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  • Police Man sexually assaulted teen in North Austin

    Two 15-year-old girls told police a man sexually assaulted one of them after they got in his car in North Austin, according to an arrest affidavit.Frank Edward Nelson, 25, has been charged with sexual assault of a child and driving while intoxicated, records show. He was in the Travis County Jail on Friday night on $75,000 bail, records show.According to the affidavit, the girls were hanging out ...

  • Travis County faces ambulance shortage

    Austin and Travis County are growing. With that growth comes an increased need for emergency services. The disagreement is how to make sure there are no gaps in geographical coverage. "We started this journey back in October 2012 when the commissioner's court unanimously approved to move forward with the three ambulances necessary for appropriate coverage," said Tony Marquardt, ...

  • CSCOPE wont get a state review CSCOPE wont get a state review

    AUSTIN (AP) - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The State Board of Education is scrapping its special panel to review a controversial curriculum system, after its creators agreed to stop offering lesson plans. CSCOPE had helped teachers adhere to state educational requirements by offering Web-based lesson plans and exams. But some conservatives claimed CSCOPE promoted anti-American values. That prompted the ...

  • Crews investigating reports of smoke at downtown building

    Fire crews said smoke could be seen coming from a vent at 301 Congress Ave. downtown, but no flames were reported.Several fire trucks lined Congress Avenue and Third Street to investigate a report of smoke about 6:45 p.m. Friday.Police blocked a portion of Third Street at North Congress avenue to assist ...

  • Senate confirms 3 nominees to UT board

    Three nominees to the University of Texas System Board of Regents won confirmation Friday evening by the state Senate. The vote was 30-1, with Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, casting the no vote.Two of the regents are new to the board: Houston businessman Jeff Hildebrand and McAllen lawyer Ernest Aliseda. Gov. Rick Perry reappointed El Paso businessman Paul ...


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Catch Me If You Can [Blu-Ray]

Catch Me If You Can [Blu-Ray]

Steven Spielbergs Catch Me If You Can tells the you-wouldnt-believe-it-if-it-werent-true tale of one Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., who, at the age of 16, dropped out of high school, ran away from home, and took control of his life by developing into a masterful con artist and p ... ...

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  • Budget agreement avoids layoffs at UT System

    The University of Texas System would be spared from having to lay off about a third of its more than 600 employees under the proposed two-year state budget crafted by Texas House and Senate negotiators.But other spending restrictions -- regarding board travel, food and meeting expenses, as well as investigations of the 15 academic and health campuses -- would be imposed on the UT ...

  • Austin Marine donates his bar for Memorial Day

    AUSTN (KXAN) - This Memorial Day weekend, a Marine veteran turned Austin bar owner is opening his business to honor wounded and fallen service members. We have a couple groups were going to try and push money towards, said Jason White, a Marine Staff Sergeant about to retire after ten years with the Corps and live life in the private sector. Last February the 34 year-old White opened the The ...

  • Community News Memorial will honor Johnston high’s Vietnam veterans Austin Community College campus in Elgin hosts fair

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  • UT beefs up disclosure policies in wake of fracking controversy

    After a conflict-of-interest controversy involving a natural gas drilling report that roiled the University of Texas last year, the university has expanded its financial disclosure and peer review policies, according to a letter written this spring by the university provost.The 2012 report, published by the university's Energy Institute, had declared in its summary that there was little or ...

  • Former yogurt shop suspect seeks compensation for imprisonment

    A man whose conviction was overturned in the brutal killing of one of four teenage girls found slain at an Austin yogurt shop in 1991 has asked a federal court to clear his name.If the court finds him innocent, Robert Springsteen IV could collect more than $700,000 from the state for wrongful imprisonment, according to a petition filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Austin. Springsteen spent ...

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