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News Bits!
- Today is the last day to vote early in the District 48 Run-off. We won't comment except to recommend googling "Ben Bentzin" and look at the fifth result. That is all.
- A Waco man has been sentenced to life in jail for sexually abusing a young girl he was helping to raise.
- 14 dogs (half of them puppies) were stolen from a local breeder. Not the puppies!
- Austinites are worried that Austin Energy is being too lax in their tree-trimming, especially where older trees are concerned.
- Ten years later, a Junction woman has finished her cross-stitch replica of the Sistine Chapel. That's dedication.
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