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Finding out if AE really needs to collect as much as they're asking was the first objective on Wednesday's meeting. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:59:46 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_529.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_528.shtml?wap=0
Authorities say the 48-year-old woman was hit on the calf by an assault rifle-type bullet while shopping in a busy street downtown. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:24:31 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_528.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_526.shtml?wap=0
According to an Austin Independent School District spokesperson, McCallum High School, located at 5600 Sunshine Dr., was placed on lockdown and Ridgetop Elementary, located at 5005 Caswell Ave. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:56:02 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_526.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_521.shtml?wap=0
The proposal will have stricter guidelines for releasing water to rice farmers while increasing water reserves for cities and power plants. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:05:15 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_521.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_524.shtml?wap=0
On Tuesday, officers arrest 10 people. Eight took breath tests.  A search warrant forced the other two to submit to a blood draw. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:03:08 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_524.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_525.shtml?wap=0 by Brandi Grissom, Texas Tribune

Attorneys for the Texas attorney general's office today asked Williamson County state district Judge Burt Carnes to issue a gag order in the case of Mark Alan Norwood, the 57-year-old Bastrop resident who is facing trial in the 1986 murder of Christine Morton. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:40:06 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_525.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_523.shtml?wap=0
Killeen police on Tuesday identified the victim as 3-year-old Jordan Kenneth Jones.

Investigators believe Saturday's shooting was an accident. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:49:37 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_523.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_522.shtml?wap=0
The disturbance Tuesday forced the Continental Airlines flight return to Portland.

Flight attendants asked the passenger to turn off the cigarette, but he refused. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:44:13 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_522.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_520.shtml?wap=0
Rick Santorum predicted his next big win campaigning in Phoenix, Arizona with his family. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:36:47 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_520.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_519.shtml?wap=0
Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, says Billy Wright's 1939 copy of Detective Comics No. ...]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:32:20 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_519.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_502.shtml?wap=0
Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration says the wreckage was found Tuesday morning and law enforcement confirms two deaths. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:46:33 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_502.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_518.shtml?wap=0
On Friday, February 10, Scott Henson was walking home from the Millennium Youth Center with his five-year-old granddaughter. 

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Neches Street from 6th to 7th Street will close at 5:30 p.m.

Beginning at 9 p. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:06:08 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_503.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_506.shtml?wap=0 two dogs euthanized last week after they killed a dozen chickens.

The two dogs, a lab/pit bull mix and a black Labrador retriever, were taken into custody and euthanized over a week ago after they entered a chicken coop and killed 12 chickens in Wimberley. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:46:20 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_506.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_507.shtml?wap=0
The chairman of the Legislative Budget Board John O'Brien told lawmakers Tuesday that they did not appropriate enough to cover state expenses for Medicaid and other programs. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:03:03 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_507.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_510.shtml?wap=0
They began gathering in large numbers soon after dawn, and were in place when 82-year-old Pete Fountain and his band began parading for the 52nd time on Mardi Gras. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:58:02 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_510.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_505.shtml?wap=0
Elias Salas Sanchez, 31, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Thursday evening Austin Police Detective Brent Mullinix was patrolling in an unmarked vehicle investigating a string of pickup truck robberies. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:46:04 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_505.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_508.shtml?wap=0
The Dow hadn't reached that mark since May of 2008. It passed the 13,000 level about two hours into the trading day

Wall Street is getting a boost today from the long-awaited bailout deal for Greece, and from strong corporate earnings reports. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:04:57 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_508.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_504.shtml?wap=0
The court said Tuesday it will return to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for the first time since its 2003 decision endorsing the use of race as a factor in admissions. ...]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:55:16 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_504.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_496.shtml?wap=0 An Austin woman who police said drove erratically down Guadalupe Sunday night, eventually hitting and killing a man, has been charged. Officers arrested 59-year-old Linda Dianne Woodman for intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault and said prescription medication, not alcohol, was in her system. ...]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:07:00 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_496.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_501.shtml?wap=0
“We’re getting to the point where it is going to impact every student in some way, in some form,” explains School Board President Doug Gaul. ...]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:02:43 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_501.shtml?wap=0 http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_499.shtml?wap=0
Forty-five percent of Texas GOP voters prefer Santorum, which is almost as much as the other candidates combined. ...]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:02:10 CDT http://weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_499.shtml?wap=0