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The founder of Continental Automotive Group in Austin, Texas, has been charged in connection with four fires

Typically, you would think that once someone retires, their hobbies would include things like working on their project car, gardening or perhaps traveling the country in their RV. Apparently, though, one retired Austin, Texas car dealer decided none of those things were interesting enough and decided to take up arson instead. According to Automotive News, Bryan Hardeman, the founder of Continental Automotive Group, was recently arrested on arson charges for the second time since February.

Bryan Hardeman has been arrested for the second time in two months.

An Austin businessman who was arrested after he was accused of setting multiple fires was charged with multiple counts of first degree arson, the Austin Fire Department said in a news release Wednesday.

Dorsey Bryan Hardeman was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a building he wanted to purchase in downtown Austin.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is accused of misusing his powers to help Austin real estate player Nate Paul delay foreclosure auction of several buildings.

Our column on the end of Texas Prohibition in 1971 inspired readers to send in their own tales of the era.

So how much do you know about Nate Paul? The two of us asked each other this question back in the summer of 2019, when Nate Pauls spots got raided by the FBI. Over the years, wed both acquired some knowledge about Paul and his World Class property empire that we hadnt seen in other coverage, enough to know that something about the story was really odd – his coming out of nowhere to acquire a set of high-visibility properties all over town, without evident plans to do anything with these asset...