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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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UT Announces Free Online Classes

Beginning this fall, the University of Texas will start offering free online courses through the non-profit organization EdX. The UT Board of Regents authorized a partne…...
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Businesses, Customers Get Ready for Austin’s Bag Ordinance

Austin’s Bag Ordinance goes into effect soon. Starting March 1, the majority of Austin businesses will stop providing single-use paper and plastic bags. That’s because the City of Austin has a goal of zero waste by the year 2040. This measure is among the first steps toward that goal. Businesses and customers alike are already making some adjustments. Aiden Cohen struggles with the curse of the suburban shopper: “I have a bunch of reusable bags in my trunk,” says Cohen, “but I don’t always bring them into the place where I’m doing my shopping.” Cohen is not only a shopper; he’s also with Austin Resource Recovery, the agency in charge of promoting the city’s bag...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Roxanne Hernandez

"It was kind of like the perfect storm of things that came together."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Debbie Smith

"You can hear crackling. I mean, it was frightening to me, and it was just an amazing thing to watch them handle themselves with such grace and such dignity and such attention."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Natasha Collmann

"This was a very unusual set of circumstances that put so many homes at risk, yet you still want to make sure that it’s not going to happen again."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Kimberly and Rick Kieffer

"It wasn’t just that it was flash fire that came through this park, this park has been annihilated. There’s nothing left. It doesn’t even look like it’s the same place. It’s gone."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Scott Keeney

"It was literally sort of Dali-esque. I was thinking of painting that, because, literally, there were all of these white ranch fences that were all melting down to the ground."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Ristow Family

"Our neighbor had this kind of startled expression on his face, and he said, 'There’s a fire right back there.' He said, 'Grab a hose or grab your family. and get out.'" ...
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New Texas Laws Take Effect

A handful of new laws went into effect in Texas over the weekend that aim to do everything from curb school bullying to regulate farmers markets....
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Mark Detrixhe

"It was just – it was a monster. It made its own wind."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Ronnie McDonald

"We’re going to come out of this. We’re going to move on. Beauty is going to come from this destruction."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Michael Bay-Borelli

"Ultimately, we came to terms with the fact that if everything was gone, the phrase we used was, 'It’s just stuff.' We have our dogs, we have our horses, we have our lives, we’ll put it all back together."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Debbie Opdahl

"He had a couple of five gallon buckets. And he was dipping water from the neighbor’s hot tub and then driving around in the golf cart with a shovel, just trying to look at where he could save a home."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project

Jeff Hall

"There were fires everywhere. It looked like the whole neighborhood was just gone, you know, house after house was burning."...
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Cap Metro Seeks Input on Route Adjustm...

Changes are in store for Austin’s transit system. As part of its periodic transit system review, Capital Metro wants to expand some routes, redesign others and even change bus schedules to keep pace with the growth of the city....
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Fleeing Quickly, Coming Back Slowly

It’s been nearly a year since wildfires tore through Central Texas, burning more than 1,600 homes, killing two people and uprooting countless lives. Over the course of the last year, KUT News has been collecting stories from the people who lived through the fires. There have been many tales of...
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