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11/20/2009
APD detectives are investigating three taco trailer burglaries . Investigators say they believe two men were involved in the burglaries that occurred on November 6th, 11th and 15th in different areas of the city.
APD has released the following:
Cases:
09-5062861, Friday, November 6, 2009, 6300 block Cameron Road
09-5063706, Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 7500 block N. Lamar Blvd.
09-2760061, Sunday, November 15, 2009, 2000 block E. Riverside Blvd.
The primary suspect is described as:
Hispanic Male
18-25 years of age
Has a goatee and long sideburns
Medium build
The second suspect appears to be a Hispanic male and is heavy set.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Northeast Investigations Detective Mark Huard at 974-4907.
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11/20/2009
Tentative approval is given to new graduation requirements but some State Board of Education members still have some questions. The sticking point now deals with the elimination of the Integrated Physics and Chemistry class counting for a science credit towards graduation. Board Member Don McLeroy favors getting rid of it because he doesn’t think it’s challenging enough.
“We need to give our kids the opportunity, we need to look at them this way, as self governing creatures of God that can respond to the challenge.” But other board members like Bob Craig favor keeping the course. “This benefits a lot of students, a tremendous amount of students, and they have been successful whether they’ve gone on to college or elsewhere by taking this program.”
The compromise was to take a preliminary vote to phase out the court but also to survey school district’s and teachers to see if that’s the right thing to do before a final vote is taken early next year.
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11/20/2009
The Texas unemployment rate rose slightly in October while the state bucked a yearlong trend by adding jobs. A Texas Workforce Commission report released Friday says the jobless rate rose to 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent in September.
The state added 41,700 jobs, just the second time in the past year there has been a monthly increase.
The Texas jobless rate continued to track well below the national rate of 10.2 percent. Education and health services had the biggest increase among job sectors, adding 14,900 jobs.
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11/20/2009
Security systems at its signal houses, new hand rails on the rail cars and adjustments to its raising/lowering signal gates are three of no less than fourteen adjustments Capital Metro is making along its commuter rail line before it opens in the spring of next year.
Agency Interim CEO Doug Allen says a team of engineers is working on the gates issue, especially at Airport Boulevard, along Lamar and at the Braker Lane crossing.
(Click below to hear KLBJ's Jarrod Allen's web-exclusive extended report on this topic.)
"You see it going down, stay there a while, go back up and come down again. Ironically, that's how it had been intended to happen. So it was functioning as it had been designed," Allen said. "It looks like it's not working the way it's supposed to work because the gates come down, nothing happens, they go up again and when people start driving, they come down real quick. It's not how we want it to work, but it's how it was designed to work."
MetroRail Operations Manager Elaine Timbes says they've asked for a waiver from the feds to compromise on hand rails.
"We don't want someone just grabbing onto the train. ...
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11/20/2009
Austin City Council has given its final go-ahead to a new ramp from northbound Mopac to eastbound Ben White. Also, westbound Ben White to Southbound Mopac. The city is paying upfront for the project and will be repaid by the state. But ramps from Ben White onto and from south I-35 have been delayed. TxDOT says the contractor on those I-35 - Ben White ramps underbid and they need to find someone new to handle it.
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11/20/2009
The Austin city council has approved putting 2 million dollars into Austin water's toilet rebate program - that's a little over half what the utility was asking for. But two million dollars of the request has essentially already been spent on paying back apartment complex owners who have installed low water use toilets. And that is why the council is keeping 1 point 5 million of the request in reserve, until Austin water comes back to them with more info showing whether or not the toilet program does conserve enough water to make it worth the city's while.
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11/20/2009
Ten Austin area elementary schools are debuting their new Young Explorer Learning Centers, and they're geared towards under privileged pre-k students. The learning centers cost about two thousand dollars a piece, paid for by a one hundred thousand dollar grant from IBM. Austin ISD’s Carmen Luevanos says they give 4 to 7 year old kids a leg up on learning. Luevanos says the lessons focus on science, math and language.
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11/20/2009
A group that made the first $10,000 private donation to rebuild the fire-gutted Texas Governor's Mansion is opposed to changing its look.
The Heritage Society of Austin will not support plans, unveiled in October, for a two-story addition to the 153-year-old building.
The Texas Historical Commission is in charge of issuing a permit for the expansion.
The June 2008 fire, as the mansion was unoccupied during renovation, has been ruled arson and so far no one has been prosecuted.
Society president Mandy Dealey says altering the exterior would threaten the architectural and historical integrity of the National Historic Landmark.
The proposed 2,000-square-foot addition would include an expanded family living area.
Gov. Rick Perry and his wife, Anita, are living in a rental house.
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11/20/2009
Authorities in a nearby county say they’re dealing with a growing crime rate. But they also believe in some cases, victims are assisting the crooks. Like the population, crime is on the rise in Hays County. Deputy Mike Thielen with the Hays County Sheriff’s Office says some people make themselves easy targets. Thielen says because the crooks gain easy access, they quickly take a purse, laptop, I-pod or cell phone and move on. He says it’s one of the reasons burglaries are up more than 25 percent since 2002.
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11/20/2009
Authorities say a number of companies schemed to create phony calls to a video service that allows the deaf to converse over phone lines to hearing people.
Arrests have been made in a number of states including Texas
The service is paid for by funds raised through charges on telephone bills, and the fund is overseen by the federal communications commission.
The service allows deaf Americans to connect to a video service with a sign language translator, who can then relay information between a deaf person and a hearing person.
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