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• Missing puppy returned to Austin Pets Alive

  02-07-2017 23:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 7-week-old puppy believed by staff to have been stolen from Austin Pets Alive! is back at the shelter.
  Wrangler is a cattle dog mix and was last seen in her kennel Wednesday night. But she was returned to APA on Sunday by a man who said he was handed the dog in a park. He told staff he didn’t want the dog and decided to take it to APA so they could help it find a home.
  APA worked with Austin Police to review security camera footage and determine what happened.
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• Rapper held on unrelated charges after Little Rock shooting

  02-07-2017 23:04 via kxan.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club where he was performing just 24 hours later, and authorities said several firearms were recovered during the arrest.
  Ricky Hampton, 25, of Memphis, Tennessee, also known as Finese 2Tymes, was arrested on outstanding charges of aggravated assault with a gun out of Forrest City in eastern Ark
  
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• Texas sailor killed in ship collision back home for burial

  02-07-2017 22:14 via kxan.com
  
  WESLACO, Texas (AP) — A Texas sailor killed two weeks ago in the collision of a Navy destroyer with a container ship off the coast of Japan has returned home for burial.
  A procession escorting the remains of Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Noe Hernandez paused Saturday for a moment of silence outside a light blue trailer in Weslaco in the Rio Grande Valley that was once his childhood home.Hernandez, one of seven Navy sailors killed aboard the USS Fitzgerald, arrived earlier in the day at McA
  
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• Off-duty cop who killed daughter’s boyfriend faces 3rd trial

  02-07-2017 19:14 via kxan.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma police officer who said he was trying to protect his daughter when he fatally shot her black boyfriend in 2014 is on trial for the third time in seven months, after jurors in previous trials couldn’t decide whether he was guilty of murder.
  Experts say Shannon Kepler’s case illustrates a broad unwillingness to convict police officers, particularly in cases involving fatal shootings — and even when the lines between officer and civilian
  
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• 1 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at suburban Houston home party

  02-07-2017 17:01 via kxan.com
  
  SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) — One teenager has been fatally shot and another person has been wounded at a party involving about 30 people at a suburban Houston home.
  Authorities say the gunfire erupted about 3 a.m. Sunday after some kind of altercation at the home in Sugar Land, just southwest of Houston.
  Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls says many of those at the party fled as deputies arrived and about a dozen people who stayed behind have been questioned.No arrests have been immediately ma
  
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• Texas liquor agency rebuked after investigation of Spec’s

  02-07-2017 16:14 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Leaders at the Texas Capitol love to bash what they call out-of-control bureaucrats at city halls and in Washington, D.C., but a recent case pitting the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission against Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods looks like state regulatory overreach on steroids.After an investigation of the state’s largest liquor retailer, the TABC sought to yank permits for all 164 of the company’s stores — which would effectiv
  
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• Syrian state TV: Car bombs rock capital, 8 killed

  02-07-2017 15:22 via kxan.com
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A series of car bomb explosions, including a suicide attacker who blew himself up after being surrounded by security forces, rocked the Syrian capital on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding a dozen more, state TV reported.
  State media said security forces intercepted the two other car bombs, suggesting they were controlled explosions.
  Footage on state TV from the scene of one explosion, along the road to the airport, showed at least two scorched vehicl
  
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• Damascus rocked by suicide blast, 2 others foiled

  02-07-2017 15:22 via kxan.com
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Security forces chased three explosive-laden vehicles through Damascus Sunday, intercepting two of them at checkpoints but failing to stop the third before it exploded in the city center, killing at least eight people, state media and others reported.
  The rare attack in the heart of Syria’s capital unfolded ahead of the morning commute on the first work day after a major Muslim holiday.
  The Interior Ministry said security forces tracked all three cars and inter
  
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• Car bomb kills 8 as Syria says it foiled wider attack

  02-07-2017 15:22 via kxan.com
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A suicide car bomb killed at least eight people in a rare attack in the heart of Syria’s capital on Sunday, as authorities said they foiled a wider assault by intercepting two other explosives-laden vehicles.
  The attack unfolded ahead of the morning commute on the first work day after a major Muslim holiday. The Interior Ministry said security forces tracked all three cars and intercepted two of them at checkpoints on the airport road. The third made it into th
  
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• Homeless man gets 60 years for 2014 killing in El Paso

  02-07-2017 14:43 via kxan.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A homeless man must serve 60 years in prison for what prosecutors say was his role in the 2014 death of a man whose beaten and burned corpse was found in a vacant El Paso building.
  Jerry Lynn McGavitt was sentenced Friday in El Paso after being convicted of murder in the death of 21-year-old Gerardo Luna Jr.
  Prosecutors believe Luna was targeted because he entered the downtown building, where homeless people were known to stay, from a street during the daytime.
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• Missing 13 year old found dead in Dallas

  02-07-2017 13:43 via kxan.com
  
  LANCASTER, Texas (KXAN) — A 13 year old North Texas girl has been found dead after being missing for four days according to Lancaster Police.
  After receiving information, police responded to a home on  East Kiest Boulevard in Dallas. When they entered the home, police found two bodies- Shavon Randle’s and the body of an unidentified black man. Since Randle went missing authorities in North Texas have made two arrests and Department of Public Safety says all the suspects are in c
  
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• Police arrest 2 in case of kidnapped Dallas-area girl; she remains missing

  02-07-2017 03:52 via kxan.com
  
  LANCASTER, Texas (KXAN) — Authorities in North Texas have made two arrests after a teenager was kidnapped.
  An Amber Alert was issued this week for Shavon Randle, 13, when she vanished Wednesday in her hometown of Lancaster on the south side of Dallas.
  Family members received a call from a man saying they were holding her and threatening her.
  On Saturday, the FBI said they arrested Devontae Owens and Laquon Wilkerson.  That’s in addition to two people of interest the FBI question
  
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• What law enforcement wants you to know before you hit the lake

  02-07-2017 01:51 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Boaters are expected to turn out in droves to lakes around central Texas this holiday weekend, and multiple law enforcement agencies are once again stepping up efforts to keep people safe on the water.
  At Lake Travis, Game Wardens, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, and Jonestown police officers will be patrolling all weekend.
  They’ll be writing citations for safety violations and for boating while intoxicated, which officials said carries the same penalties as
  
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• New Jerseyans feeling impact of state government shutdown

  02-07-2017 01:21 via kxan.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jerseyans were feeling the impact as a state government shutdown took effect Saturday, shuttering parks and other public sites and disrupting ferry service to Liberty and Ellis islands.
  Among those affected were a group of Cub Scouts forced to leave a state park campsite and people trying to obtain or renew documents from the state motor vehicle commission, among the agencies closed by the shutdown.
  Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the Democrat-led Leg
  
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• Man accused of killing Austin attorney moved to Travis County Jail from Louisiana

  02-07-2017 00:51 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The man accused of killing an Austin attorney nearly three months ago has been brought back to Travis County after authorities said he had fled to Louisiana.
  The Travis County Sheriff’s Office believes Justin Twyne, 24, stabbed James Short, 74, to death at Short’s home in southwest Travis County on April 6, 2017.
  Twyne was moved from a jail in New Orleans and booked into the Travis County Jail at 2:56 p.m. Saturday afternoon. His bond was set at $500,000.
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• Missing La Porte teen may be in Austin area

  02-07-2017 00:22 via kxan.com
  
  LA PORTE, Texas (KXAN) — Police near Houston want your help finding a teenager with a man who could be in the Austin area.
  La Porte Police are looking for 16-year-old Bree Manulak.
  They think she is with River Evans, 19, who may be staying with family in the Austin area.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact local police using 9-1-1 and then contact La Porte Police Detective Pullig at 281-842-3143.
  La Porte Police have information about this case posted on their Facebook page.
  
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• Missing La Porte teen girl may be in Austin area, police ask for help

  02-07-2017 00:22 via kxan.com
  
  LA PORTE, Texas (KXAN) — Police near Houston want your help finding a teenager with a man who could be in the Austin area.
  La Porte Police are looking for 16-year-old Bree Manulak.
  River Evans, 19. (La Porte Police Department)They think she is with River Evans, 19, who may be staying with family in the Austin area.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact local police using 9-1-1 and then contact La Porte Police Detective Pullig at 281-842-3143.
  La Porte Police have information about th
  
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• Tasty treats help lure pigs back home in Cedar Park

  02-07-2017 00:02 via kxan.com
  
  CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) – Thanks to some ingenuity and quick thinking on the part of two Cedar Park Animal Control employees, a pig and her piglets were returned to their barn after they escaped Friday, said Cedar Park Police spokesperson Tara Long.
  It happened when the mama pig and her litter wandered about a mile from their barn into the Ranch Trails neighborhood.
  Animal Control Supervisor Lacey Clemons and Animal Control Officer Amber Smith responded and used the only thing they had in
  
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• Pig family escapes in Cedar Park, but tasty treats save the day

  02-07-2017 00:02 via kxan.com
  
  CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) – Thanks to some ingenuity and quick thinking on the part of two Cedar Park Animal Control employees, a pig and her piglets were returned to their barn after they escaped Friday, said Cedar Park Police spokesperson Tara Long.
  It happened when the mama pig and her litter wandered about a mile from their barn into the Ranch Trails neighborhood.
  Animal Control Supervisor Lacey Clemons and Animal Control Officer Amber Smith responded and used the only thing they had in
  
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