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- This week is Homeless Awareness Week.
- Local non-profit Front Steps asks for donations of sleeping bags and blankets; they will be distributed at ARCH (Austin Resource Center for the Homeless).
- Travis County owes the City of Austin $4,820.50 in unpaid parking tickets and the City wants its money.
- WilCo State Rep. Krusee cleared of drunk driving charges.
- Drunk Austinite makes terroristic threats (whilst wearing a ski mask) on a flight to Dallas.
- SEC charging Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading.
- The New Yorker's Calvin Trillin stops by Lexington for the best Texas BBQ in the world.
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