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• Shallow end of Deep Eddy Pool closed until further notice

  29-07-2017 19:54 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – If you’re looking to bring your little one to cool off at Deep Eddy Pool this afternoon, you may have to wait a little longer.
  According to the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, the shallow end of Deep Eddy Pool is currently closed but will reopen sometime later on Saturday.
  If you’re more adventurous, the deep end of the pool is still open.Shallow end of Deep Eddy Pool is currently closed, but will reopen later today. Deep end is open. Will send update wh
  
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• Police investigating suspicious death of infant in southeast Austin

  29-07-2017 19:25 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police are investigating the death of an infant in southeast Austin.
  Police received the call around 10:20 a.m. of a deceased child in the 6600 block of Elm Creek Drive, in the North Bluff Estates area
  Police are on the scene investigating.
  They have not yet released details about the age of the infant, or what caused the child’s death.
  This is a developing story. KXAN has a crew on the way to the scene.
  
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• Police investigate death of 3-week-old boy in southeast Austin

  29-07-2017 19:25 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police are investigating the death of three-week-old boy in a southeast Austin mobile home park on Saturday morning, said the Austin Police Department.
  Police received a call at about 10:20 a.m. about an unresponsive child in the 6600 block of Elm Creek Drive in the North Bluff Estates area just south of East William Cannon Drive.
  Several disturbance calls came into APD for the same location overnight, police said, but they said it’s unknown if they were r
  
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• Troops deploy in Rio de Janeiro amid increasing violence

  29-07-2017 18:34 via kxan.com
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of soldiers began patrolling Rio de Janeiro on Friday amid a spike in violence in Brazil’s second-largest city.
  The deployment of 8,500 soldiers, plus hundreds of police and highway patrol officers, is aimed at fighting organized crime gangs, which control many of the city’s hundreds of slums.
  Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said patrols would soon start participating in operations against drug traffickers. That is a break from previous duties tha
  
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• APD to begin phasing out process for Ford police vehicles

  29-07-2017 16:59 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) —  On Saturday, the city of Austin will begin the phasing out process of the Ford Utility Interceptor Model units.
  The city announced on Friday that the Police Department would stop using all of the units after dozens of reports of carbon monoxide leaking into passenger cabins and 20 officers tested positive for carbon monoxide.
  To handle the shortage of vehicles, APD will use other types of patrol cars like Ford Crown Victoria models, and will begin using two-offic
  
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• APD begins phasing out Ford Explorer Police Interceptor units

  29-07-2017 16:59 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) —  The city of Austin began the phasing out its fleet Ford Explorer Police Interceptor vehicles Saturday morning.
  The city announced on Friday that the Austin Police Department would stop using all of the units after dozens of reports of carbon monoxide leaking into passenger cabins and 20 officers tested positive for carbon monoxide.
  To handle the shortage of vehicles, APD will use other types of patrol cars like Ford Crown Victoria models, and will begin using two
  
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• Suspect arrested in ‘targeted’ murder of central Austin businessman

  29-07-2017 06:03 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Police have arrested Sidney Parker, 40, and charged him with the murder of a central Austin businessman and attempted murder of a female employee.
  Officers were called to AAA Fire & Safety at 6700 Guadalupe St. — near Airport Boulevard — around 7:48 p.m. on Wednesday, finding Majid Hemmasi, 59, with multiple gunshot wounds in the front parking lot.
  Attempts to save Hemmasi’s life were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at 8:07 p.m. The injured wo
  
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• FloSports co-founders sit down with More than the score

  29-07-2017 06:01 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Mark and Martin Floreani of FloSports joined More than the score to talk about the company’s origins and its future.
  
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• Two injured, one critically, in north Austin shooting

  29-07-2017 05:33 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two men have been injured, one critically, in a shooting in north Austin, the police department says.
  Austin-Travis County EMS medics were called to the Madison at Walnut Creek Apartments, located at 12113 Metric Blvd., at 10:14 p.m. Friday.
  A man in his 20s was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Another man has non-life-threatening injuries.
  Police say there are no suspects in custody at this time.
  The shooting happened just south of West Pa
  
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• Twins’ mom dies days after their birth, father is killed

  29-07-2017 05:15 via kxan.com
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A Florida woman died of an infection shortly after giving birth to twins and on the same day of the funeral of her slain boyfriend – the father of the babies.
  The Palm Beach Post reports that 27-year-old Stephanie Caceres died Wednesday of an infection caused by her cesarean section, 12 days after giving birth to the twins she had with Jevaughn Suckoo.
  Unknown assailants fatally shot him July 11 outside their home. Her aunt, Joni Saunders, told the newspa
  
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• As APD takes SUVs out of service, slower response time concerns surface

  29-07-2017 04:34 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department’s plan to double-up officers in available patrol cars after pulling nearly 400 police SUVs off the road has some in Austin concerned response times will suffer as a result.
  City officials on Friday announced the decision to stop using all Ford Explorer Police Interceptor units after dozens of reports of carbon monoxide leaking into passenger cabins. Twenty officers tested positive for carbon monoxide.
  Instead, APD will rely on other types
  
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• Family of Lake Travis double murder victim hopes to heal with scholarship fund

  29-07-2017 04:18 via kxan.com
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Nearly five months after a double homicide near Lake Travis left Richard “Dale” Guthrie and his girlfriend Susan Gulla-O’Leary dead, loved ones are organizing a memorial event to remember the victims and honor the lives they lived.
  Guthrie and Gulla-O’Leary were both 60 years old and each left behind children.
  The shooting happened on the evening of March 15 on Whitebead Trail, not far from the intersection of Ranch Road 620 and Hudson
  
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• UT launches one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world

  29-07-2017 04:13 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the most powerful supercomputer at any university in the United States — and one of the most powerful in the world.
  “Stampede2,” launched at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), was made possible through a $30 million award from the National Science Foundation.
  The supercomputer will allow researchers nationwide to answer questions that cannot be addressed through theory or experimentation alone and t
  
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• Neighbors want improvements to crash-prone Williamson Co. road

  29-07-2017 03:17 via kxan.com
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — At 70 miles per hour, it’s hard to stop when you least expect it.
  “When it hit me, it launched me in the air and I bounced and landed against that fence,” explains Bud Hurst.
  Hurst suffered whiplash two years ago after a semi truck crashed into the trailer he was hauling. Had the trailer not been there, Hurst believes he may not have made it. “It would’ve killed me, it would’ve knocked me into that oncoming truck.”
  
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• Rick Perry backs Trump’s transgender troop ban

  29-07-2017 02:12 via kxan.com
  WALLER, Texas (Nexstar) — United States Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he supported President Donald Trump’s proposal to block transgender people from serving in the Armed Forces.
  Perry made the comments after touring an air conditioning equipment manufacturing facility in Waller, Texas, on Friday, speaking at a town hall-style meeting with employees following his tour.
  At the conclusion of his visit, Perry, an Air Force veteran, said, “I totally support the president and his
  
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• Future of plans for US 183 toll lanes unclear

  29-07-2017 01:39 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Transportation officials may be halting a plan to add toll lanes to US 183.
  The plans were proposed after a three-year, multi-million dollar study looking into solutions for congestion on the highway. The Texas Department of Transportation and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority partnered on the proposed $650 million project.
  As part of the project, two toll lanes would be added to both the northbound and southbound stretch of US 183 between MoPac Expressway and S
  
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• Woman takes leashed fawn to the Alamo; charges pending

  29-07-2017 00:52 via kxan.com
  SAN ANTONIO (KXAN) — A woman walking a white-tailed fawn on a leash at the Alamo is now facing charges.
  Alamo security called Bexar County game wardens after seeing the woman, who game wardens deemed “too fond of the fawn.”
  The warden learned the woman, who came to the Alamo to take Fourth of July family photos, picked up the baby deer on the side of the road.
  Dog jumps into action, saves baby deer from drowning
  While the warden tried to explain state law that forbids possessio
  
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• Warm weather workouts may be a waste of time, new report discovers

  29-07-2017 00:11 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — With near record-breaking temperatures scorching Austin this week, many fitness enthusiasts believe they will see better results in the high heat. But preliminary results of a study released this week discovered that warm weather workouts may be a waste of time.
  Joe Rhodes hits the hike and bike trail near Lady Bird Lake at least four times a week. He said the recent string of 100-degree days is motivation to get it done. “You can stop on a treadmill any time you
  
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• Infrared cameras will help 18-wheelers avoid hitting low I-35 bridge

  29-07-2017 00:04 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Cesar Chavez bridge is one of the lowest bridges on Interstate 35 through downtown Austin, measuring at a height of 14 feet.
  This isn’t tall enough for some vehicles that pass through the southbound lanes. Nearly a year ago, a semi became stuck after hitting the bridge. 
  This can not only cause hours of delay for drivers but also be a costly incident. The Texas Department of Transportation is working to make that this doesn’t happen again by installing
  
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