- Texans want better roads but don't want to pay higher gas taxes or tolls for them, a recent poll shows (and we already assumed).
- Men's Health says Austin is the #7 best city for men to live.
- Georgetown makes This Old House's top-12 list of best cities to buy an old house.
- Police say the Austin hotel manager who is accused of sexually assaulting two boys showed the children threatening photos in an attempt to keep them quiet.
- Cottondale man duct-tapes his stepdaughter to a tree (with tape over her mouth), says they were "playing".
- Sunset Advisory Commission thinks DPS needs a management overhaul.
- Secret proceedings taking place under tight security while the grand jury (possibly) looks into alleged sexual abuse at the Eldorado FLDS compound.

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Along with better roads that I don't want to pay for I'd like Austin summers that aren't deathly hot, beer that doesn't make me need a bathroom break, and a world without Nickelback. Sadly I don't think I'll get any of them.