Speculation here in Austin is running rampant, but it appears the pilot set his house on fire before heading to a Georgetown airport to fly a small, single-engine aircraft into the Echelon building, which houses many offices including the FBI and IRS
About thirty minutes ago, a single-engine plane flying at full-throttle crashed into a Northwest Austin office building housing several federal offices, including FBI. Two people are still unaccounted for.
A Florida man was shot in his kitchen in front of his children by his father-in-law, seemingly over an argument concerning the family's goat. Oddly enough, I know a friend of this family and they are trying to figure out what to do to help the kids.
"Just before 1:30 a.m. Monday, Julia showed up, dressed in a feathery purple miniskirt, rhinestone belt, rhinestone halter top and rhinestone tiara. She had a "minor" ID tag hanging from her neck. She was surrounded by dozens of reporters and cameras.
I moved to Austin in November 2009. Austin, TX. So lovably quirky and, as it turns out, rather macabre.
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The new design features debit cards, pop music that places after action and clear tokens instead of that little boot you loved to wear on your pinky as a kid.
After three weeks of running solid here and there, we decided that Sunday morning we were going to be church skipping-heathens after it was clear that any efforts to get 5 of us out the door were clearly going to fail.
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Columnist John Kelso's book featuring Texas oddities ranging from inflatable skeeters to chicken-fried bacon has been banned from libraries in Texas prisons, citing the concern that all the maps of the state and points of interest may motivate escapes.
I have known Douglas for more than ten years now, both as an author of fascinating books like this one and because we traveled in some of the same circles online.
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Spencer Quinn has done it again. Done what again? I'll explain in a minute but first let me just say that he is 2 for 2 in solid fascinating, entertaining, hilarious novels and that's a rare feat.
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I love AJ for his writing style, for his books, for his interviews with me. I sang his praises at part one of this two part interview which was published here.
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Excerpt: A wintry measure of hard times can be found this holiday season on the knees of white-bearded, red-suited men around the country. A couple of years ago, children were shooting for the moon, asking St. Nick for Xboxes, iPods and laptops.
Each year, they pull me out from the box under the house, move furniture around, fluff my dusty wiry branches and, for a few weeks, it becomes my time to shine. Same ornaments every year, but never in the same place twice.
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In the eighteen months since the company at which my husband worked for almost 13 years closed, I have had as many as four jobs as a time. This makes it quite hard to be the mother of three children, two of whom have special needs.
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If you've read In Defense of Food or Omnivore's Dilemma, you might find Pollan's rules for food interesting. My favorite: It's better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
In preparation for the holiday season, the International Guild of Chimneys makes a simple request: lose the gut or find a new way in this year.
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Earlier this month, I had a conversation with Charlie. Most people secretly wish their three-year-old children would STOP talking for just a moment and think nothing of it. But for us, it was a first.
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Bigamy charges against the leader of the House of Yahweh religious sect in West Texas have been dropped as part of a plea agreement.
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I came home late from a movie last night and entered a quiet house with a sleeping family. I went to bed where my place is these days. I fell asleep in Charlie's room on one half of the trundle bed while my husband and son slept in a play tent perched atop the other half.
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Every time I exhale, I wish that I could will myself to not take in more air. If I could curl my body into a tight enough ball in a dark enough room, maybe I could disappear entirely.
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In the last three months, I've been dividing up my friends. Sounds very junior high, doesn't it? But the sorting factor is not who has the right jeans or is mad at the right person, but rather how they reacted (and continue to react) to Charlie.
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Mommy can make all your dreams come true. Just ask Melody.
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In the journey to diagnose and help my son, we had our first screening today. Early Childhood Intervention came this morning to our home to talk with us and watch him do what Charlie does.
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Listen. No, it's not the sound of one hand clapping. It's the sound of my three children. Asleep. At 8:03 a.m. Oh, how I have dreamt of this day.
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Being called into a meeting to fill out exit paperwork when you didn't know you were 'exiting' from the job isn't how I wanted to spend my Monday. Share some bad corporate experiences to cheer me up, please!
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