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    We're only a few days away from our Memorial Day weekend! As we honor all our Veterans who have fought so hard to defend our freedom, we also celebrate and kick off the ...

  • Local company helps create mobile kitchens

    FOX 7's Tania Ortega reported live on a local company that helps entrepreneurs looking to break into the food truck business create the perfect kitchens on ...

  • APD looking for armed suspect in northeast Austin

    Austin Police are looking for a male suspect the believe may be armed in the St. John's area in northeast Austin. STAR Flight is helping search for the suspect. As a precaution, Webb Middle School is on lock down. Police urged people to avoid the area if ...

  • Armed person reported near Webb school Armed person reported near Webb school

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police on Thursday were looking for someone who might have been armed after leaving a bank in the area of Webb Middle School. The report prompted authorities to lock down the school around 10:30 a.m. while the searching continued. According to police, a person was acting suspiciously at a bank near St. Johns Avenue and Interstate 35. They said the person may have been planning to ...

  • Fire destroys home in Leander Fire destroys home in Leander

    LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) - A fire destroyed a home in 23500 block of Fulkes Lane Leander on Thursday morning. No one was injured and two dogs inside the house were rescued. The fire was reported at around 9 a.m. Extra crews were called in to put it out. KXAN has a crew in place and this report will be updated as more details ...


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You, Me and Dupree

You, Me and Dupree

Like any other genre, comedy tends to run cycles, and for the past decade American comedies have gotten stuck into a rut that future film historians will most likely label the comedy of arrested development. Emasculated men have frequently been the center of comedy (see, for ex ... ...

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  • Bill to rein in Texas events fund passes House

    Sen. Kirk Watson The scope of projects receiving reimbursement from two of Texas' event trust funds is set to change due to a bill passed by the House this week. Senate Bill 1678, filed by State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, seeks to make economic incentive programs relating to events more effective and to improve on the general administration of the programs. It proposes limiting Texas' ...

  • 48 in Austin 2000 nationwide Companies that caught Social Madness

    Keep up with our Social Madness blog here. Since Social Madness nominations closed last week, our colleagues at American City Business Journals Inc., parent company of the Austin Business Journal, have been busy vetting entries and tallying final numbers for each market. Several local companies slid in just under the wire, bringing the total number of local contestants to 48. You can check out ...

  • Video 300-yard wooden railroad bridge in Central Texas collapses after catching fire

    The bridge, across the Colorado River between San Saba and Lometa, burnt down and collaped after firefighters spent 15 hours attempting to put out the blaze before deciding to let it burn down.The Lometa Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Jamie Smart, who shot the video, said that nobody was hurt in the blaze in rural Lampasas County.Mr Smart said he heard someone shouting "there she ...

  • Austin moves to No. 11 among US cities

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday validated what most people here had figured out long ago: Austin is among the nation's fastest-growing cities. Texas' capital city also shot from the 13th largest U.S. city to No. 11, and the state led the nation in overall population growth for the year that ended July 1, 2012, the Census Bureau said. "The fastest-growing ...

  • Ballistics tests still pending on DPS helicopter shooting

    Six months after a grand jury investigation was promised into the South Texas shooting deaths of two Guatemalan immigrants in a pickup truck being pursued by a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter, the case has yet to go forward.How come? Officials say that fragmentary evidence recovered from the controversial incident near the Mexican border is still awaiting processing in crime labs in ...

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