UpdatedFri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:15 pm CT
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All leads in the shooting death of Ruler Stefon Matthew Bailey, 25, have been exhausted, prompting police to ask the public for help. (Austin Police Department)
AUSTIN, TX The Austin Police Department is asking for the public s help in solving a cold case involving the death of a man whose body was found riddled with bullets nearly four years ago in Southeast Austin.
The incident dates to March 15, 2017, at 12:45 p.m. along the 6400 block of Springdale Road, according to a police advisory. Officers responded to multiple reports of gunfire at an apartment complex, during which time one of the responding officers was flagged down and directed to a man lying in the second-floor breezeway of the three-building complex, law enforcement officials said.
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In a rare bright spot of calm for 2020, City Council wrapped up its final meeting of the year, usually long and contentious, before 10pm and without any major squabbles.
As the city prepares to begin shutting down its
Protective Lodges, which since April have provided shelter, health care, and case management services to those who are experiencing homelesness and at high risk of complications from COVID-19, a contract valued at $7.5 million was awarded to
Caritas of Austin to help transition ProLodges residents into different housing programs.
Caritas serves as the lead agency of the
Best Single Source Plus collaborative of agencies tasked with reducing homelessness. As lead, Caritas will negotiate with the city to determine how the funds, part of the city’s allotment of federal
When Lemuel Bradshaw first got bronchitis in April 1998, the then-28-year-old never could have imagined that heart transplants would become part of his life. After two weeks of antibiotics, he thought he was good to go.
Within months, the viral bronchitis damaged his heart. On Oct. 23, 1999, after just turning 30, he had his first heart transplant. He and his wife, Odessa, had been married about a year, and he had married into a family with three teenage daughters. I was really overwhelmed with just the prospect of getting the one, Bradshaw says of his heart transplant. In his mind, heart transplants were like the artificial hearts he had heard about in the 1980s. The patients never really lived.