And before I had finished that meeting, I was convinced.” –Elizabeth Peacock, Travis County assistant medical examiner from 1995 to 2005 Elizabeth Peacock, who worked as an assistant medical ...

For the most part, APD officials have defended their work, saying they followed the available evidence – as well as the determination of the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office – before ...

For the third year in a row, overdoses were the leading cause of accidental deaths in Travis County for 2023 — a trend that has largely been driven by fentanyl's increase in the local drug supply.

The Travis County Medical Examiner's office has ruled the girl's death a homicide, said the sheriff's office on a social media page on Wednesday. Her age and name were not released. The boy's name ...

The Travis County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled as accidental the death of a man who went into cardiac arrest in a hospital a half hour after being shocked with a taser by San Marcos Police ...

Even as the Trump administration attempts to gut every kind of federal grant bolstering local services, from transportation to public health and beyond, Travis County is still managing to continue its ...

They said last year, Austin-Travis County EMS saw more than 1,100 calls for overdoses and nearly 900 emergency room visits related to drug overdoses. In 2023, the medical examiner reported 478 ...