Stephanie Federico
Stephanie Federico is a digital news editor at KUT.org. She came to Austin in January 2017 from NPR in Washington, D.C., where she was a homepage/audience engagement editor. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University and more than a dozen years of experience in newsrooms as a copy editor, wires editor, and digital and homepage editor.
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An Army sergeant driving for a ride-hailing company shot Garrett Foster "to protect his own life," the law firm representing the man said in a press... -
Update at 12:28 p.m. Sunday: The Austin Fire Department tweeted that the brush fire was 90% contained. Crews were continuing to monitor the scene. -
Updated on Aug. 7 at 2 p.m. CST Community members gathered for a vigil in El Paso on Monday night to honor the youngest victim of the mass shooting at a... -
Texas is one of just three states that did not sign onto a letter sent Friday to Secretary Betsy DeVos asking the U.S. Department of Education to... -
Austin Mayor Steve Adler opened the annual State of the City address Wednesday with a quote from Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the... -
Authorities have increased the reward to $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in a string of package bombings in Austin. That's in addition to... -
"We will leave no stone unturned," interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said today in response to three package explosions in Austin over the past... -
The Trump administration said today it plans to phase out the Obama-era program that protects from deportation people who were brought to the United... -
Updated at 7:04 p.m. The National Weather Center is calling Tropical Storm Harvey "unprecedented" and says all impacts are unknown. The agency now...
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The suspect accused of stabbing four people Monday near Gregory Gym on UT campus may have been "suffering from mental health issues," UT Police Chief...
