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Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is the arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman where she has worked since 1999.

Authorities say four people traveling from Austin to East Texas died when the van they were traveling in collided with an 18-wheeler. The Department of Public Safety says in a report the accident happened late Wednesday night when a Dodge van apparently made a U-turn and was hit by the oncoming truck.

If you need something more to be thankful for today, maybe this will do: two very different but very beloved artists will be releasing new albums in 2010.

The Twin Liquors family is saying goodbye to one of its founders. Theodore Jabour passed away Monday, Nov.

Three Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents involved in the shooting death of a man who allegedly tried to run them down wona t face prosecution.

Austin police were looking for a bank robber Wednesday. Officers say the robber showed a small, black semi-automatic gun at the Wells Fargo on West 35th Street near Kerbey Lane around 10:30 a.m. They say he got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.

A A Nov. 24: Some people are turning the recession into a time of personal growth and financial reward.

A musician in Austin has been sentenced to 32 years in prison over what prosecutors say was a drug-related slaying.

Community Impact reports that the local IRS office, as well as its affiliated Taxpayer Assistance Center , was affected in a fire in the adjacent office last Friday.

A Travis County grand jury today has decided to take no action in the fatal shooting this summer of a man by three agents with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

Shots were fired outside Austin High School at 5pm yesterday evening when what had started as an argument between high school senior Jay David Carbullido, 17, and another, unnamed teen quickly escalated to something much more serious.

It was the perfect ambush although the line of questions had not been preplanned.

Austin police officers increasingly are being required to be cameramen and camerawomen.

Police with the Austin school district said Monday that a 17-year-old Austin High School student turned himself in hours after shots rang out near the campus at 1715 W. Cesar Chavez St.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that its office and Taxpayer Assistance Center located at 825 E. Rundberg Lane in has been temporarily closed due to a fire.

The City of Austin has lifted Stage Two mandatory water restrictions. Austinites can now water their lawns twice a week.

Two inmates escape from a Bastrop federal prison and one of them has been spotted in the Austin area.

A touching tribute Sunday morning to those who've lost their lives on the streets of Austin.

Afew months back I was in San Antonio for a conference at the venerable Menger Hotel, across from the Alamo, when I happened to take in a once commonplace scene: a woman sitting in the lobby addressing a postcard.

Last week, a swath of Central East Austin was designated as an African American Cultural Heritage District - the first such district to receive the Texas Commission on the Arts title.