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- A 17-year-old kid dies after smashing his car into a tree in Central Austin
- Round Rock police, fed up with pesky juvenile delinquents, close down a popular skate park for a week
- Tropical Storm Erin was just a warm-up; Hurricane Dean might be on its way
- The Texas Attorney General closes a local illegal nursing home operation; one resident was found locked in a room with boarded-up windows
- UT students and others looking to live in the campus area, look out! A Craigslist scam artist is screwing would-be subletters out of thousands of dollars
- A former pastor in Lubbock molests a 6-year-old boy and gets 8 years in prison, while a woman in Round Rock has consensual sex with a 16-year-old and gets 23? Where's the logic in that?
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