US strikes Syria over the weekend. English cops to scan fingerprints all over the place. Jennifer Hudson puts up $100,000 reward for missing nephew. Brutally beaten anchorwoman dies. While putting together a story on ethanol and the election, the Guardian runs into a plant manager convinced Obama is the antichrist. Alaska's largest newspaper endorses ... Obama? Gas way down....

BOR has put together a nifty map of Austin locations accepting voter registration til the midnight cut-off. Have we emphasized this enough today? Please register to vote! The city's new single-stream recycling program starts today! Shooting this afternoon near Jordan Elementary School in Northeast Austin. Bomb threat made at the North Austin Muslim Community Center yesterday. Fire this morning at the Pickle Research campus. South Austin seems the best place to get gas right now (two locations have it for below $3/gallon). Gov. Rick Perry: "My instinct is if you gave every governor truth serum across the country that they would all dearly love to have the Texas economy in their state."...

According to a National Resources Defense Council report released Tuesday, Texans spent 6 percent of their income on gasoline in 2007, a figure that is sure to rise in 2008....