Cedar Park News

It's a dinosaur puppet show times 200 million---the number of years the dinosaurs dominated the Earth! Walking With Dinosaurs, the BBC TV series turned theatrical event, may be coming to an arena near you.

Late last month, Firstmark Credit Union opened a new branch at 12822 Interstate 10 W. and DeZavala Road on the Northwest Side - its 10th branch in San Antonio.

Williamson County Commissioner Cynthia Long announced Nov. 18 she will seek a second term, according to a news release.

Some local store owners have reason to be optimistic this holiday season, despite the struggling national economy and lower-than-expected sales returns from last year.

Austin Insurance Group , 13402 Anderson Mill Road, opened Nov. 1. The business, owned by Mike Torabi and Jennifer Boes, offers personal and business insurance, including vehicle, home, investor, property, life and health insurance.

Though about 70 percent of their business is mail related, Mike and Hope Bibas' aptly named shop, Not Just Mail, stocks jewelry, trinkets and gifts - many made by local artists.

An 83-year-old man is dead after a collision in Cedar Park Thursday morning. The Cedar Park Police Department responded to a call at the intersection of FM 1431 and North Lakeline Boulevard at about 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

The world waits as secretive Texas startup EEStor develops a breakthrough battery for electric cars, and many other applications, called the EESU.

Having run unsuccessfully for state representative, Dist 20 in 2004 and 2006, Third Vice-Chairman of the Williamson County Democrat party, Jim Stauber, 69, has filed a campaign treasurer report to run as Williamson County Commissioner for precinct two.

WebIS is very happy to announce the release of DeepFish 1.5, a unique email search application for the iPhone.

Elizabeth Vargas, anchor for a oeABC News 20/20,a will moderate a town-hall forum about Doctors Without Borders with frontline aid workers, journalists and thousands of audience members in movie theaters across the country, including Cedar Park.

Capital Metro's commuter rail trains, which for months have made test runs primarily in the morning, will move to afternoon testing starting Monday.

Cedar Park City Council has named Tony Dale to fill the vacant Place 5 position, which opened Oct.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today denied a legal challenge by Gregory Michael Klapesky , convicted in 2005 of strangling his wife, 27-year-old Kali Sansone.

Modern Times: The 1870s, the fourth annual speaker series at the Neill-Cochran House Museum, is a grouping of five talks about life after the Civil War in a decade that set the stage for global change.

Learn from Anime aficionado Sami Inoue-Harte who has worked as an animator on Lilo & Stitch 2 and is the voice of the famous Chocobo in Final Fantasy! Professional animator Dominic Vitucci also will help teach the class.

Earlier this week, the Williamson County Republican Party met in Taylor at the Howard Theater.

Federal stimulus funds awarded to a wind-energy research consortium led by Illinois Institute of Technology will accelerate testing of small wind turbines that could point the way towards more efficient utility-scale machines.

One person is dead after a mid-morning crash just south of Cedar Park. Police believe alcohol may be to blame.

Winners in five categories of the 2009 Leander Fall Festival All Bake, Chili and Cajun Cookoff were announced Oct.