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  • No-refusal numbers 24 overnight No-refusal numbers 24 overnight

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police report that Saturday night's no-refusal initiative netted 24 people. The Austin Police Department has begun implementing no-refusal weekend during major events and holidays. Last night, 24 people were picked up on suspicion of driving will intoxicated. Of those 24, 11 consented to breath tests and 13 involved blood draws. Of the 13 blood draws, 2 gave consent ...

  • Flash flood watch in effect all day Flash flood watch in effect all day

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The rainy pattern we saw across central Texas on Friday is persisting Saturday. A series of disturbances continue to rotate through the area riding an upper-level trough. These disturbances are interacting with plentiful low and mid-level moisture, combining to form scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms for the second day in a row. Rainfall totals Friday were the ...

  • Holland matches up with Felix in Seattle

    Their once-heralded future of the franchise has been sent to the Minors, and they've lost seven in a row. The Mariners have seen better days. How quickly they must forget if they're to move on from their 20-28 start to the season and begin a fight back up the standings in the American League West. "People have really short memories," said manager Eric Wedge. ...

  • The age of IRAs

    If you are in your 20s or 30s, I have a tip for you: Learn about IRA accounts. They are the retirement vehicles for your future.Few have figured this out. Individual Retirement Accounts get little attention because our personal and media focus is on 401(k) and 403(b) accounts sponsored by employers. Worse, IRA accounts have much lower contribution limits. This year, the maximum contribution to ...

  • Retirement in sight for longtime orthopedic surgeon

    Dr. L.D. Greenway, an Austin orthopedic surgeon in practice for 50 years and change, swears he's going to retire this year from his practice at the Austin Bone and Joint Clinic, and one of the factors driving him to that move is out of his control: He has cancer.We profiled Greenway, much admired for his work ethic, attention to patients and unimpeachable sartorial sensibilities, in June ...


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Unbreakable [Blu-Ray]

Unbreakable [Blu-Ray]

There was no way for M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable to avoid comparisons to his previous film, The Sixth Sense, which surprised everyone in the summer of 1999 by becoming the 10th highest all-time domestic box-office earner and garnering six Academy Award nominations, inc ... ...

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  • 30 years ago MCC consortium helped ‘put Austin on the technology map’

    Way back in primitive times -- 1983 -- Austin was a smaller and simpler place.Willie lived in the neighborhood, but the Armadillo World Headquarters was already ...

  • Are Texas lawmakers too gullible spending your money

    How gullible are Texas lawmakers?A Rutgers University expert on economic incentives posed that question to me as I was researching House Bill 2061,which would have provided loans to small businesses in poor ...

  • Top Local Business Stories of the Week

    Austin-area home sales jump 32 percent in April: Continuing on their upswing, Central Texas home sales jumped 32 percent last month, the highest level for an April in nine years, the latest figures show.The area's median home price rose 8 percent from April 2012, with half the homes selling for more than $227,250 and half for less, the Austin Board of Realtors said in its monthly report.The ...

  • The top local stories of the week

    Andria Stanley, 32, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after she was convicted last week on four felony charges in a vicious attack on her ex-husband in February 2012. A Travis County jury on Friday found Stanley guilty of aggravated kidnapping and burglary of habitation with an intent to commit a felony, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly ...

  • Special session appears likely

    While nothing is official, the prevailing assumption around the Capitol is that lawmakers, and their staffs, will be called back to work quickly for a special session.Gov. Rick Perry refused to address the possibility when reporters hounded him on the House floor Friday, but legislators from both parties said they expect the governor to order them back to work soon after Monday, the final day of ...

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