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50 arrested for DWI during ROT Rally
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Bikers in town for the Republic of Texas rally kept first responders and police busy over the weekend. EMS workers across Travis County responded to 21 motorcycle-related incidents between Thursday and Sunday, including one fatal wreck after a woman was thrown from a motorcycle Thursday. Seventeen people were taken to area hospitals. Austin Police also had a busy weekend. During ...
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Three churches drop Boy Scouts over decision on gays
Three Central Texas churches have revoked their sponsorship of scouting troops over the recent membership policy change by the Boys Scouts of America to allow openly gay scouts.The three troops have a combined membership of about 185 boys. One troop in Pflugerville has already found another church sponsor and a second is in discussions with a new church, according to a regional office of Boy ...
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Gunman victim identified in fatal shooting in Round Rock
Sarai Valdez and her boyfriend, Jonathan DeMarco, hugged Valdez's father on Sunday and wished him a happy Father's Day, a relative said.A few hours later DeMarco shot Valdez, 23, to death in the driveway of the Round Rock duplex where she had just moved in with a ...
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Community News 2 lanes of northbound I-35 access road to close near Riverside Drive
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Study Men are the weaker sex
Recent research finds men are the weaker sex. These findings suggest men are more fragile than us women, because in every age category, females were consistently outliving males. Death is not an equal opportunist. "You may have a little bit of nerves beforehand, but once you jump out of the airplane or you're in the wind tunnel, nothing else really matters and you just have that ...
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Maîtresse [DVD]
When the two men break into the apartment, they think they are entering the abode of an elderly woman who is on vacation in the south of France. Instead, they find a dungeon filled with all kinds of kinky sexual devices, from leather masks and stiletto heels, to whips and chains, to a full-sized crucifix. As one the men ventures deeper in the recesses of the apartment, he comes across a frighteni ... ...
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Crimewatch APD forms unit to handle increasing hit-and-run incidents
It's a crime that has gotten so bad, that the Austin Police Department now has its own unit to handle it. Detectives get hundreds of leaving the scene cases a month...about 800. They say it affects all of us because it's not a victimless crime, everyone's insurance goes up. Austin police are seeing so many leaving the scene accidents that they formed a new unit to handle them. ...
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Names of victims officers involved in Round Rock shooting released
Round Rock police have released the names of two officers who shot a man in a domestic disturbance Sunday. Police say officers Tracy Lawrence and Noah Moncivias were called to the 1900 block of Nicole Circle around 5:30 Sunday afternoon. Witnesses say Jonathan Demarco shot his estranged girlfriend, Sarai Valdez, in front of the home. Officers Lawrence and Moncivias told Demarco to put his ...
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Poll shows Perry losing support but leading Abbott
Governor Rick Perry is in Connecticut on a job-recruiting trip for the state of Texas, and he is expected to announce in the coming weeks whether he'll make another run for president. Before he does some new poll numbers suggest he has a long way to go before any dreams of living in the White House would come true. According to the new poll, he's got a lot of homework to do, not just ...
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Troopers software helps nab more DWI suspects
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) - State Trooper Michael Reisen says he knows what it's like to be hit by a drunk driver, and he is lucky to be alive. "We average about 1,100 to 1,200 fatalities a year (because of) DWI's in the state of Texas," Reisen said, "which is usually in the top one or two in the nation." He says those alarming numbers was his motivation to take ...
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OneWest Bank to lay off 725 workers
Executives with OneWest Bank say 725 workers will lose their jobs here in an Austin call center as the company is acquired as part of a $2.53 billion deal. OneWest is being acquired by Ocwen Financial Corporation. In a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission, the company says layoffs will begin August 31. About 150 employees will be kept at the Austin call ...