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Liberty Hill family claims Leander Officer shot their dog
A Liberty Hill family wants a Leander police officer fired after they say he went to the wrong house and wound up shooting their dog. Monday afternoon around 4:45 p.m. Leander PD Officer Woodson Blase went to a home in the 7000 block of FM 3405 in Liberty Hill to serve a probation violation warrant. He says he knocked on the door of this home twice. No answer. Then he says he began to walk ...
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Leander officer shots dog while serving warrant
LIBERTY HILLS, Texas (KXAN) - Some residents in Williamson County say a Leander cop crossed the line when he shot their dog. James Simmons says he and his family were home Monday afternoon when he heard several shots out in front of his home in the 7000 block of FM 3405 in Liberty Hill. The shots were fired by a Leander Police officer who was looking for someone with an outstanding warrant when ...
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Lehmberg speaks about Integrity Unit
AUSTIN (KXAN) - After a DWI arrest, a jail sentence, and a steady stream of written statements, Rosemary Lehmberg reemerged on Tuesday. She was at the Travis County Commissioners Court meeting looking for ways to get back $7 million in funding that was vetoed on Friday by Governor Rick Perry. This is the most important thing pending for me right now, said Lehmberg, who declined to speak about ...
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Man charged with making a terroristic threat against Sen. Ted Cruz
HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston man is accused of threatening to kidnap, murder and burn U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his father and also to "blow up" the sun if he wasn't paid $3 million. Nick Gates was being held Tuesday in the Harris County jail on a $10,000 bond. He's charged with making a terroristic threat. Investigators allege threatening phone calls made June 5 to Cruz's ...
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Senate gives early approval to road spending plan
AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas Senate has given preliminary approval to taking nearly $1 billion a year from the state's reserve fund and spending it on transportation. The constitutional amendment still needs a final vote to send it to the House with one week left in the special session. State transportation leaders say Texas needs to spend $4 billion more a year on transportation to keep up with ...
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Movie Review
3000 Miles to Graceland
Demian Lichtenstein's 3000 Miles to Graceland opens in the middle of the Nevada desert with a close-up, frenetic battle to the death between two seemingly giant computer-generated scorpions with leering cartoonish scowls. Much like the rest of the movie, this opening fight sequence is loud, crude, and too long for its own good. While I am sure that it is intended to have some kind of symbo ... ...
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Cyclist suffers critical injuries after collision with vehicle
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A 60-year-old man was left with critical injuries Tuesday after an auto-bicycle crash near U.S. 290 and William Cannon, according to Austin-Travis County EMS. The accident happened about 11 a.m. near the Y at Oak Hill. He was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge. No other information was immediately available. This is just the most recent accident involving ...
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Travis County discusses Public Integrity Unit funding Lehmberg calls Perry cuts partisan misguided
cut about $3.7 million in annual funding to her office."It feels partisan and it's misguided, as far as I'm concerned," Lehmberg said in a brief interview with reporters after addressing county commissioners for about 45 minutes Tuesday morning.Lehmberg appeared before Travis County commissioners to talk about Perry's line-item veto in her first public appearance since ...
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Seton moving ahead on costlier teaching hospital
Jess Garza, president and CEO of the Seton Healthcare Family, was one of several officials to speak at a press conference about the plans for a new teaching hospital. Ricardo B. ...
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Extent of game maker’s Austin layoffs revealed
Video game maker Zynga Inc. laid off dozens of employees in Austin and Dallas earlier this month, documents show.In letters to the Texas Workforce Commission, the company responsible for games such as "Words With Friends," said it was laying off 34 employees in Austin and was closing its Dallas office, eliminating 62 jobs. Most of the layoffs were effective June ...
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House Redistricting Committee passes trio of maps
State Rep. Drew Darby got the numbers right Tuesday.A day after an embarrassing miscount that led to the failure to pass a House bill outlining boundaries for Texas House districts, the chamber's Redistricting Committee chairman was able to take a legislative mulligan of sorts.State Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, put aside Monday's mistake -- as well as the House's redistricting ...