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Lake Travis school board candidate faces assault charge in mask incident Lake Travis school board candidate faces assault charge in mask incident A woman running for a seat on the Lake Travis school board is facing an assault charge. She allegedly shoved a store employee after not following their masking rules. AUSTIN, Texas - A woman is facing assault charges after not complying with a store's mask policies.  Kara Bell was shopping at Nordstrom Rack in Sunset Valley on April 7th when she went into the fitting room area and was confronted by employees to put on her mask.  She allegedly told...

Austin's biggest vaccination hub seeing a drop in demand for COVID-19 shots Bettie Cross © Provided by KEYE Austin Austin Public Health (APH) is temporarily stopping the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at Travis County’s largest vaccination hub. “Austin Public Health has paused administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pending the revue from the FDA,” said Dr. Mark Escott, Interim Health Authority at Austin Public Health. APH typically gets 12,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine each week. Recently, it also started getting 1,000 dose shipments of th...

Local health authorities are toning down some pandemic safety rules for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Austin Public Health announced Tuesday.  “As more people become vaccinated in our area, we are able to move to more lenient requirements for those individuals,” Interim Austin-Travis County Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott said in a written statement Tuesday. “However, we have not yet reached herd immunity in our community. To get there, we need more people to acquire immunity which is why we encourage people to get the vaccine when it is available to them.”  P...

Women’s work, ‘Curated Cocktails,’ Met Gala: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: The state has temporarily paused giving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an “abundance of caution” while federal officials investigate reports of rare blood clots, the state health officer announced Tuesday. Dr. Scott Harris cautioned people to remember those were just six incidents out of 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine that have been given across the nation. “COVID-19 vaccine safety is a top priority...

Matias Segura, Acting Chief Operations Officer Wednesday's letter can be read here: Dear Anderson High School Community,  In response to the increased number of positive cases at Anderson High School, and after consultation with Austin Public Health and Dr. Mark Escott, effective Wednesday, April 14, all Junior Varsity (JV), freshman, and off-season athletic activities will be suspended at Anderson High School for two weeks. This includes all practice, play and games across JV, Freshman and off-season sports. These sports can resume practice and play beginning on Wednesday, April 28.  Also ...