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• 4 Bandidos gang members reach plea deals in 2006 Austin slaying of rival

  19-09-2017 22:56 via kxan.com
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Four Bandidos motorcycle club members have reached plea deals over the 2006 slaying of an Austin man who allegedly sought to establish a chapter of the rival Hell’s Angels.
  Prosecutor Eric Fuchs said Tuesday that Robert Romo, Johnny Romo, Norberto Serna Jr. and Jesse Benavidez signed plea agreements Sept. 14.
  The Bandidos were indicted in March in San Antonio on racketeering-related charges in the Austin fatal shooting of Anthony W. Benesh III. That indictment was
  
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• Dripping Springs man who threatened Fort Hood killing spree found guilty

  19-09-2017 22:48 via kxan.com
  WACO, Texas (KXAN) — A Dripping Springs man who threatened to go on a killing spree in Fort Hood in February has been found guilty by a federal jury.
  The jury found Thomas Anthony Chestnut, Jr., 29, guilty of threatening to assault or murder a uniformed service member and of interstate communications with threat to injure. He has not yet been sentenced, but the first charge carries a maximum of 10 years in prison while the second comes with a maximum of five years.
  He had been found compet
  
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• TAKE A TOUR: Google’s new office in downtown Austin

  19-09-2017 21:56 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — With nearly 500 employees in Austin, Silicon Valley giant Google is getting comfortable in some new digs downtown. The new space in a high rise on West Second Street has an outdoor space where employees’ pets can go outside and play. Inside, the library space is designed to be a comfy lounge area. And of course, there is a cafeteria where Google provides breakfast and lunch for its employees. Google’s new downtown Austin office space Google'snew downtown Austin
  
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• WATCH: Sinkhole partially swallows Florida home

  19-09-2017 21:52 via kxan.com
  APOPKA, Fla. (WFLA) — A home was partially swallowed by an apparent sinkhole that opened up Tuesday morning in central Florida.
  The large hole opened up around 8:15 a.m. in Apopka.
  Video from the scene shows the moment part of the home collapsed into the hole. A group of people can then be seen trying to salvage other items from the house.
  Residents tell our NBC affiliate WESH that the hole started with just a small crack in the home’s back well Monday night. The homeowner then
  
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• San Antonio man attacked on Sixth Street was in the Air Force

  19-09-2017 21:35 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A San Antonio man who died after being punched on Austin’s Sixth Street over the weekend was in the Air Force.
  In a news conference Tuesday, Austin police say Marques Johnson, 33, was in town with his wife and friends celebrating a friend’s 30th birthday. Johnson’s group had just left Barcelona, located at 209 E. Sixth St., around 2 a.m. on Sunday, when an altercation occurred between Johnson and two other men.
  Witnesses told police the men followed Johnso
  
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• Powerful earthquake jolts central Mexico, damages buildings

  19-09-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, cracking building facades and scattering rubble on streets in the capital on the anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake.
  The quake caused buildings to sway sickeningly in Mexico City and sent panicked office workers streaming into the streets, but the full extent of the damage was not yet clear.
  The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 7.1 and was centered near the Puebla state town of Raboso, a
  
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• 7.1 magnitude quake kills 44 as buildings collapse in Mexico

  19-09-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust and thousands fled into the streets in panic.
  The quake came less than two weeks after another quake left 90 dead in the country’s south, and it occurred as Mexicans commemorated the anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed thousands.
  Mexican media broadcast images of multiple downed buildings in densely populated parts of Mexico City and
  
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• 7.1 magnitude quake kills 139 as buildings crumble in Mexico

  19-09-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 139 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped.
  Dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 places in the capital alone as high-rises across the city swayed s
  
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• 7.1 magnitude quake kills 119 as buildings crumble in Mexico

  19-09-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 119 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped.
  Dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 places in the capital alone.
  The quake is the deadliest in Mexico
  
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• 226 killed as 7.1 magnitude quake fells buildings in Mexico

  19-09-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings in plumes of dust and killing at least 226 people. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped.
  Dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 places in the capital alone as high-rises across the city swayed sicken
  
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• 149 killed as 7.1 magnitude quake fells buildings in Mexico

  19-09-2017 20:49 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings in plumes of dust and killing at least 149 people. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped.
  Dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 places in the capital alone as high-rises across the city swayed sicken
  
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• WATCH: Fire at Valero refinery in Port Arthur

  19-09-2017 20:01 via kxan.com
  PORT ARTHUR, Texas (KXAN) — People who live around the Valero refinery in Port Arthur are being asked to shelter in place as a fire at the plant burns.
  KFDM reports it appears a storage tank caught fire. The fire started as black billowing smoke but by 1 p.m., the smoke had turned more gray.
  Authorities have closed the streets near the plant as first responders work on the fire.
  
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• Fire at Valero refinery in Port Arthur

  19-09-2017 20:01 via kxan.com
  PORT ARTHUR, Texas (KXAN) — People who live around the Valero refinery in Port Arthur are being asked to shelter in place as a fire at the plant burns.
  KFDM reports it appears a storage tank caught fire. The fire started as black billowing smoke but by 1 p.m., the smoke had turned more gray.
  Authorities have closed the streets near the plant as first responders work on the fire.
  
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• Naval hospital in Florida calls photos of newborns ‘outrageous, unnacceptable’

  19-09-2017 19:44 via kxan.com
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida hospital came under fire Monday after pictures of nurses with newborns appeared on social media.
  Employees at the Naval Hospital Jacksonville were reportedly seen making the newborn babies dance and another photo shows the nurse giving the baby the finger with a caption that read, “How I currently feel about these mini Satans.”
  A Jacksonville woman shared the photos with WFLA, hoping someone would see what a girl she “went t
  
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• Hill Country sheriffs band together to help Rockport-area

  19-09-2017 19:42 via kxan.com
  BURNET, Texas (KXAN) — A number of Hill Country sheriff’s offices are banding together to make sure first responders In Aransas County have everything they need as they continue to work on recovery efforts.
  The Burnet County Sheriff’s Office is coordinating efforts to gather donations and resources to bring to volunteers and first responders later this month. The sheriffs, deputies and staff will travel to Aransas County on Sept. 29 and stay there through Oct. 1. The group will
  
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• Albuquerque realtor offers free tacos to future homeowner

  19-09-2017 18:23 via kxan.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Is a nearly endless supply of tacos enough to convince you to buy a house? Well, that’s what one Albuquerque realtor is offering the future owner of one of his listings.
  “Who doesn’t love free tacos?” said Michael Leathers. Leathers is a realtor whose slogan is “Giant Realtor, Giant Results.”
  “I’m all about fun,” he said.
  He’s the listing agent on a Silver Street townhome and he’s offering up
  
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• Speaker Joe Straus wants the Confederate plaque inside the Capitol removed

  19-09-2017 17:52 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Speaker of the House Joe Straus is using his position on the State Preservation Board to get the Children of the Confederacy Creed plaque removed from the first floor of the Texas State Capitol.
  In a letter addressed to Gov. Greg Abbott dated Sept. 19, Straus writes, “Confederate monuments and plaques are understandably important to many Texans. But it is important that the historical information displayed on the Capitol grounds is accurate and appropriate.”
  Str
  
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• Houston looks to Supreme Court to resolve same-sex marriage benefits fight

  19-09-2017 17:47 via kxan.com
  HOUSTON, Texas (Texas Tribune) — After the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage does not fully address the right to marriage benefits, the city of Houston is now looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.In a petition filed with the high court Friday, the city asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a June 30 decision by the Texas Supreme Court in which it ruled that there’s still room for state courts to explore “the reach and ra
  
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• Violence rumors at Llano Junior High was a ‘misinterpretation’

  19-09-2017 17:20 via kxan.com
  LLANO, Texas (KXAN) — When parents and students showed up to Llano Junior High Monday morning, they noticed there were extra police officers on hand. At the time, most parents had no idea what was going on, but a letter sent out by the principal later that day stated there were rumors about violent acts toward students.
  School officials say on Saturday, Sept. 16, a grandparent of a Llano Junior High student reported to Llano police that their grandchild had overheard a conversation about o
  
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• Trump, the ‘America First’ president, goes to the UN

  19-09-2017 16:10 via kxan.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Elected on the nationalist slogan “America first,” President Donald Trump will use his debut address to the U.N. General Assembly to argue that individual nations should act in their own self-interest, yet rally together when faced with a common threat such as North Korea.
  Trump, who has warned of “fire and fury” if North Korea does not back down, was expected to argue Tuesday that the dangers posed by Kim Jung Un’s pursuit of a nuclear
  
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• In stark UN speech, Trump threatens to “destroy” North Korea

  19-09-2017 16:10 via kxan.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to “totally destroy North Korea” if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation’s nuclear weapons program, making his case in a combative debut speech to the U.N. that laid out a stark, good-vs-evil view of a globe riven by chaos and turmoil.
  Trump’s broadsides against “rogue regimes,” North Korea chief among them, drew murmurs from the assembled world leaders an
  
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• At UN, Trump threatens ‘total destruction’ of North Korea

  19-09-2017 16:10 via kxan.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump, in a combative debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly, threatened the “total destruction'” of North Korea if it does not abandon its drive toward nuclear weapons.
  Trump, who has ramped up his rhetoric throughout the escalating crisis with North Korea, told the murmuring crowd at the U.N. on Tuesday that “it is far past time for the nations of the world to confront” Kim Jong Un and said that Kim’s “reckless
  
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• At UN, Trump threatens to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea

  19-09-2017 16:10 via kxan.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump, in a combative debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly, threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the nation’s “Rocket man” leader does not abandon his drive toward nuclear weapons.
  Trump, who has ramped up his rhetoric throughout the escalating crisis with North Korea, told the murmuring crowd of world leaders on Tuesday that “it is far past time for the nations of the world to confront” Kim Jon
  
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• Complaint about Hobby Lobby’s cotton display causes social media firestorm

  19-09-2017 15:48 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Killeen woman’s complaint about a Hobby Lobby decoration has sparked a social media firestorm on the company’s Facebook page.
  Daniell Rider posted a photo last Thursday to Hobby Lobby’s Facebook page of a display of raw cotton stems in a glass jar and demanded the retailer remove the product. In Rider’s post, she says, “This decor is WRONG on SO many levels.”
  She continues in her post, “There is nothing decorative about raw cotton
  
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• Kitten stuck in car for 3 days rescued by firefighters

  19-09-2017 15:15 via kxan.com
  SPRING VALLEY, Calif. (NBC News/KXAN) — A kitten that was stuck in the engine compartment of a car for three days was finally rescued by firefighters.
  On Saturday morning, Adrienne Koroly drove to his parents’ house in Spring Valley when he noticed that a meowing noise was coming from his Lexus. For three days he tried to coax the cat out but he didn’t have any luck.
  On Monday, Koroly sought the help of the San Miguel Fire District. Firefighters were able to use airbags to lift
  
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• Police: Leander man shot in the face during robbery

  19-09-2017 15:09 via kxan.com
  LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — A Cedar Creek man is charged with aggravated robbery after authorities say he shot his neighbor in the face.
  According to an arrest affidavit, on Sept. 3, Armando Espinoza, 28, shot a Leander man and stole his vehicle. The victim was able to tell police, by writing on a napkin, that the suspect who shot him was his neighbor’s grandson.
  Espinoza is currently being held in the Bastrop County Jail on a $1 million bond. He is facing multiple charges including aggr
  
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• Hurricane Maria smashes Dominica, now menaces Puerto Rico

  19-09-2017 14:01 via kxan.com
  ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Hurricane Maria smashed into Dominica with 160 mph winds, ripping the roof off even the prime minister’s residence and causing what he called “mind-boggling” devastation Tuesday as it plunged into a Caribbean region already ravaged by Hurricane Irma.
  The storm was on a track to wallop Puerto Rico on Wednesday “with a force and violence that we haven’t seen for several generations,” the territory’s governor said.
  Dominica Pri
  
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• Hurricane Maria smashes Dominica, now menaces other islands

  19-09-2017 14:01 via kxan.com
  ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Hurricane Maria smashed into Dominica with 160 mph winds, ripping the roof off even the prime minister’s residence and causing what he called “mind-boggling” devastation Tuesday as it plunged into a Caribbean region already ravaged by Hurricane Irma.
  Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skeritt said on his Facebook page that “initial reports are of widespread devastation” and said he feared there would be deaths due to rain-fed landslides
  
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• Hurricane Maria slams Dominica, now takes aim at Puerto Rico

  19-09-2017 14:01 via kxan.com
  ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Dominica’s leader sent out an emotional call for help as Category 5 Hurricane Maria smashed into the Caribbean island, causing “mind-boggling” devastation, but an ominous silence followed as the island lost all communications on Tuesday and the hurricane took aim at Puerto Rico.
  The governor of the U.S. territory warned that Maria could hit “with a force and violence that we haven’t seen for several generations.”
  Dominica Prime Mi
  
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• Hurricane Maria aims at Puerto Rico after slamming Dominica

  19-09-2017 14:01 via kxan.com
  ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Dominica’s leader sent out an emotional plea for help as Hurricane Maria smashed into the Caribbean island and caused “mind-boggling” devastation, but an ominous silence followed as the country lost all communications on Tuesday and the Category 5 hurricane took aim at Puerto Rico.
  As rain began lashing the U.S. territory Tuesday afternoon, Puerto Rico’s governor warned that Maria could hit “with a force and violence that we haven&rsquo
  
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• Parents and students find new ways to save money for college

  19-09-2017 13:32 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Parents and students planning for college—and how to pay for it—have a lot to consider.
  There are the programs offered by each school. There’s location. And, arguably most important, there’s the cost.
  Austin Community College says each year, the cost of tuition for colleges and universities nationwide goes up around 6 percent. Ryan Thomson of College Funding Specialists says that’s been the case for at least two decades.
  “It’s more
  
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• Toys R Us joins bankruptcy list as Amazon exerts influence

  19-09-2017 12:35 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — In filing for bankruptcy, Toys R Us joins a list of dozens of store chains that have done so already this year as online leader Amazon increasingly exerts its influence over a huge part of the retailing world.
  The toy chain, hobbled by $5 billion in debt and more intense competition, filed for protection from its creditors ahead of the key holiday season. Like so many retailers that find it harder to co-exist with Amazon, analysts say Toys R Us needs to improve its online s
  
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• Toys ‘R’ Us files for bankruptcy, but keeps stores open

  19-09-2017 12:35 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Toys ‘R’ Us, the big box toy retailer struggling with $5 billion in debt and intense online competition, has filed for bankruptcy protection ahead of the key holiday shopping season — and says its stores will remain open for business as usual.
  The company said the proceedings are a way for Toys ‘R’ Us to work with its creditors on restructuring the debt beleaguering it. And it emphasized that its stores worldwide will remain open and it will wo
  
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• Google opens new downtown Austin office

  19-09-2017 12:19 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Google is expanding its offices in Austin. The company will now occupy five floors in a highrise at 200 West Second St. The move comes on the company’s 10th year in Austin.
  After starting with fewer than 100 employees, today Google has more than 450 Austin workers and with the new location hope to expand. Right now the company is finishing out two additional floors that are expected to be complete by early next year.
  The new space has an outdoor space where employees&
  
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• Google opening new downtown Austin office

  19-09-2017 12:19 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Google is expanding its offices in Austin. The company will now occupy five floors in a building along West Second Street. The move comes on the company’s 10th year in Austin.
  After starting with fewer than 100 employees, today Google has more than 450 Austin workers and with the new location hope to expand. Right now the company is finishing out two additional floors that are expected to be complete by early next year.
  During a ceremony Tuesday, Mayor Steve Adler is
  
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• Driver arrested after slow-speed chase overnight along I-35

  19-09-2017 11:33 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police arrested a suspected drunken driver who they say led them on a slow-speed chase on Interstate 35 into downtown Austin Tuesday morning. Police were able to maneuver the man’s car off the road just before 4 a.m. and take him into custody near 15th Street.
  Northbound lanes of I-35 were closed for a few minutes after the chase ended but have since reopened. The chase started just after 3:30 a.m. on South 1st Street just south of the Slaughter Lane
  
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• 88 second graders surprised with free bicycles

  19-09-2017 05:39 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dozens of second graders at Cook Elementary rode home with a new set of wheels Monday after a donation from a local non-profit.
  The Can’d Aid Foundation was started in 2013 to support “do-goodery” efforts, according to its website. Volunteers spent Sunday building the bikes in the Oskar Blues Taproom as a way to celebrate the brewery’s one-year anniversary in Austin, according to Sarah Leavitt, the non-profit’s director of programs and operatio
  
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• Texas woman accused of shooting, dismembering boyfriend

  19-09-2017 05:22 via kxan.com
  BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Police in Louisiana have arrested a Texas woman accused of shooting and dismembering her boyfriend, and dumping parts of his body in southeast Texas.
  Police say 30-year-old Cierra Sutton was jailed without bond following her Thursday arrest in Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans.
  Jail records don’t list an attorney for Sutton, who lives in Baytown, just east of Houston and about 85 miles (137 kilometers) from the Texas-Louisiana border.
  Investigators allege Sutto
  
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• First Pizza Hut building delivered to new location

  19-09-2017 05:18 via kxan.com
  WICHITA, Kansas (KXAN/NBC News) — Delivering a pizza isn’t such an odd occurrence, but delivering a pizza store sure is.
  Pizza Hut took delivery to a whole new level, after transporting its first-ever restaurant by truck. Crews loaded the original brick Pizza Hut building onto a flat bed and carefully drove it to its new home a few blocks away on the Wichita State University Innovation campus. The 400 square foot building took up two lanes during the journey.
  It will be turned into a
  
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• Ezekiel Elliott’s effort questioned

  19-09-2017 05:08 via kxan.com
  FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Ezekiel Elliott was accused of quitting by Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson in Dallas’ 42-17 loss to Denver.
  Cowboys coach Jason Garrett never directly disagreed Monday.
  While heaping praise on quarterback Dak Prescott for continuing to show fight in his first blowout loss as a pro, Garrett said he eventually would talk to Elliott about the second-year running back twice failing to pursue a defensive back after an interception.
  Garrett’s commen
  
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• Elliott’s effort questioned

  19-09-2017 05:08 via kxan.com
  FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Ezekiel Elliott was accused of quitting by Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson in Dallas’ 42-17 loss to Denver.
  Cowboys coach Jason Garrett never directly disagreed Monday.
  While heaping praise on quarterback Dak Prescott for continuing to show fight in his first blowout loss as a pro, Garrett said he eventually would talk to Elliott about the second-year running back twice failing to pursue a defensive back after an interception.
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• AISD fixes water fountain at one school after finding higher lead levels

  19-09-2017 03:25 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An environmental group is questioning the lead levels found in Austin schools and urging Austin Independent School District to “get the lead out.”
  AISD finished testing water in all of its 130 campuses this year, after beginning the process last year. The Lower Colorado River Authority testing in 2017 revealed one school had lead levels above 15 parts per billion, the amount the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe. AISD replaced a water fountain at that
  
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• AISD fixes fountain at one school after finding higher lead levels

  19-09-2017 03:25 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An environmental group is questioning the lead levels found in Austin schools and urging Austin Independent School District to “get the lead out.”
  AISD finished testing water in all of its 130 campuses this year, after beginning the process last year. The Lower Colorado River Authority testing in 2017 revealed one school had lead levels above 15 parts per billion, the amount the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe. AISD replaced a water fountain at that
  
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• High school football talk on MTTS

  19-09-2017 03:06 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Rick Cantu of the Austin American Statesman joined More than the Score discussing the week 3 slate of Texas High School Football.
  
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• Deerpark MS parents working to get their paid crossing guards back

  19-09-2017 03:06 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Parents and students are noticing something is missing near Deerpark Middle School four weeks into the school year.
  “Pretty much every morning that I get here there’s not a crossing guard,” said Mykah Hernandez, an eighth grader who rides a scooter to and from school everyday.
  KXAN went out to observe the intersection at Anderson Mill Road and Broadmeade Avenue Monday afternoon, where students walking and biking to school must cross four busy lanes of traf
  
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• Deerpark MS parents working to get paid crossing guards back

  19-09-2017 03:06 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Parents and students are noticing something is missing near Deerpark Middle School four weeks into the school year.
  “Pretty much every morning that I get here there’s not a crossing guard,” said Mykah Hernandez, an eighth grader who rides a scooter to and from school everyday.
  KXAN went out to observe the intersection at Anderson Mill Road and Broadmeade Avenue Monday afternoon, where students walking and biking to school must cross four busy lanes of traf
  
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• Controversy over cotton centerpiece at Tennessee university dinner

  19-09-2017 02:56 via kxan.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – It started as a welcome gesture for a group of black students at a Nashville university, but what happened during a dinner with the school’s president left some with a bad taste in their mouth.
  Race relations are taking center stage at Lipscomb University today. It’s not because of a class, or a lecture, but rather a dinner that went from cordial to controversial.
  The centerpiece on the table was supposed to represent the fall season, but the stalks of
  
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• State judge clears former Lakeway doctor of wrongdoing

  19-09-2017 02:22 via kxan.com
  LAKEWAY — (KXAN) A state judge denied a request from the Texas Medical Board to sanction a former Lakeway neurologist, saying there is not sufficient evidence to suggest he engaged in inappropriate behavior with female patients.
  The judge’s proposal for decision, issued Friday by the State Office of Administrative Hearings cleared Dr. Robert Wayne Van Boven, a former doctor at Lakeway Regional Medical Center, of any wrongdoing following allegations of inappropriate conduct in 2014 an
  
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• Abbott announces key staff changes, looks ahead to 2019

  19-09-2017 01:49 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (Nexstar)– Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced several changes to his senior staff, following the 85th legislative session. The announcement of his senior adviser and policy director wasn’t without some controversy.
  Abbott called the changes “probably the worst kept secret in Austin, Texas.”
  He said this announcement was delayed because the current team worked “around the clock to respond to Hurricane Harvey.”
  “For the new team, our immediate focus w
  
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• Congressman fights to fast track childhood cancer treatments

  19-09-2017 01:31 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Families struggling with childhood cancer could soon have more options. That’s after President Trump signed the RACE for Children Act, a new law that allows drugs that fight cancer for adults to be tested and regulated to fight childhood cancer. The law was sponsored by Central Texas Republican Congressman Michael McCaul, R-Austin.
  It’s not a normal day at Twin Creeks Country Club in Cedar Park. Yes, the golfing is there but rarely has there been such a cause be
  
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