It’s Thursday, December 20th. I'm Elise Randall, and here's your local news from the Austin American-Statesman. Our top story is: Two Austin police officers accused of using excessive force earlier this year and lying about it, have been found not guilty of all charges. After 6 hours of deliberations, a Travis County jury returned the not guilty verdicts after 11 p.m. yesterday for Austin Police Department SWAT team officers Robert Pfaff (faff) and Donald Petraitis (puh-TRAY-tis).