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MEXICO U.S. Consulate in Juárez closes The U.S. Consulate in Juárez, across the border from El Paso, will temporarily close pending a review of its security protocols...Read More
PUBLIC OPINION Poll: Opposition to health overhaul down Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent, according to the latest results of a tracking poll...Read More
At its meeting Thursday, the City Council: Agreed to buy a Budget Rent A Car service center at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for $312,500 to use as a staging area for taxis, limos and other vehicles, and to convert a building there into a climate-controlled waiting area for cab drivers...Read More
The Save Our Springs Alliance has sued to stop work on a $500 million water treatment plant that would draw from Lake Travis, hoping partly to buy time to change Austin's political picture...Read More
AUSTIN 25 charged in no-refusal push Austin Police Department officials announced that during the Fourth of July no-refusal initiative, which began at 9 p.m...Read More
The state Legislature could reduce spending on financial aid for college students by as much as $108 million in the next two-year budget, based on an appropriations request approved Thursday by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board...Read More
Claiming that she was improperly reprimanded for her role in a botched execution-day appeal in 2007, Judge Sharon Keller asked the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday to throw out the rebuke and order all charges against her dismissed...Read More
About 1.8 million women have served in the U.S. military, and with 245,000 female soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it's estimated that within a decade, women will make up 16 percent of all veterans...Read More
A new Army report has found that inattention to rising rates of drug abuse and criminal activity among soldiers and not repeat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan is responsible for the record-high levels of suicide among troops...Read More