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Texas Bill Spotlights Minors Charged With Prostitution
One Texas senator wants to allow more counties to set up specialty courts for minors charged with prostitution
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After Boston Bombings, Being Vigilant Without Being Paranoid
In the two weeks since the Boston Marathon bombing, suspects have been identified and news outlets have interviewed people who knew them – asking if there was any sign that they might be capable of the attacks.
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Remembering the First Responders Killed in West
More than 9,000 people gathered at Baylor University yesterday to honor the twelve firefighters and first responders who died in the West Fertilizer Plant Explosion.
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Texas Must Decide Which Health Benefits to Require

As a result of the federal health care overhaul, Texas now has to figure out which health care benefits it will require insurance policies to provide. ...
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Study: Austin Police Department Understaffed

A new study commissioned by the city shows the Austin Police Department is very busy and “struggling somewhat” to keep up with calls for service....
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Austin’s New Fire Chief Clocks In

Monday, February 2 was Rhoda Mae Kerr's first day on the job....
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Rioting at a West Texas Prison

A five-day-long riot at a private prison in West Texas has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to call for more government oversight and better medical care at non-public prisons....
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Amber Alert Cancelled for North Texas ...

North Richland Hills Police Department in Tarrant County cancelled an Amber Alert for Hanna Renee McBride. The 6 year old Hanna was found....
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Fire In Downtown Austin An Accident

A cigarette started the three-alarm fire in downtown Austin on Sixth Street that happened Friday, February 6....
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Texas House Honors Barbara Smith Conra...

The Texas House adopted a special resolution Thursday December 5, 2009 honoring U.T. graduate and world renowned Opera Singer Barbara Smith Conrad....
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Painting the Stimulus

The White House and Texas Senator John Cornyn held dueling teleconferences February 5, 2009 talking about the federal stimulus bill....
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Fallen Soldier Left Journal for Son

First Sergeant Charles Monroe King was killed in Iraq in 2006 when his son was only an infant....
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Domestic Abuse On Rise

The Austin Police Department reported instances of domestic violence increased in 2008. APD believes the increase relates to the economic downturn....
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Grand Jury No Bills APD Officer

A Travis County Grand Jury decided not to indict an Austin Police officer in connection with a fatal shooting in November 2008....
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Four Famous (or Infamous) Families

Money, politics,and sex. The birth of the oil industry in Texas is dripping with all of that, and much more....
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Lucy Stops In Austin…Briefly

The ancient human ancestor fossil, Lucy, was in Austin for just a few days while hardly anyone knew....
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Senate Grills UTIMCO

UTIMCO's Chairman of the Board resigned in a dramatic fashion on Thursday, February 5, amid criticism that he approved a more than million dollar bonus for the company's CEO....
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Women’s Networking and the Recession

Among the entrepreneurs experiencing lower profits and layoffs, there are women business owners in Austin that say they have the secret for recession-proof networking....
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UTIMCO Chair Resigns

The University of Texas Investment Management Company board chairman Robert Rowling told state lawmakers he quit in the middle of a Senate Finance committee meeting....
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