Just like last year, Austin's in for another rainy July 4th. With Lake Travis still hovering around 700 feet above sea level and an estimated 2-4 inches of rain on the way, the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is keeping all area lakes closed for boating, including Lake Austin and Town Lake. "Debris and high water from floodwaters make the lakes unsafe," reads the news bulletin post to LCRA's site this afternoon. "LCRA will......

Way back in September 2006, we reported that some guy on a Jet Ski stumbled across a concrete-filled barrel with human remains spilling out of it out on Lake Buchanan. Nine months later, the identity of these remains has now been revealed. According to the results of DNA tests performed at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, the mysterious remains belong to one Charles Maynard Wyatt, age 62, of Travis......

It looks like this week's discovery of human remains at Lake Buchanan has taken on a decidedly gruesome twist: initial reports only indicated that the body was happened upon somewhere along the shoreline, but it now turns out that the remains were embedded in concrete and hidden in a 55-gallon barrel. From KXAN: "They were encased in a 55-gallon barrel along with some concrete inside the barrel," investigator Denton Wills said. An out-of-town person on......

Last week, some guy riding a personal watercraft on Lake Travis stumbled onto the remains of a prehistoric skeleton embedded in the clay soil. Archaeologists excavated the remains, along with arrowheads ("darl points") and other makeshift tools found nearby, estimating the man or woman to have lived anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 years ago. While not nearly as old as the Pleistocene-era Leanderthal Lady found back in 1982, it was a pretty nifty discovery, as......