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Paul Ross Evans gets 40 years in federal prison for attempting to blow up the Austin Women's Health Center in April. The state's first sex offender treatment program may start in Milam County. Mueller Property Owners Association Open House tomorrow (Sat, Oct. 20) from 10am to 2pm at Mueller Central. Will your comments and questions be addressed? Is Dubya really the best fund-raising tool the Cornyn campaign can come up with? Georgetown woman escapes...

A woman in South Austin was taking out the trash yesterday when she stumbled upon a suspicious-looking device outside her house. This contraption, a metal pipe wrapped in electrical tape, turned out to be what Austin Police are calling an "improvised explosive device," essentially a catch-all term for a homemade bomb. Austin Police Department's Bomb Squad safely detonated the explosive. It's currently believed that yesterday's discovery was unrelated to last week's attempted bombing of the...

Authorities will be holding a press conference later this afternoon to discuss the explosive device placed in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center yesterday.

The package was found about 2 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center at 1902 S. Interstate 35, north of Oltorf Street. The clinic provides services including abortion.

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"Texas wines are Texas wines! They will never be California Wines or French Wines, and should not be compared to them. You don’t laugh at an apple because it’s an apple and not an orange! Texas wines have improved dramatically since I landed in Austin (from California – gasp!!) 12 years ago. I have always enjoyed the red wines of Llano Estacado in Lubbock. I also enjoy Fall Creek Granite Reserve, and the red wines of Alamosa Vineyards in Tow. For the best $8.00, “Supermarket Wine” around, try Fall Creek Chenin Blanc. You’ll be surprised!"

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The state government has been trying and trying to come up with ideas as to how Texas might, you know, start paying for public schools. They keep convening and reconvening and , Texas public school ratings keep getting worse. No one can understand it. It's a mystery, like pyramids.

In a former life this Austinist was a soccer player. Not of the gifted and talented variety, but more the tireless and enthusiastic kind. Since leaving the confines of public schools, we have also left behind organized sport. We played a couple season with Austin Women’s Soccer League but we have drifted toward more individual sports. We don’t know what that says about us, but we're fine with that. We were, however, nostalgic seeing...