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NFL Legend Tony Dorsett : 'They use you up'
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2/2/2012 3:43:00 PM
CapMetro releases video of bus accident
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2/2/2012 3:24:00 PM
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Chilling video from inside the bus that ran over a woman on Monday night was released to KXAN News on Wednesday. The video shows passengers scramble out of the bus to help the woman and help re-direct traffic.
Officials said a woman in her 20's was hit by the bus near the corner of Jollyville Road and West Braker Lane in northwest Austin. She was initially trapped underneath the bus but she was conscious. Her condition is still unknown at this time.
The bus driver was placed on administrative leave with pay while an internal investigation is done.
CapMetro releases video of bus accident: kxan.com
Video : Woman drives into house while changing CD
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2/2/2012 3:19:00 PM
Police arrested the woman who plowed through a Burke County house with her station wagon. Authorities said she flew 180 feet off the pavement at the corner of Drexel and Trinity Church roads. "I'm just very sorry I damaged her house and I want to apologize," said Primadonna Jones as she fought back tears and apologized for driving her car into a home near Drexel.
The impact took out a wall in the basement and left cracks in the walls upstairs. The homeowner, Rita Byrd, was outside at the time and witnessed the whole thing.
"She just went through the house. And I heard it. I thought maybe I'm seeing things," Byrd said.
The Highway Patrol believes Jones was impaired by prescription medication when she went off the road and drove more than a half a football field before colliding with the home. She never hit her brakes.
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Video : Woman drives into house while changing CD
Posted
2/2/2012 3:19:00 PM
Police arrested the woman who plowed through a Burke County house with her station wagon. Authorities said she flew 180 feet off the pavement at the corner of Drexel and Trinity Church roads. "I'm just very sorry I damaged her house and I want to apologize," said Primadonna Jones as she fought back tears and apologized for driving her car into a home near Drexel.
The impact took out a wall in the basement and left cracks in the walls upstairs. The homeowner, Rita Byrd, was outside at the time and witnessed the whole thing.
"She just went through the house. And I heard it. I thought maybe I'm seeing things," Byrd said.
The Highway Patrol believes Jones was impaired by prescription medication when she went off the road and drove more than a half a football field before colliding with the home. She never hit her brakes.
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House outlaws spending welfare funds on gambling, booze and porn
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2/2/2012 3:13:00 PM
The House passed legislation Wednesday that would prevent welfare recipients from spending money on adult entertainment, alcohol or gambling. The bill's sponser, Rep. Charles Boustany, (R-LA), said that the measure was in response to reports that people had used welfare funds inappropriately.
The Welfare Integrity Now for Children and Families Act of 2011 is part of a package of measures that Republicans want to include in an upcoming agreement to extend the payroll tax cut over the next year. Democrats supported the measure but criticized Republicans for not focusing on larger national problems, such as job creation. The vote was 395 to 26.
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Central Texas Teachers fired over Oil Wrestling video
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1/30/2012 3:10:00 PM
FLORENCE, Texas -- Some call it competition, others entertainment, and the title of the YouTube video calls it like it is -- women's oil wrestling. "It's actually clean fun except it's in baby oil," said Hardtails Bar and Grill owner Martha Edwards.
For the past four months the event has drawn hundreds to Hardtails in Georgetown. "We have different people who come out and see it -- men, women, old people, as well as young people," explained Edwards. Last Wednesday it even drew a local school teacher. Florence High School Volleyball Coach Joanna Hensley beat out five others for a cash prize of around $200 and bragging rights.
Quiz: Find your GOP 'dream date'
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1/27/2012 3:26:00 PM
Not sure who to commit to in the Republican primary race? Picking a presidential candidate is like sorting through online dating profiles—nobody's quite right; but out of desperation you decide you're ready to settle. Thus this handy candidate-dating quiz.
Click here to find your Election Day dream date
Jay Leno sued over 'Tonight Show' joke
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1/25/2012 3:22:00 PM
Jay Leno has taken heat from a religious group after cracking that presidential contender Romney keeps the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, as his summer home. And how he's being sued by a religious organizer who claims that Leno libeled the entire Sikh religion with his joke.
In court papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday and obtained by TheWrap, Dr. Randeep Dhillon, who does business as Bol Punjabi All Regions Community Organization, claims that Leno "hurt the sentiments of all Sikh people in addition to those of the plaintiff" with his joke. Dhillon further claims that Leno's joke "clearly exposes plaintiff, other Sikhs and their religion to hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy because it falsely portrays the holiest place in the Sikh religion as a vacation resort owned by a non-Sikh."
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Man Held for 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M
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1/25/2012 3:15:00 PM
A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico's Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was arrested in August of 2005 for driving while intoxicated, according to NBC station KOB.com. He said he never got a trial and spent the entire time languishing in solitary, even pulling his own tooth when he was denied dental care.
"'[Prison officials were] walking by me every day, watching me deteriorate," he said. "Day after day after day, they did nothing, nothing at all, to get me any help." Slevin said he made countless requests to see a doctor to get medication for his depression, but wasn't allowed to see one until only a few weeks before his release. He also never got to see a judge.
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Slate: What’s the Best Way To Get Users To Embrace Mass Transit?
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1/23/2012 3:10:00 PM
A few months ago, at an urban mobility conference in Frankfurt, the British consultant Charles Leadbeater presented a sort of x-y matrix for thinking about how to manage and design cities. The chart was divided into quadrants of “system” and “empathy,” inspired by the psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen’s work with Asperger’s patients, who in some cases are quite good at “systemizing” behavior (e.g., attention to detail, patterns, organization, etc.), but less adept at empathic human relationships.
For cities, “system” implied things like infrastructure and institutions, while empathy implied the cultural texture of a place (that ineffable quality that guidebooks sometimes call “soul”). A planned-from-scratch place like Dubai, or Le Corbusier’s “Radiant City,” Leadbeater argued, was “high system/low empathy,” while the favelas of Rio, which grew up organically and are sustained by a web of informal networks, could be considered “low system/high empathy.” Then there are places—Lagos, he suggested—where neither axis is ...
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