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  • 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 ...

  • 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 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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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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  • 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 ...

  • Officials Two found dead in northeastern Travis County home

    Two people were found dead Friday afternoon in their home in northeastern Travis County, and sheriff's deputies say they've identified a person of interest in the homicide.The man and woman, whose names have not been released, were discovered about 2:30 p.m. by a person who was checking on a neighbor, sheriff's officials said.The home is located in the 23,000 block of Hog Eye ...

  • 25 years later Austin man is feted as longest heart transplant survivor in Central Texas

    Every Aug. 30 on the birth date they share, Twain Schieffer of Austin talks to the man he and his family call a "miracle worker."Schieffer says Dr. John "Chip" Oswalt saved his life with a heart transplant 25 years ago, and now Schieffert is the longest living heart recipient in a 19-county Central Texas ...

  • Report Icahn seeking $7 billion to back Dell bid

    Carl Icahn, an activist investor, during the 32nd Annual Gala for the Police Foundation in New York, March 16, 2010. The special committee of Dell's board overseeing the sale of the computer maker asked Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, whose combined stake is over 12 percent in the company, on May 13, 2013 to furnish more information about their recent demand for a special ...

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