Last Week Around the -ISTs
Schieffer's Out of Gov Race
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True Stories Can Be Stranger Than Fiction [Extra Extra ]
- With the cycling world in a mess after widespread doping allegations, the Discovery Channel team officially disbands
- Boating bans on Lady Bird Lake and Lake Austin are extended yet again
- Officials at a Christian boot camp are in hot water after allegedly tying a girl to a van and forcing her to "participate" in a morning run
- A man posing as a police officer attempts to kidnap an 8-year-old boy in Round Rock
- Arlington megachurch cancels memorial services for a Navy veteran a day before the event, after they discover he was gay
- Austin Museum of Art hires a new director of finance and administration after the old one was caught stealing paintings at this year's Fine Arts Festival
- Pack your sunscreen this weekend: temperatures are expected to near 100
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It's not Lady Bird Lake, it's Lake Austin, resist all change in Austin post 1998!
lake austin is still lake austin. town lake was renamed.
and while we're picking nits, none of the local lakes are really lakes.
ahem, Decker?