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  • Police Half-naked man chased charged with indecency with a child

    Officials say a man wearing only a black shirt and an orange hat led police officers on a foot chase in East Austin on Tuesday after a woman reported seeing him standing naked from the waist down with an erection outside the bedroom window of her two young sons.John Dwight Ormiston, 36, was charged with indecency with a child, a third-degree felony.Tuesday was his birthday, according to the ...

  • Crews fight heavy fire at Leander home

    Central Texas fire crews have extinguished a heavy blaze that broke out at a Leander home Thursday morning, officials said.Lake Travis Fire Rescue and other fire departments responded to the blaze at a home near the 2300 block of Fulkes Lane near Round Mountain Road shortly after 9 a.m., officials said.Crews fought the blaze for more than an hour, and the home appears to be a total loss, ...

  • Schools no longer on lockdown after search for forgery suspect

    Lockdowns at Webb Middle School and other private schools have been lifted after police secured an area where they searched for a suspect who witnesses said had a gun.Officer Veneza Bremner said that authorities didn't find the man, who is suspected in a forgery and identity theft case but she said patrol officers are still at the scene. Police detained and are questioning a woman who may ...

  • Man charged in kickball game brawl

    The fight started with a family upset by how Troy Collins was speaking to his daughter at her kickball game on Tuesday, police say.Then it got physical.As Collins went to leave in the parking lot by the kickball fields off St. Johns Avenue in North Austin, Justin Simmons, 22, approached him with a knife, according to the affidavit for Simmons' arrest."I will cut you," the ...

  • Hasan seeking to represent himself at Fort Hood court-martial

    Legal experts say it's likely that a military judge will grant a request by the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood to dismiss his military attorneys and represent himself at his upcoming court-martial.Maj. Nidal Hasan faces a potential death sentence on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of premeditated attempted murder. Fort Hood officials said ...


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You, Me and Dupree

You, Me and Dupree

Like any other genre, comedy tends to run cycles, and for the past decade American comedies have gotten stuck into a rut that future film historians will most likely label the comedy of arrested development. Emasculated men have frequently been the center of comedy (see, for ex ... ...

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  • Austin may be home to X Games

    Officials at Circuit of the Americas are making a bid to host the X Games and are asking the Austin City Council for help. Track officials are asking for the city's help in applying for state tax incentives from the Events Trust Fund. Track officials want the city to act as the endorsing municipality for an application for the fund. They are also seeking $150,000 in fee waivers if Austin ...

  • APD looking for possible assault victim

    The Austin Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a possible assault victim. According to APD, on Tuesday, witnesses reported seeing a man holding a woman in a chokehold and pulling her by her hair toward a dark blue 1980s model Honda Accord or Civic with tinted windows. The vehicle as pointed in the direction of a neighborhood on River Oaks Drive. An eye ...

  • Video government meetings allowed under bill

    AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences. The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public officials to use ...

  • Body pulled from Inks Lake in Burnet

    BURNET, Texas (KXAN) - The body of a young man was pulled from Inks Lake in Burnet on Thursday morning. Clara Tuma, a spokeswoman from the Lower Colorado River Authority said the victim was a teenager who fell from a paddle boat into the water around 11 a.m. Dive teams and rescue crews from several agencies were called in to help search. The lake was about 10 feet deep where the teen's body ...

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    We're only a few days away from our Memorial Day weekend! As we honor all our Veterans who have fought so hard to defend our freedom, we also celebrate and kick off the ...

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