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• Rollover crash kills two pedestrians in Round Rock

  29-10-2016 23:27 via kxan.com
  
  ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — According to the Round Rock Police Department there has been two fatalities after a rollover crash on A.W. Grimes at Gattis School Road.
  RRPD said two Mustang vehicles, one blue and one red, were racing and the red Mustang clipped a silver mini-van causing it to flip onto the sidewalk killing two pedestrians- one male adult and one juvenile female.
  The two passengers in the red Mustang have been transported to the hospital with non-life threatening inju
  
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• Rollover crash kills at least 1 in Round Rock

  29-10-2016 23:27 via kxan.com
  
  ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN)- According to the Round Rock Police Department there has been at least one fatality after a rollover crash on AW Grimes at Gattis School Road.
  The Northbound lanes of AW Grimes are completely shutdown due to the crash.
  This is a developing story and this page will be updated as more information becomes available.
  
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• Police: Street racing kills father, daughter walking on sidewalk

  29-10-2016 23:27 via kxan.com
  
  ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — The Round Rock Police Department says a father and his daughter were killed when a driver that was street racing struck them after a collision. Police say the crash happened at around 3 p.m. Saturday at A.W. Grimes at Gattis School Road.
  Initial information indicates two drivers in Ford Mustang vehicles, one blue and one red, were racing when the red Mustang clipped a silver mini-van. The collision pushed the minivan onto the sidewalk where it struck a man and hi
  
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• Police: Racing driver kills man, child walking on sidewalk

  29-10-2016 23:27 via kxan.com
  
  ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — According to the Round Rock Police Department there has been two fatalities after a rollover crash on A.W. Grimes at Gattis School Road.
  RRPD said two Mustang vehicles, one blue and one red, were racing and the red Mustang clipped a silver, handicap mini-van causing it to flip onto the sidewalk killing two pedestrians- one male adult and one juvenile female.
  The two passengers in the red Mustang have been transported to the hospital with non-life threat
  
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• Ukrainian man renames himself iPhone 7 to win the phone

  29-10-2016 22:37 via kxan.com
  
  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that.
  The 20-year old iPhone Sim (Seven) got the coveted prize Friday. He said he might change it back to his original name, Olexander Turin, when he has children.
  The price of phone starts at US$850 in Ukraine, while the name changes costs the equivalent of $2.
  Sim’s friends and family were shocked at first but
  
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• Catch Em’ for a Cause combines love of Pokemon Go and giving back

  29-10-2016 21:27 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Texas)- A Pokemon themed charity walk aims to bring gamers together for a cause Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Mueller Park.
  Catch Em’ for a Cause will be a one-mile course around Mueller Lake Park that will take attendees by the area’s “Pokestops” in order to raise money and buy toys for Dell Children’s Medical Center’s Child Life Department. The more miles the gamers walk, the better prizes you’re able to win.
  Prizes include two Po
  
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• Tips for a healthier Halloween

  29-10-2016 20:51 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Halloween kicks off one of many holidays for good food and sweet treats.
  While the Halloween candy may be appealing, keeping track of a diet might be rough.
  Gigi Barnett was in the studio with Carly Pollack with Nutritional Wisdom with some tips on eating your healthiest during Halloween.
   
  
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• Austin Paranormal Investigations locates the spookiest location around town

  29-10-2016 19:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — According to a Gallup poll, three out of four people in the U.S. believe in ghosts.
  For some, the hunt for paranormal activity goes beyond the Halloween festivities.
  Paranormal investigator William Pappin with the Austin Paranormal Investigations was in the studio to talk about some of the scariest haunts around the city.
  
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• Austin Paranormal Investigations locates the spookiest Austin locations

  29-10-2016 19:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — According to a Gallup poll, three out of four people in the U.S. believe in ghosts.
  For some, the hunt for paranormal activity goes beyond the Halloween festivities.
  Paranormal investigator William Pappin with the Austin Paranormal Investigations was in the studio to talk about some of the scariest haunts around the city.
  
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• Police: Mom, son arrested in elaborate lingerie heist

  29-10-2016 18:42 via kxan.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A mother and son team is facing charges after Albuquerque detectives they tried to cover up an elaborate heist of bras and panties.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports 38-year-old April Romero and her 23-year-old son Pedro Coronel were arrested this week for lining shopping bags with foil to stymie shoplifting sensors from Victoria’s Secret stores. Also arrested in connected with the alleged scheme was 26-year-old Valerie Coronel.
  Albuquerque police detectives sa
  
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• Road closures begin along SH 71 westbound

  29-10-2016 17:42 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — TxDOT will begin multiple road closures along westbound SH 71 beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday.
  There will be a full closure of Fallwell Lane at westbound SH 71 that will last approximately six weeks. Drivers coming from Fallwell Lane to east or westbound SH 71 are going to be detoured to the southbound SH 130 frontage road. Those coming from east and westbound SH 71 will be detoured to the northbound SH 130 frontage road.
  Bessie Avenue and Royster Avenue at westbound SH 7
  
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• Missing mother’s remains found this week in Kerr County identified

  29-10-2016 07:03 via kxan.com
  
  KERR COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Human remains found Tuesday morning in east Kerr County, near Interstate 10, have been identified.
  Angelica Jimenez, 34, was identified through dental records sent from Mexico. The mother of four has been missing since Nov. 25, 2015 in San Antonio.
  The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office say their Criminal Investigations Division is working closely with the San Antonio Police Department, which took the original missing person report.
  “Our Investigators have
  
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• 25% of Travis Co. registered voters have cast ballots this week

  29-10-2016 06:18 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Travis County Clerk said Friday evening that 25 percent of registered voters in the county have already voted.
  That’s more than 187,000 casting their ballot with more than a week to go before Election Day, Nov. 8. Monday saw a record-breaking first day of early voting with 47,019 ballots tallied. With seven days remaining of early voting, which ends Friday, Nov. 4, the record-breaking numbers are expected to climb even higher.
  The polling location with the mo
  
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• UT: Avoid ‘South of the Border,’ Redneck Halloween costumes

  29-10-2016 05:15 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A handout from UT Austin’s Office of the Dean of Students’ Sorority and Fraternity Life (SFL) offers students a checklist on how to keep their Halloween costumes from having a negative impact.
  The handout, posted on UT’s website, gives students a guideline on how to avoid cultural appropriation. SFL recommended costume ideas like dressing as a letter of the alphabet, a Rubik’s cube and preppy. Costumes to avoid: Hawaiian, trailer trash and “Aro
  
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• More than the score: Heading into the weekend

  29-10-2016 05:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — KXAN’s Andrew Schnitker joins Roger Wallace on More than the score to talk about sports heading into the weekend.
  
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• PHOTOS: Friday Night Football – week 10

  29-10-2016 03:00 via kxan.com
  
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• Friday Night Game Night: Week 10 Scores

  29-10-2016 02:30 via kxan.com
  
  CLASS 6A
  Alief Taylor 47, Pearland Dawson 20
  Allen 38, Plano East 31
  Arlington Houston 34, North Crowley 0
  Arlington Martin 51, Arlington 21
  Austin Westlake 41, Leander 0
  Belton 56, Killeen Ellison 35
  Byron Nelson 29, Lewisville Marcus 22
  Cedar Hill 28, South Grand Prairie 21
  Cibolo Steele 40, SA Wagner 28
  Clear Brook 35, Alvin 31
  Colleyville Heritage 61, FW Carter-Riverside 0
  Coppell 24, Dallas Skyline 14
  Cypress Ranch 27, Cypress Ridge 24
  Cypress Springs 37, Cypress Lakes 24
  Dallas Highland Pa
  
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• Robot Soccer team at UT brings back the gold

  29-10-2016 02:23 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The UT Austin Robot Soccer team won the Robo Cup Monday, after competing in Beijing’s World Robot Conference.
  The team competed against Australia’s University of New South Wales Runswift in a robotic game of soccer, beating the competition by four points with a final score of 7-3.
  To compete in the games, the students must create a team of robots that are able to play soccer by themselves with no human input. After purchasing the robots, the students program and
  
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• RideAustin rolls out ‘female-only driver’ option

  29-10-2016 01:57 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Starting Friday, RideAustin is adding a feature to its ridesharing app which allows all premium customers to choose a female driver.
  It is one of two features being rolled out simultaneously. The other is a live ETA function where a rider can share real-time tracking of their trip with a friend or family member through the app.
  Chief Operating Officer Marisa Golderberg tells KXAN both are safety measures, and customer requests were the driving force.
  “Occasionall
  
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• Have a voting question? Travis Co. Elections call center here to help

  29-10-2016 01:43 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – As election day gets closer, Travis County says voters are making sure they’re ready.
  Friday afternoon it was noisy inside the Travis County Election call center. “We usually get hoarse after an election.” Yvette Laukaitis, the call center coordinator, laughed, “We are known by many as the call center with a heart.”
  The call center is set up for voters. This election, the County Clerk’s Office has had to double the staff. Close to 40
  
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• Immunotherapy brings new hope for late stage lung cancer

  29-10-2016 01:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) —  For decades, the standard of care for many cancers has been a three-pronged approach: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. More recently, doctors added a fourth course, immunotherapy. It arms the patient’s own immune system with more weapons to target cancer cells. And new treatments continue to get FDA-approval.
  Doctors like Seton Medical Oncologist Boone Goodgame say it’s working for even the deadliest form of cancer, lung cancer.
  “Even t
  
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• East 7th St. alley posing problems for businesses, police

  29-10-2016 01:10 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Chances are, you walk by it when you park your car for a concert at Stubb’s or a night out on Sixth Street, but an alley off Seventh and Red River Street has local business owners calling police daily. The alley splits between two businesses: Sidewinder and Beerland. Police say it’s a hotspot for drug use, prostitution and alcohol consumption.
  Just this week, Austin police say a man resisted arrest when a bicycle officer tried questioning him
  
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• Marble Falls officer asks for leniency for boater who almost killed him

  29-10-2016 00:52 via kxan.com
  
  MARBLE FALLS, Texas (KXAN) — A Marble Falls police officer was violently thrown into the water on July 4, 2015, as an intoxicated boater tore through the officer’s police boat.
  Capt. Ted Young was on Lake Marble Falls with his wife — his emergency lights on — when the crash happened. Young landed in the water, with a broken shoulder, fractured vertebra of the spine, several broken ribs, a lacerated spleen and bleeding in his brain. His life preserver,
  
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• Road connecting San Marcos to Wimberley now safer

  29-10-2016 00:30 via kxan.com
  
  HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A stretch of road where three people died in a two-vehicle crash in April is now safer for drivers.
  On Friday, a ribbon cutting was held to ring in the completion of the various safety and mobility projects along Ranch to Market 12 between San Marcos and Ranch to Market 32 near Wimberley. The road now has shoulders and turn lanes, which officials say will help cut down on the number of head-on and rear-end collisions.
  For Hays County Precinct 3 Commissioner Will
  
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• VIDEO: Plane bursts into flames at Chicago’s O’Hare

  29-10-2016 00:09 via kxan.com
  
  CHICAGO, Illinois (NBC News) Eight people suffered injuries Friday when an American Airlines plane burst into flames after an aborted takeoff at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
  The Federal Aviation Administration says American Airlines Flight 383 was preparing to take off for miami when it became engulfed in flames and smoke.
  The pilots aborted the takeoff and passengers deplaned via an inflatable emergency chute.
  American Airlines officials say the plane experienced an engin
  
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