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• Police seek 2 suspects in Lake Pflugerville shooting

  23-04-2017 22:18 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) – The Pflugerville Police Department said Sunday that it is looking for two suspects in a shooting that happened Saturday night at Lake Pflugerville, injuring one man.
  Police responded to a call of shots fired in the 18000 block of Weiss Lane along the lake at about 9 p.m. Investigators determined that multiple shots were fired into a vehicle, injuring an occupant. Police did not say if there was anyone else in that vehicle.
  Austin-Travis County EMS said the
  
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• France’s next leader: centrist Macron vs. far-right Le Pen

  23-04-2017 21:34 via kxan.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France’s presidential election, remaking the country’s political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union.French politicians on the left and right immediately urged voters to block Le Pen’s path to power in the May 7 runoff, saying her virulently nationalist anti-EU and anti-immigration politics would spell disaster for France.
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• Death sentence on line for would-be rapper in triple killing

  23-04-2017 20:10 via kxan.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A former University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff student who once aspired to become a famous rapper now has his life on the line after his capital murder conviction in the shooting deaths of three people at a Dallas drug house.
  The Dallas Morning News reports the penalty phase opens Monday in the trial of 24-year-old Justin Pharez Smith, in which prosecutors will present evidence in their bid for a death sentence.
  Prosecutors say a need for money compelled Smith to kill a man
  
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• Three seriously injured in east Austin rollover crash

  23-04-2017 18:38 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Three people are recovering at the hospital after they were injured in a rollover crash Saturday night.
  The crash happened at around 9:47 p.m.on 51st Street and Ed Bluestein Boulevard.
  According to Austin-Travis County EMS, medics transported 2 men in their 20s and a woman in her 30s to University Medical Center Brackenridge with potentially serious injuries.
  The cause of the crash is under investigation.
  
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• Fort Hood volunteer diver remembered after being killed in the line of duty

  23-04-2017 17:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — First responders from across central Texas honored the life of a volunteer diver who died while trying to find a man who disappeared in flash flooding.
  Lori Ann Pohanka-Kalama was in a creek at Fort Hood last Saturday night when she somehow got into trouble. Her colleagues with the Morgan’s Point Resort Police dive team later pulled her out of the water.
  Medics flew her Scott and White Hospital in Temple where she died the next morning.
  A public visitation a
  
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• SWAT situation ends with man injured from self-inflicted gunshot wound

  23-04-2017 17:42 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin Police SWAT standoff at a home in north Austin has ended.
  At around 9:17 a.m. were called to the 4300 block of Canyonside Trail, after reports of shots fired heard from a nearby home.
  According to police, the incident began as a domestic dispute between a man and his wife. Police say the man barricaded himself inside the home for about an hour eventually shot himself.
  At around 10:30 a.m, police were able to end the standoff.
  The man in hi
  
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• SWAT called to North Austin home after reports of a man with a gun

  23-04-2017 17:42 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — SWAT crews with the Austin Police Department were called to North Austin after reports of a man barricading himself inside a house.
  Authorities were dispatched to the 4300 block of Canyonside Trail, near Far West Boulevard and Mesa Drive.
  We have a crew on the way to the scene and will update the story as more information becomes available.
   
  
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• France begins presidential vote in test for populism

  23-04-2017 16:22 via kxan.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Amid heightened security, French voters began casting ballots for their next president Sunday in a first-round poll that’s seen as a litmus test for the spread of populism around the world and a vote on the future of Europe.
  More than 50,000 police and gendarmes were deployed to the 66,000 polling stations for Sunday’s election, which comes after Thursday’s deadly attack on the Champs-Elysees in which a police officer and a gunman were slain. The presidential
  
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• Thousands take the streets for the annual Cap10K

  23-04-2017 15:17 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thousands of people are taking the streets of downtown Austin Sunday morning for the 40th annual Cap10K race.
  Runners have passed the starting line on the Congress Avenue bridge and will pass some of Austin’s most iconic sites such as the Capitol, Lady Bird Lake, with a few hills and neighborhoods in between. The runners will reach the finish line with a celebration at Vic Mathias Shores.
  Last year, more than 20,500 runners participated in the race. An estimated
  
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• Buda man, WWII and Korea veteran, turns 108 years old

  23-04-2017 06:08 via kxan.com
  
  BUDA, Texas (KXAN) — Gene Ruf, a Buda man, who retired from the U.S. Army as a Master Sergeant, turned 108 years old on Wednesday and celebrated with his family days later.
  Ruf was born in the shadow of Yankee Stadium in New York on April 19, 1909.
  A flu epidemic killed Ruf’s parents and siblings when he was a child. Ruf ended up in an orphanage and never attended middle school and high school. Ruf earned a GED and after leaving the Army, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s d
  
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• Shooting near Lake Pflugerville injures one

  23-04-2017 06:06 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — One person is in the hospital following reports of shots fired in the Lake Pflugerville area Saturday night, said the Pflugerville Police Department.
  Police said a call came in at about 9 p.m. about shots in the 18000 block of Weiss Lane, which runs alongside the lake.
  They found one person who was injured. Austin-Travis County EMS transported that person to Seton Medical Center Williamson, Pflugerville police said.
  Five teenagers accused of vandalizing Texas T
  
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• Police investigate shooting at Lake Pflugerville, one person taken to hospital

  23-04-2017 06:06 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — One person is in the hospital following reports of shots fired in the Lake Pflugerville area Saturday night, said the Pflugerville Police Department.
  Police said a call came in at about 9 p.m. about shots in the 18000 block of Weiss Lane, which runs alongside the lake.
  They found one person who was injured. Austin-Travis County EMS transported that person to Seton Medical Center Williamson, Pflugerville police said.
  Traffic reopened on Weiss Lane as of 11:35 p.
  
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• One person dies in two-vehicle crash on SH 21 in Bastrop

  23-04-2017 03:42 via kxan.com
  
  BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) – One person died when two vehicles crashed in Bastrop Saturday evening, said the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  It happened on SH 21 west of South Shore Road at about 6:36 p.m.
  The Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office said that traffic was diverted onto South Shore Road to Hoffman Road.
  DPS investigators are at the scene gathering information. There is no word at this time on the identity or gender of the victim or the cause of the crash.
  KXAN will update this d
  
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• S. Austin neighborhood where fire killed woman gets free smoke alarms

  23-04-2017 02:43 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some Austin firefighters, along with the American Red Cross, spent their day off working to save lives Saturday.
  Firefighters went door-to-door to more than 1,000 homes in the Tanglewood Forest neighborhood giving away smoke alarms and installing them for free.
  The Red Cross participated as part of their “Home Fire Campaign,” which they say has saved nearly 200 lives since 2014.
  Firefighters chose Tanglewood Forest because of a deadly fast-moving blaze in the 90
  
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• Camp Mabry gives public friendly show of force, continues Sunday

  23-04-2017 02:32 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — It was a show of force and unity at Camp Mabry Saturday afternoon as the Texas National Guard hosted its annual American Heroes Show.
  Visitors were treated to planes overhead, soldiers in tanks and World War II battle reenactments.
  The two-day show also features a parachute jump team, a helicopter show and a traveling Vietnam Wall.
  Several first-responder departments are also participating, including the Austin Police Department, Austin Fire Department and state troopers fr
  
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• Marquez wins fifth pole in a row at Circuit of the Americas

  23-04-2017 01:52 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Marc Marquez found enough speed and balance to grab another pole position at the Grand Prix of the Americas. Maverick Vinales may have what it takes to finally beat him to the checkered flag in Texas.
  Repsol Honda’s Marquez won pole position Saturday for the fifth consecutive year, edging Movistar Yamaha’s Vinales in a pulsating final-lap duel between the Spanish riders that Marquez won by .13 seconds.
  Marquez, a three-time MotoGP champion, has dominated th
  
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