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Austin April 16, 2014 - Break out your running shoes and join Austin's fantastic running community at the city's newest race, the Silicon Labs Sunshine Run, on Sunday April 27th.

Coldplay are to perform at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of a select series of dates to launch the band's forthcoming album Ghost Stories.

It will be a night of firsts for performing arts in Austin, Texas! The First Annual Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards will be held at the Long Center, tonight, April 17 at 7:30pm.

"I think you'll see wide-area, high-bandwidth [smart]watches this year at some point," said Glenn Lurie, president of emerging devices at AT&T, in an interview.

Liquid Austin's Ari Auber has the details tonight's fourth-annual Beerversary at Star Bar: "Deschutes the Abyss, Oskar Blues Maker's Mark Whiskey Barrel-Aged Ten Fidy and Hops and Grain's Volumes of Oak are just three of the 11 beers on draft for Star Bar's "Beerversary."

Call it morning presser syndrome. Although Texas open carry advocates came out in force in response to a recent South by Southwest gun control panel, only a handful congregated outside City Hall for today's Austin launch of Everytown for Gun Safety .

The Austin gelato scene is blowing up , and now the city will be the only North American stop for the Gelato World Tour .

As Austin prepares for its first elections with 10 new geographic districts, KUT is diving deeply into District One, which covers large parts of East Austin.

Two weeks ago we printed a recipe for what possibly could be “First Lady Steak,” requested by Tom in Long Beach.

Recently, when Airbnb announced that Portland was to be its initial 'shared city,' Mayor Charlie Hales scored a huge victory in having Portland become the first city in the world for which Airbnb agreed to remit lodging taxes.

APD says it started at 3:40 a.m. on IH-35 northbound and Woodward Street. The stolen Toyota led police towards North Austin for 20 minutes.

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.