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  • Austin-based e-MDs expanding workforce moves into new headquarters

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  • To make room for bigger City Council Austin may lease space for $5.6 million

    The city of Austin wants to lease premium downtown office space for $5.6 million over four years, partly to house employees who will be moved out of City Hall to make room for the larger City Council -- four more members -- that voters approved last fall.The council will vote Thursday on whether to ask staffers to negotiate and sign a lease for 28,000 square feet in the Silicon Laboratories ...

  • New details emerge in dead investment manager’s financial dealings

    More than a month after S. Mark Powell's apparent suicide, the list of people who claim the Austin investment manager borrowed money that he never paid back continues to grow, and the list is as long as it is distinguished.Powell, who headed the Austin office of Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management, died May 16 -- a Thursday -- in an isolated Mason County cemetery from an apparent ...

  • New rules would restrict Austin helicopter pads flights

    Temporary helicopter facilities in Austin such as those built for last November's Formula One weekend would be limited to four round-trips per hour under an ordinance the City Council will consider Thursday.The ordinance, crafted by a group that included neighborhood representatives, aviation professionals, city officials and a Circuit of the Americas consultant, would also bar temporary ...

  • Woman dog attacked by bees in North Austin

    A woman was taken to the hospital after a bee attack in North Austin. It happened around 3:30 this afternoon in the 2100 block of Singletree Ave. near MoPac and Parmer. Austin fire officials say the woman, her dog and later an Austin police officer were attacked by bees from a hive near the woman's home. The woman apparently tried to get inside her home when some bees followed her in. ...


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Movie Review

The Killers (1964) [DVD]

The Killers (1964) [DVD]

It isnt surprising that not one, but two suspenseful potboilers have been made from Ernest Hemingways 1927 10-page short story The Killers. Hemingways story reads like a primer for a screenwriting class assignment, leaving far more questions than it does answers by the final page. Two mysterious men walk into a lunch-counter in a small town, tie up the occupants, and declare that they are awaiting ... ...

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  • Vigil held for firefighter in coma after wreck

    Family, friends and co-workers were holding an around-the-clock vigil Wednesday for a firefighter who was critically injured Tuesday afternoon while riding his bicycle in South Austin.Colin Camp, 33, was struck from behind by a pickup shortly after 4 p.m. in the 10500 block of Manchaca Road south of West Slaughter Lane, officials have said. Austin Fire Battalion Chief Palmer Buck said Camp, who ...

  • Residents getting mail again after missing mailboxes replaced

    Two community mailboxes serving more than 30 homeowners disappeared last week from the Crossing Garden Homes neighborhood in Southeast Austin. Residents like Ellen Sweets couldn't get their mail. Nor could they get a straight answer about who would replace the mailboxes and when. Sweets was concerned because she was waiting for a check to pay bills.The mystery was finally solved Wednesday, ...

  • Austin-based Drillinginfo acquires Denver software company

    Drillinginfo Inc., an Austin-based provider of data and intelligence to the oil and gas industry, said Wednesday that it has acquired a Denver-based software company.Transform Software & Services Inc., founded in 2004, develops analytic interpretation and modeling software. It employs 30 ...

  • Development plans ongoing at ACC’s Highland Mall siteMixed-use development part of overall plan

    Austin Community College is taking another step in its vision of turning the former Highland Mall into an educational and workforce-training campus that eventually could be surrounded by shops, apartments and offices.Fast-growing ACC, which owns the former 1.2-million square foot mall on Airport Boulevard and more than 80 acres of land at the site, is seeking a team to come up with a blueprint ...

  • Community Briefing Two Austin groups receive arts grants Pflugerville watering restrictions remain in place

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