Texas House lawmakers voted Friday to block a plan to establish education savings accounts (ESAs) after rural House Republicans pushed an amendment stripping ESAs from a major school funding package being considered on the floor. Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/house-republicans-to-move-to-kill-education-savings-accounts-in-school-finance-bill/

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/doorbell-footage-captures-accused-shooter-leaving-home-morning-of-shooting-spree/ A doorbell camera caught the moments a man now accused of killing six people left his home to embark on a shooting spree through Austin and San Antonio.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-neighborhood-light-show-organizers-worry-it-could-be-events-last-year/ A neighborhood tradition of holiday lights returns Friday night for the season, but organizers said they worry it could be the event’s last year.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-city-manager-sits-down-to-talk-leadership-changes-new-work-from-home-policy/ After significant pushback from City of Austin employees earlier this year, Interim City Manager Jesús Garza recently announced a new work-from-home policy that he believes is a compromise.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/apd-skeletal-remains-found-in-greenbelt-trail-considered-homicide/ Dr. Danny Wescott, director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, said the anthropology department assisted the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office with collecting the skeletal remains found on the greenbelt trail.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-supreme-court-temporarily-halts-ruling-allowing-pregnant-woman-to-have-emergency-abortion/ On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court said it needs more time to weigh in on a lower court ruling which would have allowed a Dallas woman to get an emergency abortion, the Center for Reproductive Rights said in a news release.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KXAN) — A doorbell camera caught the moments a man now accused of killing six people left his home to embark on a shooting spree through Austin and San Antonio.

Parents of students at two north Austin schools told KXAN they are terrified from seeing a man with a long rife walk the path in front of their children’s schools for several days, sometimes twice a day, in December. While reporting on this strory, KXAN learned that the man, Isaiah Smith, 28, was arrested Friday on indecency with a child charges.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-city-manager-sits-down-to-talk-leadership-changes-new-work-from-home-policy/ After significant pushback from City of Austin employees earlier this year, Interim City Manager Jesús Garza recently announced a new work-from-home policy that he believes is a compromise.

The Austin Police Department said it has seen an increase in storagte unit burglaries in the area and want to remind the community which valuable items should never be stored.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/video-bald-eagle-takes-flight-over-lake-austin/ A bald eagle graced onlookers with its presence on Lake Austin in the Tarrytown neighborhood Friday morning.

Read more https://www.kxan.com/traffic/traffic-projects/city-breaks-ground-on-spicewood-springs-road-expansion-project/ The City of Austin broke ground Friday on the Spicewood Springs Mobility Project, marking the beginning of work to expand a section of the road to four lanes.

Convicted Austin murderer Kaitlin Armstrong is starting her 90-year sentence at a different detention facility. She's now at Plane State Jail in Dayton, which is northeast of Houston.