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  • High-water rescues reported in San Antonio area

    SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio firefighters have pulled people from submerged cars and rescued passengers whose bus was swept away in flood waters from torrential rains.Officials say numerous roads have been closed because of flash flooding.The city's transit agency says firefighters on a boat were able to rescue the three bus passengers and driver early Saturday. A spokeswoman says nobody was ...

  • U.S. 181 in Pettus closed after flooding

    PETTUS -- Northbound U.S. 181 in Pettus was shut down Saturday after heavy rains caused the road to flood, said Rickey Dailey, with the Texas Department of Transportation. The detour is Farm- to-Market road 623 in Pettus to Farm-to-Market 673 in Mineral to State Highway 72 in Pawnee back to U.S. 181 to Kenedy. See Caller.com for more ...

  • Perry Texas Legislature honor fallen soldiers

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry has addressed a joint session of the Legislature to honor Texans killed in combat, saying the duty to honor the fallen goes beyond ...

  • Pet of the Week Hunter Pet of the Week Hunter

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Hunter, a treeing walker coonhound , is KXAN's Pet of the Week. Edward Flores of Austin Dog Rescue brought Hunter to KXAN on Saturday morning. According to the Austin Dog Rescue website, Hunter socializes well with other dogs. "Hunter is a sweet, affectionate, easy going boy that was rescued from a rural shelter on acold winter day in early January. He had only been at ...

  • Despite tornado festival kicks off in Texas town

    ENNIS, Texas-One of the largest Czech festivals in the U.S. is taking place this weekend in a North Texas town still recovering from a tornado. The 47th annual National Polka Festival is expected to bring 50,000 people to Ennis, about 30 miles southeast of Dallas. Officials say the Ennis parade route had to be changed because the downtown area remains closed to traffic. But Chamber of Commerce ...

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The Secret of the Grain (La graine et le mulet) [DVD]

The Secret of the Grain (La graine et le mulet) [DVD]

A big winner on both the international film festival circuit (it won a Special Jury Prize at Venice) and at the Csars (the French equivalent of the Oscars), where it won four awards including Best Picture, actor-turned-director Abdellatif Kechiches third film The Secr ... ...

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  • Corpus Christi child dies after being left unattended in hot car Friday

    If it was not done on purpose,as some form of sick punishment, which is child cruelty, then, perhaps, they were on drugs. How else could this tragedy happen? Poor child, so ...

  • Former Corpus Christi municipal court employee faces another count of tampering with records

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  • Apple Loop Macs Made In Texas iOS 7 Goes Black And White Microsoft Mocks Siri

    Washington , D.C. this week to address a bi-partisan Senate subcommittee that criticized the company for using tax loopholes and keeping the majority of its cash overseas to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. John McCain had harsh words for Apple in their opening statements and in the report assembled by the committee's staff detailing why Cook and co. ...

  • No-refusal numbers 24 overnight

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police report that Saturday night's no-refusal initiative netted 24 people. The Austin Police Department has begun implementing no-refusal weekend during major events and holidays. Last night, 24 people were picked up on suspicion of driving will intoxicated. Of those 24, 11 consented to breath tests and 13 involved blood draws. Of the 13 blood draws, 2 gave consent ...

  • Flash flood watch in effect all day

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The rainy pattern we saw across central Texas on Friday is persisting Saturday. A series of disturbances continue to rotate through the area riding an upper-level trough. These disturbances are interacting with plentiful low and mid-level moisture, combining to form scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms for the second day in a row. Rainfall totals Friday were the ...

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