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• Assisted living facility near Georgetown shut down by state

  01-10-2016 23:06 via kxan.com
  
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — An assisted living facility has been shut down by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services after an investigation revealed the facility was not adequately providing medical services.
  DADS began their investigation at The Lodge at Rocky Hollow in Williamson County on Sept. 20 after a complaint was issued against the facility. These complaints are protected and confidential.
  Cecilia Cavuto, media relations manager for DADS, said during the inves
  
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• Protecting your hearing during ACL

  01-10-2016 22:02 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — As many prepare for ACL festivities, it’s important to take care of your ears while listening to the live music.
  Audiologist Janet Davila with the Austin Diagnostic Clinic says the peak loudness a your ear can hit is 150 decibels, even if you are around a festival like ACL, sound can hit up to 91 decibels for an hour. Davila says you can only sustain these loud sounds for one hour before sustaining hearing loss.
  “A lot of people think that when you hear a loud s
  
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• Boy dies days after South Carolina school shooting

  01-10-2016 22:02 via kxan.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A coroner says a 6-year-old boy has died days after he was critically wounded in a school shooting in South Carolina.
  Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore said Jacob Hall died about 1 p.m. Saturday. Jacob had been fighting for his life at a hospital since the shooting Wednesday at Townville Elementary School. A bullet struck Hall in a main artery in his leg, causing him to lose a lot of blood.
  Authorities say another student and a first-grade teacher were also shot when
  
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• Man charged with wearing clear plastic wrap bikini on beach

  01-10-2016 21:21 via kxan.com
  
  BEACH HAVEN, N.J. (AP) — Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge.
  They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two days on a Long Beach Island beach wearing a homemade bikini in which his genitals were clearly exposed and was charged with lewdness.
  NJ.com reports the Stafford Township man was arrested Monday and was released pending further court proceedings.
  A woman who answered the phone at his hous
  
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• Rally, march in memory of man shot by police in California

  01-10-2016 21:01 via kxan.com
  
  EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, was remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of Olango’s family.
  About 200 people gathered peacefully at a park in downtown El Cajon to hear speeches by religious leaders ahead of a march through the streets to police headquarters, where Olango’s family members were expected to join them.
  The event comes a day after two videos
  
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• Man, child injured in Taylor plane crash

  01-10-2016 18:32 via kxan.com
  
  TAYLOR, Texas (KXAN) — Authorities are investigating a plane crash in Taylor Saturday morning.
  The crash happened at around 9:30 a.m. at the 600 block of County Road 403.
  According to the Federal Aviation Administration, two people were on board before the plane crashed and caught fire.
  Williamson County Sheriff’s say a man was transported to Seton Medical Center Williamson and a child was sent to Dell Children’s Medical Center. Their conditions are unknown.
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• Police searching for suspect after missing San Antonio toddler found safe

  01-10-2016 17:25 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN)  — Law enforcement issued an Amber Alert in Bexar County for 14-month-old Kalia Martinez Saturday morning.
  Accoring to news4SA, police say they found Martinez safe in Dallas. Authorities are still trying to track down the suspect, who ran away.
  Fortino Cornejo was last seen in San Antonio with Martinez. Police describe him as a 50-year-old Hispanic male with black hair, hazel eyes with two scabs on the right side of his face. Cornejo is 5-fo
  
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• Amber Alert issued for missing San Antonio toddler

  01-10-2016 17:25 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN)  — Law enforcement has issued an Amber Alert in Bexar County for 14-month-old Kalia Martinez.
  Martinez was last seen with Fortino Cornejo in San Antonio. She is 18 inches all, weighs 30 pound and has light brown hair and hazel eyes.
  Police describe Cornejo as a 50-year-old Hispanic male with black hair, hazel eyes and has two scabs on the right side of his face. Cornejo is 5-foot-3 and weighs 140 pounds.
  Cornejo was last seen driving a black, 2010 Dodge Nitro with t
  
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• Amber Alert issued for missing San Antonio girl

  01-10-2016 17:25 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN)  — Law enforcement has issued an Amber Alert in Bexar County for 14-month-old Kalia Martinez.
  Martinez was last seen with Fortino Cornejo in San Antonio. She is 18 inches all, weighs 30 pound and has light brown hair and hazel eyes.
  Police describe Cornejo as a 50-year-old Hispanic male with black hair, hazel eyes and has two scabs on the right side of his face. Cornejo is 5-foot-3 and weighs 140 pounds.
  Cornejo was last seen driving a black, 2010 Dodge Nitro with t
  
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• Video of Houston-area school bus crash released

  01-10-2016 06:59 via kxan.com
  
  CROSBY, Texas (KXAN) — A week after a school bus rolled on its side outside of Houston, injuring 17 students and the bus driver, video of the crash has been released.
  The video, posted on KPRC’s website, shows the bus driver motion to the right before the bus careened into the ditch, rolling on its side.
  None of the injures in the Sept. 23 incident were life-threatening. KPRC reports the bus driver swerved to avoid hitting a truck waiting to turn off FM 1942.
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• APD detective will get almost $250K in back pay after firing, reinstatement

  01-10-2016 06:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin police detective will receive almost a quarter of a million dollars in back pay after being fired four years ago.
  Detective Amy Lynch was diagnosed with narcolepsy in 2009. After her diagnosis she made two requests under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Friday, a jury determined she had been fired because of her requests.
  One was that she be allowed to start work between 9 and 10 a.m.
  And the second, that she not regularly work evenings or night
  
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• Police calls on the rise at The Domain as expansion continues

  01-10-2016 05:03 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police have received a greater number of calls in recent years to respond to The Domain in North Austin. Officers told KXAN that the larger call number can be attributed to the expansion in the area.
  “With more people, there becomes more criminal activity going on,” explained Senior Officer William Costello, with the Austin Police Department. “There’s just a correlation that the amount of calls that we get for service increase when there&
  
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• Austin Police: Calls on the rise at The Domain, as expansion continues

  01-10-2016 05:03 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police have received a greater number of calls in recent years to respond to The Domain in North Austin. Officers told KXAN that the larger call number can be attributed to the expansion in the area.
  “With more people, there becomes more criminal activity going on,” explained Senior Officer William Costello, with the Austin Police Department. “There’s just a correlation that the amount of calls that we get for service increase when there&
  
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• North Texas man to face death penalty in wife’s drowning

  01-10-2016 03:48 via kxan.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors in North Texas say they will seek the death penalty against a man accused of drowning his wife by throwing her off a bridge after tying a rope attached to concrete around her neck.
  Court records show the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office filed a notice on Sept. 16 of intent to seek the death penalty against 34-year-Rodolfo Arellano.
  Arellano, from Fort Worth, is charged with capital murder in the death of his 28-year-old wife, Elizabeth.
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• Police: North Texas teen killed as gun was passed around

  01-10-2016 03:42 via kxan.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police say a North Texas teenager was fatally shot after he and a group juveniles were passing around a gun when someone pulled the trigger.
  16-year-old Jose Alvarez died Thursday night after being taken to a local hospital.
  Fort Worth police homicide Sgt. Joe Loughman says the juveniles were passing the gun around while waiting in a car for someone.
  Loughman says investigators believe at least one of the individuals in the group didn’t know the gun was loade
  
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• Davis calls Trump shaming ex-Miss Universe ‘mindboggling’

  01-10-2016 03:37 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis is calling Donald Trump’s tweet storm targeting an ex-beauty pageant winner “mindboggling.”
  On a media conference call Friday, Davis said Trump’s twitter “rant” shows he lacks presidential temperament.
  In pre-dawn tweets, Trump criticized 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado’s sexual history, referencing what he called her “sex tape.” He apparently meant footage from a 2005 Sp
  
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• PHOTOS: Week 6 of High School Football

  01-10-2016 03:24 via kxan.com
  
  PHOTOS: Week 6 of High School FootballLeander Lions tribute to fallen Austin Police Officer Abdul-Khaliq, to his children & to his family in blue (Cedar Park Police) Leander Lions tribute to fallen Austin Police Officer Abdul-Khaliq, to his children & to his family in blue (Cedar Park Police) Leander Lions tribute to fallen Austin Police Officer Abdul-Khaliq, to his children & to his family in blue (Cedar Park Police)Hendrickson faces off against Westwood (KXAN Photo/Todd Bailey)West
  
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• Austin development, permit fee increases go into effect Saturday

  01-10-2016 03:08 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Starting Saturday, Oct. 1, the city of Austin will implement new fees and fee increases for site and subdivision review and inspections.
  The Development Services Department says minor changes will also be seen in tree review, building inspections, zoning and other development-related services. The new fee structure was adopted by the Austin City Council as part of its 2016-2017 budget.
  The department introduced its Service First initiative, which expanded customer wait area
  
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• Students say beauty school shutdown came with little warning

  01-10-2016 02:51 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Ronald Stephens did not picture his last day of school coming early. He’s one of more than 500 students the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation estimates attended Regency Beauty Institute in Texas. This week, the cosmetology school shut down all 79 of its locations nationwide, including one in Austin. Some students tell KXAN they got little notice and the news came as a surprise to staff as well.
  “The students and the teachers, we’re a family and
  
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• SWAT standoff in east Travis County approaches 12th hour

  01-10-2016 02:34 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A SWAT standoff in eastern Travis County is approaching its 12th hour.
  The sheriff’s office says a man in his 40s has been barricaded inside his home on Hibbs Lane — a few miles south of U.S. 290 between Manor and Elgin — since around 8:24 a.m. No evacuations have been ordered and deputies believe he is alone inside the house. SWAT officers have been in contact with the man.
  A large law enforcement presence has converged a
  
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• All-day SWAT standoff in east Travis County ends peacefully

  01-10-2016 02:34 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — An all-day SWAT standoff in eastern Travis County that began Friday ended Saturday morning.
  The sheriff’s office says a man in his 40’s was barricaded inside his home on Hibbs Lane — a few miles south of U.S. 290 between Manor and Elgin — since around 8:24 a.m. No evacuations were ordered and deputies believe he was alone inside the house. SWAT officers have been in contact with the man.
  According to T
  
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• All-day SWAT standoff in east Travis County continues

  01-10-2016 02:34 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — An all-day SWAT standoff in eastern Travis County is going into the night, Friday.
  The sheriff’s office says a man in his 40s has been barricaded inside his home on Hibbs Lane — a few miles south of U.S. 290 between Manor and Elgin — since around 8:24 a.m. No evacuations have been ordered and deputies believe he is alone inside the house. SWAT officers have been in contact with the man.
  A large law enforcement presence has conv
  
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• 24-hour SWAT standoff in east Travis County ends

  01-10-2016 02:34 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A SWAT standoff in eastern Travis County that went on for more than 24 hours ended peacefully Saturday morning.
  The sheriff’s office says a man in his 40’s was barricaded inside his home on Hibbs Lane — a few miles south of U.S. 290 between Manor and Elgin — since around 8:24 a.m. Friday. No evacuations were ordered and deputies believe he was alone inside the house. SWAT officers were in con
  
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• 3-legged dog’s remaining years will be happier thanks to Austin students

  01-10-2016 02:02 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dogs are man’s best friend, and sometimes we’ve got to go out of our way to show pups some love.
  Bryant Meadors and Katrina Dvorcek adopted their dog Pirate about four years ago, after he had been through a rough patch.
  “He was just kinda like the last guy on the left, really,” Meadors said. “He was laying in a little kennel by himself. He had just had his leg amputated.”
  The shelter told Bryant that Pirate’s foot had likely go
  
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• Graphic video shows police breaking windshield with man’s head

  01-10-2016 01:38 via kxan.com
  
  LORAIN, Ohio (WKYC) –  Police are defending themselves against brutality claims raised by a man whose head was slammed into a cruiser with enough force to shatter the windshield.
  The incident took place in September of 2014.
  Recently obtained dashcam video hows Pele Smith, handcuffed from behind, being walked toward the police cruiser after being stopped for jaywalking.
  Suddenly, Smith’s face is slammed into the windshield, causing the glass to shatter.
  “It’s unbelie
  
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• PHOTOS: Van Gogh paintings stolen in 2002 found in Italian farmhouse

  01-10-2016 00:53 via kxan.com
  
  ROME (AP) Police investigating suspected Italian mobsters for cocaine trafficking discovered two Van Gogh paintings hidden in a farmhouse near Naples, masterpieces that had vanished in 2002 during a nighttime heist at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, authorities said Friday.
  The two paintings were “considered among the artworks most searched for in the world, on the FBI’s list of the Top 10 art crimes,” Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said.
  They were found in a farmhouse ne
  
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