Austin police on Wednesday identified a pedestrian killed earlier this month in city traffic as 21-year-old Connor Avery Hughes.
A preliminary police investigation found that Hughes was struck by a blue Chevrolet Cruze as he tried to cross the middle of the 4000 block of Airport Boulevard just before 9:20 p.m. on Jan. 9.
Austin-Travis County EMS medics took Hughes to Dell Seton Medical Center, where he died on Jan. 11. He had just turned 21 on Jan. 5.
Police said the driver of the Cruze, who remained at the scene where Hughes was hit, showed no signs of impairment. Investigators do not think excessive speed was a factor, police said, and no criminal charges are expected.
Health officials on Friday said the seven-day molecular positivity rate for COVID-19 in Comal County was 21.37%.
Those in Comal County who are interested in receiving a COVID-19 vaccine are encouraged to visit www.co.comal.tx.us/Health.htm on the latest criteria and distribution sites.
Comal County COVID data for Jan. 8, 2021
New deaths: 6
New cases: 86
Current hospitalizations: 59
New recoveries: 3
Breakdown of cases by city to date:
New Braunfels (Includes Eastern and Central Comal Co.): 4,980
Western Comal County (Includes Bulverde and Spring Branch): 957
South of Canyon Lake: 367
North of Canyon Lake: 263
Southern Comal County (Includes Garden Ridge and Schertz): 199
Fair Oaks Ranch: 26
Wednesday forecast for Austin: Mother Nature isn t letting go of 2020 without one more round of stormy weather for us. The upshot is, the winds might sweep out all the cedar pollen our sinuses have been grappling with.
We should get another day of warmer than normal temperatures before a strong cold front in the afternoon brings chilly northwest winds and thunderstorms, the National Weather Service says.
Damaging wind gusts and hail are the main threats as the cold front is likely to generate severe weather near and east of the Interstate 35 corridor, forecasters say.
Austin will see storms mainly after 1 p.m., but not before temperatures reach a high of 74 which is almost 15 degrees above normal. The surest sign of the cold front will be the replacement of warm south-southeast breezes with frigid north winds in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
In honor of Texas 175th anniversary of statehood on Tuesday, we ve broken down the Lone Star State by the numbers:
1845: Year that Texas is annexed into the Union. But disputes over the area led to war between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
28th: Texas became the 28th state on Dec. 29, 1845. Earlier that year in March, Florida had become the 27th state. Nearly exactly a year after Texas, Iowa joined the union in 1846.
150,000: Estimated state population at annexation. According to the Texas Almanac, the population grew to 212,592 by the 1850 census.
58,161: Number of slaves in Texas in that 1850 census count.
Back in May, as the coronavirus pandemic appeared to be intensifying, Austin Public Health unveiled a five-stage chart that would not only provide instructions on how to stay safe but also indicate how much we needed to change life as we once knew it.
It established threat levels for those at high risk of experiencing severe symptoms of COVID-19, the disease linked to the coronavirus. Those include people older than 65 or people with diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease, obesity, or those who are otherwise immuno-compromised.
The chart does not specify which businesses should remain open or be shut down, but it does recommend customer capacity levels and business practices. Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive orders regarding the pandemic have allowed most businesses to remain open.