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A Dripping Springs man will spend 15 years in federal prison for robbing five banks and one grocery store in 2013.

In the news: Chinatown owner's new outlook on life, cooking; Ramen Tatsu-Ya, In-N-Out eye South Lamar; Clinton loves Maudies After surviving a few recent medical scares, Chinatown owner Ronald Cheng was inspired by his mother, Linda, to open another Chinatown at the original location with a menu influenced by Linda's cooking.

In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate General Greg Abbott, left, talks to supporters in San Antonio.

In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate General Greg Abbott, left, talks to supporters in San Antonio.

The bolts of lightning and claps of thunder didn't just scare people in Austin on Monday.

A 19-year-old college student from Austin was died after being struck by an accused drunken driver while trying to cross the road.

A convicted pedophile whose sex crimes date back at least 30 years has been sentenced to prison for failing to register as a sex offender.

Tax day is here, and you're probably excited...but not because you love sifting through receipts and credit card statements.

A Goucher College student was struck and killed by a drunken driver in Baltimore County over the weekend, according to police.

A special legislative report that accuses University of Texas System regent Wallace Hall of possibly criminal misconduct has been forwarded to the Travis County District Attorney's Office.

Damn near every young writer in Austin saw some semblance of their reportorial upbringing end Monday as the Austinist, an arm of the extensive, locally focused Gothamist network, announced shortly at 4pm that it was shutting its interactive doors.

KVUE -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has hired a high-profile Austin defense lawyer to represent him in an investigation into whether he illegally withheld money from the Travis County District Attorney's office.

Arcade Fire returned to Austin on April 10, playing the Austin360 Amphitheater at Circuit of the Americas .

KVUE -- One way to reduce traffic in Austin is to get cars off the road, but how would you get around if you didn't drive? Just ask Emily Schwartz.

Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a ditch in north Austin on Monday afternoon.

Police are looking for a suspect in a bank robbery at the First Lockhart National Bank at 319 West Slaughter Lane in South Austin.

I mean, we all kind of already knew this . But with the recent outpouring of U.S. Census data in March, the trend pieces cometh.

Granbury resident Joe Williams stands with City Council Member Rose Myers and Hood County Commissioner Steve Berry under a Lake Granbury resident's dock in the Waters Edge neighborhood on Lake Granbury's north shore.

Police got calls about the incident at about 9:35 p.m. They found an assault victim outside a home in the 7400 block of Bethune Avenue.

On Friday, eight Texas breweries won awards at the 2014 World Beer Cup in Denver.