Old Pecan Street Festival, UT home game, Silicon Labs Marathon Relay, and Alzheimer’s Memory Walk are all in the downtown area this weekend. Watch for street closures! Sheryl Cole's Safe Surrender program will allow people with outstanding warrants to turn themselves in at area churches. APD is supporting Jennifer Kim's anti-panhandling ordinance; a public hearing on the ordinance is set for October 18. The US Supreme Court stopped the execution of Carlton Turner Jr., who... more ›

Science Times celebrates the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, which changed everything - history, geopolitics, the scientific world. The US dollar hit to new record low against the euro as investors fretted about a world credit crunch. The Democratic chairman of a House committee complained Tuesday that the State Department was blocking his panel’s efforts to investigate the private security firm Blackwater USA and its operations in Iraq. How To Lose All Your Friends Immediately,... more ›

• President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox continue talks today over the immigration issue. Bush is urging a program that allows more immigrants to take on jobs in the US. The heated debate over immigration is causing many to publicly protest, including local area students.
• Former San Antonio Spurs player Alvin Robertson is getting in to trouble with the law again.
• Ryan Seacrest and Teri Hatcher apparently 'idolize' eachother. (I know. I know...boo, hiss.)
• This morning, a series of earthquakes in Iran have killed at least 66 people and the number is expected to rise. The US has already offered humanitarian aid to the areas most affected by the disaster.
• As one of the most prominent oil-producing countries in the world, Iran claims that it won't use that as leverage to defend itself. Iran denies allegation of having any kind of nuclear program.
• Even if Massachusetts allows gay marriages, the state will continue to uphold a law that prohibits the validity of any marriage of nonresidents "if the marriage would not be recognized in their home state".
• The job market in Austin isn't so bad. According to the Texas Workforce Commission, Texas' economy is as healthy as ever.
  
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The US Senate has, rather begrudgingly, named Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. the 110th US Supreme Court justice. The conservative former federal judge will replace the moderate and graceful Sandra Day O'Connor. Good look, great justice. We just hope Alito takes to wearing doilies when out on the town. more ›

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Roper v. Simmons earlier this year, abolishing the death penalty for convicted killers who were under 18 at the time of their crimes. more ›