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• Trump names Priebus, Bannon to senior White House roles

  13-11-2016 23:40 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP.
  In bringing Priebus and Bannon into the White House, Trump is making overtures to both traditional Republican circles and the party’s anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel the businessman’s political rise.
  Priebus has
  
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• ABIA had some evacuations after restaurant grease flash-up

  13-11-2016 23:27 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, (KXAN)– A restaurant grease flash-up at Austin Bergstrom International Airport prompted some evacuations but, the situation was resolved in under 10 minutes.
  Jim Halbrook, ABIA spokesperson, said because the flash-up set off fire alarms, it automatically called for an evacuation. However, he said most people did not get past security during the short-lived evacuation. The alarm went off at 3:52 p.m. and was canceled at 4 p.m.
  Halbrook said he believes everyone will still make their
  
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• Police: Leader of criminal group arrested after trying to run over officers

  13-11-2016 22:53 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, (KXAN)– The Austin Police Department arrested the leader of a criminal group responsible for stealing cars, dealing drugs and killing people, after they got a tip he was driving a black truck with a tool box in the back.
  Police found the truck at a gas station along US 290. According to the arrest affidavit, Francisco Villagomez, 36-year-old male, rammed both the police car behind him, the one in front of him and almost hit the officers on foot approaching his vehicl
  
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• E3 host 10th annual “Geeks and Boots” fundraiser

  13-11-2016 22:35 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Education Equals Economics Alliance is hosting their 10th annual Geeks in Boots event.
  The fundraiser at Brazos Hall celebrates a decade of innovations and lasting educational change that has led to economic health in Austin.
  President and CEO of the Texas Association of Community Colleges Jacob Fraire sat in the studio with Gigi Barnett to talk about the fundraiser.
  For information on how to buy tickets, click here.
  
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• Harker Heights missing girl found

  13-11-2016 21:07 via kxan.com
  
  BELL COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — The Amber Alert for the missing 7-year-old, Zoey Rogers, has been canceled after authorities located her in Tuskegee, Alabama.
  The Texas Department of Public Safety put out a notice shortly after 5:00 p.m. stating Zoey had been found.
  Officials were searching for 34-year-old Tutankhamun Holt and 36-year-old Bobbi White in connection to the abduction. Both individuals have been taken into custody.
  (Harker Heights Police Phot 
  
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• Amber Alert issued for missing Central Texas girl

  13-11-2016 21:07 via kxan.com
  
  BELL COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — The Harker Heights Police Department has issued an Amber Alert for a missing 7-year-old girl who they believe is in grave or immediate danger.
  Officials are searching for Zoey Rogers, who was abducted by 34-year-old Tutankhamun Holt and 36-year-old Bobbi White
  (Harker Heights Police Photo)Saturday night.
  Police describe Rogers as a 3’6″ Black female, weighing at around 70 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
  Both suspects were last seen in ei
  
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• 1 year on, Paris attack survivors work to heal, and unite

  13-11-2016 19:04 via kxan.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The flashbacks come to Denys Plaud unbidden, making it hard to work: Gunshots threatening to pierce his cramped refuge in the Bataclan theater. The excruciating silence between rounds of fire. And when it was all over, stepping over the dead and dying to reach freedom.
  One year on, survivors of France’s deadliest extremist attacks are trying to look to the future, but they will never forget.
  More than 1,700 people have been officially recognized as victims of the horror
  
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• Powerful quake strikes near Christchurch, New Zealand

  13-11-2016 14:43 via kxan.com
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand near the city of Christchurch early Monday, with strong jolts causing some damage to buildings over 200 kilometers (120 miles) away in the capital, Wellington.
  New Zealand emergency services warned that a tsunami was possible and told people near the coast of the South Island to move to higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no immediate danger of a broader tsunami from the magnitude-7.4 quake
  
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• Williamson County opens newly renovated expo center

  13-11-2016 05:22 via kxan.com
  
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) – The Williamson County Expo Center formerly known as the East Williamson County Events Center opened its facility Saturday morning.
  The doors opened to the public with a grand opening renovation celebration. The event was free to the public with live music from local musicians and food samples from community restaurants and caterers, including a horse show performance by the Williamson 4-H Hoofpicks.
  The new Williamson County Expo Center was approved by vot
  
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• Anti-Trump protesters march in San Marcos

  13-11-2016 04:48 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) – Over a hundred people marched the streets of San Marcos in a peaceful protest against the presidential election.
  Protesters gathered at a local coffee shop and walked to the Hays County Courthouse where they stood on the lawn with signs for about three and a half hours. Organizers said they held the event to protest Trumps beliefs and his campaign platform.
  KXAN News caught up with a couple who drove in from San Antonio to specifically attend the event. They say
  
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• AISD host town hall meeting on post-election inclusiveness

  13-11-2016 04:43 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Parents struggling with how to talk to their kids about the election met with Austin ISD leaders Saturday morning to talk about inclusiveness in light of the election.
  The town hall meeting at Crockett High High School comes after many students arrived at school in tears and with a lot of questions Wednesday morning.
  Raquel Mendoza, a teacher for Norman Elementary says her classroom wasn’t the only one with worried students, which is why this meeting was important for
  
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• After poll failure, expert makes good on promise to eat bug

  13-11-2016 02:44 via kxan.com
  
  PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University polling expert who said he would eat a bug if Donald Trump got more than 240 electoral votes has followed through on his promise.
  Sam Wang, of the Princeton Election Consortium, made good on his Twitter word on CNN Saturday.
  He ate from a can of gourmet-style crickets and added in some honey.
  He said John the Baptist ate locusts and honey in the wilderness, and he considers himself to be in the wilderness as well.
  Wang says on the consortium&rs
  
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• State of Texas: In-Depth – Poll Problems and Post-Election Anger

  13-11-2016 02:10 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – “I saw people on the ground crying.”  KXAN State of Texas moderator Josh Hinkle recalled the scene Tuesday night at the Democratic election watch party in downtown Austin. “It was like someone died.”
  This week, State of Texas: In-Depth looks closer at the psychology behind the emotional response to the election.  A panel of experts also examines the problems with polls that led many people to expect a different election result. &n
  
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• Display set-up to begin for Austin’s annual Trail of Lights

  13-11-2016 00:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Trail of lights is just for weeks away from opening and crews are already prepping parts of Zilker Park for the annual event.
  Crews have started wrapping trees at the park a few weeks ago but organizers say they expect to have most of their displays up by Thanksgiving.
  Although the setting up is underway, parts of Zilker Park will stay open to the public.
  “The trail’s goal always is to keep the park and Zilker as beautiful as possible and we always al
  
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