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• Kids in Austin and Mexico City linked through ‘Tug of Hope’ at SXSW

  13-03-2017 23:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A divide of 900 miles between Mexico City and Austin was bridged Monday thanks to a “Tug of Hope.”
  Children at the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin played the game as part of South by Southwest, made possible through technology that allows the force of the tug to be adjusted for players in each city.
  It’s just like playing tug of war, but creators have replaced the “war” with “hope.”
  “I mean it’s fantastic, the
  
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• Nick Foles is returning to Eagles as backup quarterback

  13-03-2017 22:55 via kxan.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Foles is returning to the city where he had his most success.
  The Philadelphia Eagles agreed to terms on a two-year contract with Foles on Monday, bringing him back to serve as the backup quarterback for Carson Wentz two years after former coach Chip Kelly traded him to St. Louis.
  The 28-year-old Foles was drafted in the third round in 2012 by Philadelphia under Andy Reid. He thrived under Kelly a year later, going to the Pro Bowl after having one of the best stati
  
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• Man stabbed to death near 7th and Comal streets identified

  13-03-2017 22:41 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 51-year-old man who was attacked near Seventh and Comal streets and later died Friday evening has been identified as Glen Raymond Buford.
  Austin police identified the man Monday saying, based on the circumstances, they do not believe the public is at risk in connection with the attack.
  Medics and officers were called to the 1600 block of East Seventh Street just before 8 p.m. Friday. When they got to the scene they found a man suffering from stab wounds. He was rus
  
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• Musician mugged, shot walking home from SXSW show

  13-03-2017 22:39 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s a walk Michael Sanders has taken safely many times before. After catching a South by Southwest show at Hotel Vegas on East Sixth Street, Sanders — the lead guitarist for the band Löwin — was walking home when three men emerged from the shadows near the corner of Leona and Gregory Street.
  The first man who walked up to him held an assault rifle, which at first looked fake to Sanders. When the other two men pulled out 9mm pistols, he
  
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• Musician mugged, shot walking home from show during SXSW

  13-03-2017 22:39 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s a walk Michael Sanders has taken safely many times before. After catching a show at Hotel Vegas on East Sixth Street, Sanders — the lead guitarist for the band Löwin — was walking home early Saturday morning, the first weekend of SXSW, when three men emerged from the shadows near the corner of Leona and Gregory Street.
  The first man who walked up to him held an assault rifle, which at first looked fake to Sanders. When the other two men
  
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• Austin musician robbed, shot walking home: ‘That guy was trying to kill me’

  13-03-2017 22:39 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s a walk Michael Sanders has taken safely many times before. After catching a South by Southwest show at Hotel Vegas on East Sixth Street, Sanders — the lead guitarist for the band Löwin — was walking home when three men emerged from the shadows at the corner of Leona and Gregory Street.
  The first man who walked up to him held an assault rifle, which at first looked fake to Sanders. When the other two men pulled out 9mm pistols, he k
  
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• Deputies: 15 year old was ‘accidentally’ shot

  13-03-2017 22:21 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Deputies have determined the shooting of a 15-year-old boy on Sunday was accidental.
  The Travis County Sheriff’s Office was called to Hatton Hill Lane, near State Highway 130 and Webberville Road, at around 5:50 p.m. They found the teenager shot in the abdomen and medics took him to University Medical Center Brackenridge in critical condition.
  Investigators determined the boy and another teenager were handling the gun and accidentally fired the weap
  
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• DC tourists brush off blizzard worries as city shuts down

  13-03-2017 22:12 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR MEDIA) –- Millions of Northeasterners are cranking the heat and stocking up on groceries in preparation for the incoming blizzard, which is projected to dump several feet of snow in some locations.
  DC’s metro transit system is preemptively shutting down. School districts have canceled classes.
  The U.S. House of Representatives canceled votes and postponed its full session on Tuesday.
  News conferences have been removed from the Senate schedule-–a sure sign of
  
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• KXAN Investigative team wins Walter Cronkite Award for border coverage

  13-03-2017 21:58 via kxan.com
  
  KXAN’s team of investigative journalists, KXAN Investigates, earned national recognition Monday, winning the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism for ongoing coverage of the cost of Texas’ border security operations.
  Award judges called the KXAN investigation, “deeply resourced, deeply reported coverage of the expensive and questionably successful effort by lawmakers and law enforcement to stop drug smugglers from entering the state from Mexic
  
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• Congress’ analyst: Millions to lose coverage under GOP bill

  13-03-2017 21:34 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen million Americans would lose coverage next year under House Republican legislation remaking the nation’s health care system, and that figure would grow to 24 million by 2026, Congress’ nonpartisan budget analysts projected Monday. The figures dealt a blow to a GOP drive already under fire from both parties and large segments of the medical industry.
  The report by the Congressional Budget Office flies in the face of President Donald Trump’s aim o
  
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• Teen accused of helping uncle escape from jail turns himself in

  13-03-2017 20:24 via kxan.com
  
  CALLAHAN COUNTY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — A man accused of helping an inmate escape from the Callahan County Jail nearly two weeks ago has turned himself in to authorities.
  Olmedo Bailey Olivias, 19, self-surrendered at the Callahan County Courthouse Monday afternoon. Olivias has been charged with facilitating escape and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in connection to the escape. His bond has not been set.
  Olivias is accused of helping his uncle, Arthur Thurman, 32, escape from jail during
  
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• Lobos strikes again, finding $1.3M of cocaine hidden in bumper

  13-03-2017 19:43 via kxan.com
  
  FAYETTE COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Central Texas’ favorite crime-fighting K-9 took another bite into the illegal narcotics industry Friday when he alerted his handlers to the presence of approximately $1.3 million of cocaine hidden in the front grill of a car.
  Sgt. Randy Thumann and reserve deputy Justin Pannell stopped a white sedan at mile marker 658 on Interstate 10. Sgt. Thumann deployed his K-9 partner, Lobos, who quickly located the presence of 13 kilos of cocaine.
  The deputies arr
  
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• Police seek answers in October 2016 south Austin shooting death

  13-03-2017 19:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police are working to close the file on an unsolved murder from October of last year.
  On Oct. 30, 2016, Jacob Camacho, 20, was shot dead in the 1200 block of Armadillo Road after he crashed into a truck that hit and injured an elderly man. Police determined Camacho was speeding down the road from a party and hit several parked cars.
  After he hit the truck that hurt the elderly man, Camacho crashed into a tree in the front yard of a home on the street. Family and
  
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• Houston couple accused of hiring hit man to kill ex-partners

  13-03-2017 18:55 via kxan.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston veterinarian and her boyfriend are accused of trying to hire an undercover police officer posing as a hit man to kill their former partners.
  A judge on Monday set bail at $50,000 for 48-year-old Valerie Busick McDaniel, who doesn’t have a criminal history. He denied bail for 39-year-old Leon Philip Jacob, who was already on bail, charged with stalking and assaulting his ex-girlfriend, when he and McDaniel were arrested Friday.
  Both remained in jail Monday and
  
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• How to cope if your hormones begin to drop before menopause

  13-03-2017 18:26 via kxan.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The clock is ticking, but for many women it starts winding down, sooner than you think.
  “Well, hormones start to drop in women 10 years prior to stopping the period, so I would say early 40’s you want to be on some type of support,” said Dr. Lisa Koche of Spectra Wellness.
  Koche explains the first culprit to rear its head is adrenal fatigue, something you want to address with your doctor before menopause hits.
  “What happens at menopause is
  
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• With proposal to penalize men for masturbating, legislator aims to shake up health debate

  13-03-2017 18:16 via kxan.com
  
  March 12, 2017
  AUSTIN (TEXAS TRIBUNE) — When it comes to issues related to health, state Rep. Jessica Farrar says that men should have to undergo the same “unnecessary” and “invasive” procedures that she says Texas women are subjected to under recently passed state laws.
  That’s why the the Houston Democrat on Friday filed House Bill 4260, which would fine men $100 for masturbating and create a required booklet for men with medical information related to the be
  
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• Pilot donates kidney to flight attendant

  13-03-2017 18:06 via kxan.com
  
  SEATTLE, WA (KING) — An Alaska Airlines pilot and flight attendant are about to become much more than co-workers or even friends.
  One of them is making a sacrifice, so the other can live a healthy, full life.
  “My very last flight I was so ill that I had to take a passenger’s seat, and I went into the hospital that day,” said Jenny Stansel, who has been on medical leave from her job as an Alaska Airlines flight attendant for about a year.
  A doctor delivered the news that h
  
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• Man charged in death of grandmother in Houston area

  13-03-2017 17:40 via kxan.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a 21-year-old man has been charged with murder in the death of his grandmother, whose body was found wrapped in a blanket in a shed in her Houston-area backyard.
  The Harris County sheriff’s office says Nathan Billingsley was charged Monday in the death of 67-year-old Hazel Billingsley.
  Deputies were called Sunday to do a welfare check on Hazel Billingsley. Officials said family members were unable to contact her after Nathan Billingsley threatened to kill
  
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• Woman wakes up with 3-foot long snake in her bed

  13-03-2017 17:30 via kxan.com
  
  WHITE BLUFF, TN (WCMH) — The woman had an early wake-up call Friday when a 3-foot long snake crawled in bed with her.
  Christine Humphries told WTVF she had just fallen asleep in her bed at her cabin, when she felt something brush her arm under the pillow. “I woke up and I thought the cat had touched my arm,” said Humphries.
  But she knew something was wrong when she didn’t feel any fur.
  “I had a really nice long snake stretched out in my bed like a limo,”
  
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• Man charged with murder after shooting roommate several times

  13-03-2017 16:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – A north Austin shooting that left a man dead Sunday night stemmed from an argument about moving a vehicle out of a driveway, according to Austin police.
  Authorities were called to 916 Bird Creek Drive at 6:42 p.m.
  According to the affidavit for his arrest, Jose Medel Martinez Lopez, 34, was arguing with Jose Pedro Dominguez-Campos, 53, around 6:40 p.m. when Martinez Lopez shot him several times. Officials said Dominguez-Campos had gunshot wounds to his chest
  
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• Man accused of shooting roommate several times charged with murder

  13-03-2017 16:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A north Austin shooting that left a man dead Sunday night stemmed from an argument about moving a vehicle out of a driveway, according to Austin police.
  Authorities were called to Bird Creek Drive at 6:42 p.m, not far from the intersection of Rundberg Lane and North Lamar Boulevard.
  According to the affidavit for his arrest, Jose Medel Martinez Lopez, 34, was arguing with Jose Pedro Dominguez-Campos, 53, around 6:40 p.m. when Martinez Lopez shot him several times.
  
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• Deadly north Austin shooting started with fight over driveway space

  13-03-2017 16:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A north Austin shooting that left a man dead Sunday night stemmed from an argument about moving a vehicle out of a driveway, according to Austin police.
  Authorities were called to Bird Creek Drive at 6:42 p.m, not far from the intersection of Rundberg Lane and North Lamar Boulevard.
  According to the affidavit for his arrest, Jose Medel Martinez Lopez, 34, was arguing with Jose Pedro Dominguez-Campos, 53, around 6:40 p.m. when Martinez Lopez shot him several times.
  
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• Marijuana penalty reduction up for debate by lawmakers

  13-03-2017 15:16 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas lawmakers will hear public testimony on House Bill 81 Monday afternoon. If the bill passes it could remove the threat of arrest, jail time and a criminal record for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana.
  Supporters of HB 81 will testify beginning at 2 p.m. with consideration of the bill later in the day. Representatives of Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy tell KXAN a retired Texas judge and a former Houston police lieutenant are expected to
  
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• Thousands expected at Capitol to ‘Stand Up for Public Schools’

  13-03-2017 14:52 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas educators are expected to gather at the Capitol Monday afternoon to make their voices heard by lawmakers.
  Members of the Texas American Federation of Teachers will arrive by bus early morning with a rally around the message ‘We will not be silenced’ scheduled for noon.
  Those rallying chose the first day of Spring Break to make sure legislators stand up for public education and show respect for teachers and school employees. In the past, the group has 
  
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• Hutto and east Pflugerville homes must boil water after line leak

  13-03-2017 14:00 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — People waking up Monday in eastern Pflugerville may have found their morning shower a little lacking due to a water line leak.
  City officials put out notice that they were working with Manville Water Supply Corporation to repair the leak off Windmill Ranch which affected subdivisions east of SH 130 along Kelly Lane.
  Water was restored after 10 a.m.
  2,400 homes in total were affected.
  Families in the following areas are being advised to boil their water until fu
  
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• Hutto and east Pflugerville area homes must boil water after line leak

  13-03-2017 14:00 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — It will likely be midday Tuesday before Pflugerville-area home and business owners can drink water directly from their taps without boiling it first.
  City and County officials put out notice Monday morning that they were working with Manville Water Supply Corporation to repair a ruptured distribution pipe off Windmill Ranch which affected subdivisions east of SH 130 along Kelly Lane.
  Water was rerouted around the blown 18-inch transmission line and restored aft
  
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• East Pflugerville homes without water due to leak

  13-03-2017 14:00 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — People waking up Monday in eastern Pflugerville may find their morning shower a little lacking due to a water line leak.
  City officials put out notice that they are working with Manville Water Supply Corporation to repair the leak affecting subdivisions east of SH 130 along Kelly Lane. This includes Commons of Rowe Lane, Blackhawk and Falcon Pointe.
  Crews are said to be on scene but there is no estimate when repairs will be done.
  You can always call the Pfluger
  
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• Boil water notice lifted for areas of Pflugerville, Hutto

  13-03-2017 14:00 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — People living in parts of Pflugerville and Hutto who were under a boil water notice can now use their water without boiling it first.
  City and county officials put out a notice Monday morning that they were working with Manville Water Supply Corporation to repair a ruptured distribution pipe off Windmill Ranch which affected subdivisions east of State Highway 130 along Kelly Lane. Water was rerouted around the blown 18-inch transmission line and restored a
  
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• Free Fun in Austin for Spring Break

  13-03-2017 13:21 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — With students and many parents out of town this week, our partners at Free Fun in Austin have some ideas if you’re taking a staycation.
  Cartoon Network’s NEW NEW NEW NEW Screening Party – Monday, March 13 at 6:00 p.m. Join Cartoon Network for new content from The Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, Ben 10, and Teen Titans Go! Enjoy fun games, giveaways, and the screening of four new episodes, but don’t go anywhere before
  
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• Family heard deadly crash with police chase suspect in victim’s last call

  13-03-2017 13:19 via kxan.com
  
  KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — As crews worked at the scene of a deadly crash in Kentwood Saturday night, Tara Oskam’s family huddled together in the parking lot of a nearby gas station.
  A vehicle that Michigan State Police had tried to pull over led troopers on a chase before it collided with Oskam’s vehicle at the intersection of 52nd Street and Broadmoor Avenue. Oskam, as well as a passenger in the suspect vehicle, died at the scene.
  Oskam’s uncle said th
  
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• Death toll reaches 50 in Ethiopia landfill collapse

  13-03-2017 12:36 via kxan.com
  
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A mountain of trash gave way in a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, killing at least 50 people and leaving several dozen missing, residents said, as officials vowed to relocate those who called the landfill home.
  Rescue and recovery efforts continued Monday at the Koshe Garbage Landfill as relatives clutching photos waited for news of the dozens said to be missing. It is not clear what caused Saturday night’s collapse.
  The
  
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• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick raises profile as session heats up

  13-03-2017 12:13 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former TV sportscaster and conservative talk radio host, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has rarely met a microphone he didn’t like.
  That fondness for media attention was on acute display last week, when Patrick convened three press conferences in barely 24 hours.
  He appeared with North Carolina’s lieutenant governor to trumpet Texas’ “bathroom bill,” then faced reporters hours later to promote a proposed “Blue Alert” system meant to no
  
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• More babies being injured by the things meant to keep them safe

  13-03-2017 12:07 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (NBC News) — A new study finds a growing number of young children are being injured while using infant products like carriers, strollers and cribs.
  Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio looked at the number of kids across the country under age 3 who had to go to an emergency room after such an injury.
  “There’s an average of 128 a day, or about one every eight minutes,” says Tracy Meahn of the Center for Injury Research and Policy. &l
  
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• Generator fire destroys north Austin home

  13-03-2017 11:08 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN)- The American Red Cross is helping a man and his two children look for a place to stay because their North Austin home was destroyed by a fire Sunday night.
  Austin fire investigators say a generator caught fire just before 11 p.m. and flames spread to the home on Brookfield Drive near Larkspur Road. Flammable liquids stored next to the generator helped fuel the fire.
  The family’s dog was missing for a short time after the fire broke out but they were able to find him.
  The fir
  
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• Biden presents plans for new cancer initiative at SXSW

  13-03-2017 04:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his plans to create the Biden Cancer Initiative at SXSW in Austin Sunday.
  “I had one regret in making the decision not to run. Would have loved to have been the president who presided over the end of cancer,” Biden said.
  Sarah Peas waited for nearly four hours to be first in a line several hundred deep. “I think a lot of people are curious what former Obama Administration officials are doing next and I’m
  
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• Suspect on the loose after north Austin homicide

  13-03-2017 03:36 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a man in north Austin Sunday night.
  A police spokesperson said officers were called to the scene at about 6:43 p.m. on Bird Creek Drive, not far from the intersection of Rundberg Lane and North Lamar Boulevard.
  Emergency crews arrived and began giving the man CPR. Paramedics took the man to University Medical Center Brackenridge where he later died.
  Police did not have any information about what kind of injurie
  
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• Austin police investigating north Austin homicide Sunday night

  13-03-2017 03:36 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police are searching for the suspect in a homicide in north Austin, Sunday night.
  A police spokesperson said that they received a disturbance call at about 6:43 p.m. on Bird Creek Drive, not far from the intersection of Rundberg Lane and North Lamar Boulevard.
  Emergency crews arrived and found an injured Hispanic man, about 30 years old, and began to administer CPR at the scene.
  He was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge where he later died.
  Po
  
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• Head-on crash in heavy rain kills 3, injures 1 in Fayette Co. Saturday

  13-03-2017 03:14 via kxan.com
  
  FAYETTE COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Three people died in a head-on crash during heavy rain Saturday morning on US 77, a few miles south of Schulenburg in Fayette County, said the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  It happened at about 8:09 a.m. when a 2015 Lexus SUV traveling southbound lost control on the wet roadway and drifted into the northbound lane. That’s when a 2014 Nissan pickup traveling north struck it head-on.
  Each vehicle had a driver and one passenger, DPS said.
  Both people
  
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• Shooting critically injures teen boy in east Travis County

  13-03-2017 02:05 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A 15-year-old boy was shot in eastern Travis County late afternoon Sunday, said a spokesperson for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.
  It happened on Hatton Hill Lane, near State Highway 130 and Webberville Road, at about 5:49 p.m. There was no word on how many times he may have been shot or why.
  Austin-Travis County EMS said they transported the teen to University Medical Center Brackenridge with critical, life-threatening injuries.
  Sheriff’s
  
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