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  • Commissioners vote to add ambulance service in eastern Travis County

    Travis County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to add ambulance service to a fire station in an eastern part of the county that officials say is growing but lacking nearby emergency medical services.If the Austin City Council signs off on the expansion Thursday, a new, part-time Austin-Travis County EMS station will be based in the fire station at FM 969 and Hunters Bend Road starting ...

  • Herman 737 comes to the 512

    The 737 is on final approach, and Central Texas never will be the same.It's our new area code, and it's designed to make it easier to identify the newly arrived Texafornians. No, it's not ...

  • Community News New school board member appointed in Round Rock Elgin to host Sausage and Opera Festival June 1

    Community college to host luncheon Austin Community College's Center for Public Policy and Political Studies is holding a fund-raising luncheon from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Hilton Austin, 500 E. 4th St.This year's event will feature Tom Pauken as the keynote speaker. Pauken, who has said he is running for governor in 2014, served as the former head of the Texas Workforce ...

  • Agencies to target aggressive Central Texas drivers

    Central Texas law enforcement officials said Tuesday they have formed a traffic safety group to try to stem the record pace for deadly encounters on local roadways this year.Their aim will be to stop aggressive driving, whether through increased traffic stops, citations or criminal charges, officials said.In Austin alone, police have reported 29 traffic fatalities in 2013. There were 28 traffic ...

  • Woman gets 50 years for attack on ex-husband

    A woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after she was convicted last week in a vicious attack on her ex-husband in February 2012.A Travis County jury on Friday found Andria Stanley, 32, guilty of aggravated kidnapping and burglary of habitation with an intent to commit a felony, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.After deliberating for more than three hours ...


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Movie Review

Hardball

Harball is a sluggish, "uplifting" Hollywoodized account of a troubled man who finds unlikely redemption by coaching an inner-city baseball team. Adapted by John Gatins (Summer Catch) from Daniel Coyle's 1993 memoir and directed by Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) as Boyz N the Hood meets The Bad News Bears, Hardball is one of those irritatingly "well-intent ... ...

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  • Circuit of the Americas lab team up to conduct eco-friendly research and development

    Austin's Circuit of the Americas will soon be home to several eco-friendly projects that one day might be capable of doing everything from conserving fuel to harnessing solar and wind power.Officials announced Tuesday that Circuit of the Americas will team with the newly formed Pike Powers Laboratory and Center for Commercialization, offering up its 1,500-acre site for research and ...

  • Panel advances 3 UT board nominees to full Senate

    A Senate panel voted 6-0 Tuesday to advance the nominations of three people for the University of Texas System Board of Regents to the full Senate.Gov. Rick Perry's nominees -- Ernest Aliseda of McAllen, Jeff Hildebrand of Houston and Paul Foster of El Paso -- spent four hours Monday before the Nominations Committee, with much of senators' questioning focused on the Austin flagship and ...

  • Jarrell ISD installs safe rooms after 1997 tornado

    One of the scariest aspects of the Oklahoma tornado tragedy is that the twister flattened two schools while children were inside. In Texas, every school district is in charge of its own emergency safety plan in case of disasters. One community in Williamson County knows firsthand what Oklahomans are going through. It was almost 16 years ago that a F5 tornado touched down here in Jarrell, ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 21

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

  • Austin-to-San Francisco route debuts

    Virgin America's new route between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and San Francisco International Airport debuted Tuesday. The inaugeral flight included an in-flight performance by Austin-based band The Bright Light Social Hour.Photo by Virgin ...

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