Word: austine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...persuade a federal judge to keep former Congressman Tom DeLay's name on the ballot this fall. Allowing the Texas Republican Party to replace DeLay, who says he lives and votes in Virginia, would cause great harm to the Democratic Party, the party's lawyers argued in an Austin federal court Monday. Proving that claim is crucial to their lawsuit so Democrats testified just how much DeLay meant to them. Embarrassing? "Maybe," said Cris Feldman, an attorney for the Democrats, "but necessary...
...first dates go, this one wasn't terribly original: dinner and a movie, followed by a lot of time in a parked car. The two teenagers, who in mid-May chowed down at a Whataburger in Austin, Texas, before going to see Mission: Impossible III, certainly weren't the first guy and girl to meet on MySpace. And they are far from the only members who have fibbed on the hugely popular hangout site--her profile bumped her age up a year while he allegedly posed as a high school senior. But what makes the Texas encounter unique is that...
...been an unlikely legal wrangle from the start. First, a 14-year-old Austin, Texas, girl and her mother filed a $30 million lawsuit against MySpace.com, where the teenager claims she met a man who assaulted her. Now, the college student charged with the sexual assault also is considering suing the popular social networking site...
...despite the website's rules prohibiting anyone under 14 creating a posting. Solis said the two exchanged e-mails for a month and then swapped cellphone numbers. They agreed to meet on a Friday in mid-May, went out for a hamburger, a movie and then drove to an Austin apartment complex parking lot, where the alleged assault took place...
...debate over MySpace's culpability has been raging on local talk radio and blogs this week, with many Austin residents saying it is up to parents to monitor their children's Internet activities. Meanwhile, the company has announced new security policies that will kick in next week, limiting adult access to personal information for 14- and 15-year-olds; MySpace users who are 18 or over could no longer request to be on a 14- or 15-year-old's friends' list unless they already know either the youth's e-mail address or full name. But experts question whether...