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Survey Crime and homelessness drop in Austin but poverty on the rise
Austin has made gains in its efforts to tackle some of its toughest community problems in recent years, improving its crime rate, unemployment numbers and percent of uninsured people, according to a report released Thursday.But although Austin weathered the recession better than most of the country, the city continues to struggle with a rising poverty level and more people are paying over 30 ...
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Man accused of setting apartment brother’s house on fire
A man has been accused of setting multiple fires in his home, and then hours later setting his brother's house on fire, according to an arrest affidavit.Robert Daniel Cummins, 32, was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of arson.Fire investigators were called to the Sierra Vista Apartments at 4320 S. Congress Avenue about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, the affidavit said. Apartment personnel ...
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Artist Jimmy Jalapeeno remembered for Hill Country landscapes
Austin artist Albert James Bonar -- who was known to his friends and signed his paintings as Jimmy Jalapeeno -- died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.Born Jan. 5, 1947, in Bryan, Bonar was proud of saying he was a lifelong Texas resident but for a couple years when he attended graduate school at the University of California, Davis, where he received a master's ...
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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Photo credit: Getty Images | Members of Scouts for Equality hold a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America as part of the "Scouts for Equality Day of Action" in Washington, DC. (May 22, ...
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City recognizes fallen soldier
A former Austin Energy employee was honored by the Austin City Council Thursday. Army Sergeant Jaime Gonzalez was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2008. He worked at Austin Energy before he was deployed in 2006. Thursday, the City Council held a proclamation ceremony to recognize local heroes in honor of Memorial Day. The ceremony included a special tribute to Sergeant Gonzalez. ...
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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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Round Rock Police are looking for daycare robbers
Round Rock Police are looking for two suspects they say are responsible for robbing a woman in her car outside a daycare and breaking into another car. According to police, a mother was picking up her children from the Primrose School of Round Rock on Forest Creek Drive Wednesday when she was robbed. The woman saw the suspect breaking into her car as she left the daycare. The suspect jumped ...
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Police officer charged with shooting cat with arrow
BOERNE, Texas (KXAN) - Bobby, a 2-year-old tabby cat, survived being shot with an arrow and the off-duty Boerne police officer accused of the shooting was charged with animal cruelty. According the WOAI, the NBC affiliate in San Antonio, Officer Lance DeLeon was arrested and accused of shooting Bobby with a crossbow on Tuesday. The four-year police veteran was released after posting a $2,000 ...
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Titts Treats to open South Austin location
Leon Chen, CEO of Tiff's Treats, said customer data determines where the cookie maker opens new stores. Tiffs Treats, the purveryor of warm cookies delivered to your door, will open a shop in Southwest Austin later this summer or in early fall. Our customers in South Austin have had to go to Westlake or downtown for Tiffs Treats, and now well be in a very popular center, said Leon Chen, ...
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Woman hit by car as burglars make off with purse
ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) - A woman was struck by a fleeing getaway car after she saw a man stealing her purse at a Round Rock daycare. The incident happened Wednesday at the Primrose School of Round Rock, 3313 Forrest Creek Drive , at about 4:30 p.m. After the woman picked up her children, she noticed a man breaking into her vehicle. The man jumped into a newer-model silver Ford Focus driven by ...
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Austin Energy to resume service cutoffs
AUSTIN (KXAN) - For the first time in a year, Austin Energy will begin shutting off energy to customers who are not paying their bills. Ed Clark says cutting a customer off is a last resort and will only happen after all possible warnings and requests are ignored. We will do phone calls, letters, door hangers, said Clark. But once we have communicated and sent notices, at some point we will do a ...