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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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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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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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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 ...
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Lawmakers reach consensus on campus construction bonds
An agreement has been reached on allocating an additional $175 million for debt service to accommodate a major round of construction projects on numerous public university campuses across Texas. The Senate gave final approval to the measure House Bill 1025, authored by State Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie on Wednesday evening. The House had previously proposed $200 million in additional ...
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Crews fight heavy fire at Leander home
Central Texas fire crews have extinguished a heavy blaze that broke out at a Leander home Thursday morning, officials said.Lake Travis Fire Rescue and other fire departments responded to the blaze at a home near the 2300 block of Fulkes Lane near Round Mountain Road shortly after 9 a.m., officials said.Crews fought the blaze for more than an hour, and the home appears to be a total loss, ...
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Schools no longer on lockdown after search for forgery suspect
Lockdowns at Webb Middle School and other private schools have been lifted after police secured an area where they searched for a suspect who witnesses said had a gun.Officer Veneza Bremner said that authorities didn't find the man, who is suspected in a forgery and identity theft case but she said patrol officers are still at the scene. Police detained and are questioning a woman who may ...
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Man charged in kickball game brawl
The fight started with a family upset by how Troy Collins was speaking to his daughter at her kickball game on Tuesday, police say.Then it got physical.As Collins went to leave in the parking lot by the kickball fields off St. Johns Avenue in North Austin, Justin Simmons, 22, approached him with a knife, according to the affidavit for Simmons' arrest."I will cut you," the ...