Pflugerville band students participate in contest with loaned instruments after bus carrying students and instruments was hit by drunk driver over the weekend. Construction slowing down at some downtown condo projects? We admit to driving a little fast on Chestnut; neighborhood residents ask drivers to take it slow. City leaders are hoping that local retailers will phase out plastic bags in a year. Will this lead to an official city ban on plastic bags?... more ›

R. Kelly, also known as the Pied Piper of R & B (wait, didn't the Pied Piper play a magical flute that compelled children to follow him en masse? Is this really a prudent honorific for someone still facing child pornography charges?) has just released the third installment of his "hip-hopera" Trapped in the Closet. Most of you Internets-savvy young folk are, no doubt, already conversant with Trapped in the Closet's randomly overwrought narrative arc... more ›

Newsweek ranks UT Austin as "Hottest for Saving America's Schools" A woman dies while tubing on the Blanco River Sunday night Keith Williams, 33, and Charkora Gentry, 31, attempt to steal brisket from an H-E-B, end up kicking a store employee in the back The good news: Karl Rove is resigning. The bad news: he's moving back to Texas. Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Central Texas are searching for a few good male mentors Former... more ›

• We know all you 12-year-olds like to see the girl-on-girl action. And we're thinking that Batwoman will certainly help facilitate any one-handed reading, especially with her resurrection as a lesbian by DC Comics.
• Former Libertines singer Pete Doherty was searched on suspicion of drug posession at a Barcelona airport on Thursday, but the search turned up...nothing. Go figure.
• The Stanley Cup Finals are upon us, with Carolina and Edmonton duking it out for the win. Let's have a pint for the Oiler's fans- God knows they aren't getting any.
• Our favorite Guess Jeans model Playboy playmate gold digger Anna Nicole Smith is expecting.
  
  
• Katherine Smith always gets her way. The 18-year old is being accused of spiking a peer's drink with bleach because she wanted, not just any role, but the lead role in a school play.
• AMD is stepping up to the plate. The chip-maker is launching a new laptop chip that, among other things, will prolong battery life.
• Some Dutch pedophiles are launching their own political party. On their agenda: reduce the legal age to have sex from 16 to 12 or just get rid of it completely, permissable child pornography, pornography on daytime TV and, of course, beastiality. We'd call in sick to work to watch those "soaps". more ›

French MP goes on hunger strike. "Like a sad clown," he says, "I'm not asking to win. I'm asking for good sense to triumph." Reason for the dramatics? He didn't want a paint factory in his district to close. When they say "Long Live the Queen" they're not kidding. Today Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 80th birthday with a small get-together. MySpace has been quite the forum for do-no-gooders lately. Some kids were planning... more ›

Ah the amazing things technology has ushered into our lives over the past five years: The increase in medical technologies leading to early treatment of disease; mobile technology that allows people to work from home while raising families; ten different ESPNs; the ability to have child pornography on a handheld MP3 player that you can take to other degenerates houses and watch said smut on their computer. Um, nix that last one. Here's where... more ›

A man is arrested and charged for murdering his mother-in-law in 2001. more ›

When we were in high school, a grade school principal in the next town got arrested for selling his students' Ritalin on the black market. We thought that was pretty crazy, but the pill-pushing principal was nowhere near as upsetting as news that former Bastrop County Associate Principal Mike Stobaugh is facing charges for possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony. more ›

-Some organization called Safe Kids Worldwide voted us the safest metropolitan area for kids. And proving why we're probably not the hippest metropolitan area for kids, the entire student body of Oak Springs Elementary celebrated ... by making 300 children walk two blocks from ACC to their their school. Back in our day we called that exercise. And in unrelated news, that assistant principal from Bastrop High remains under investigation for possession of child... more ›

Just call him Detective Dirty Daddy
Nothing like child porn to sully the reputation of the Austin police department. Ex-detective Lance McConnell plead guilty to seven counts of child pornography, more specifically, he had some nasty pictures of naked under-aged kids (boys and girls), some engaging in sex. more ›

Well, we can't tell you her name. Why, you ask? Because this San Antonio woman is being charged with promoting child pornography...and her daughter is the victim. She sent another winner named Erik Hull naked pictures of her daughter so he could sell them. And if that isn't "Jerry Springer" enough for you, the daughter also accused Hull of raping her. Police walked in to find mom holding a knife to Hull's throat after... more ›