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Police Woman struck by car as thieves fled
Round Rock police are searching for two men who struck a woman at a daycare center with their car after stealing her purse, according to a press release.The woman arrived at Primrose School of Round Rock, 3298 Forest Creek Dr., on Thursday afternoon to pick up her children, police said.When she returned to her car about 4:30 p.m. she saw a man breaking into it, police said. The man grabbed her ...
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City may swap car lanes for bike lanes at Longhorn Dam
Drivers in East Austin wanting to cross the Colorado River have just a few choices: the famously congested Interstate 35, heavily traveled U.S. 183, or, halfway between those two, the four lanes of Pleasant Valley Road sitting on top of Longhorn Dam.Each day more than 21,000 drivers traverse the 53-year-old dam, down from 28,000 in 2005 before a number of apartment complexes south of the river ...
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Federal grants to improve area park trails
Parks across Texas -- including some in the Austin area -- will be seeing a boost in funding thanks to $5.7 million in federal grants, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Thursday.The grants are being funded through the Recreational Trail Grant Program, a federal initiative that provides money to states for the development and maintenance of recreational trails and trail-related ...
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Council postpones vote on expanding EMS service in Travis County
The Austin City Council on Thursday postponed a vote on whether to accept money from Travis County to expand ambulance service to an eastern part of the county that officials say is growing.The council will instead consider the agenda item June 6, according to the city.The delay affects action taken Tuesday by county commissioners, who voted unanimously to fund part-time ambulance service ...
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Survey Crime and homelessness drop in Austin but poverty on the rise
Austin has made gains in its efforts to tackle some of its toughest community problems in recent years, improving its crime rate, unemployment numbers and percent of uninsured people, according to a report released Thursday.But although Austin weathered the recession better than most of the country, the city continues to struggle with a rising poverty level and more people are paying over 30 ...
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Movie Review
Dead Man Walking
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind." -- John Donne And so feel most opponents of the death penalty, including Tim Robbins, the writer-director of "Dead Man Walking," one of the first films to openly tackle this issue. But you wouldn't know Robbins' politics from watching the film because he does the audience the service of not preaching h ... ...
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Man accused of setting apartment brother’s house on fire
A man has been accused of setting multiple fires in his home, and then hours later setting his brother's house on fire, according to an arrest affidavit.Robert Daniel Cummins, 32, was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of arson.Fire investigators were called to the Sierra Vista Apartments at 4320 S. Congress Avenue about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, the affidavit said. Apartment personnel ...
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Artist Jimmy Jalapeeno remembered for Hill Country landscapes
Austin artist Albert James Bonar -- who was known to his friends and signed his paintings as Jimmy Jalapeeno -- died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.Born Jan. 5, 1947, in Bryan, Bonar was proud of saying he was a lifelong Texas resident but for a couple years when he attended graduate school at the University of California, Davis, where he received a master's ...
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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Photo credit: Getty Images | Members of Scouts for Equality hold a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America as part of the "Scouts for Equality Day of Action" in Washington, DC. (May 22, ...
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City recognizes fallen soldier
A former Austin Energy employee was honored by the Austin City Council Thursday. Army Sergeant Jaime Gonzalez was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2008. He worked at Austin Energy before he was deployed in 2006. Thursday, the City Council held a proclamation ceremony to recognize local heroes in honor of Memorial Day. The ceremony included a special tribute to Sergeant Gonzalez. ...
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Round Rock Police are looking for daycare robbers
Round Rock Police are looking for two suspects they say are responsible for robbing a woman in her car outside a daycare and breaking into another car. According to police, a mother was picking up her children from the Primrose School of Round Rock on Forest Creek Drive Wednesday when she was robbed. The woman saw the suspect breaking into her car as she left the daycare. The suspect jumped ...