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• "Kopbusters" Creator Protests Recent Arrest in Austin 9/3/10

  Elias Hernandez CBS 7 News September 3, 2010 Austin, Texas - The man behind the internet show, "Kopbusters," hit the steps of the capitol to protest his recent arrest and question state officials who took away his child.

• Get Your Updates Right Here: Austin Film Festival 2010

  The Austin Film Festival is now less than two months away, and the information about who will be doing what where has been steadily trickling in.

• Austin: Four Seasons Dive in Movie [updated]

  The Blind Side is ONLY my favorite movie ever. It has surpassed Top Gun, and nothing had surpassed Top Gun since I saw it in 1995.

• UFC Fight Night 22 weigh in results, information and details from Austin, TX, on Sept. 14

  The official weigh-in event for UFC Fight Night 22: "Marquardt vs. Palhares" is set to go down Tuesday, September 14, 2010, from the Fr ank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas .

• Kat Von D very happy with Jesse James

  Kat Von D and Jesse James put their relationship on display Thursday, holding hands and posing for photos together at the opening of her Wonderland gallery in West Hollywood.

• HARLINGEN, TX.a " Georgene (Gene) Schuessler Dahm

  Georgene born to Arthur J. Schuessler and Emma M. Reuther on June 13, 1915, in Belleville Illinois, passed away in Harlingen, Texas on August 27.

• City of Austin bond could improve major roads

  If passed, a City of Austin 2010 transportation bond could relieve congestion at the Y at Oak Hill, as well as fund designs for congestion relief on MoPac and at the intersection of RR 620 and RR 2222 at Four Points.

• Personal watercraft banned on Lake Austin during Labor Day weekend;...

  The use of personal watercraft, wet bikes, motorized surfboards and similar devices will be banned on Lake Austin over the Labor Day weekend beginning at sunset today.

• Magician convention materializes in Austin

  Jim Dunn, who goes by Professor Whatsit, performs with his puppet Witch Hazel at the Austin Street Magic Festival on Thursday.

• Quintana hearing Testimony under way

  Testimony has begun today in an appeal hearing in which former Austin police officer Leonardo Quintana, who fatally shot Nathaniel Sanders II last year, is seeking reinstatement after he was fired for drunken driving in May.