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| Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:32:36 EDT |
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Trial begins in firefighter death; typhus has been here before.
HAYS COUNTY
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| Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:22:33 EDT |
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Schools: Bastrop High teacher wins region award; Round Rock, Hays bus stops cut
BASTROP
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:51:08 EDT |
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Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center coming to Taylor
TAYLOR — Texas Tech University and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center have signed on to become academic partners at the East Williamson County Higher Education Center outside Taylor.
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:26:28 EDT |
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Immigrant 'sanctuary city' idea under scrutiny
Signaling a revival of the illegal immigration debate in the 2009 legislative session, two Republican state lawmakers have asked Attorney General Greg Abbott to weigh in on a thorny subject: "sanctuary cities."
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:56:14 EDT |
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Firefighters challenge drug-testing proposal
Austin fire union officials have challenged a proposal that would require firefighters to be randomly drug tested, saying they want to know what prompted the possible policy because the city already has rules prohibiting drug use among workers.
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:57:08 EDT |
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Man killed in Ben White wreck ID'd; police say pot found at burned house
AUSTIN
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:11:37 EDT |
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Armstrong tops list of city's largest water users
Every minute, about five gallons of water passed through the sinks, sprinklers, fountain and pool at Lance Armstrong's house in June, making the retired professional cyclist Austin's biggest water-using individual that month.
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:41:27 EDT |
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Trial opens in 1990 cabby killings
The death penalty trial of Alberto Garcia started Monday with prosecutors promising to show that fingerprints, bullet analyses and the statements of friends prove that he killed two Austin taxi drivers in 1990.
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:27:06 EDT |
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New Texas alert program aims to find those who harm officers
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday announced the creation of a system that would broadcast descriptions of people suspected of injuring or killing law enforcement officers to the media and on electronic billboards across the state.
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:23:33 EDT |
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Civil rights, political activist dies
For Mae Harris Marion, politics was a passion, even until the very end.
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| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:19:33 EDT |
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Bonds could pay for Williamson roadwork
A two-lane road crucial to Williamson County's budding higher-education hub could get the expansion that officials say is needed if commissioners agree today to call a bond referendum for two newly created road districts.
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:41:57 EDT |
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PEC reveals more details about secret account
The Pedernales Electric Cooperative continued its efforts to rehabilitate its tattered image Monday, gaining legal control of and releasing new details about a previously undisclosed bank account. It also agreed to abide by sweeping new policies guaranteeing its members access to meetings and co-op records.
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:24:12 EDT |
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Some tips for your 12-year-old designated driver
In some ways it was good parenting last week when police said a mother in Longview got her 12-year-old daughter to drive her to a bar so Mom could celebrate her birthday.
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:10:19 EDT |
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Move over, Gatorade: UT's mix joins league of sports drinks
Longhorn swimmers such as Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker and Aaron Peirsol aren't the only products of the University of Texas making a splash at the Beijing Olympic Games.
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:19:32 EDT |
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Health Institute elects board members; Austin Lyric Opera board fills slots
Institute elects leaders
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:17:37 EDT |
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An education in Islam
A decade ago, the Austin area had no Islamic schools. Most Muslim parents sent their kids to public schools and hoped that exposure to drinking, immodest clothing and other un-Islamic behavior wouldn't undermine their religious values.
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:31:23 EDT |
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Environmental group signs off on coal-fired power plant
When the Environmental Defense Fund signed a deal with utility NRG Texas late last month to end its opposition to a plan for a new coal-fired power plant in Limestone County, about 140 miles northeast of Austin, the advocacy group cheered that it had won concessions that will make a dent in the global warming problem.
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:57:56 EDT |
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Street collapses in Bastrop; man falls off cliff near mall.
BASTROP
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| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:33:55 EDT |
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Drugs, mental health and the justice system
At a forum on the justice system's treatment of mental illness and drug use, defense lawyer Leonard Martinez said Sunday that he wouldn't mind being put out of business if it meant the war on drugs would end.
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| Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:21:20 EDT |
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Local teens become Eagle Scouts
The following students have been promoted to Eagle Scouts, the highest level of recognition in the Boy Scouts of America:
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| Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:19:44 EDT |
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Austin-area hospitals: Nursing shortage easing
Despite a hospital building boom and growing demand for nurses in Central Texas, officials from the area's two largest hospital systems say they have fewer nursing vacancies than they did several years ago.
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| Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:28:51 EDT |
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Cap Metro offers lessons to stay upright
Is comedian Bill Engvall working for Capital Metro?
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| Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:49:15 EDT |
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Traffic Report
STATE AND U.S. HIGHWAYS
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:49:51 EDT |
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Shooting suspect arrested after standoff; chances of rain in Central Texas increase this week
AUSTIN
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:24:59 EDT |
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Hill Country family had powerful grip on utility
For more than 50 years, Pedernales Electric Cooperative directors protected a prominent Hill Country family's interests in co-op business with board resolutions and practices that continued even though questions were raised about the ties decades ago.
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:35:18 EDT |
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Homegrown ArmadilloCon keeps the focus on books
Austin's homegrown ArmadilloCon might be a science fiction convention, but don't expect to see many people there wearing elf ears or "Star Trek" uniforms.
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:49:12 EDT |
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Austin cabbies' accused killer facing death penalty
From the time he was arrested for bringing a gun to South Austin's Fulmore Junior High School in 1979, Alberto Garcia has been in trouble with the law, many times being accused and convicted of robbing people at gunpoint, according to court documents and prosecutors.
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:22:13 EDT |
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Recruiters fill void after immigration raids
The largest single-site workplace raid in U.S. history may have cost a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa nearly half its employees, but it's been a boon to labor recruiters around the country.
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:54:34 EDT |
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Apartment residents waiting to retrieve belongings from fire-damaged units
Nearly three weeks after a fire gutted their building at the Retreat at Barton Creek, an apartment complex on South Lamar Boulevard, several residents say they still don't know if any of their belongings can be salvaged.
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| Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:45:26 EDT |
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CENTRAL TEXAS DIGEST
AUSTIN
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