5 Scouts work together to earn Gold Awards Five Austin teens, all from Troop 567, worked together collectively to earn a Gold Award, the highest level of recognition in the Girl Scouts.

AUSTIN

Man shot to death at apartments

Austin police were searching for a man they say fatally shot another man at a North Austin apartment complex early Sunday.

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STATE, U.S. HIGHWAYS Interstate 35 (Travis County): Northbound entrance ramp from Stassney Lane and inside lane on northbound access road between Teri Road and Ben White Boulevard closed from 8 p.m.

Austin police officer Duane Williams was in the same cadet class as Drew Bolin and was working the same shift in 1995 the night Bolin was killed in the line of duty.

Hutto officials have big plans for the empty grain silos visible from U.S. 79 as the highway passes through town: In a few years, the City Council plans to hold its regular meetings inside one of them.

In its heyday, the Bryson stagecoach stop was a place to rest along the route known as the Military Trail between Austin and Fort Croghan, near present-day Burnet.

Does the lottery and, by extension, the fund that pays for Texas public schools rely too heavily on those who can least afford it?

In the Mueller neighborhood, a group of residents regularly tromps through a 31-acre field of native grasses, a prairie reclaimed from the runways of the former municipal airport that once occupied this swath of East Austin.

Note: This is part two of a two-part series. Call it "A Tale of Two Tickets." In the beginning, Lotto was the Texas Lottery.

Federal, state, county and city offices: Closed today. Banks, savings and loans and credit unions: Closed today.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT A year after the West Campus slayings of John Goosey and Stacy Barnett, 20-year-old Ricky Thompson pleaded guilty and received a life sentence.

This is part one of a two-part series Since the Texas Lottery opened for business in 1992, it has generally been portrayed as a success, raising billions of dollars for public education.

In 2009, no single retail outlet in Texas sold more $50 scratch-off tickets than the Right Choice Mart in downtown Gonzales, a sleepy city of 7,000 about 80 miles southeast of Austin.

When tragedy hits, Americans open their wallets. The Indian Ocean tsunami. 9/11. Haiti. Hurricane Katrina.

Federal, state, county and city offices: Closed Monday. Banks, savings and loans and credit unions: Closed Monday.

In March 2006, Evelyne Shatkin and Linda Shifflett met at the cubicle of one of their co-workers after work to pray for her and anoint her workspace with olive oil, according to court documents.

The trouble with Austin's penchant for giving huge historical tax breaks to owners of old homes? It's not just the money.

The five men met at a South Austin hotel last month with someone they thought was a disgruntled member of a local drug-trafficking organization.

After years of attending a nondenominational church near her home in the Wells Branch neighborhood, Kim Alexander started making the 20-minute drive to Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church in East Austin.

A dramatic rise in water rates that Kennedy Ridge Estates residents have seen since May is tied to increases in rates paid by Hornsby Bend Utility Co.