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  • Lawsuit alleges RunTex owes lender $625000

    RunTex's money woes continue, with a lawsuit alleging that the troubled retailer owes a lender $625,000.That's in addition to a $150,000 judgment obtained by the store's ...

  • Police 72-year-old exposed himself to children at mall

    A 72-year-old man was arrested Sunday after police say he exposed himself to children at a Barton Creek Square mall restroom last year, according to an arrest affidavit.James Hughey Rankin of Austin has been charged with indecency with a child (exposure).An 11-year-old boy told police that he was helping his little brother wash his hands at a restroom near the food court on Feb. 23, 2012, when ...

  • Report Poverty increasing rapidly in Austin suburbs

    A sobering new report was issued Monday that may have you looking at your neighbor in a completely different way. According to the Brookings Institute, the suburbs have become a new battleground in the war against poverty. At the LBJ Library you can learn about President Johnson's dream of the great society and his war on poverty. The report issued Monday is a warning that the safety net ...

  • Event helps injured veterans get benefits

    Veterans injured while on active duty often have to go through a long, complicated process in order to get the disability benefits they're entitled to. According to the Texas Veterans Commission, the average time for getting a decision on a VA claim is 18 to 24 months. Monday, the Texas Veterans Commission teamed up with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the "Take the ...

  • Lake Austin struggles through drought Lake Austin struggles through drought

    Steve Present is a one-man patrol out on Lake Austin, constantly monitor the pesky hydrilla that just doesn't seem to go away. "We're starting to see that hydrilla grow again it's probably about a foot under the water," said Present, whose home is on Lake Austin. "And we've noticed the water temperatures warm up quite a bit so we expect it to bloom here shortly as ...


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Movie Review

Silver Bullet [DVD]

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was always one of the prolific novelist's slightest works, a short, readable-in-one-sitting novelette constructed as a series of 12 episodes in which a werewolf terrorizes a small American town, with each one corresponding to a month of the year. With a punchy, present-tense prose style and almost no characterization, the best thing about it were the gra ... ...

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  • Appeals court upholds age limit to carry handguns

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law that says 18-20-year-olds cannot receive a concealed handgun license.The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Texas law limiting handgun licenses is constitutional. Lawmakers had decided that those under 21 were not mature enough to carry concealed handguns in public. The law makes an exception for members of ...

  • MoPac lanes closing nightly to prepare for project to add toll lanes

    MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) will see the first lane closures beginning this week as part of a two-plus year project to widen the expressway and add a toll lane in each direction between Lady Bird Lake and Parmer Lane.The work, surveying and soil sampling, will cause rolling lane closures between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.The only daytime activity, likely to happen next week, will be some helicopter flyovers ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

  • Interview questions spark criticism possible legal action

    GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) - When applying for work, jobseekers generally aren't arent asked about their political, religious, or moral beliefs. In most cases employers know they cant ask those sorts of questions under the U.S. Constitution and equal employment opportunity rules. But Williamson County commissioners dont believe those rules applied when they appointed a new constable. After ...

  • Man charged in South Austin carjacking

    Austin Police have charged a man after they say he and a juvenile suspect carjacked a woman in south Austin. Police say on May 16, a woman was washing her White Infiniti G37 Sport Coupe in a car wash bay in the 6700 block of South Congress Ave when she was approached by two men. Police say 18-year-old David Eduardo Martinez, armed with a gun and a juvenile suspect, armed with a drill, ...

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