In its first season with a fast-paced, no-huddle, run-and-gun spread offense, Stephen F. Austin put up 35 points per game. On the other side of the ball, however, the Lumberjacks allowed nearly 40 per game, resulting in a 2-5 conference record.

An Austin lawyer has mailed letters to at least two local restaurants offering to sell their names back to them for $20,000 to $25,000 — mailings similar to ones she sent to some Houston restaurants last month.

A scarcity of new lots in the development pipeline, coupled with a continued slowdown in homebuilding through 2009, will create a shortage of new homes in the near future for Central Texas and an increase in home prices for buyers, a local housing expert said Wednesday.

GlobalFoundries Inc. told its Austin workers Wednesday that many of their jobs will be shifted to its new factory site in upstate New York or to its corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., in the next year.

The Austin Wings Black Incoming Freshman baseball team won the Premier Incoming Freshman national title in Joplin, Mo., on July 5.

Dean Kamen may be best known to the public as the inventor of the Segway, the electric-powered vehicle that is used for everything from shopping-mall patrols to mail delivery and city tours.

In the first episode of this season’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” the 16 aspiring chefs clamber out of a bus and move into the kitchen of Gordon Ramsay’s reality-show restaurant like convicts on a jailbreak. If the current season is like earlier ones, that is not so far from the truth.

What: This attractive home’s best feature is its three levels of decks, all enjoying wonderful east-facing views of Cat Mountain in Northwest Austin. The house is owned by Jay and Kiyomi Menna. Jay Menna is the owner of Virtual MGA, which provides software for insurance companies.

Video game developer Trion World Network has leased more than 24,000 square feet of office space in Northwest Austin, but company officials aren’t saying what it will be used for.

Starting next week, Alaska Airlines becomes the newest carrier in Austin, and it’s kicking off its entry into the market with fare sales to its two West Coast destinations.