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  • University of Texas graduates 4200 University of Texas graduates 4200

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The University of Texas will graduate 4,200 students today. We spoke to two of them. The University of Texas at Austin is expecting about 4,200 graduating students at the main commencement ceremony Saturday night with a total crowd of about 25,000. Rebekah Scheuerle is a UT senior graduating from the Cockrell School of Engineering. Scheuerle, a chemical engineering major, set her ...

  • Community News Helicopters on display at STAR Flight in Austin Round Rock schools honor community partners

    Helicopters on display at STAR Flight STAR Flight -- a round-the-clock aerial emergency medical services provider in Texas -- is hosting an open house from 3-7 p.m. Wednesday at the medical provider's hangar, 7800 Old Manor Road.The free event, which is being held in conjunction with National Emergency Medical Services Week, will give attendees the opportunity to take a look inside the ...

  • Ball Animal house teaches AISD kids about critters

    Debbie Garcia, a Living Materials specialist, holds Sonic, a hedgehog, at the Living Materials Center, which houses all kinds of critters for teachers to check out for their classrooms, like a ...

  • Novak A life spent in development — and in philanthropy

    Dick Rathgeber spent much of the past five decades helping shape Austin's development scene.Along the way, he has parlayed his penchant for deal-making into helping countless people and scores of charitable ...

  • Grimm looking for positive results vs. Tigers

    Rangers right-hander Justin Grimm, who has struggled over his last three starts, must now face the team that handed him the worst outing of his short Major League career. Grimm will take the ball against the Tigers on Saturday night in the third of a four-game series at Rangers Ballpark. The 24-year-old will oppose Anibal Sanchez as Texas tries to reclaim the series lead after having its ...


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Movie Review

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

By the seventh installment of the illimitable Friday the 13th franchise, it seemed that any hope for originality or innovation was long gone, if it had ever existed to begin with. As a new movie in the series had been released virtually every year since 1980, there just didn't seem to be that much more to add to the tried-and-true stalk-and-slash formula. They had already used the gimmick ... ...

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  • Austin startup YouEarnedIt grows with a rewards program in which employees recognize each other

    When employees at software firm Mass Relevance do something that impresses a colleague, they get more than praise.Using a program created by Austin startup YouEarnedIt, workers reward each other with digital points, which can be saved up and cashed in for prizes like iPhones and iPads, gift cards and dinner at ...

  • Flood leads to redirection for racehorse rescuer

    In the middle of an epic drought, a deluge came to Cedar Creek in late January 2012.At Lynn Reardon's racehorse rescue, LOPE (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers), the water totaled her and her husband Tom's vehicles, crumbled the driveway, rendered fencing useless and ruined some 300 bales of hay. The 11 horses then in her care had to be boarded. Reardon estimated damage at more than ...

  • Memorial Day events focus on new Veterans Park

    The dedication Memorial Day ceremony for Smithville's Veterans Memorial Park on May 27 is shaping up as a tribute to the war veterans of Bastrop County. It will mark the official opening of the park on 2nd Street and include a parade down Main Street."We have close to 4,000 names on plaques," Mayor Mark Bunte said of military members who served during the course of U.S. ...

  • Long-term unemployment weighs on local national economic growth

    Texas escaped the worst of the recession, but it still has a few bruises to show for one of the sharpest economic downturns in recent memory.One of the deepest bruises might be the state's stubbornly high rate of long-term ...

  • Cedar Park Leander send project wish lists to county for funding

    Cedar Park and Leander have sent a wish list of road and parks projects to Williamson County that could become part of a November bond election.If approved by the county commissioners court, the projects will be put in the hands of voters in ...

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