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AngelHack bringing startup competition to Austin
AngelHack -- a weekend competition where teams work together to create new products -- is coming to Austin.Started in San Francisco in 2011, the event brings together developers and entrepreneurs, who have 36 hours to come up with an idea, develop it and pitch the results to mentors and ...
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Comedy 102.7 off the air the Zone replaces morning host
Comedy 102.7 is gone from Austin's airwaves.The station's demise was one of two radio shakeups to happen on Thursday. Also, Bucky Godbolt of "The Buck on Sports" morning show on 1300 KVET-AM, was replaced by a San Antonio-based ...
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No refusal weekend for drivers boaters starts Friday
The Austin Police Department is conducting one of their no refusal weekends this Memorial Day weekend. That mean that if you're pulled over either in a vehicle or a boat for suspicion of driving or boating while intoxicated and you refuse a breathalyzer test a warrant will be issued and you will have to give a blood sample. The no refusal weekend runs from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. on ...
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Body of Kingsland teen recovered from Inks Lake
The body of an 18-year-old who was on a picnic with his church group when he disappeared in the water was recovered from Inks Lake in Burnet on Thursday, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.Johnny Mosely, of Kingsland was swimming with a friend from the shore to the park store about 100 yards across the water when he apparently experienced difficulty and went under water, ...
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Police searching for possible assault victim
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police are looking for a woman who they believe may have been assaulted by a man early Tuesday in North Austin. Witnesses reported seeing a man dragging a woman in a chokehold by her hair towards a car about 3:12 a.m., on an Interstate 35 service road near a residential community on River Oaks Drive. As the man pulled her towards a car, a witness drove by and the man told the ...
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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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18-year-old dies in Inks Lake
On Thursday afternoon an 18-year-old man died in Inks Lake from an apparent drowning. According to an Inks Lake State Park official, Johnny Mosely was with a church group picnicking at the park around 11:00 AM. He and his friend went into the water and began swimming toward the park store which was approximately 100 yards across the water. While swimming, Mosely suffered some sort of ...
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APD Half-naked man charged with indecency with a child
Authorities say a half-naked man led officers on a foot chase Tuesday night in East Austin after a woman reported seeing him standing outside, with an erection, starring into the bedroom window of her two young boys. Austin police say when they arrived at the apartments located in the 1400 block of East 12th Street, the suspect later identified as 46-year-old John Dwight Ormiston was only ...
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Some fixes in the works for congested Y
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Relief might be on the way to one of Austin's most congested areas -- the so-called Y in Oak Hill. The Texas Department of Transportation is installing turn lanes on U.S. 290 near Ranch Road 1826. The project could take two years to complete Another project will begin this summer. Crews will put in what are called "continuous flow" intersections between the Y and Joe ...
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Peak Rock Capital acquires Miami paper maker
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital has acquired Atlas Paper Mills LLC, a Miami-based tissue paper maker. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a news release. A spokesman for Austin-based Peak Rock declined to reveal the name of the affiliate company. Atlas Paper Mills, founded in 1981, manufactures tissue products using 100 percent recycled fiber. It employs 2,000 workers, ...
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Software maker Datical raises $1M financing
From left, Robert Reeves, Daniel Nelson and Pete Pickerill are the founders of Datical Inc. Software maker Datical Inc. completed a $1 million financing. The Austin-based company collected the capital from 10 investors, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Datical, which was founded in 2012, develops database management software. It was launched by ...