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• TV-famous “Friday Night Lights” football field tagged by vandals

  06-11-2016 23:31 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — School administrators in Pflugerville are investigating after a football stadium was trashed and tagged by vandals over the weekend.
  A spokesperson for Pflugerville ISD says either late Friday night or early Saturday morning someone went into Kuempel Stadium and used baby powder to write vulgar messages on the field. They also left trash behind.
  School personnel discovered the words written on the field Saturday morning. The mess was easily removed from the tur
  
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• Pflugerville football field tagged by vandals

  06-11-2016 23:31 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — School administrators in Pflugerville are investigating after a football stadium was trashed and tagged by vandals over the weekend.
  A spokesperson for Pflugerville ISD says either late Friday night or early Saturday morning someone went into Kuempel Stadium and used baby powder to write vulgar messages on the field. They also left trash behind.
  School personnel discovered the words written on the field Saturday morning. The mess was easily removed from the tur
  
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• Sound on Sound Festival evacuated due to ‘extreme weather’

  06-11-2016 23:03 via kxan.com
  
  BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Sound on Sound festival goers are being asked to seek shelter in cars while “extreme weather” passes over the festival grounds in Bastrop County.
  At around 3 p.m. Sunday, the festival’s last day, staff tweeted that weather conditions were being monitored by a meteorologist and that people should “come prepared for rain.”
  A few minutes later another tweet was posted, notifying attendees that festival grounds were being evacuated.&
  
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• New: FBI says latest Clinton emails don’t change decision

  06-11-2016 22:36 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says that agents have “reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton” that were part of newly discovered emails.
  Comey sent a letter to Congress Sunday informing them that the FBI has “not changed our conclusions” from earlier this year that she should not face charges.
  The emails were found on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
  Comey’s brie
  
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• Funeral held for father, daughter killed in Round Rock racing crash

  06-11-2016 20:15 via kxan.com
  
  ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — A father and his daughter who were killed by a racing driver a week ago were laid to rest Saturday.
  Tyrone Price and his 12-year-old daughter Cheyenne were walking along the sidewalk of A.W. Grimes when the driver struck them in the crash.
  Round Rock Police say two Ford Mustangs were racing when one car clipped a minivan and lost control of the vehicle. Officials are now looking for the driver of a “grabber blue” Mustang that police believe
  
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• Six people displaced in Southwest Austin duplex fire

  06-11-2016 18:31 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Six people have been displaced after a fire erupted at a duplex in Southwest Austin Sunday morning.
  Austin Fire Department was called to the 6200 block of Hill Forest Drive at around 9:46 a.m. Officials say side B of the duplex was heavily damaged.
  According to AFD, the Red Cross is at the scene and will assist those displaced in the fire.
  The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
  
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• Seven people displaced in Southwest Austin duplex fire

  06-11-2016 18:31 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Fire Department says a fire that caused significant damage to a duplex in southwest Austin was intentionally set.
  Firefighters from three departments responded to the home in the 6200 block of Hill Forest Drive just before 10 a.m. Sunday.
  Officials say side B of the duplex was heavily damaged.
  The Red Cross is assisting the four adults and three children displaced in the fire.
  AFD says the fire is unrelated to one that happened on Halloween less than a block away
  
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• State of Texas: In-Depth – Looking Beyond Election Day

  06-11-2016 17:50 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – The divisive election season will come to an end on Tuesday.  But what happens next?  Texas lawmakers will have to find ways to create new policy in a tough environment.
  On this week’s State of Texas: In-Depth, Dallas Morning News Austin Bureau Chief Brandi Grissom and Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey look at issues facing state lawmakers beyond election day.
  Many lawmakers agree about the need for reform in agencies like Child Protective Services,
  
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• Sheriff: Man killed at least 7, confesses to 2003 slayings

  06-11-2016 13:52 via kxan.com
  
  WOODRUFF, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man confessed to killing at least seven people in a hidden crime spree that lasted more than a decade and only was uncovered when police rescued a woman locked in a storage container, authorities said Saturday.
  Among the crimes Todd Kohlhepp accepted responsibility for an unsolved 13-year-old massacre that stumped authorities, said Sheriff Chuck Wright .
  “God is good,” Wright said. The community is no longer wondering who’s responsib
  
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• Austin ISD answers questions from T.A. Brown Elementary parents

  06-11-2016 04:15 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin ISD says they’ll be ready on Wednesday for students who learned their school, T.A. Brown Elementary will not reopen after structural problems caused it to be unsafe.
  Saturday morning, district and school leaders sat down with parents to answer some of their questions. Students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten will go to Reilly Elementary just over two miles away and the other students grades first through fifth will go to Allan elementary.
  School leaders te
  
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• Trump rushed off stage at campaign rally

  06-11-2016 03:41 via kxan.com
  
  Reno, Nevada (CNN) — Donald Trump was rushed off a stage here Saturday by Secret Service agents during a campaign speech after an incident in the crowd near the front of the stage.
  A scuffle could be seen breaking out in the audience, but it was not immediately clear what happened. A law enforcement official told CNN no weapon was discovered. The GOP nominee was apparently unharmed and returned to the stage minutes later to finish his speech.
  Trump was in the middle of his stump speech whe
  
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• Lockhart Animal Shelter reaches over capacity, needs adopters immediately

  06-11-2016 02:02 via kxan.com
  
  LOCKHART, Texas (KXAN) — The Lockhart Animal Shelter is at Code Red and is asking for adoptions and rescuers immediately.
  The adoption center is located at 547 Old McMahan Road and is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and weekend from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
  For more information on how you can adopt, click here.
  
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• San Marcos Veterans Day parade honors all who served

  06-11-2016 01:14 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — The city of San Marcos held their annual Veterans Day parade downtown Saturday morning.
  Veteran groups, military organizations, civic clubs and other local groups in the San Marcos area participated in the parade.
  U.S. Army Veteran Tom Tvrdik was the grand marshal for the themed parade titled “Honoring All Who Served.”
  Tvrdik served in the Vietnam War as a military police officer, receiving the Vietnam Service Medal, Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf
  
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