Local News

SXSW economic benefits spread across the city

Even though East Austin's El Azteca Restaurant is far from the South by Southwest action, owner Daniel Guerra says he'll still feel the impact.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 10:31pm

Philanthropy: Displaced dream of home

I used to dream about houses. I don't mean I fantasized about them. I dreamed about them. Farmhouses, modern houses, haunted houses; houses by the beach, near carnivals or deep in the in the woods.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:43pm

Woman indicted in husband's killing; new sentencing trial set for Laura Ashley Hall

TRAVIS COUNTY Woman indicted in killing An Austin woman who is accused of killing her ailing husband and then trying to kill herself last year was indicted by a Travis County grand jury Thursday on charges of murder and injury to a disabled individual.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:33pm

Obesity expert backs tax on sugary drinks

Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell, an internationally known obesity expert, will be in Austin on Wednesday to keynote the sold-out Social and Environmental Solutions to Obesity Conference at the University of Texas.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:31pm

Johnson City gives wild turkeys the heave-ho

Some of the wild turkeys in Johnson City, 45 miles west of Austin, had worn out their welcome. They had messed on yards, scratched paint on cars, made more noise than a Latvian country band at South by Southwest and just generally annoyed some folks living in the public housing for the elderly and people with disabilities.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:29pm

UT student headed for rock-paper-scissors championship

Nick Caporale remembers squaring off with his sister Brittany for the last piece of cake or a turn on the swings when they were kids.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:11pm

Cap Metro's steel rail ties cause problems

Steel railroad ties are generally unpopular with U.S. railroad operators and transit agencies because, among other problems, they contribute to signal failures.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:44pm

Man involved in crash with school bus dies

A 19-year-old Marble Falls man who was hospitalized Thursday after a wreck involving a school bus in Burnet County died Friday, a hospital official said.

- Saturday, March 13, 2010 1:24am

At rodeo, cook-off gets a blast from the past

Once upon a time, cowboys set up camp by their chuck wagons, savoring the sunset and smell of burning wood as supper cooked in Dutch ovens.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 10:49pm

Georgetown man sentenced to 50 years for crash that killed 4

After receiving a call that some of her family members had been seriously hurt in a crash, Julia Mendez rushed from her Thrall home to the scene and found chaos: her family's mangled minivan; her son-in-law Clemente Martinez in shock; her granddaughter, Crystal Martinez , being airlifted to a hospital; and her daughter Paula Martinez lying dead face-down on the ground.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 9:50pm

Appeals court sides with South Congress Cafe in city lawsuit

It looks like a jury will decide whether the South Congress Cafe has to tear down its deck. On Thursday , a state appeals court sided with the cafe's owners, ruling that a lower court did not give South Congress Cafe a proper hearing before siding with the city, which contends the deck was built illegally and should be torn down.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 9:06pm

As backyard coops abound, neighbors seek remedy for rooster noise

On Gillis Street, a two-lane South Austin road that meanders from Ben White Boulevard into an otherwise quiet neighborhood, the roosters begin their crowing a little before sunrise.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 8:56pm

PEC trial may not start until end of year

Attorneys for an indicted former Pedernales Electric Cooperative executive and a former co-op lawyer are again seeking to take a state District Court judge in Blanco County off their case, this time by asking for a ruling from the state's highest criminal appeals court.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 8:31pm

Court says different deadlines apply to surgical sponge lawsuits

The Texas Supreme Court said Friday that a San Antonio woman could not sue her doctor over a surgical sponge left inside her body because she waited too long to file suit even though she could not have discovered the problem any sooner.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 8:28pm

Texas Supreme Court tosses $15.8 million verdict in case involving illegal immigrant

The Texas Supreme Court threw out a $15.8 million verdict Friday, ruling unanimously that lawyers improperly introduced evidence that a gravel truck driver involved in a 2002 accident that killed four members of a Wise County family was an illegal immigrant.

- Friday, March 12, 2010 8:18pm