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Travis County discusses Public Integrity Unit funding Lehmberg calls Perry cuts partisan misguided
cut about $3.7 million in annual funding to her office."It feels partisan and it's misguided, as far as I'm concerned," Lehmberg said in a brief interview with reporters after addressing county commissioners for about 45 minutes Tuesday morning.Lehmberg appeared before Travis County commissioners to talk about Perry's line-item veto in her first public appearance since ...
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Seton moving ahead on costlier teaching hospital
Jess Garza, president and CEO of the Seton Healthcare Family, was one of several officials to speak at a press conference about the plans for a new teaching hospital. Ricardo B. ...
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Extent of game maker’s Austin layoffs revealed
Video game maker Zynga Inc. laid off dozens of employees in Austin and Dallas earlier this month, documents show.In letters to the Texas Workforce Commission, the company responsible for games such as "Words With Friends," said it was laying off 34 employees in Austin and was closing its Dallas office, eliminating 62 jobs. Most of the layoffs were effective June ...
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House Redistricting Committee passes trio of maps
State Rep. Drew Darby got the numbers right Tuesday.A day after an embarrassing miscount that led to the failure to pass a House bill outlining boundaries for Texas House districts, the chamber's Redistricting Committee chairman was able to take a legislative mulligan of sorts.State Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, put aside Monday's mistake -- as well as the House's redistricting ...
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San Marcos preschool program accepting applications
SAN MARCOS -; The San Marcos Community Services department has space available in its Raggedy Ann & Andy Preschoolers Program for children ages 3 to ...
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Movie Review
3000 Miles to Graceland
Demian Lichtenstein's 3000 Miles to Graceland opens in the middle of the Nevada desert with a close-up, frenetic battle to the death between two seemingly giant computer-generated scorpions with leering cartoonish scowls. Much like the rest of the movie, this opening fight sequence is loud, crude, and too long for its own good. While I am sure that it is intended to have some kind of symbo ... ...
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APD responds to two separate bank robberies
Austin Police officers responded to two separate bank robberies Tuesday morning. At approximately 10:00 a.m., officers were alerted to reports of a robbery at the Prosperity Bank, located at 8770 Research Blvd. About 45 minutes later, APD officers were called to the scene of another robbery at the Frost Bank, at 1200 Barbara Jordan Blvd. According to authorities, the same person is suspected ...
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Man robs two banks in less than an hour
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A bank robber managed to hit two separate banks in Austin on Tuesday in less than an hour. The robber hit Prosperity Bank at 8770 Research Blvd. in North Austin at 10 a.m. and then the Frost Bank in the 1200 block of Barbara Jordan Boulevard in Central Austin at 10:40 a.m. Police said the robber ran away from both banks, though no one knew in which direction he went each ...
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Police head to Prosperity Bank robbery
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police responded to a bank robbery in North Austin. A robber hit the Prosperity Bank at 8770 Research ...
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Get first look at new UT medical school
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Your tax dollars will help pay for a major medical endeavor in Austin: a medical school for the University of Texas. The location of the teaching hospital will be next to the Frank Erwin Center and the existing University of Medical Center Brackenridge, where officials unveiled the first renderings of the medical school Tuesday. Construction begins next year, with completion ...
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Suspected drunken driver spurs wreck
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Someone walking in North Austin suffered a head injury following a wreck that also left one person with life-threatening injuries and two others in the hospital. It happened at 2:48 a.m. Tuesday at Interstate 35 and Rundberg Lane when a Nissan ran a red light heading east on Rundberg Lane. A taxi T-boned the Nissan as a result. A passenger in the Nissan took a direct hit, ...