Texas is pretty bad.”
That’s a start at least on getting real about how difficult mass migration has been on Texas and especially on border towns and cities.
Walz importantly said that he would support the bipartisan Sinema-Lankford immigration reform bill that we think balances serious enforcement with humane processing of asylum applications.
When Abbott was asked on CNN whether he would work with a potential Harris-Walz administration on border security, he rightly pointed out key policy differences. That’s fair. But it’s unfortunate he stopped short of saying that he would engage with Democrats in Washington who are ready to look at solutions.
That is what most Americans find so frustrating about the immigration debate. Abbott might harbor frustration with federal inaction, but he must also signal a willingness to work with anyone who is willing to bring forward some answers.
We get that it is difficult for a Republican to promise to work with a Democrat or vice versa in this highly polarized environment, especially when presented with a hypothetical question. Nonetheless, Walz’s gesture is welcome, and we wish Abbott would have acknowledged it.
It used to be common to hear a politician say, “I’ll work with anyone who wants to work with me.” Now, somehow, that’s political poison.
It is true that, for months, Harris and President Joe Biden wrongly insisted that the border was secure even as tens of thousands or more crossed it illegally. Only after the border crisis became undeniable did the Biden-Harris administration belatedly enact an executive order to reduce illegal migration and back the bipartisan border security package.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump foolishly helped kill that measure earlier this year to preserve a campaign issue. Harris has promised to resubmit the measure if elected.
Americans want and deserve border and immigration solutions. We are tired of years of unproductive cynicism. Border issues are solvable but require leadership, outreach and compromise to not make perfection the enemy of progress, beginning with Democrats and Republicans, regardless of whether they are in the White House, Congress or state capitols.
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