News Bits!
- The Star of Texas Rodeo starts its two week run today at the Exposition Center.
- A propane truck overturned in Lockhart yesterday.
- The weather is to blame for the faulty SAT scores scanned here in town. Now we have a 10,000 Maniacs song stuck in our head.
- Did we need another reason not to visit Oklahoma? Their House has approved the Academic Freedom Act, which leaves it up to the teacher to decide which evolution "theory" to teach. Here's something to help wash that down.
- First South Dakota, now Tennessee is trying to eliminate women's right to an abortion.
- Sudan has agreed to let the UN come in and help with the peace process, but only on certain conditions.
- A French man was so obsessed with his children's tennis careers that he drugged their rivals. He has been sentenced to 8 years in prison.
- San Francisco's Film School, soon to be in Austin for SxSW, had their van and equipment stolen earlier this week in Philly. We've heard from the band that their van has been recovered, but they are unsure of its condition.
- Go, Spurs! They beat the Phoenix Suns last night, 117-93.
- You know it's bad when mainstream country singers speak harshly of Bush's treatment of Katrina victims.
- Michael Jackson owes his Neverland workers some back pay.
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