It had been three days since the first week of Camp Sunshine ended, and Colleen Austin had returned to her post at the Aflac Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.And she was still pumped.For five days, she'd watched 232 teens -- some angry, some afraid, some sad about what cancer had stolen from them -- take back their lives."They get to be kids again," Austin ...
Car crashes into bus stop on Riverside
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin Police are investigating an accident that landed a person sitting at a bus stop to the hospital. Police say a car slammed into the Capital Metro bus stop located on Riverside Drive and Town Creek Drive shortly before 5 p.m. The person at the bus stop at the time of the accident was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge with life-threatening ...
Rangers send Holland to square off with Orioles
Last year's postseason began with the Orioles knocking off the Rangers in the inaugural American League Wild Card game. The clubs could be heading toward another October collision, with both locked in tight playoff races at the All-Star break. First, they will open their second-half schedules against each other Friday night, when they begin a three-game series in Texas. The teams already ...
Volunteers officers hunt for disability parking violators
Two women, both in wheelchairs, circled the cars parked in a dozen or so spaces for people with disabilities in the vast parking lot.It was 100 degrees under the early afternoon sun, and Julia Maloukis' service dog, Shiloh, was having a hard time trotting on the asphalt as Maloukis looked for cars parked illegally in such ...
Districts struggle to prepare English learners for STAAR tests
More and more students with limited English-speaking skills are moving to Texas, and the vast majority are failing standardized tests required to graduate from high school.This spring, just 8 percent of the 33,954 students with limited English proficiency who took the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness English I writing test passed. Only 17 percent passed the English I reading ...
Plan for ?Republic Village? in East Austin faces opposition
A plan to demolish four old homes in East Austin to make way for historical exhibits about the Republic of Texas is running into opposition.Critics say the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who own the four small homes adjacent to the historic French Legation, are planning to tear down history and replace it with new buildings made to look ...
Rangers stymied by sharp Verlander
TEX@DET: Kinsler slides for a sweet stop at second DETROIT -- The Rangers were dominated for seven innings by Tigers All-Star pitcher Justin Verlander and stumbled into the All-Star break with a 5-0 loss Sunday afternoon. The Rangers finish the first half by losing four of their last five games. They are 54-41 and in second place in the American League West. They have been in second place ...
Soria adds eighth-inning option for Rangers
Email DETROIT -- Reliever Joakim Soria has made just three appearances for the Rangers after being activated off the disabled list and missing 1 1/2 seasons because of Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery. But the Rangers aren't exactly easing him back. Soria was called upon to face the heart of the Tigers order in the eighth inning Saturday night. The Rangers were leading, 4-1, when ...
Holland penciled in to start second half
Email DETROIT -- The Rangers have tentatively decided that Derek Holland will pitch Friday against the Orioles to start the second half. The Rangers have also tentatively decided that Ross Wolf will be in the rotation to start the second half over Justin Grimm. "I think he's earned that," manager Ron Washington said. "But that's tentative. It could be one start, it ...
In Session. In-Depth Rep. Lloyd Doggett
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A tense week at the Capitol, ending in the Senate passage of a bill some say ushers in some the toughest abortion restrictions in the state. Democrat Congressman Lloyd Doggettweighed in on the national implications of that and other ...
Rubys Rainbow provides scholarships for people with Down syndrome
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Liz Platcha and her husband, Tim Platchta, discovered their daughter Ruby had Down syndrome when she was born. They were inspired to start Ruby's Rainbow , an organization that provides scholarships for adults with Down syndrome who are seeking post-secondary education. They granted 11 scholarships nationwide last year. On Sunday, July 28, they are holding the second annual ...
Kids take films from scratch to finish in Summer Film Camp
AUSTIN (KXAN) - If you're looking for a way to entertain your kids for the last few weeks of summer, Austin Film Festival may have an answer for you. Barbara Morgan, Executive Director of Austin Film Festival, says there are three more sessions of Summer Film Camp open this July. The students take their films from scratch to finish. They start with a story idea and end with a film. Along ...
Demolition of RunTex building clears way for apartment project
A prominent landmark at a well-traveled Central Austin intersection is history, demolished to make way for a new mixed-use development.Now that crews have razed the site of the former RunTex store at 422 W. Riverside Drive, work is set to begin immediately on a six-story building that will have about 200 apartments atop ground-floor retail space, according to Brandon Easterling, managing ...
Some Hasan jurors express skepticism over death penalty
Conventional wisdom might be that a jury of high-ranking Army officers wouldn't hesitate to send Maj. Nidal Hasan to death row for the killing of 12 soldiers and a civilian during a 2009 rampage at Fort Hood.And that might yet be the case. But at least two jurors who will decide Hasan's fate expressed some reservations about the death penalty last week during jury selection, which ...
Perez taking on Tigers in series finale in Detroit
The Rangers fell to Doug Fister and got past Max Scherzer. Now they'll face Justin Verlander in Sunday's rubber match at Comerica Park. That doesn't sound like an easy path to the All-Star break. "The three pitchers we're facing in this series aren't just anybody," Texas' David Murphy said. "They're tough on everybody they face. We've had ...
Will new law spur transit in Austin suburbs
Mass transit supporters around here have some big dreams.Their vision, set out in a "Project Connect" regional transit plan finalized last year, includes several passenger rail lines crisscrossing Central Texas, long-distance bus lines, express toll lanes on several area ...
Author of ?Waco State Home? books wants to tell family?s story
When Sherry Matthews published "We Were Not Orphans: Stories from the Waco State Home" in 2011, she breached an emotional levee that had held for decades.Inspired partly by her family's experience with the home -- her three older brothers were sent there in 1948, when Matthews was 3 -- the book, through documentation and oral histories, told of a beyond-Dickensian institution that ...
Ball Hot cars much misery ? how to survive the summer without air conditioning
My stiflingly hot hell on wheels started in the summer of 2011.The air conditioning in my 14-year-old Saturn was dead. It was too expensive to fix. And so I decided to suffer the ...
Jury Finds George Zimmerman Not Guilty In Killing Of Trayvon Martin
Homicide suspect George Zimmerman, left, sits in the courtroom with defense lawyers Don West and Mark O?Mara on Saturday, July 13, 2013. (Credit: Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty ...
Florida jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty
1 of 17. George Zimmerman (R) is congratulated by his defense team after being found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center in Sanford, Florida, July 13, ...
Jury finds George Zimmerman NOT GUILTY
George Zimmerman has found the neighborhood watchman not guilty. Zimmerman, 29, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, whom the defendant shot during a scuffle in a nearby gated community on Feb 26, 2012. The jury was also able to convict Zimmerman on the lesser charge of manslaughter. The decision from the jury is sure to spark outrage from Martin ...
Man hospitalized in accident on RM 2222
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police are investigating an accident between a motorcycle and a car that has closed all lanes of RM 2222 at Capital of Texas Highway. Police say shortly after 8:00 pm a motorcycle was involved in a crash with another vehicle. The driver of the motorcycle was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge with life-threatening injuries. Police say all lanes of RM ...
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