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  • CPRIT reforms headed to governor

    Reforms for the scandal-ridden cancer agency are headed to the governor's desk.The Senate has concurred with House changes to Senate Bill 149 that increases checks-and-balances at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of ...

  • Former yogurt shop defendant seeking $700000 for time in prison

    Yogurt shop defendant Robert Springsteen, right, walks out of the Travis County Jail with his attorney Joe James Sawyer after being released on personal bond in Austin on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Austin American-Statesman/Rodolfo ...

  • San Marcos purchases land for airport expansion

    The San Marcos Airport will have room to expand after the San Marcos City Council voted this week to acquire 42 acres next to the airport.The parcel, which will cost $650,000, is currently owned by Texas State University and is used as a traffic safety center, hosting classes like motorcycle safety and drivers ...

  • Austin now 11th-largest but where are these people coming from

    Austin is the 11th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of about 843,000, but it's the 33rd-largest metro area in the country with about 1.8 million residents. The recent news that Austin is the 11th-largest U.S. city, according to Census numbers, shocked a lot of people. We're growing fast, but that fast? It seems like only yesterday we were ranked No. 13. Oh, wait, that was ...

  • Smells like special session at Texas Capitol

    Lawmakers have until Monday to wrap up their regular-session work. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is keeping quiet until the last moment on whether a special session will occur, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has made it clear he wants one. At the start of May, Perry advised lawmakers that one of the best ways to avoid a special session would be to show him a budget with $1.8 billion of tax relief for ...


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Movie Review

The Omen (2006)

The Omen (2006)

The opening scene of John Moore's remake of 1976's The Omen presents us with a series of uneasy recent news images--the space shuttle exploding, the Twin Towers falling, the tsunami in Thailand, violence in the Middle East--that are meant to be interpreted as the fulfillment of signs in Bi ... ...

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  • Heat Awareness Day in time of Memorial Day Weekend

    KXAN (Austin) - With the holiday weekend kicking off, summer activities, many are reminded to beware of the deadly heat. Friday is Heat Awareness Day. The National Weather Service said heat is one of the leading weather-realted killers in the U.S. "Take extra precaution on those mornings you have a change in routine such as someone different taking the child to take care or sleeping late ...

  • Owner of sick abandoned dog charged with cruelty

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - When a Northwest Austin apartment manager went to check in on a former tenants residence in early April, she expected to find it empty, but what she found on the back porch was an unwelcome and unsightly surprise. It was cold and raining outside. The tenant had terminated his lease three days earlier. But there, huddled in the corner of the porch, was a white terrier with dirty, ...

  • Report Austin Ventures wants $450M to fund startups

    Austin Ventures LP is reportedly going back to targeting the type of companies that helped it grow initially early-stage startups. The Austin investment firm plans to raise a $450 million fund to focus on those types of companies, Bloomberg reported Friday. Austin Ventures, the dominant investment firm in Texas, has been largely focused on less risky later-stage investments in recent years ...

  • Senate expected to confirm UT regents

    AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Senate is expected to confirm three of Gov. Rick Perry's appointments to the University of Texas System regents, positions that are being closely watched as lawmakers have clashed with the board in recent months. The board is the governing body for the nine-campus system and Perry has re-appointed vice chairman Paul Foster of El Paso to a new six year term. New ...

  • Capital Metro bus involved in traffic accident

    Austin Police responded to the scene of a traffic accident at North Lamar and Research Blvd involving a Capital Metro bus and another vehicle Friday morning. All lanes of southbound Lamar Blvd have been blocked off, and one lane of northbound Research Blvd is shut down to traffic. There have been no reports of ...

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