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• NBC reviving ‘must-see TV’ Thursdays with ‘Will & Grace’

  14-05-2017 23:14 via kxan.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is bringing back its “must-see TV” Thursday franchise this fall with the revival of “Will & Grace,” and by moving its heartwarming hit “This is Us” to the same night.
  The network announced its schedule Sunday, kicking off the annual week where broadcasters outline next season’s plans to advertisers. NBC is the second most popular network behind CBS, first among the younger viewers it covets, and is bullish on next year since
  
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• Graduate, 14, youngest ever at Texas Christian University

  14-05-2017 22:42 via kxan.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A 14-year-old physics major has become the youngest person ever to graduate from Texas Christian University.
  Carson Huey-You was among more than 2,000 students getting degrees Saturday at the Fort Worth school founded in 1873. He started at TCU in 2013 when he was 11. He also has minors in Chinese and math.
  Huey-You tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://bit.ly/2pyVvlD ) his favorite thing about college has been getting to learn things he never thought about, t
  
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• Getting involved with the North Austin Mothers’ Club

  14-05-2017 21:10 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Being a mother can be a joy and a challenge. To meet a group of mothers with similar interests and goals can be refreshing addition to motherhood.
  President Sarah Hutson with the North Austin Mother’s Club was in the studio to talk about what the local club has to offer.
  
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• Police investigating man’s body found in Waller Creek

  14-05-2017 20:46 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police are at the scene where a body was found in Waller Creek Sunday afternoon.
  Police were called to 11th Street and Red River Street at about 1:30 p.m.
  According to Austin-Travis County EMS, medics pronounced a man dead at the scene.
  KXAN has a crew on the way to the scene and will update this story as more information is released.
  
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• Man struck, killed by truck in New Braunfels crash

  14-05-2017 18:59 via kxan.com
  
  NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (KXAN) – A man died after he was struck by a truck in New Braunfels early Saturday morning.
  On Sunday, the New Braunfels Police Department identified the man as 19-year-old David Anthony Teniente, Jr., from Schertz.
  At about 3:38 a.m. Saturday, NBPD and the New Braunfels Fire Department were called to the 6200 block of I-35 south for reports of a crash. When first responders arrived to the scene, they found the man unconscious and lying in the grass median. T
  
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• State of Texas: In-Depth – Tense times at the Capitol

  14-05-2017 17:28 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) –  A late-night showdown Thursday in the Texas House killed off more than a hundred bills. Dozens more went down on Friday, including several that were easily expected to pass – things like money for school lunches and legislation to help reduce the number of women who die during childbirth. The reason? Retaliation.
  The drama started Thursday afternoon as the House faced a midnight deadline to push bills through. A group of 12 conservative
  
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• Mayor Adler, business leaders send off local students to international science festival

  14-05-2017 16:49 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Mayor Steve Adler and several business representatives wished a group of local students good luck Saturday morning as they depart for the Intel International Science and Engineering Festival in Los Angeles.
  Adler, along with Austin Energy Vice President Mark Dreyfus and representatives from Intel, Synopsys and 3M met with the seven area students at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport before they board their plane to California.
  Made up of seven s
  
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• Officials: Chinese women brought to Texas for prostitution

  14-05-2017 13:48 via kxan.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — Central Texas authorities have arrested two people who they say arranged for Chinese women to be brought to Texas and other states so that they would work as prostitutes.
  An arrest affidavit obtained by the Waco Tribune-Herald shows that a McLennan County sheriff’s detective in September responded to an online ad promoting an “Asian female escort.”
  The detective found a woman who was staying at a Waco hotel after she flew from Hong Kong to Houston.
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• Fallen Austin officer among 394 added to national memorial

  14-05-2017 05:52 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (KXAN) – Austin Police Officer Amir Abdul-Khaliq is one of nearly 400 officers being added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  At a candlelight vigil Saturday night, APD Interim Chief Brian Manley was among tens of thousands of people across the country honoring the fallen.
  Officer Abdul-Khaliq died several days after being hit while escorting a funeral procession in September 2016.
  24 of the 394 officers honored are from Texas. They inclu
  
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• Big group ‘Splash!’ celebrates 70 years of Barton Springs Bathhouse

  14-05-2017 04:30 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — With today’s warm temperatures, it was already a great day to be out at Barton Springs Pool. But it was even more special because of a celebration at the popular spot.
  This year marks the 70th birthday of the Barton Springs Bathhouse — and Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former President Lyndon Johnson and honorary chair of the Barton Springs Conservancy.
  To celebrate, the community came out for the “Barton Springs Splash.” It started with a march f
  
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• North Korea says new long-range missile can carry heavy nuke

  14-05-2017 01:56 via kxan.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday the missile it launched over the weekend was a new type of long-range ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
  North Korean propaganda must be considered with wariness, but if confirmed, the claim marks another big step forward in the country’s escalating efforts to field a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. Outside experts don’t believe the North can do that yet, but each new test push
  
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• N. Korea test-fires missile, challenging new leader in South

  14-05-2017 01:56 via kxan.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew for half an hour and reached an unusually high altitude before landing in the Sea of Japan, the South Korean, Japanese and U.S. militaries said. The launch, which Tokyo said could be of a new type of missile, is a direct challenge to the new South Korean president elected four days ago and comes as U.S., Japanese and European navies gather for joint war games in the Pacific.
  It wasn’t immediat
  
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• In testing missile, N. Korea challenges South’s new leader

  14-05-2017 01:56 via kxan.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew for half an hour and reached an unusually high altitude before landing in the Sea of Japan, the South Korean, Japanese and U.S. militaries said. The launch, which Tokyo said could be of a new type of missile, is a direct challenge to the new South Korean president and comes as U.S., Japanese and European navies gather for joint war games in the Pacific.
  It wasn’t immediately clear what type of
  
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• Family of Pflugerville homicide shooting victim pleads for answers

  14-05-2017 00:32 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Family members of the man shot and killed in Pflugerville on Wednesday are trying to raise money for his funeral.
  Police say 20-year-old Jose Martinez was found shot early Wednesday morning in the parking lot of an apartment complex located at 15835 Foothill Farms Loop. Emergency crews transported him to the hospital where he later died.
  Saturday afternoon, the family of Martinez cooked and sold food in east Austin. “We are out here because we have to do something, we
  
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• The Latest: 3 children killed in house fire north of Houston

  14-05-2017 00:19 via kxan.com
  
  CONROE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a deadly house fire north of Houston (all times local):
  8:15 a.m.
  A sheriff’s official says three children have died in a house fire north of Houston and three members of the same family are critically injured.
  Montgomery County sheriff’s Lt. Scott Spencer says the children who died ranged in age from 6 to 13 years. He earlier said the youngest was 7.
  Spencer says the children’s bodies were found inside the home that collapsed during the
  
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• ‘Perfect storm’ of conditions helped cyberattack succeed

  14-05-2017 00:14 via kxan.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The cyberextortion attack hitting dozens of countries spread quickly and widely thanks to an unusual confluence of factors: a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn’t apply Microsoft’s March software fix, and a software design that allowed the malware to spread quickly once inside university, business and government networks.
  Not to mention the fact that those responsible were able to borrow weaponized software code a
  
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• Experts: Conditions behind cyberattack may be hard to mimic

  14-05-2017 00:14 via kxan.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The cyberextortion attack hitting dozens of countries spread quickly and widely thanks to an unusual confluence of factors: a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn’t apply Microsoft’s March software fix, and a software design that allowed the malware to spread quickly once inside university, business and government networks.
  Not to mention the fact that those responsible were able to borrow weaponized software code a
  
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• Baylor regents name new chairman, announce changes

  14-05-2017 00:11 via kxan.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor University’s board of regents has elected a new chairman, overhauled its structure and announced the school has implemented more than 100 changes recommended in the wake of a lingering sexual assault scandal.
  Regents voted Friday to name former Baylor Scott & White Health president and CEO Joel Allison as chairman. He previously was vice chairman.
  The Waco Tribune-Herald reports he’ll succeed Ron Murff, president of a Dallas-based private investmen
  
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