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• Grande returns to Manchester to honor victims with benefit

  04-06-2017 23:45 via kxan.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ariana Grande returned to the city to pay tribute with an energetic, all-star concert featuring Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Liam Gallagher two weeks after a suicide bombing killed 22 of her fans and injured dozens of others in Manchester, England.
  Grande was emotional and teary-eyed throughout the One Love Manchester concert Sunday, which the British Red Cross said it raised more than £10 million ($13 million) for the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, cr
  
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• Ai Weiwei’s ‘Forever Bicycles’ to grace Waller Delta for at least 18 months

  04-06-2017 23:13 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin is now home to a new 32-foot sculpture made entirely of bicycles – 1,300 of them. It forms an archway that visitors can walk through.
  Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s “Forever Bicycles” was officially welcomed with a Public Opening and Family Day event on Saturday morning. It’s located at the Waller Delta at 74 Trinity Street.
  It’s one of two outdoor exhibits by the artist brought to Austin. “Forever Bicycles” is
  
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• CapMetro summer routes now in effect through August

  04-06-2017 20:54 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — CapMetro has made a few changes to their summer routes beginning Sunday.
  Most of the adjustments made were designed to address the academic school year and other minor route changes.
  Near the University of Texas campus, routes that run along 21st Street and Red River Street were altered during the construction of the pedestrian mall along Speedway and the rerouting near the Dell Medical School are now permanent.
  The detours, which have been in effect for more than a ye
  
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• Defensive gems, Jones lead Texas to thrilling, 12-inning win

  04-06-2017 19:40 via kxan.com
  
  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Travis Jones hit a two-run single to left in the 12th inning and Texas defeated Long Beach State 5-3 at the Long Beach Regional on Saturday night.
  Long Beach State (38-18) will play San Diego State on Sunday, with the winner facing Texas (39-22) in a late game. The Aztecs beat UCLA 3-2 in 13 innings earlier Saturday in the double-elimination tournament.
  After Long Beach took a 1-0 lead in the opening inning, Bret Boswell hit a solo home run in the top of the secon
  
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• Solar panels renewable energy project dedicated at Fort Hood

  04-06-2017 18:56 via kxan.com
  
  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military officials say the Army’s first hybrid renewable energy project that includes both off and on-post power generation has been dedicated in Texas.
  Ground was broken in early 2016 at Fort Hood for the Department of Defense-related project. Dedication ceremonies were held Friday at the Central Texas post.
  A Fort Hood statement says the hybrid renewable energy project, featuring the Phantom Solar Farm, produces 65 megawatts of alternating current.
  The Fort
  
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• State of Texas: In Depth – Specter of a special session

  04-06-2017 17:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Legislature ended with shouting, a scuffle, and the specter of a special session. The decision rests with Gov. Greg Abbott. “We will be, if we have a special session, convening only on the topic that I choose at the time of my choosing,” Abbott told reporters last week. His office indicated that a decision could be announced later this week.
  For now, state lawmakers are waiting for the Governor’s decision. “I’m sure he and his consult
  
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• Manchester Police release man arrested after concert blast

  04-06-2017 17:11 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Police in Manchester, England have released a 23-year-old man who had been arrested as part of the investigation into the attack on an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people.
  Greater Manchester Police said Sunday the man was let go without being charged with a crime.
  They say that leaves 11 men in custody for questioning. The men are being held on suspicion of violating the Terrorism Act. They have not been identified or charged.
  Seven other suspects detained after the M
  
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• Man flashing money on Facebook Live arrested on drug charges

  04-06-2017 16:03 via kxan.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man joyfully flashing money live on the internet got a sudden surprise when police officers barged in and arrested him for allegedly selling drugs.
  A man identified by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office as 22-year-old Breon Hollings went on Facebook Live to show friends a handful of money, saying, “It don’t stop, man, it don’t stop.”
  He then retrieves more money from another room and starts shuffling it when he hears Jacksonv
  
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• 2 officers wounded in Texas shootout undergo surgery

  04-06-2017 15:26 via kxan.com
  
  LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Laredo police say two of three police officers wounded by gunfire during a shootout with a murder suspect at a Laredo convenience store underwent surgery.
  Police say the two officers who had surgery Saturday in San Antonio, Agapito Perez and Arturo Vela, should recover with time. Police say 33-year-old Perez remained in critical but stable condition while 50-year-old Vela remained in serious but stable condition.
  Officer Mario Casares, 49, remained in serious but stabl
  
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• Trump’s ire: London mayor, political correctness on security

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, in a flurry of Sunday morning tweets on the London attacks, criticized the city’s mayor and bemoaned what Trump described as political correctness when it comes to national security.
  The attacks killed seven people in a busy section of London and wounded about 50 people.
  Trump went after London Mayor Sadiq Khan for saying there was “no reason to be alarmed.” Khan did use those words in a television interview, but it was to reassur
  
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• Trump vows to do whatever is necessary to protect US

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he will do whatever is necessary to protect the United States from a “vile enemy” that he says has waged war on innocents for too long, vowing: “This bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end.”
  Trump commented on the vehicle and knife attack that killed at least seven people in London at the conclusion of a fundraiser for Ford’s Theater, scene of one of the most famous acts of bloodshed in American history
  
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• Trump points to travel ban after reports of London attacks

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump argued in favor of his controversial travel ban as London authorities responded to reports of a string of attacks Saturday night.
  One tweet read: “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!”
  At least seven died Saturday night after a van veered off the road and barreled into pedestrians on busy London Bridge. Three men fled the van with large
  
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• Trump criticizes London mayor after latest attack on city

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized London’s mayor after he sought to reassure residents about a stepped-up police presence on city streets following the third deadly attack there in the past three months, arguing on Twitter for leaders to “stop being politically correct” and focus on “security for our people.”
  The mayor’s spokesman said he was too busy to respond to Trump’s “ill-informed” tweet.
  In a series of
  
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• The Latest: Security enhanced for UK cricket tournament

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local):
  5:20 p.m.
  Cricket rivals India and Pakistan have held a minute’s silence for the victims of the London Bridge attacks amid enhanced security at the Edgbaston ground in Birmingham, England.
  The West Midlands venue was hosting a game on Sunday as part of the two-week Champions Trophy tournament, which involves eight countries, including England.
  World cricket’s governing body says extra security
  
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• The Latest: Analyst group: IS claims London attack

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local):
  10:45 p.m.
  The SITE Intelligence Group says Islamic State’s news agency is claiming fighters for the extremist group carried out the van and knife attack in London that left seven people dead.
  SITE said in a statement Sunday that the Islamic State’s Aamaq news service cited “a security source” in the Arabic-language posting claiming the attack.
  Islamic State has often made such clai
  
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• The Latest: 3 Australians injured in London attacks

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local):
  12:18 a.m.
  Australia’s foreign minister says three Australians have been injured in the knife attacks at London Bridge and in London’s Borough Market.
  Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Candice Hedge is recovering in St. Thomas’ Hospital and Andrew Morrison had received stitches for a wound and was on his way home to Australia. Both had been stabbed in the neck. The government is still ma
  
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• The Latest: 3 Australians among injured in London attacks

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local):
  12:18 a.m.
  Australia’s foreign minister says three Australians have been injured in the knife attacks at London Bridge and in London’s Borough Market.
  Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Candice Hedge is recovering in St. Thomas’ Hospital and Andrew Morrison had received stitches for a wound and was on his way home to Australia. Both had been stabbed in the neck. The government is still ma
  
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• The Latest: 12 people arrested over London attack

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local):
  1:15 p.m.
  British police say they have arrested 12 people in east London over the attack in the London Bridge area.
  Police said in a statement that the arrests were made Sunday morning in Barking by counterterrorism officers.
  Officials said that seven people died in the Saturday night attack and roughly 48 were wounded. A British Transport Police officer and an off-duty officer were among the injured. In a
  
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• The Latest: 1 French citizen among London victims, 1 missing

  04-06-2017 13:39 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area (all times local):
  7:50 p.m.
  France’s foreign minister has announced that a French citizen was among those killed in the London attacks and that another remains missing.
  Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday that seven other French nationals are hospitalized, four of them in serious condition.
  French officials had earlier said that four French were injured in the Saturday attacks on London Bridge and at ne
  
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• APD addresses racial profiling report concerns in east Austin

  04-06-2017 05:45 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Police leadership spoke with community members in east Austin Saturday to present the findings of their recent 2016 Racial Profiling Report and to field questions from citizens. The meeting was crowded: nearly ever seat was taken and included at times tense discussion about how race and police policies.
  Assistant Chief Frank Dixon with Austin Police said this type of community dialogue is exactly what he was hoping for. The presentation Saturday was for Region 3
  
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• Austin police cheer on daughter of fallen officer as she graduates

  04-06-2017 04:59 via kxan.com
  
  CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) — Cedar Park High School senior Mikayla Hunter, who has spent most of her life without her father, walked across the graduation stage on Sunday at Cedar Park Center.
  Mikayla was just 2 years old when her father, Austin Police Department Officer Clinton Hunter, was killed in the line of duty.
  During a police chase on Nov. 29, 2001, Hunter was trying to set up spike strips along a road when he was hit and killed by the suspect.
  A group of Austin police officers promi
  
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• Gov. Abbott celebrates Texas’ call for Convention of States, urges more states to join

  04-06-2017 02:12 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for more states to get on board with the push for a Convention of States.
  He held a celebration Saturday afternoon at the Governor’s Mansion to thank supporters and express appreciation that the state legislature approved Texas’ call for the convention, which was one of the governor’s emergency items this legislative session.
  Texas became the 11th state to issue the call, and is now among 12 states asking for the conventio
  
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• UK prime minister: 7 dead in London attack; many of 48 injured in hospital have life-threatening conditions

  04-06-2017 00:29 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Terror struck at the heart of London on Saturday night as attackers killed seven people in a series of vehicle and knife attacks before police shot them dead.
  The assault began when a van veered off the road and barreled into pedestrians on London Bridge. Three men fled the van with large knives and attacked people at bars and restaurants in nearby Borough Market, police and witnesses said. More than 30 victims were treated at London hospitals and a number of other patients w
  
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• UK prime minister: 7 dead in London attack

  04-06-2017 00:29 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Terror struck at the heart of London on Saturday night as attackers killed seven people in a series of vehicle and knife attacks before police shot them dead.
  The assault began when a van veered off the road and barreled into pedestrians on London Bridge. Three men fled the van with large knives and attacked people at bars and restaurants in nearby Borough Market, police and witnesses said. More than 30 victims were treated at London hospitals and a number of other patients w
  
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• Terror attack on London Bridge leaves 6 dead; police shoot 3

  04-06-2017 00:29 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Terror struck at the heart of London on Saturday night as attackers killed six people in a series of vehicle and knife attacks before police shot them dead.
  The assault began when a van veered off the road and barreled into pedestrians on London Bridge. Three men fled the van with large knives and attacked people at bars and restaurants in nearby Borough Market, police and witnesses said. More than 30 victims were treated at London hospitals and a number of other patients wer
  
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• Police say terror attack in London, reports of fatalities

  04-06-2017 00:29 via kxan.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Terrorism struck at the heart of London, police said Sunday, after a vehicle veered off the road and mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge and gunshots rang out amid reports of knife attacks at nearby Borough Market.
  The violence turned a summery Saturday night in an area packed with bars and restaurants into a scene of panic and chaos, with officers running through crowded streets screaming for people to flee and lifeboats drafted to help clear the area.
  Police said multip
  
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• Austinite James Dickey elected to lead state GOP

  04-06-2017 00:07 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin man has been selected to lead the Republican Party of Texas.
  James Dickey, the chairman of the Travis County GOP, will now lead the state party.
  Our media partners at the Texas Tribune said he narrowly beat Houston businessman Rick Figueroa, besting him by a single vote. The final tally was 32 to 31.
  Dickey will finish the term of former Texas party Chairman Tom Mechler, who stepped down last month citing personal reasons.
  Delegates to the state party convention n
  
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