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  • Acevedo debates gun control on Twitter

    For months Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has lobbied lawmakers to expand background checks to more gun sales. On Sunday night, the debate continued on Twitter, where the city's top police officer sparred with users over the need for increased gun control.It certainly wasn't the first time Acevedo has engaged with the Twitter population and discussed why he thinks new gun restrictions ...

  • Man charged with stealing 15 cell phones at bar Man charged with stealing 15 cell phones at bar

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - A man charged with taking cell phones out of womens purses was arrested early Saturday morning at a bar on East Sixth Street. Josue Vivar-Hernandez, 28, is accused of being in possession of an estimated 15 stolen cell phones. He was detained shortly after 2 a.m. at the bar Aquarium after manager Tyler Carr told police he saw the suspect snatching phones out of the purses of ...

  • Dell committee wants more info from buyout group

    Dell Inc. wants more information again from the investor group challenging CEO Michael Dells shareholder buyout. The companys special committee formed to consider buyout offers has asked billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. for more details about their takeover plan, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 computer maker in the ...

  • Vista Equity Partners to pay $1B for Calif. tech company

    Vista Equity Partners has agreed to buy out the shareholders of a California software company for about $1 billion. The Austin-based firm would pay $24.75 per share for Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), the developer of software and provider of services designed to protect companies from cyber attacks and data theft, according to a Websense news release. The Websense board of directors have approved ...

  • Austin MA deals worth $11.75B in 2012 slideshow

    Click through this slideshow for the top five M&A deals last year, and click here to take a look back at the 12 most-read M&A stories in 2012. It is no surprise to Austin Business Journal readers that deals abound in the Austin area we report on them every day. The Mergers & Acquisitions list in our May 17-23 print issue summarizes the top 25 transactions involving local companies in ...


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Movie Review

The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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  • State agency investigating Burnet jail death

    BURNET, Texas (KXAN) - The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has opened an investigation into the apparent suicide of a capital murder suspect in the Burnet County Jail over the weekend. Brandon Wood, the executive director of the jail standards commission, said Monday that his office was notified of the death of Gregory Mark Currie, 30. Currie's body was discovered in his cell Saturday. ...

  • List of Top 10 area high schools is out

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The list of the Top 10 high schools throughout the Central Texas area is out, and two schools from the Austin Independent School District made the cut. Top 10 public high schools in Central Texas Harmony Science Academy in North Austin Nyos Charter School Westlake High School (Eanes ISD) Westwood High School (Round Rock ISD) Star Charter School (Chaparral Star Academy) Dripping ...

  • First lane closures on MoPac begin as two-year project approaches

    What is likely to be a frustrating two-plus years of highway construction on MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) will take its first tangible form over the next couple of months as surveying and soil sampling occurs between Lady Bird Lake and Parmer Lane.The good news is that the work, and the rolling lane closures, will occur between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. when traffic is light on the highway. The only daytime ...

  • Firefighter dies in Dallas condo complex blaze

    DALLAS (AP) - Dallas firefighters have recovered the body of a comrade who reported by radio being trapped while battling a condominium complex blaze. A U.S. flag covered the firefighter's body when it was removed from the rubble Monday morning. The firefighter's name wasn't immediately released. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says two firefighters were transported to ...

  • Law enforcement targeting seatbelt violators

    Texas law enforcement officers will be out over the next few weeks looking for drivers who are not wearing their seatbelts. FOX 7's Tania Ortega reported live from I-35 this morning on the "Click It or Ticket" ...

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