Photo by daveiam on flickr Police are seeking three men who kidnapped three people South Austin today 4-year-old pronounced dead after being found in apartment pool on Wells Branch Parkway The Edwards Aquifer is in an 'alarm stage' status for the first time since 2006 Teenager crossing the road in Dripping Springs killed by drunk driver Attorney General sues Sunmart gas stations for price gouging Irving-based Exxon Mobil made $11.7 billion in profit last quarter......

Carrie Crain, Dripping Springs resident and prospective screenwriter, has put her soul up for bid on eBay, as a sort of preparation for the screenplay she's working on. There are no takers yet. Milhouse couldn't get it for $5 -- the minimum is set at $1,000. [News8Austin]......

Photo by Marina Chavez; Image from MySpace. The Hold Steady + Art BrutThursday, November 15La Zona Rosa (612 W. 4th Street)$21 Advance, $23 Day Of Show[info] | [tickets]Brooklyn's The Hold Steady may well be America's best bar band. Their 2006 release Boys and Girls In America made Austinist's 2006 top albums list (and everyone else's) by combining sharp lyrical wit, meat and potatoes power chords, and dry vocals that the listener either loves or hates.......

17-year-old Hannah Hawley (photo at right) has been missing since Monday afternoon and has a heart condition requiring medication. She was last seen at South 1st and W. Stassney Lane. Police ask anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts to call 911. Texans for Public Justice says that our city is losing money on incentive deals. Citizens of Northeast Travis County are opposed to the possible expansion of the landfill in their area. The odor......

Drippings Springs Baptist Church has been on fire since 3:30 this afternoon . . . and 290 (in Dripping Springs) is closed because of it. Inmate dies in Travis County jail. Perry and Dewhurst visit local schools to celebrate the signing of the 'defibrillators in schools' bill. Texas Historical Commission pays $490,000 for Davy Crockett's last letter. Animal control finds 41 dogs in a Round Rock home. Man saved from rising water in Leander early......

Herschell Gordon Lewis is a living legend. With several gallons of red-tinted Kaopectate, a bag of butcher shop leftovers, and a knack for circus-style hucksterism, Lewis literally invented the North American gore film in the early 60s, turning the exploitation genre (and arguably cinema itself) on its ear. In the years before the MPAA had instituted its now ubiquitous rating system, Lewis' gore-filled 1963 classic Bloodfeast caught the censor boards off-guard—up until then, there were......

Amelia Sweethardt, a young Texas native, oversees day-to-day operations at Pure Luck Farm and Dairy, just outside of Dripping Springs. Her award-winning goat cheese, carried by Whole Foods, Central Market and Wheatsville, is not only the stuff of local legend, but also the subject of a recent article in Oprah magazine. As Oprah tells it, Amelia inherited Pure Luck Farm -- one of the first in Texas to be certified organic -- from her mom,......

Back in early 2006, foodies were abuzz about the pizzas and Italian food products on offer at Mandola's Market on 47th Street. The shop fast became a neighborhood mainstay and maintains a loyal following. When we recently became aware that they were also planning a combination winery and restaurant venture in Driftwood (home of The Salt Lick), we contacted Mandola Estates hospitality head Lynn Zeller to find out more. The upshot of our talk:......

Former Texas State Rep. Rick Green shoved and then punched State Rep. Patrick Rose, Dem. Dripping Springs, while outside a polling place at Sunset Canyon Baptist Church. A poll worker has been arrested for allegedly choking a voter in Kentucky. Faith Hill is super pissed that she did not win best female country vocalist of the year. Britney Spears is filing for divorce from K-Fed. Here are some very early election returns in the......

From the Statesman: Hays County authorities are investigating a report that State House District 45 Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs was assaulted today while standing outside a polling place at Sunset Canyon Baptist Church east of Dripping Springs. Rose, an attorney with the Ratliff Law Firm and a licensed Realtor, said he was punched by Rick Green, his 2002 Republican opponent. "Rick lost his temper," he said. "It's unfortunate that something like this happened on......

We've probably mentioned Ghostland Observatory a time or two in the past, well make it a time or three, as the boys have recently been added to the star-studded Lollapalooza lineup. The dynamic duo of Thomas Turner and Aaron Behrens will be playing a noon-time set on the opening day of the three-day fest in Chicago’s Grant Park. Apparently promoter Charles Attal saw the boys perform at halftime of a recent rollerderby and was......

You know who’s a genius? Anyone who eats their pizza pie at East Side Pies, that’s who. How do we know this? Well, we’ve been knowing Noah Polk (and his business partner Michael Freid) was up to something big ever since he started hinting around about his new project at the old Fish ‘R’ Us restaurant when he was tending bar at the Long Branch Inn. Here’s the deal: even if you live as......