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  • Austin area home sales rise 32 in April

    Central Texas home sales jumped 32 percent last month, the highest level for an April in nine years, figures released today show.The median price rose 8 percent from April 2012, with half the homes selling for more than $227,250 and half for less, the Austin Board of Realtors said in its monthly report.The board said 2,563 single-family homes were sold last month , making it the 23rd month in a ...

  • Timbaland invests in Austin music software company Open Labs

    Timbaland is making a bet on Austin music software company Open Labs.The record producer and musician is the lead investor in a $500,000 investment in the company, whose app lets people easily create music using a standard PC.The app, called StageLight, was released in November and costs $9.99. It requires no special keyboard or equipment. Users are guided through the process of creating a drum ...

  • Council tables Austin Energy board vote indefinitely

    The City Council won't establish an independent board any time soon to supervise Austin Energy.Earlier today the council decided that, rather than continue debating a proposal that Mayor Lee Leffingwell said had been "muddled up into an almost unrecognizable mess," it was best to put off the proposal for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, council members said, the council ...

  • EMS One dead after apparent construction accident

    A man was found dead Tuesday morning under an overturned backhoe on the 17200 block of Texas 71 near Lakeway, according to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services.Warren Hassinger, a spokesman for the agency, said the man, who appears to have been in his 40s, suffered grave injuries after the machinery rolled over on him.The incident happened at a construction site about a quarter mile ...

  • Manor school bus driver sentenced for sex assault

    Former Manor ISD school bus driver Gilbert Briseno has been sentenced to 25 years for aggravated sexual assault of a child. He pleaded guilty on Friday after waiving his right to a jury trial. The investigation into Briseno began after a citizen called district officials to report a child had been standing on the bus while it was moving. That citizen provided a bus number and a license plate. ...


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Movie Review

Hardball

Harball is a sluggish, "uplifting" Hollywoodized account of a troubled man who finds unlikely redemption by coaching an inner-city baseball team. Adapted by John Gatins (Summer Catch) from Daniel Coyle's 1993 memoir and directed by Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) as Boyz N the Hood meets The Bad News Bears, Hardball is one of those irritatingly "well-intent ... ...

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  • Accident on HWY 71 leaves one dead

    A man was killed Tuesday morning on Highway 71 West near Lakeway after he was pinned under an overturned backhoe. The 40-year-old victim was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics. Lake Travis Fire Rescue and ATCEMS responded to the accident. No other information is available at this time. Stay tuned to FOX 7 for more information as we get ...

  • Gun training for some teachers approved

    AUSTIN (AP) The Texas House late Monday approved a plan to train some teachers who are already licensed to carry firearms for gunfights that could erupt in their classrooms. With a simple voice vote and no debate, lawmakers passed a proposal drafted by Sen. Dan Patrick that would apply to traditional public school and charter campuses that don't already employ armed guards. Patrick, a ...

  • Texas lawmakers pave way for stronger craft beer industry

    The five bills that passed through the Senate provide a new approach to help grow the expanding craft beer industry and update several business practices and regulatory issues in the Alcoholic Beverage Code, according to the Beer Alliance of Texas. Its bottoms up for craft beer brewers in Texas after the House passed a package of bills Monday to help create a more robust craft beer ...

  • Dougherty calls on Lehmberg to resign

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The only Republican on the Travis County Commissioners Court called Tuesday for Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign. Gerald Daugherty said that Lehmberg's conviction last month on a drunken driving charge has undermined her standing as the county's chief prosecutor. Lehmberg was sentenced to 45 days in the county jail. She was released after 22 days ...

  • Compare Metrics completes $4.2M Series A funding

    Software maker Compare Metrics Inc. has completed a $4.2 million Series A round of funding. The Austin-based company disclosed that investors included Austin Ventures LP and several angel investors, according to a Tuesday news release. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools to e-commerce websites with a white-label product discovery platform. Company ...

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