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• Rideshare apps in Austin sputter, frustrating customers on SXSW’s first Saturday night

  12-03-2017 22:04 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some rideshare service apps in Austin experienced outages Saturday night, leaving many South by Southwest attendees and other Saturday night revelers without a lift for hours.
  Uber and Lyft left Austin last May after voters approved stricter requirements for drivers that the companies did not like.
  Since then, more than a half dozen companies started to fill the gap left behind — including Ride Austin and Fasten.
  Ride Austin posted a statement online that its servers
  
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• Prepping crafts for Spring Break with Adeina

  12-03-2017 19:49 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Spring Break is finally here for a lot of students.
  If you’re looking for some ideas to make the most of your week, craft guru Adeina Anderson has you covered.
  
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• Houston man killed in front of family in carjacking attempt

  12-03-2017 18:25 via kxan.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man has been shot and killed in front of his wife and child by young men who attempted to steal the family’s car only to find out it was a manual transmission that they didn’t know how to drive.
  Harris County sheriff’s officials said 47-year-old Pedro Aguilar was killed after pulling up to the family’s apartment late Saturday.
  Authorities say a second car pulled alongside with at least two suspects and pulled Aguilar from his vehicle and bea
  
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• Community members talk about the future of Anderson Mill Rd.

  12-03-2017 18:15 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — People who live and drive along Anderson Mill Road in northwest Austin attended a public meeting on Saturday to voice their concerns about increased traffic and safety concerns. Since it was added to the 2016 Mobility Bond, the City of Austin can now determine the amount of funds allocated to solving the issues along the road.
  District 6 Council Member Jimmy Flannigan said there are a lot of competing concerns about Anderson Mill Road that the public has brought up. About 1
  
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• Man killed in Southeast Austin head-on crash

  12-03-2017 18:04 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man is dead after a head-on crash in Southeast Austin early Saturday night.
  It happened at around 6:30 a.m. at the 7100 block of Burleson Road and Felter Lane.
  According to Austin-Travis County EMS, medics transported the man the South Austin Medical Center for his injuries but died about an hour later.
  The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
  
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• Hoverboard eyed in fire that killed girl, critically hurt 2

  12-03-2017 14:16 via kxan.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A fire that killed a toddler and critically injured two others, and also led to critical injuries to a responding fire official, appears to have been sparked by a recharging hoverboard, authorities said.
  Fire officials in Harrisburg said one victim jumped from a second-floor porch roof to escape the blaze, which was reported shortly before 8 p.m. Friday. Two other females were rescued by ladder from the ground, as was a man.
  The Lehigh County coroner’s office s
  
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• Mills leads Spurs past Warriors in game minus top stars

  12-03-2017 05:36 via kxan.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Patty Mills had 21 points and the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a 107-85 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night in a game short on star power to pull within a half-game of the NBA’s top record.The big showdown between the league’s top two teams turned into a huge letdown with both teams missing their star players.
  Already without Kevin Durant due to a knee injury, Golden State opted to rest Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andr
  
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• UT students elect history-making student body president

  12-03-2017 05:13 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two days on the job and the new student body president for the University of Texas at Austin is already making her mark.
  Meet Alejandrina Guzman — a senior studying government and Mexican American Studies.
  She’s the first Latina to hold the position, and she’s the first disabled student body president in the entire Big 12.
  She and her vice president, Micky Wolf, won in a close run-off election with about 54 percent of the vote.
  Guzman said she was not a fa
  
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• State of Texas – A plan to end daylight saving time

  12-03-2017 02:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — If one lawmaker has his way, Sunday will be the last time you have to change your clocks for daylight saving time.
  “It’s really time to end this archaic practice of springing forward,” said Rep. Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs.
  And he has a plan. Isaac filed legislation to exempt Texas from daylight saving time. He calls it House Bill 2400. “Because there should only be 24 hours in a day,” Isaac said. “Not 25 on one day of the y
  
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• With second rain-out, no Zilker Kite Festival for 2017

  12-03-2017 01:27 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Organizers of the ABC Zilker Kite Festival said they must cancel this year’s event after the City of Austin informed them that inclement weather and poor park conditions forced the decision.
  The event was originally scheduled for Sunday, March 5, 2017, but was rescheduled to Sunday, March 12, because of similar conditions last weekend.
  There are no other make-up dates reserved, so kite fans will have to wait until 2018.
  The city’s decision is intended to protect
  
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