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Chick-fil-A looking at Austin-area expansion, company says

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Chick-fil-A is looking to expand in the Austin area, the company said Tuesday.In a statement to KXAN, Chick-fil-A said it is early in the process of "actively pursuing a new location in the Northwest Austin area." RELATED: Robotic servers spotted at Austin Chick-fil-A Project records from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation show the chicken company is planning a restaurant at the intersection of RM 620 and Anderson Mill Road. The planning records, which are subject to change, show the restaurant is expected to open in 2025. "We are excited by the prospect of joining this neighborhood, where each locally owned and operated restaurant creates 80 – 120 jobs," the Chick-fil-A statement read in part. According to Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation records, the $1.2 million project will include a drive-thru.Chick-fil-A has more than a dozen restaurants in the Austin area.

Report: Austin losing homebuyers to other cities for 1st time on record

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) --- Homebuyers are looking to leave Austin as housing costs stay high, according to a report by real estate brokerage Redfin."More homebuyers looked to leave Austin, TX than move in during the third quarter, the first time on record there hasn’t been a net inflow into the Texas capital," the report claimed.The report said data is based on the searches of about two million Redfin users who viewed for-sale homes online across more than 100 metro areas from July 2023 to September 2023. Over the last year, more than double the amount of Austin-based Redfin.com users looked for homes outside the metro area, according to the report."Those high home prices have resulted in people needing to leave the Austin metro area for more affordable places, because now locals or even people who moved in during the pandemic, are realizing that it's too expensive to live there," Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather said.Why is this happening?Fairweather said fewer homebuyers are intere...

New Kids on the Block to perform in Austin during 2024 tour

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- New Kids on the Block will join Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff for a performance in Austin as part of the group's 2024 tour.New Kids on the Block's Magic Summer Tour 2024 will make a stop at the Germania Insurance Amphitheater on July 12, 2024, per a social media post from the venue. Formed in 1984, New Kids on the Block is known for songs like "Please Don't Go Girl," "I'll Be Loving You Forever" and "Hangin' Tough."Doors open at 6 p.m. before the show is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Tickets for the concert -- including general admission pit tickets, general admission lawn tickets along with lower and upper bowl reserved seating -- are slated to go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Those can be purchased online.

Erwin Chemerinsky: Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks.I have heard antisemitic things from time to time through my life. I remember as a child being called a “dirty Jew,” and my friends and I being called “Christ killers” as we walked to Hebrew school. I recall a college girlfriend’s parents telling her that she should not go out with me because “Jews are different.” I had an incident in a class I was teaching about the ethics of negotiations, where a student matter-of-factly said, “the other side will try to Jew you down,” without the slightest sense of how that was a slur.But none of this prepared me for the last few weeks. On Friday, someone in my school posted on Instagram a picture of me with the caption, “Erwin Chemerinsky has taken an indefinite sabbatical from Berkeley Law to join the I.D.F.” Two weeks ago, at a town hall, a student told me that what wou...

Margaret Tarkington: Crooked lawyers were crucial to Trump’s Jan. 6 plot. We clearly need to reform the profession

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

Over the last two weeks, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, three lawyers central to Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in the Georgia racketeering case against the former president and 18 co-defendants. All admitted significantly lesser crimes than charged and escaped prison time.Prosecutors may be more interested in Trump himself, but the lenient plea deals fail to comport with the culpability of these and other lawyers in Trump’s plot against the election. Eight attorneys were indicted in the Georgia case, and the federal indictment of Trump in the Jan. 6 plot includes five attorneys as unindicted co-conspirators, unnamed but identifiable as Powell, Chesebro, Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark.Lawyers weren’t just involved in Trump’s plot; they devised and enabled it. Lawyers developed the strategies, manufactured a faux constitutional crisis and manipulated legal requirements in the effort t...

Glens Falls Bagels closed until further notice

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Glens Falls Bagels is closed as of Tuesday, and will remain so until further notice. The Saratoga Avenue bagel shop announced the closure on Facebook on Tuesday morning. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! "We will be closed until further notice. Relaunch date and grand opening to come. I will post any and all updated. Thank you all, South Glens Falls," wrote owner Kerry Smith.Glens Falls Bagels opened in South Glens Falls over the summer, at the plaza at 131 Saratoga Ave. The shop first opened on South Street in Glens Falls, at the current home of the recently-opened Golden Monkey Cocktail Lounge. Everything happening in Lake George in November Since opening in South Glens Falls, Glens Falls Bagels has hosted two community dinners for South Glens Falls Central School District, and has had bagels served at SUNY Adirondack. Smith previously owned and operated a restaurant and inn on Glen Lake.

Everything happening in Lake George in November

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Okay - everyone take a breath. The ghosts and ghouls of Halloween are off the streets. Now, it's time for a quieter month around the Lake George area, as the community gets ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Quiet doesn't mean silent, though. Adirondack Brewery is hosting a chance to get rid of your post-Halloween Jack-o-lantern. The Adirondack Stampede Rodeo is bucking its way to town, and there are ways to get involved with your community for the Thanksgiving season. Here's everything happening around Lake George in November.Monthlong and recurring eventsOpen Mic ThursdaysEvery Thursday, 7-9 p.m.Open mic night at The Trap In Fort AnnThe Trap, 5 Buttermilk Falls Road, Fort Ann2-drink minimumAdirondack Thunder hockeyHome games on Friday, Nov. 10; Sunday, Nov. 12; Wednesday, Nov. 22; Friday, Nov. 24; Saturday, Nov. 25; Wednesday, Nov. 29Adirondack Thunder hockey season g...

Family of Illinois trooper shot in Springfield shares update on recovery

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) - The family of Dakotah Chapman-Green, the Illinois State Trooper who was shot multiple times in Springfield one week ago, has shared an update on his recovery.Chapman-Green's mother, Kris, said that her son is going through occupational therapy and physical therapy. He is also able to hold conversations while staying awake.Chapman-Green was shot in both legs while performing a traffic stop on Toronto Road in Springfield Tuesday night. He was also beaten with the gun, suffering a brain bleed and skull fracture.His mother said an ophthalmologist checked Chapman-Green's eye and said his vision should make a full recovery, since there is no ocular damage. Urbana Police recover drugs, stolen pistol during traffic stop "He has a long road, but he will endure!" Kris wrote in a Facebook post. "He is strong willed, healthy and young! This will not get him down, it will make him stronger."Courtesy of Kris Chapman-GreenCourtesy of Kris Chapman-Green37-year-old Crist...

Hearing delayed as former Ill. state trooper Matt Mitchell seeks to regain driver’s license

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

MT. VERNON, Ill. – A former Illinois state trooper who killed two Collinsville sisters due to reckless driving in November 2007 is still trying to regain his driving privileges some 16 years after the fatal collision.An Illinois State Police cruiser struck Jessica and Kelli Uhl head-on as they were traveling back from a family photo shoot on Interstate 64 near Highway 158 on Nov. 23, 2007. The girls died at the scene. Jessica was 18; Kelli was 13. Two other people were injured in the crash.Matt Mitchell, the trooper behind the wheel of the cruiser, was driving 126 miles per hour, talking to his girlfriend on a cellphone, and typing on the patrol car's computer when he lost control of the vehicle and crossed the median into oncoming traffic. Prosecutors wonder about other victims after deathbed scam In April 2010, Mitchell reached an agreement with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to reckless homicide. He was sentenced to 30 months' probation and agreed to have his license suspended....

USPS considers moving some mail operations from mid-Missouri to St. Louis

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:23:58 GMT

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The United States Postal Service will consider moving some mail operations from mid-Missouri to St. Louis as part of a long-term plan for modernization. USPS is currently conducting a mail processing facility review of processing operations at its Columbia Processing and Distribution Center. Leaders are considering a change that would modernize the facility as a local processing center. Prosecutors wonder about other victims after deathbed scam According to a news release from USPS, "The Columbia LPC will be a critical node in connecting mail to the state and region. Additionally, the business case supports transferring some mail processing operations to the St Louis [Processing and Distribution Center]." USPS did not further elaborate on what this would mean for St. Louis operations, but the news release notes the change is being considered to help the agency "modernize the nation’s aging and outmoded postal network and achieve the organization’s goal of 95% on-...