Since its creation, the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. has guaranteed $41.6 billion in loans for millions of Texas students.

The family of two slain stepbrothers is suing the strip club where the men were killed for damages and loss of companionship, according to court records.

Austin Community Foundation Executive Director Ken Gladish is heading to a new job. Gladish, who has run the community foundation since April 2008 , will step down in November to become president of the Seton Foundations .

This ain't Monaco. F1 racing out here? Are you kidding? Maybe an F1 tornado. As you drive into this tiny, rural town 15 miles southeast of downtown Austin, you won't see any zippy, low-slung foreign sports cars.

AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE Graduates rank high in passing CPA exam ACC graduates ranked highest among Texas community colleges and eighth among all institutions of higher learning in the state in passing rates on the exam for qualifying as a certified public accountant.

The increasing cost of indigent health care could cause the property tax rate for Williamson County to rise by three cents, costing the average homeowner $41.27 more per year, according to county officials.

The City of Austin would hire 88 more police officers, firefighters and paramedics under the less-bleak-than-expected 2010-11 budget that officials proposed Wednesday.

The City of Austin would hire 88 more police officers, firefighters and paramedics under the less-bleak-than-expected 2010-11 budget that officials proposed Wednesday .

Office tenants don't want students in their building.

AUSTIN AISD moves to settle disputes The Austin school district has reached a tentative agreement to settle all disputes with terminated contract employee Margarita Decierdo.

An Austin man who escaped in handcuffs after his arrest in Southwest Austin and eluded officials for several hours Wednesday morning is back in custody, a Travis County sheriff's office spokesman said.

Paul Stephens, reinstated after his indefinite suspension was overruled, has 'history for dishonesty,' prosecutor says.

After months of speculation amongst Hays County politicos, San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz announced Wednesday that she will not run for a fourth term in office, leaving the field of mayoral candidates at three with more than three weeks left to file for the November election.

On the day before their scheduled vote, Austin City Council members remained divided Wednesday on whether to support a controversial $750,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer.

The Austin City Council today will delve into regulating working conditions in the construction industry as it considers an apparently groundbreaking ordinance requiring employers to give their employees regular rest breaks.

Days after 21-year-old Christy Lynn Espinosa's body was found badly burned in eastern Travis County after she disappeared from a Sixth Street Mardi Gras celebration, authorities had a dilemma, a sheriff's deputy testified at a pretrial hearing Wednesday.

UT, city, others troubled by Turkey Trot Route Tom Turkey might need to find another spot to trot this November.

A woman charged with drunken driving has filed a lawsuit against two Travis County jailers who she says assaulted her two years ago, and she showed a surveillance video to back her claims.

Workers have set up scaffolding in the Texas Capitol's House chamber and around its central dome as part of repair project that is expected to cost about $3.5 million.

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