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• Teens with dreams of emergency service help save family in Pflugerville rollover crash

  26-03-2017 23:58 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — Two teenagers came to the rescue Sunday afternoon when they witnessed a GMC Yukon SUV flip over several times in Pflugerville before coming to rest on its side in the middle of the street.
  It happened at about 1:40 p.m. near Dessau Road at Oxford Drive, according Pflugerville police.
  The teens – 17-year-old twins Carey and Callie Sailors – were on their way home after visiting their grandmother when they saw the crash take place.
  “It kind of s
  
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• Rollover crash in Pflugerville sends 2 adults, 1 toddler to hospital

  26-03-2017 23:58 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — A single-vehicle rollover crash injured three people in Pflugerville Sunday afternoon, including one toddler, said Austin-Travis County EMS.
  It happened at about 1:40 p.m. near Dessau Road at Oxford Drive, according Pflugerville police.
  Medics said none of their injuries were expected to be life-threatening, and all three patients were transported by ambulance to St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center for treatment.
  KXAN will hear from two good Samaritans
  
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• Changes made to Texas standardized tests to avoid glitches

  26-03-2017 23:26 via kxan.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Texas Education Agency officials say revamped efforts and nearly $20 million in improvements should help avoid glitches as standardized testing begins this week.The Dallas Morning News reports the upgrades are meant to avoid online problems with the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR. The exams help determine whether students get promoted or graduate.
  Glitches happened last March during the first year that New Jersey-based Educational Testing Serv
  
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• Concert remembers 181 years since the fall of the Alamo

  26-03-2017 19:53 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – The County Line Community Band played their ”Remember the  Alamo!” concert in the rotunda of Texas State Capitol on Sunday. The event marked 181 years since the fall of the Alamo.
  The concert featured songs familiar to the defenders of the Alamo and the Mexican Army, including the “El Deguello” bugle call, which was played by General Santa Anna’s band during the siege.
  Texas Senator Carols Uresti, D- San Antonio, sponsored the event to cel
  
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• State of Texas: Paying for Pre-K

  26-03-2017 16:57 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – A plan to increase funding for Pre-Kindergarten programs in Texas is in jeopardy. Budget plans from the Texas Senate cut funds from a grant program backed by Gov. Greg Abbott. The House budget cuts all funding for those grants.
  Gov. Abbott declared Pre-K funding an emergency in 2015, and pushed lawmakers to establish the grant program. It provides $118 million per year for school districts to provide what the Governor calls high-quality Pre-K. Programs that receive the gran
  
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• LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour gears up for annual ride

  26-03-2017 16:11 via kxan.com
  
  STONEWALL, Texas (KXAN) – Next month, more than one thousand bike riders will get a unique, up-close look at American and Texas history as they take part in the LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour.
  The annual event, celebrating its 10th anniversary, will take cyclists through historical landmarks, including LBJ Ranch and the surrounding Hill Country.
  The ride was conceived by Luci Johnson and Ian Turpin who wanted to give the public the experience they had on early morning bike rides.
  KXAN’s Gigi B
  
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• 1 killed, 15 others injured in Cincinnati nightclub shooting

  26-03-2017 14:28 via kxan.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — At least two people opened fire inside a crowded nightclub early Sunday morning, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others.
  Police said there is no indication the shooting at the Cameo club was terrorism related. Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate said the motive is still unclear, however. Authorities didn’t immediately have any suspects in the 1:30 a.m. shooting on a busy weekend night.
  Capt. Kim Williams said there was “just a lot of chaos,
  
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• Semifinals all set at WGC Dell Technologies Match Play

  26-03-2017 06:13 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Dustin Johnson had reason to be rattled.
  As he walked off the 12th green Saturday afternoon, the match referee said five words that Johnson heard for the first time all week in the Dell Technologies Match Play.
  “The match is all square.”
  Until then, Johnson had led after each of the 71 holes he had played at Austin Country Club.
  He wasted little time responding to a rare challenge. Johnson birdied three of the next four holes for a 3-and-2 victory over
  
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• AISD votes Monday on purchase of 3 land tracts for new high school, Bowie overcrowding

  26-03-2017 04:25 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday, Austin Independent School District trustees are expected to approve the purchase of three different pieces of land in South Austin to build a new high school, and expand an existing one.
  First, the district is considering paying $13.1 million for a 64.9-acre tract in the Goodnight Ranch Subdivision in Southeast Austin on Old Lockhart Highway. The site would eventually be home to a new high school.
  The nearest high school in that area, Akins, is already overcrowde
  
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• Vegas Strip reopens when gunman surrenders after fatal shooting

  26-03-2017 03:46 via kxan.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man riding on a double decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip pulled a gun and started shooting, killing one person and wounding another before barricading himself inside in a standoff that lasted hours before he finally surrendered.
  The standoff began about 11 a.m. Saturday on the bus when it was stopped on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino.
  “He was on the bus. He was shooting people on the bus. He was just contained to that location. He never exit
  
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