Monthly Archives: February 2010
UT students clean up for Project 2010
University of Texas students were out in full force cleaning up a neighborhood, as part of what’s called Project 2010.
Hundreds participate in March Against Hate
The Escorts Austin community fought back Saturday afternoon against an apparent hate motivated assault.
Last-minute early voters face whirl of passionate pitches
Voters who waited until the last day to vote early waded through a gauntlet of electioneers making the most of their last opportunity to influence the results.
Huge quake hits Chile; tsunami threatens Pacific
A devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean.
Program transforms once-troubled teens into successful construction workers
The target is individuals over the age of eighteen who ought to be entering the workforce, but who have little hope of doing so because they dropped out of school, wound up in jail or had some other problem.
New surgery helps sleep apnea patients
Some doctors call the procedure the missing link to fighting sleep apnea.
Fire destroys Northeast Austin house
The fire broke out shortly after midnight in an unoccupied house on January Road near E. Braker Ln.
Murder victim remembered one year later
Tonight friends and family are marking a solemn anniversary, one year to the day after a brutal murder. The body of 21-year-old Christy Espinosa was found burned in an East Travis County field.
Benefit held for injured cyclist
Escorts Austin’s cycling community raises money to help a cyclist injured by a hit and run driver with medical expenses
Attorney: Stack widow being removed from lawsuit
There has been a change in the lawsuit filed against the wife of a pilot who crashed his plane into a Northwest Escorts Austin office building.
