One of the country's biggest private mortgage companies goes belly-up, leaving 120 Austinites newly jobless The Texas Department of Transportation releases a list of over 2,000 "structurally deficient" bridges across the state, with 10 in Travis County Nicole and Jeffrey Rank of Corpus Christi are awarded $80k after being wrongfully arrested at a Bush rally in 2004 Tax-free holiday weekend starts on Friday Whole Foods gets the go-ahead to buy out Wild Oats The......

A San Antonio-area nonprofit is suing to have their chimpanzees returned from Louisiana Is someone trying to take down the Dollar General? The City of Austin has opted to extend the waterway ban on Lake Austin until Friday The Texas Department of Transportation begins inspections on possibly suspect bridges A 6-year-old girl in North Texas crashed her bike into a parked trailer and gets her head punctured by 4 inches of rebar Bars and......

The Texas Department of Agriculture has put up a list of Texas businesses selling gas or diesel during the last 60 days whose pumps aren't compliant with state laws. You could be getting less fuel than you're paying for because such businesses aren't conducting proper maintenance on their pumps. While a large number of the businesses seem to be in Taylor County or Harris County, there are a few from our area on the list.......

We saw this horribly sad piece of news on News 8 Austin this morning. A female cyclist was struck and killed by two automobiles yesterday on Bee Caves Rd. at the 360 crossing. Witnesses say a van pulling a trailer clipped the woman who fell from her bike and was then run over by a grey car. The car continued down the road. Disgusting! The Texas Department of Public Safety says they will be......

It almost sounds like the premise for an episode of Alias: enroute from New Mexico to Kilgore, two vials of radioactive material went missing, and they've no idea where they went! It seems the bottles were shipped by Albuquerque, NM firm Pro Technics, who packed them in a "green, World War II-era metal ammunition box." The Texas Department of State Health Services suspects they may be in Austin. Pro Technics is offering a $1000......