Conventional wisdom might be that a jury of high-ranking Army officers wouldn't hesitate to send Maj. Nidal Hasan to death row for the killing of 12 soldiers and a civilian during a 2009 rampage at Fort Hood.And that might yet be the case. But at least two jurors who will decide Hasan's fate expressed some reservations about the death penalty last week during jury selection, which ...
Perez taking on Tigers in series finale in Detroit
The Rangers fell to Doug Fister and got past Max Scherzer. Now they'll face Justin Verlander in Sunday's rubber match at Comerica Park. That doesn't sound like an easy path to the All-Star break. "The three pitchers we're facing in this series aren't just anybody," Texas' David Murphy said. "They're tough on everybody they face. We've had ...
Will new law spur transit in Austin suburbs
Mass transit supporters around here have some big dreams.Their vision, set out in a "Project Connect" regional transit plan finalized last year, includes several passenger rail lines crisscrossing Central Texas, long-distance bus lines, express toll lanes on several area ...
Author of ?Waco State Home? books wants to tell family?s story
When Sherry Matthews published "We Were Not Orphans: Stories from the Waco State Home" in 2011, she breached an emotional levee that had held for decades.Inspired partly by her family's experience with the home -- her three older brothers were sent there in 1948, when Matthews was 3 -- the book, through documentation and oral histories, told of a beyond-Dickensian institution that ...
Ball Hot cars much misery ? how to survive the summer without air conditioning
My stiflingly hot hell on wheels started in the summer of 2011.The air conditioning in my 14-year-old Saturn was dead. It was too expensive to fix. And so I decided to suffer the ...
Jury Finds George Zimmerman Not Guilty In Killing Of Trayvon Martin
Homicide suspect George Zimmerman, left, sits in the courtroom with defense lawyers Don West and Mark O?Mara on Saturday, July 13, 2013. (Credit: Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty ...
Florida jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty
1 of 17. George Zimmerman (R) is congratulated by his defense team after being found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center in Sanford, Florida, July 13, ...
Jury finds George Zimmerman NOT GUILTY
George Zimmerman has found the neighborhood watchman not guilty. Zimmerman, 29, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, whom the defendant shot during a scuffle in a nearby gated community on Feb 26, 2012. The jury was also able to convict Zimmerman on the lesser charge of manslaughter. The decision from the jury is sure to spark outrage from Martin ...
Man hospitalized in accident on RM 2222
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police are investigating an accident between a motorcycle and a car that has closed all lanes of RM 2222 at Capital of Texas Highway. Police say shortly after 8:00 pm a motorcycle was involved in a crash with another vehicle. The driver of the motorcycle was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge with life-threatening injuries. Police say all lanes of RM ...
Tech Review Water resistance stands out in Sony phone
Think of a leading phone maker. Apple and Samsung might come to mind -- maybe even HTC, maker of the well-received One. But you're probably not thinking Sony, a company better known for its TVs, cameras and video game machines.With the new Xperia Z, Sony shows it can play in the smartphone big leagues.The Xperia Z, unveiled last week in the U.S., helps Sony catch up with offerings from ...
Game-makers aim to keep girls interested in STEM fields
Consider, for a moment, the possibility of a completely addictive electronic game that had a more noble objective than destroying pigs with slingshot-flung birds or traveling through post-apocalyptic wastelands.What about a game that was geared toward teen girls -- a free game that kept them engrossed in math and science, nudging them toward careers in those fields, at that very time in their ...
Technology starting to alter the bank branch
As more people do their banking on computers, tablets and mobile devices, trips to the local bank branch are increasingly rare. Still, convenient branch access remains the top reason that people select a bank.Many banks are therefore in the midst of a balancing act when it comes to their branches. They're juggling how to create a network that deals with the realities of less frequent use, ...
Health care technology blossoms in hospitals clinics
A slip of paper at the nurses' station indicated a certain medication dose was due for a patient. Dallas Fulton knew better. Actually, his hand-held computer knew better.Fulton, a registered nurse on staff in Truman Medical Centers' Hospital Hill intensive care unit, gets real-time electronic information about prescriptions, vital signs and any other aspect of patient care. His ...
Plans to tear down wooden playscape in Georgetown draw criticism
More than 900 volunteers worked around the clock for six days in 1993 to build a wooden playscape in Georgetown designed by a nationally known New York architect.In 2008 the playscape was named the favorite playground in the state by Texas Monthly ...
Democratic activist Anne McAfee dies
Anne McAfee, a longtime Democratic activist who suffered a stroke during state Sen. Wendy Davis' filibuster in an abortion debate June 25, died Saturday morning at her home in Austin. She was 82.Born Anne Elizabeth Castleberry on Oct. 15, 1930, McAfee was a lifelong Austinite and became interested in politics as a child, volunteering at age 13 on Minnie Fisher Cunningham's 1944 ...
Lockhart man drowns in Bastrop park
BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) - Bastrop Police are investigating a drowning in the Colorado River that took the life of a Lockhart man Saturday. Police say a 39-year-old man drowned Saturday at Fishermans Park . Witnesses say the man went under the water while holding onto his wifes inner tube. The name of the man has not been released. KXAN is following this developing story and has a crew en route. ...
UT researchers find swamp and stream systems under Antarctic ice
A team of University of Texas researchers recently discovered a swamplike system of water under an Antarctic glacier the size of New Mexico -- a finding that might hold the key to how quickly the polar ice will melt and the seas will rise.From a nondescript office at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, sweltering in the midsummer heat like the rest of Central Texas, this research team has become ...
74 laid off amid changes at Seton
In recent weeks, the Seton Healthcare Family has laid off 74 employees and cut the hours or changed the schedules of 45 others as part of a long-term restructuring that also affects patient services, a spokeswoman said.Seton officials say they are transforming their system into one that focuses more attention on keeping patients well and less on hospitalizing them. At the same time, they ...
Two Capital Metro board members dominate travel spending
Six weeks ago, two Capital Metro board members decided they wanted to attend workshops and seminars at a national transportation conference, so they asked the taxpayer-funded agency to cover their estimated $3,000 cost for registration and hotel rooms at a Hyatt Regency over the four-day event.The catch: The conference was in Austin. The Hyatt, on Lady Bird Lake, is a half-hour commute from ...
PolitiFact Extremely premature babies surviving at greater rates
Rick Perry spoke up for restricting abortions earlier in pregnancy by saying that extremely premature births increasingly result in healthy children."We will ban abortion after 20 weeks" of pregnancy, Perry told the the National Right to Life Convention on June 27. "And you think about it, it makes sense considering the growing number of healthy, happy children who are born ...
At stake in battle Dell?s future
On Thursday morning, the shareholders of Dell Inc. will help decide what the future might look like for the largest private employer in Central Texas.They will vote their shares for or against the proposed $24.4 billion buyout of the company by founder and CEO Michael Dell and his financial ally, Silver Lake Partners of ...
After throwing BP Lewis ready for rehab assignment
Email DETROIT -- Right-hander Colby Lewis threw 46 pitches of batting practice on Saturday at Comerica Park, and the next step is a return to the Minor Leagues for a rehab assignment. "It was a lot better today, that's for sure," Lewis said. "I had a lot better carry on my fastball, and when that happens, my other pitches have good bite. My curveball had real good ...
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