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19 hrs ago | News 8 Austin

2 charged in Bastrop illegal immigration hostage case

The Bastrop County Sheriff's Office Thursday arrested and charged two men for holding illegal immigrants against their will.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Female Bastrop fire victim ID'd

The Bastrop County Sheriff's Office has identified a woman who died Thursday morning in a fire that destroyed a camper trailer in the 300 block of Ponderosa Loop, northeast of Bastrop near Texas 21.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Bastrop superintendent resigns

According to an announcement today from the Bastrop school district: Bastrop Independent School District Superintendent Roderick Emanuel announced today that he is resigning as head of the district effective immediately.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

News 8 Austin

Dry conditions mean stronger restrictions on fireworks

Austin Police and Fire Departments are teaming up to enforce the fireworks ban this weekend, saying the last few days of rain have done little to ease the dry conditions.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

News 8 Austin

Fire kills 1 in Bastrop County

Officials say a woman died in her travel trailer home on Ponderosa Loop in Bastrop County early Thursday morning.

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MyFoxAustin

Woman Dies in Bastrop Camper Fire

A woman has died from a camper fire in Bastrop County. Bastrop County Sheriff's Office says that the Bluebonnet, Bastrop and Smithville Volunteer Fire Departments responded to the fire on the 300 block of Ponderosa Loop around 3 a.m. Thursday morning.

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Austin American Statesman

Morning fire in Bastrop kills one

One person died this morning in a fire that destroyed a camper trailer in Bastrop County, according to officials.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

San Marcos Daily Record

Small plane makes emergency landing near Austin

A pilot had to set his single-engine plane down in a pasture after experiencing engine trouble on a flight to Austin.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Victoria Advocate

2 die in house fire in Bastrop County

Originally published June 28, 2009 at 7:57 p.m., updated June 28, 2009 at 8:58 p.m. BASTROP, Texas a ' Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that killed an elderly couple in Bastrop County.

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MyFoxAustin

Plane Crashes in Pasture in Bastrop CO

On Monday a small plane crashed into a cow pasture near an unpaved road in Bastrop County at 2856 Highway 71 in Cedar Creek.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

MyFoxAustin

2 Die in House Fire in Bastrop County

Earnest Harkins sifted through the rubble left by a house fire Saturday. The blaze killed both his parents and destroyed the home he shared with them.

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Austin American Statesman

Two dead in Bastrop Co. house fire

Two people died in a house fire in Bastrop County Saturday, according to a Bastrop County dispatcher.

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Houston Chronicle

Texas Guard unit prepares to help bring end to Iraq war

Texas National Guard instructors, from left, Sgt. Juan Rivera, Spc. Mathew Hopper, Spc.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Heat record set in Central Austin

Man faces child porn charges The Texas attorney general's cyber crimes unit arrested an Austin man Tuesday, accusing him of possessing and transporting child pornography.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Austin Business Journal

Durham to close Bastrop facility

Durham School Services, the provider of bus and transportation services for the Bastrop Independent School District, has withdrawn its bid for those services and will lay off 133 workers at the end of the month.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Smithwick's fight for Texas

He was one of the first Rangers during the Revolution and an Indian fighter who lived with Comanches.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

Small dead animals

The Iranian Election and the Revolution Test

Successful revolutions have three phases. First, a strategically located single or limited segment of society begins vocally to express resentment, asserting itself in the streets of a major city, usually the capital.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

Austin American-Statesman

Austin spots that restore, repair, refurbish

There's always something that needs fixing, whether it's a family heirloom or an everyday item.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Makeover will pit need vs. nostalgia

West Austin will undergo a breathtaking makeover when and if University of Texas Systems regents give final approval to recommendations to develop the Brackenridge tract.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

VDARE.com

Nisbetta s Intelligence And How To Get It: Why no mention of Milwaukee Project fraud?

Nisbett's Intelligence And How To Get It: Why no mention of Milwaukee Project fraud? As a follow-up to my last VDARE.com column , let me add that in psychologist Richard E. Nisbett's much-lauded new book Intelligence and How to Get It , he devotes pages 124-126 to recounting the successes at raising black test scores achieved by Rick Heber's ...

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