Attorney General Greg Abbott weighed in on the abortion issue Thursday during a campaign stop in Austin. Abbott announced his run for governor last Sunday. He spoke one-on-one with KXAN about his candidacy and also the future of the new abortion restrictions signed into law this week at the State Capitol. "Now, that it passed out of the legislature, it goes into court, where I will be ...
Colt McCoy introduces Abbott at campaign stop in Austin
Attorney General Greg Abbott made a campaign stop in Austin Thursday and got a little help with a notable name in UT football. He appeared with former UT quarterback Colt McCoy at a meet and greet event in downtown Austin. His speech was similar to the one he made in Houston earlier this week, with many of the same talking points. Abbott spoke of his accomplishments as attorney general, ...
3 Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas to close
Thursday, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards said the bill Governor Perry signed into law makes a terrible situation for women's health even worse. They announced that three of their Texas clinics will be closing by the end of August. That's the clinics in Bryan, Huntsville and Lufkin. Thursday we spoke with Sarah Wheat, a representative for Planned Parenthood ...
Labor talks break down between city firefighters
Labor contract negotiations between the city and Austin firefighters, underway since the spring, broke down Thursday over disputes that included how new cadets should be hired and whether firefighters could be fired for a first-time positive drug test in a random screening.Officials declared an impasse shortly after 5 p.m., which means firefighters will begin working without a contract in place ...
Community Briefing Donated furniture going to Austin veterans new dress code for Georgetown high school students
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RetailMeNot prices IPO at $21 a share
RetailMeNot made it through the IPO gate on Thursday night, becoming Austin's newest publicly traded company.The Austin online coupon company raised about $191 million in the initial public ...
House OKs additional $820M for Texas highways
The Texas House voted 108-25 for a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would raise an additional $820 million a year for highways, sending the measure to the Senate.There, House Joint Resolution 2 will run head-on into a Senate version that, while it raises a similar amount for the Texas Department of Transportation, contains a provision setting a minimum for the state's rainy ...
More foster homes needed in Burnet
BURNET, Texas (KXAN) - Katherine McAnally, first assistant Burnet County Attorney, can identify with parents and children involved in CPS cases. "But for the sacrifice of my parents opening up their home to me," she said. "My life would have been very, very different. "I see myself in the children sometimes and very often I see my birth parents, in the parents," added ...
Bug spray bandit robbed several stores
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The owner of the Discoteca 2000 music store in North Austin said he's never seen anything like it. Two men entered his store on the afternoon of June 25; one asked for change, one watched the door. Then suddenly, the robber inside used pepper spray on the clerk, grabbed about $5,000 from the register, and then fled the store. Three weeks later on July 16, police responded to ...
Small tobacco manufacturers sue over new tax
Small tobacco manufacturers are fighting back against a newly enacted state fee that they say punishes them for the past sins of their larger competitors.In a lawsuit filed this week in Travis County, the Texas Small Tobacco Coalition maintains that lawmakers unfairly targeted its members by assessing a new fee only on their cigarettes. Major tobacco manufacturers have already been paying about ...
Austin-area gas prices jump 13 cents in 1 week
Fueled in part by tensions in the Middle East and in part by increased summertime demand, Austin-area gas prices have shot up 13 cents per gallon during the past week, according to new statistics from AAA Texas.The average price for unleaded gas in Central Texas sits at $3.50 per gallon, AAA reports, up from $3.37 a week ago. A year ago this week, the average price was $3.25 per ...
Liberty Hill reaches deal to pipe millions of gallons of water from Lake Travis
For almost a decade, the utility serving Liberty Hill has paid for the right to draw nearly 200 million gallons a year from Lake Travis. Only it had no way to pipe all that water back to town.The Liberty Hill Water Corp. bought those water rights in 2004 from the Brazos County River Authority, but legal problems prevented the corporation from piping it to the city, said Wendell McLeod, the ...
Herman Scenes from a 3-minute meeting at Dell
For a three-minute meeting, there sure was plenty to absorb at the Thursday shareholders session that, instead of providing clarity on Dell Inc.'s future, led to another meeting next Wednesday.At stake is founder Michael Dell's future stake in the company that he's now trying to take ...
Texas unemployment rate holds at 6.5 percent in June
Texas employers eased back on job creations in June, but the Texas unemployment rate held steady at 6.5 percent, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.After adjusting the data to account for seasonal workforce trends, the federal agency said employers in Texas added about 5,800 jobs last month -- essentially, a flat rate of growth.The number of ...
Food trucks dealing with downtown parking issues
Where 'The Peached Tortilla' food truck goes, customers will follow. "We serve primarily southern and Asian-inspired cuisine. We do move around. We're not stationary like trailers," said founder Eric Silverstein. During lunch time, the truck goes to different office parks around town throughout the week. For months, 'The Peached Tortilla' would periodically ...
Georgetown implementing new West Nile prevention initiative
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A new joint initiative between The City of Georgetown and the Williamson County and Cities Health District is the first of its kind in the county. The targeted effort aims to reduce the risk from mosquitos that carry West Nile virus. Since mid-June, a City of Georgetown employee in transportation services has been collecting mosquitos in traps in several Georgetown locations. Two ...
Texas struggles to meet water demands
AUSTIN (KXAN) - When it comes to water, fast-growing Texas is almost tapped out. "What we're going to face in 50 years is a water deficit, said Jeremy Mazur with the Texas Water Development Board. If we don't build enough water supplies between now and 2060, there just won't be enough water to meet the demand of the Texans that will be here by then." But the Legislature has a ...
H-E-B 7-Eleven won?t carry controversial Rolling Stone issue
Finding a copy of Rolling Stone featuring a cover story on accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at Austin-area stores might be hard to do.H-E-B, the dominant grocer in Central Texas, confirmed this afternoon that its stores won't be stocking the controversial issue, which some say glorifies Tsarnaev.It joins several other regional grocers across the nation that have announced similar ...
Dell delays buyout vote signaling lack of support
View Photo Associated Press/Paul Sakuma, File - FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 file photo, Dell CEO Michael Dell smiles at Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. Dell Inc. is making a late push to ...
Police Fatal beating suspect could be charged with capital murder
A man who police say fatally beat a man and stole his shoes in North Austin on Monday could be charged with capital murder, a police official said Thursday.Bruce Allen Thompson, 56, was arrested Tuesday and is in the Travis County Jail on $500,000 bail, records show. Thompson has been charged with murder but could be charged with capital murder because he is accused of killing the man while ...
Woman killed in Northwest Austin crash identified
A woman who was killed in a wreck in Northwest Austin on Tuesday afternoon has been identified as 71-year-old Valdene Garner Thompson.Police said Thompson was driving a 1994 white Oldsmobile north on Research Boulevard approaching Duval Road. A 1995 red Chevrolet truck was traveling east on Duval Road, and the two vehicles crashed at the intersection.Police are still determining whether one of ...
Mans beating death caught on camera
Austin police have arrested a man who they saw beat another man to death with a wooden board. The crime was captured on surveillance video. Bruce Allen Thompson is in the Travis County Jail charged with murder. He has a $500,000 bond. Austin police say on Monday, Thompson was seen walking around the Austin Garden Apartments off north Lamar and St. Johns Avenue, possibly looking for a person ...
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