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• Texas lawmakers want to get rid of daylight saving time

  27-02-2017 23:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (NEXSTAR) — Texans may not have to worry about “springing forward” and “falling back” for daylight saving time. Three bills filed this legislative session aim to abolish the bi-annual time change altogether.
  “There’s really no good reason why we should spring our clocks forward an hour,” State Rep. Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs said. “It doesn’t change the amount of daylight, it doesn’t change the amount of daytime, it ju
  
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• Bills put daylight saving time on the chopping block in Texas

  27-02-2017 23:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (NEXSTAR) — Texans may not have to worry about “springing forward” and “falling back” for daylight saving time. Three bills filed this legislative session aim to abolish the bi-annual time change altogether.
  “There’s really no good reason why we should spring our clocks forward an hour,” State Rep. Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs said. “It doesn’t change the amount of daylight, it doesn’t change the amount of daytime, it ju
  
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• SpaceX says it will fly 2 people to moon next year

  27-02-2017 23:23 via kxan.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX said Monday it will fly two people to the moon next year, a feat not attempted since NASA’s Apollo heyday close to half a century ago.
  Tech billionaire Elon Musk — the company’s founder — announced the surprising news Monday.
  Two people who know one another approached the company about sending them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon, according to Musk. He won’t identify the pair or the price tag. They’ve already
  
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• Cause of most US wildfires traced to people, study finds

  27-02-2017 23:19 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — People have triggered five out of six wildfires in the U.S. over the last two decades, tripling the length of the wildfire season and making it start earlier in the East and last longer in the West, a new study finds.
  Even as climate change worsens the nation’s fire season — making it longer and easier to burn more acres — researchers said human activities play an even bigger role.
  While fire experts have long blamed people more than lightning, the new w
  
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• Lawmaker asks Texas Rangers to investigate Baylor scandal

  27-02-2017 22:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas lawmaker wants the state’s top law enforcement agency to look into Baylor’s sexual assault scandal and whether school officials worked to cover up crimes.
  Rep. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat, called on the Texas Rangers on Monday to probe the nation’s largest Baptist school.
  Baylor fired football coach Art Briles and pushed out former President Ken Starr in 2016 after an internal report found the Waco school mishandled sexual or phys
  
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• US Supreme Court refuses appeals from 3 on Texas death row

  27-02-2017 22:29 via kxan.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review appeals in three Texas death row cases, including one where a man pleaded guilty to a triple slaying in South Texas.
  The high court’s rulings moved two inmates closer to execution: LeJames Norman, 31, condemned for the 2005 shooting deaths of three people during a botched robbery of a home in Edna, about 100 miles southwest of Houston, and Bill Douglas Gates, 67, condemned for strangling a Houston woman in 1999.
  Neither h
  
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• East Austin gas leak evacuees allowed back in their homes

  27-02-2017 21:44 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — People living in an East Austin apartment building were evacuated from their homes due to a gas leak on Monday.
  According to Austin police, the call came in at 2:06 p.m. for a gas leak in the area of 1601 East 5th Street. A construction crew hit a four inch line.
  Authorities said they are telling people living in The Arnold Apartments at 1621 East 6th St. to leave their homes.
  Around 5:10 p.m. Austin Fire Department gave an update that the gas had been shut off and that the
  
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• East Austin apartments evacuated due to gas leak

  27-02-2017 21:44 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – People living in an East Austin apartment building are being evacuated from their homes due to a gas leak.
  According to Austin police, the call came in at 2:06 p.m. for a gas leak in the area of 1601 East 5th Street. A construction crew hit a four inch line.
  Authorities said they are telling people living in The Arnold Apartments at 1621 East 6th to leave their homes.
  There is no estimate of when the evacuation order will be lifted but crews are on scene working to rep
  
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• Couple sentenced to prison for disrupting birthday party with confederate flags

  27-02-2017 21:36 via kxan.com
  
  ATLANTA (WCMH) – A man and a woman in Georgia will spend years in prison for disrupting an African-American family’s birthday party with confederate flags and threats.
  The incident happened in July of 2015, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Kayla Rae Norton, 25 and Jose Ismael Torres, 26, were part of a rally called ‘Respect the Flag.’
  Prosecutors called the event a drunken, two-county rampage with pickup trucks flying confederate battle flags.
  The convoy of truc
  
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• Houston driver uninjured after vehicle falls off parking garage, onto business

  27-02-2017 21:17 via kxan.com
  
  HOUSTON, TX (NBC News) — A Texas driver is safe after driving a vehicle off a parking garage and into a business below.
  The Houston Fire Department said they arrived at the scene at about noon and found the car upside-down through the top of a shopping center.
  Man drives off parking garage, manages to walk away
  Emergency workers found the driver outside the car and alert, but emergency officials took the driver to a hospital as a precaution.
  The car fell three stories and landed in a
  
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• SWAT team called to situation in northwest Austin

  27-02-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police are working a SWAT situation in northwest Austin Monday afternoon.
  Police say they were originally called to the Marquis at Great Hills Apartments in the 10000 block of Great Hills Trail around 11 a.m. for a suicidal person. When they arrived, the person refused to come out of their apartment complex. SWAT was called to the scene around 1:30 p.m.
  Additional details weren’t immediately available. 
  
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• SWAT situation in northwest Austin ends

  27-02-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police say a SWAT situation involving a suicidal person in northwest Austin Monday afternoon has ended.
  Police say they were originally called to the Marquis at Great Hills Apartments in the 10000 block of Great Hills Trail around 11 a.m. for a suicidal person. When they arrived, the person refused to come out of their apartment complex. SWAT was called to the scene around 1:30 p.m.
  Authorities say once they were able to get inside the apartment, the female victim wa
  
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• Smart will give Mack scholarship release

  27-02-2017 20:44 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN(KXAN) — University of Texas basketball coach Shaka Smart said on Monday that he will give suspended sophomore Tevin Mack his scholarship release. This will free Mack up to transfer and end his UT playing career.
  Mack, from Columbia, South Carolina originally committed to Smart when he was the head coach at VCU. Mack has missed 13 games since being suspended on Jan. 12 for violation of team rules. Mack was UT’s leading scorer, averaging 14.8 points per game and leading the team
  
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• Women are getting Vampire Breast Lifts to boost bustlines

  27-02-2017 20:20 via kxan.com
  
  FREDERICKSBURG, VA (WRIC) — Emily Neumann is always on the go. The 23-year-old balances being a mom and occupational therapy student with her social life.
  “I have a friend’s wedding, so I want to look good in my dress,” she says with a smile.
  That desire brought her to Dr. Anne Truong‘s office for something called a Vampire Breast Lift.
  “The moment I finish, I hear a wow,” says Dr. Truong. “They love it.”
  A Vampire Breast Lift uses the p
  
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• VIDEO: Woman distracted by puppy crashes head-on with officer

  27-02-2017 19:57 via kxan.com
  
  DAVIS COUNTY, Utah (KSL) –  Dashcam video shows the moment a driver distracted by her dog crashed head-on into a Davis County Sheriff’s Office SUV Thursday.
  “I was expecting her to weave back over, out of the way,” Deputy Dave Passmore said. “She never did.”
  Passmore said he had slowed his speed to 9 miles per hour, but the sedan struck his SUV traveling 30 miles per hour.
  “She said that she wasn’t looking at anything — that she was just
  
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• Woman killed in chain reaction crash on Capital of Texas Highway identified

  27-02-2017 19:51 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Slick road conditions as well as speed are to blame for a multi-vehicle crash that killed one person last week.
  On Sunday, Feb. 19 just after 11 p.m. police say a driver in a 2016 Toyota Camry was headed northbound on North Capital of Texas Highway when the driver was unable to stop at a red light at Lakewood Drive. The driver of the Camry, who police say was driving at an “unsafe speed on the wet road,” ran into two vehicles, a Rav-4 and a Volvo, that were stop
  
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• Archaeology smuggler caught with 500 stolen artifacts at Big Bend

  27-02-2017 19:35 via kxan.com
  
  BIG BEND, Texas (KXAN) — A man has been sentenced to home confinement after he was found smuggling more than 500 artifacts from protected lands in Mexico to the Big Bend National Park in Texas.
  Andrew Kowalik, from Rockport, Texas, was discovered by a National Park Ranger in April 2016 with hundreds of archaeological artifacts, including cases of stone tools. The National Park Service, Homeland Security Investigators, and the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service joined together to prosec
  
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• Lawyer: White House to no longer contest Texas’ voter ID law

  27-02-2017 19:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney for a voting rights group said Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration said that the federal government no longer plans to challenge Texas’ strict voter ID law.
  Danielle Lang, of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, said the Justice Department informed plaintiffs in the case that it will be filing documents to formally drop its opposition to the Texas law. She called the decision an “extraordinary disappointment.”
  
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• Lawyer: Justice to no longer contest Texas’ voter ID law

  27-02-2017 19:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney for a voting rights group said Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration said that the federal government no longer plans to challenge Texas’ strict voter ID law.
  Danielle Lang, of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, said the Justice Department informed plaintiffs in the case that it will be filing documents to formally drop its opposition to the Texas law. She called the decision an “extraordinary disappointment.”
  
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• Feds rescind opposition to key part of Texas voter ID law

  27-02-2017 19:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is abandoning its longstanding opposition to a key aspect of Texas’ toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law, costing voting rights groups their most important ally and possibly encouraging other conservative states to toughen their own election rules with President Donald Trump in charge.
  It’s a dramatic break from the agency’s position under President Barack Obama, which spent years arguing that the voter ID law
  
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• CARYFEST raising money to teach life skills to local students

  27-02-2017 19:17 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Most Austinites unwind with a little music on the weekends, but one show last Sunday had an important message.
  The Council on At-Risk Youth, or CARY, is raising money to help 1,000 students in several local school districts one music note at a time. The goal of CARYFEST is to show students how to lead productive lives and stay out of trouble while collecting funds through a music festival.
  However, CARY is only able to work with 15-percent of studen
  
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• ‘Sorry. God bless you ma’am’ – Armed robbers apologize to victim

  27-02-2017 19:16 via kxan.com
  
  MILWAUKEE, WI (WTMJ) A Wisconsin woman who was held at gunpoint is trying to make sense of the ordeal after two sympathetic men apologized and let her go unharmed.
  “Who’s going to believe that somebody puts a gun to your face and says ‘God bless you’ without blowing you away afterwards?” Kristy Welch says.
  The entire incident was captured by her home security system.
  Kristy said the surveillance video doesn’t show her watching the suspects run down the alley.
  
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• Truck plunges off bridge, bursts into flames near Amarillo

  27-02-2017 18:48 via kxan.com
  
  BUSHLAND, Texas (KXAN) — One person is dead after an 18-wheeler drove through a guardrail and plummeted off Interstate 40 near Amarillo Monday morning.
  The truck crashed into a cement pillar and burst into flames in the town of Bushland, about 15 miles west of Amarillo.
  Interstate 40 is closed as a result of the crash. Engineers and inspectors were called in to evaluate the bridge’s structure following the collision.
  Amarillo NBC Affiliate, KAMR, reports the crash happened around 9:3
  
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• Trump budget will hike defense spending by $54 billion

  27-02-2017 18:19 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump’s upcoming budget will propose a whopping $54 billion increase in defense spending and impose corresponding cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid. The result is that Trump’s initial budget wouldn’t dent budget deficits projected to run about $500 billion.
  White House budget officials outlined the information during a telephone call with reporters Monday given on condition of anonymity. The budget officials
  
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• San Marcos man hit, killed while walking along I-35 frontage

  27-02-2017 18:19 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — A man who was walking on the frontage road of Interstate 35 in San Marcos early Sunday morning was hit and killed by a driver who didn’t see him.
  San Marcos police say 27-year-old Emanuel Rivas was walking in the roadway around 2 a.m. when he was hit by a driver going southbound near Yarrington Road. The driver told police they did not see the pedestrian until it was too late.
  Rivas died at the scene. His family in Houston were notified of his death.
  
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• Big surge for military in Trump budget, big cuts elsewhere

  27-02-2017 18:19 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is proposing a huge $54 billion surge in U.S. military spending for new aircraft, ships and fighters in his first federal budget while slashing big chunks from domestic programs and foreign aid to make the government “do more with less.”
  The Trump blueprint, due in more detail next month, would fulfill the Republican president’s campaign pledge to boost Pentagon spending while targeting the budgets of other federal agencies. The &l
  
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• Man arrested, accused of taking photos of women in changing room

  27-02-2017 18:08 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man who police say was arrested and charged in 2013 for taking up-skirt photographs of women was recently arrested again, accused of doing the same thing.
  According to an arrest affidavit, 43-year-old Lorenzo Perfecto, was caught on Feb. 25 trying to film inside a woman’s stall while she was trying on clothes at the Salvation Army retail store in north Austin. The woman told police while she was in the changing room, she saw a man’s hand moving a pile of
  
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• Trump’s speech could be marked by disruption or decorum

  27-02-2017 18:06 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
  The sergeant-at-arms will stand at the rear of the House of Representatives on Tuesday night and announce, in a booming voice, the arrival of Donald Trump before a joint session of Congress by intoning: “Mister Speaker, the President of the United States,” just like always.
  Trump will stride down the center aisle to lusty cheers and hearty handshakes from his R
  
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• Trump looks to refocus his presidency in address to Congress

  27-02-2017 18:06 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress gives him a welcome opportunity to refocus his young administration on the core economic issues that helped him get elected — and, his allies hope, to move beyond the distractions and self-inflicted wounds that have roiled his White House.
  Trump’s advisers say he will use his prime-time speech Tuesday to declare early progress on his campaign promises, including kick-starting construction of his proposed
  
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• Trader Joe’s apple sauce recalled over glass shard fears

  27-02-2017 17:45 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Manzana Products Co., Inc., who makes Trader Joe’s Unsweetened Apple Sauces announced a voluntary recall following concerns there may be pieces of glass in the product.
  The 24 oz. glass jars were sold in Texas. You can find the “Best Before” date stamped on top of the lid. All products have been removed from store shelves and destroyed.States Affected
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  UPC
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  AZ, AL, CA, CO, ID, LA, NM, NV, OK, OR, TX,
  
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• San Antonio man charged with kidnapping his child, fleeing to Mexico

  27-02-2017 16:46 via kxan.com
  
  BROWNSVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — A Brownsville mother and child have been reunited after the father allegedly kidnapped their daughter and fled to Mexico.
  The Federal Bureau of Investigations says the mother has custody of the child, but allows the child’s father, Ismail Khaleel Al Gebory, 36, to visit regularly.
  As a part of their agreement, the mother said Al Gebory would drive from San Antonio to Brownsville on Friday evenings to pick up the child and return the child on
  
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• PwC’s hard-won reputation under threat after Oscars mistake

  27-02-2017 16:00 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — For 82 years, accounting and consulting firm PwC has enjoyed a reputational boon from handling the balloting process at the Academy Awards.
  Now its hard-won image as a dependable partner is under threat.
  The company was responsible for a colossal mistake at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night when actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty wrongly announced the top Oscar went to “La La Land,” instead of “Moonlight.”
  The presenters, it turned out, had be
  
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• Oscars mistake puts consulting firm’s reputation in jeopardy

  27-02-2017 16:00 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — For 82 years, accounting and consulting firm PwC has enjoyed a reputational boon from handling the balloting process at the Academy Awards.
  Now its hard-won image as a dependable partner is under threat.
  The company has apologized for a colossal mistake at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night when actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty wrongly announced the top Oscar went to “La La Land,” instead of “Moonlight.”
  The presenters, it turned out, had bee
  
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• Driver fires rounds from airsoft gun during Manor road rage incident

  27-02-2017 15:53 via kxan.com
  
  MANOR, Texas (KXAN) — A road rage incident caused a major backup at Giles Lane and US 290 in Manor Monday morning.
  According to Manor police, a man in his 30s was driving along US 290 when a a road rage incident occurred around 6:20 a.m. At the corner of US 290 and Riata Ford, the victim said another driver pulled out an airsoft gun and fired several shots at his vehicle. Police say the airsoft gun was found at the Giles exit on US 290 toll.
  The road was reopened to traffic aroun
  
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• What to Watch: Endorsing a constitutional convention again

  27-02-2017 15:43 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott says state legislatures nationwide should convene a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution and restore freedoms embodied by President Ronald Reagan.
  But Texas lawmakers have been trying to rewrite the Constitution since before Reagan took office — and even since before he was born.
  The Legislature has called for a convention to propose constitutional amendments 16 times previously, according to a list compiled by Gregory Watson, legislative di
  
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• ‘Moonlight’ mistake not the only Oscars gaffe of the night

  27-02-2017 15:40 via kxan.com
  
  (NEXSTAR MEDIA) — It turns out, the headline-grabbing “Moonlight” envelope snafu wasn’t the only error made during Sunday night’s Academy Awards show.
  During the “In Memoriam” montage — where the film industry honors notable names who have died in the past year – the montage included a photograph of a woman who is uhh…alive.
  The Academy Awards’ “In Memoriam” tribute to Janet Patterson accidentally included a photo of
  
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• George W. Bush on Trump and Russia: ‘We all need answers’

  27-02-2017 15:40 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President George W. Bush said Monday “we all need answers” on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump’s team and the Russian government, and didn’t rule out the idea that a special prosecutor could be necessary to lead an investigation.
  The Republican also defended the media’s role in keeping world leaders in check, noting that “power can be addictive,” and warned against immigration policies that could alienat
  
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• Poll: Tooth Fairy pays $290M in U.S. for lost teeth

  27-02-2017 15:05 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Barely hanging on, you push and pull at that loose tooth with your tongue until it falls out leaving a gummy hole behind.
  One by one, with each tooth lost kids are cashing in at an all-time high netting more and more green. According to Delta Dental in their annual tooth fairy survey, kids earned an average of $4.66 per tooth in the United States.
  The price per tooth is up 75-cents or 13.5 percent than the year before. Overall, the tooth fairy paid more than
  
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• Teen shot to death after young girl sneaks him in house

  27-02-2017 13:51 via kxan.com
  
  EVANS,Ga. (WJBF)– A teenager was shot to death in Columbia County last night.
  Law enforcement was called to a house in reference to a burglary. NewsChannel 6 learned that this high school student was not a burglar, but a friend of the homeowner’s daughter.
  Early Saturday morning, 17-year-old Jordan Middleton went to a home on Coventry Avenue in Grovetown, and a 14-year-old girl snuck him in. This situation turned bad when the girl’s dad heard noises downstairs.
  The communi
  
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• Central Texas center of Flash Flood Alley, city leaders track vulnerable areas

  27-02-2017 13:33 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — While meteorologists don’t expect to see heavy flooding in the forecast anytime soon, Central Texas is at the epicenter of what is called “Flash Flood Alley.”
  The City of Austin and other local governments are tracking hundreds of low water crossings to make sure locals stay safe. On Monday, the city will hold a meeting to look at how to design the next generation of the website — ATX floods — which tracks the areas prone to flooding offer
  
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• Changes coming to Austin’s transit impacting commuters

  27-02-2017 12:45 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A big vote on Monday will impact Austin commuters with Capital Metro’s long term transit plan.
  The board will vote on the final plan for Connections 2025, a 5-year planning study designed to improve the frequency, reliability and connectivity of the CapMetro bus system. Part of their plan includes tripling the number of frequent routes that run every 15 minutes or less. Their goal is to make CapMetro service more reliable by improving arrival times.
  Some changes have
  
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• Changes coming to Austin’s transit could impact commuters

  27-02-2017 12:45 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A big vote on Monday could impact Austin commuters with Capital Metro’s long term transit plan.
  The board will vote on the final plan for Connections 2025, a five-year planning study designed to improve the frequency, reliability and connectivity of the CapMetro bus system. Part of their plan includes tripling the number of frequent routes that run every 15 minutes or less from six routes to 17. Their goal is to make CapMetro service more reliable by improving arrival
  
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• AISD considers ending suspensions for their youngest students

  27-02-2017 12:27 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday the Austin Independent School Board of Trustees will decide if they should end suspensions for kids in pre-k through second grade.
  The idea being proposed would provide help for students struggling in the classroom instead of sending them home. While researching the issue, AISD broke down the number of suspensions across all four grades over the last four years, which totaled 351 classroom removals.
  AISD trustees will now look at a three-tiered approach
  
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• AISD considers ending suspensions, expulsions for youngest students

  27-02-2017 12:27 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday the Austin Independent School Board of Trustees will decide if they should end suspensions for kids in pre-k through second grade.
  The idea being proposed would provide help for students struggling in the classroom instead of sending them home. While researching the issue, AISD broke down the number of suspensions across all four grades over the last four years, which totaled 351 classroom removals.
  AISD trustees will now look at a three-tiered approach
  
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• Free Fun in Austin for week of February 27-March 3

  27-02-2017 12:12 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — As we begin the month of March, here are some recommendations from our partners at Free Fun in Austin.
  Daddy and Me Evening Story time – Monday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. young ones and their favorite guys are invited to this very special monthly story time. Together, dads, grandpas, other extraordinary men and their kids will read, sing, make crafts and laugh—all while developing important literacy skills and having fun. Recommended for ages 5 and u
  
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• ‘Moonlight’ wins best picture at botched Academy Awards

  27-02-2017 11:50 via kxan.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar winner, take two.
  Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” — not, as it turned out, “La La Land” — won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset and an unprecedented fiasco that saw one winner swapped for another while the “La La Land” producers were in mid-speech.
  Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway apparently took the wrong envelope — the one for best actress winner Emma Stone — onto the
  
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• PHOTOS: Winners, and almost-winners, at 2017 Oscars

  27-02-2017 06:58 via kxan.com
  
  Oscars 2017: Winners Mahershala Ali poses in the press room with the award for best actor in a supporting role for "Moonlight" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Viola Davis accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role for "Fences" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)Emma Stone accepts the award for best actress in a leading role for
  
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• PHOTOS: Winners, and almost-winners, a this year’s Oscars

  27-02-2017 06:58 via kxan.com
  
  Oscars 2017: Winners Mahershala Ali poses in the press room with the award for best actor in a supporting role for "Moonlight" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Viola Davis accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role for "Fences" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)Emma Stone accepts the award for best actress in a leading role for
  
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• ICYMI: Best Oscars moments for the water cooler

  27-02-2017 06:12 via kxan.com
  
  HOLLYWOOD (NEXSTAR) — You can’t have missed the biggest moment of the Oscars…when “La La Land” was accidentally awarded Best Picture when the real winner was “Moonlight.” It was too awkward for words."WARREN, WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!" #Oscars pic.twitter.com/bBmalDLzCJ
  — Mashable (@mashable) February 27, 2017Everyone: #Oscars pic.twitter.com/gcxqXG6swK
  — New York Post (@nypost) February 27, 2017
  But the Oscars are long. Maybe you didn’t kno
  
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• Spurs close rodeo road trip with win

  27-02-2017 05:08 via kxan.com
  
  GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer
  http://embed.sendtonews.com/oembed/?SC=b5z2I8eJpi-263271-6876&autoplay=on&sound=off&V=2&format=jsonLOS ANGELES (AP) — With the Los Angeles Lakers in the middle of their latest franchise upheaval, the San Antonio Spurs showed their young opponents what steady excellence looks like.
  Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points and the Spurs routed the Lakers 119-98 on Sunday in Los Angeles’ first home game since Magic Johnson took over the franchise&rsq
  
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