The Austin City Council will hold a special meeting today to finalize next year's $2.8 billion city budget. The proposed budget from City Manager Marc Ott includes a plan to raise a transportation fee to generate more money for road repairs. The budget also calls for closing some city libraries one day each week and keeping dozens of vacant positions within the city un-filled as ways to cut costs. The Council has set aside three days for final budget deliberations, but Council Members predict the discussions likely will not take all three days.
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Austin Police are trying to locate a young man believed to be in his early 20s who witnesses say carried a handgun into the AMC Theater at Barton Creek Square Mall and fired one round into the air.
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Many still remember that traffic stop on I-35 in San Marcos last month, where Officer Paul Stephens pulled over a car traveling at speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour. Michael Gonzales and his girlfriend were heading to New Braunfels to a 24-hour animal emergency center because their dog was choking.
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Looking for a better price on your auto or homeowners' insurance? The Texas Department of Insurance is launching a new web site, www.helpinsure.com, to help you.
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A dog wakes up his family in time to escape a fire that burned their central Austin home at 5202 Avenue G. Palmer Buck with the Austin Fire Department says damage to the home is estiamted at $150,000.00. Buck says an elderly woman was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene and was released. Buck says the incident underscores the importance of having working smoke detectors in your home.
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More than 1,000 divers and volunteers descend on Lake Travis today to remove and recycle tons of trash from the water and shoreline during the 14th Annual Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup. It began in 1994 as an informal gathering of local dive shops and has grown dramatically every year. The cleanup is followed by a 'Thank you' party.
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More than two years in the making, El Paso's big party didn't even last three hours.
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Two teenage girls near Houston are accused of stabbing a 75 year old man to death in a robbery, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put them up to it.
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Students are moving into the new Concordia University campus this weekend. The university's Don Adam says because construction has been on-going this is the first time many of the campus will see where they will be spending the next four years. The first day of class is Wednesday. The new campus is off of 620, just east of Steiner Ranch.
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A recently launched initiative by many university presidents calling for open discussion on lowering the drinking age is a threat to public health and safety, Mothers Against Drunk Driving leaders said Saturday in Dallas.
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