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  • First lane closures on MoPac begin as two-year project approaches

    What is likely to be a frustrating two-plus years of highway construction on MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) will take its first tangible form over the next couple of months as surveying and soil sampling occurs between Lady Bird Lake and Parmer Lane.The good news is that the work, and the rolling lane closures, will occur between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. when traffic is light on the highway. The only daytime ...

  • Firefighter dies in Dallas condo complex blaze

    DALLAS (AP) - Dallas firefighters have recovered the body of a comrade who reported by radio being trapped while battling a condominium complex blaze. A U.S. flag covered the firefighter's body when it was removed from the rubble Monday morning. The firefighter's name wasn't immediately released. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says two firefighters were transported to ...

  • Law enforcement targeting seatbelt violators

    Texas law enforcement officers will be out over the next few weeks looking for drivers who are not wearing their seatbelts. FOX 7's Tania Ortega reported live from I-35 this morning on the "Click It or Ticket" ...

  • Murder suspect commits suicide in jail

    The Burnet County Sheriff's Office said three people have been arrested in connection to the murder of two people found in a burned home ...

  • In the money May 20 Austin startup funding wrap-up

    ProspX Inc., Wisegate Inc., Zebra Imaging Inc. and Postmaster Inc. pulled in funding over the past week. At least four Austin-area companies received funding last week to take their businesses to the next level, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Software maker ProspX Inc. received $8.2 million of a planned $9.2 million financing from 39 investors. Online ...


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Movie Review

The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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  • Senate holds confirmation hearing on UT regents

    AUSTIN (AP) Months after state lawmakers elevated a quiet feud with University of Texas System regents into a public spat, the Texas Senate is set to hold a confirmation hearing for new board members with just a week left in the session. The Senate must approve regents appointed by Gov. Rick Perry. Monday's hearing will include testimony from nominees Jeff Hildebrand of Houston and Ernest ...

  • Courage a core trait exhibited needed among entrepreneurs

    I was talking shop over coffee last week with Bob Gutermuth, president of The Dialog Group, about many things that all entrepreneurs experience at some point: decisions that took too long to make and cost the business, employee motivation, line of credit extensions, relationships torpedoed by the owners absorption in work, being stiffed by a client. Entrepreneurs are not prepared for any of ...

  • Austin firefighter seeks niche in online vaca home listing industry

    Matt Thomson founded Wavecation LLC in 2011 to reach vacationers looking for homes to rent where the surf is up. An Austin firefighter is building a business on the hope that people looking for vacation rentals where they can surf or at least enjoy beaches where others do will surf the Internet to his online listing service. So far things are trending positively for Matt Thomson, who founded ...

  • Session In Depth The countdown

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The 2013 legislative session is now in the homestretch, and last week's deal on a state budget could help lawmakers avoid having to stay in Austin for the summer. House-Senate negotiators came to an agreement on the state's two-year spending plan that restores much of the $4 billion cut from public education last year. The agreement must be formally approved by both ...

  • Lawmakers give Texas craft breweries a boost

    State Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler Several proposals that would loosen regulations for Texas craft breweries and beer makers received approval in the House last week. State Sen. Kevin Eltife's, R-Tyler, bills which had already moved through the Senate passed the House on May 17 without changes or amendments, the Austin American-Statesman reports. The proposals enable small beer makers to ...

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