- Austin City Council is pretty much ready to sign a contract setting up red-light cameras at 15 intersections (to start with).
- Big Brother - er, APD - is watching your energy usage. And Austin Energy is cool with that!
- Southeast Austin standoff this morning ends with cop shooting the suspect.
- Round Rock police on the lookout for a suspected stalker.
- Local company under Neil Bush (Dubya's bro) is being investigated for possible inappropriate spending of federal funds.
- Harris County set to receive $20 million of federal funds for helping evacuees from Katrina and Rita.
- Two of Pancho Villa's guns are coming up for auction.

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Great...red light cameras. Let's make it even easier for APD to write tickets!
if you can't stop at red lights you deserve a ticket....
I'm still trying to figure out who let's Neil Bush have run a company. Also, who would buy anything from him.
Are you kidding? They probably line up to deal with him. Probably for the same reason he's now being looked into: easy access to fed money.