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• Austin closes mega shelter after relocating remaining evacuees

  23-09-2017 22:53 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – The city of Austin closed the city’s mega shelter Friday afternoon after transitioning the remaining evacuees staying there to their home towns, local hotels, housing in other communities or elsewhere in the Austin area, said Jacob Dirr, spokesperson for the city’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
  The city opened the MetCenter shelter on Sept. 1 at 7000 Metropolis Dr. in southeast Austin. At its peak, it was expected to house about 400 peopl
  
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• Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store

  23-09-2017 21:20 via kxan.com
   
  AUSTIN (KXAN)– The Austin Police Department arrested a man who they say robbed a liquor store on Friday. According to an arrest affidavit, the man Guilermo Prieto Jr. and another man entered Tejas Liquor Store late last night where they stole $280 worth of liquor.
  The store’s owner, Sharma Kukoo, attempted to stop the suspects but backed off after Prieto threatened him, stating “If you come at us, I have a gun,” according to the affidavit. The value of the stolen l
  
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• Trump’s comments about anthem, Curry inflame sports stars

  23-09-2017 20:13 via kxan.com
  SOMERSET, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump doubled down on denouncing protests by NFL players and rescinded NBA star Stephen Curry’s White House invitation on Saturday, a series of tweets that quickly inflamed football and basketball stars and even prompted LeBron James to call the president a “bum.”
  Trump started by announcing that Curry, the immensely popular two-time MVP for the Golden State Warriors, would not be welcome at the White House for the commemorative visi
  
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• Pecan Street Festival takes over Downtown Austin

  23-09-2017 19:32 via kxan.com
   
  AUSTIN (KXAN)– The 37th annual Pecan Fall Festival kicks off today with new events and a special art exhibition
  This year’s festival marks the 77th total festival since the event began in 1978. The Pecan Street Association has produced over 40 spring fests and 36 fall fests ahead of this weekend’s event.
  An exhibition, titled 40 Days for 40 Years, will be exhibiting artwork from attendees to celebrate and commemorate memories from the last 40 years.
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• How Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment can compliment your treatment plan

  23-09-2017 18:36 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN)– There are consistently new discoveries, technologies and medicines to help treat our medical problems, but Dr. Samuel Deliberato of Baylor Scott and White clinic says healing touch is still very powerful.
  He is a family Medicine physician at clinic’s Westlake location and he practices Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment.
  This type of treatment involves the physician palpating different areas of the body to look for texture changes. Dr. Deliberato says the treatment can
  
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• Weekend Gardener: Taking care of your tools

  23-09-2017 18:27 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN)– Tools are an essential part of gardening. The weekend gardener advises that you take care of your tool to prevent rust and dullness.
  You can sharpen your tools using a sand paper block, steel wool or a steel brush for larger tools like shovels. This will make gardening much easier and more fun.
  
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• Dozens stage eat-in at Bee Cave bakery to support its no-gun policy

  23-09-2017 17:36 via kxan.com
  BEE CAVE, Texas (KXAN) — An Austin-area bakery has become a battle ground in the gun control debate.
  Dozens of people staged an eat-in Saturday at Baguette et Chocolat, a French bakery in Bee Cave.
  They’re supporting the owners who say a customer complained about their no-gun policy – and at one point brought a gun into their store.
  He was escorted out by police, but the owners say he has been harassing them online, posting bad reviews.
  The shop’s owners, Annelise and Chi
  
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• Austinites stage eat-in at local bakery following gun-rights activist’s attack

  23-09-2017 17:36 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN)– Austinites are staging an eat-in at french bakery Baguette et Chocolat Saturday as a show of support after the business was attacked by gun rights activists on social media.
  The shop’s owners, Annelise and Chiminh Phamdinh, banned guns from their bakery over a year ago, posting a no-guns notice at their bakery in West Austin.
  The bakery owners say a customer, Robert Farago had a problem with the policy and asked them to change it. They refused. They say Farago came in
  
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• South Korea says natural North Korea earthquake detected

  23-09-2017 16:39 via kxan.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s weather agency said a magnitude 3.2 earthquake was detected in North Korea on Saturday close to where the country recently conducted a nuclear test, but it assessed the quake as natural.
  The quake was detected in an area around Kilju, in northeastern North Korea, just 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) northwest of where the North conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, according to an official from Seoul’s Korea Meteorologic
  
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• Firefighters working 2-alarm fire at northwest Austin business

  23-09-2017 16:09 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN)– Austin Fire Department is responding to a fire at a strip mall on Roxie Drive in northwest Austin. The fire started just before 8 a.m. Saturday morning. Officials say they received reports of heavy smoke coming from printing shop in the strip mall.
  Firefighters had difficulty accessing the inside of the building so the fire was upgraded to a 2-alarm fire within a few minutes of the original call, allowing for more firefighters to respond to the scene.
  Firefighters were able
  
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• Firefighters investigate cause of 2-alarm fire at northwest Austin business

  23-09-2017 16:09 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Firefighers battled a fire at a strip mall in northwest Austin Saturday morning, said the Austin Fire Department.
  The fire started just before 8 a.m. in the 12000 block of Roxie Drive just north of US 183 south of Anderson Mill Road.
  Officials said they received reports of heavy smoke coming from a printing shop in a strip mall.
  Firefighters had difficulty accessing the inside of the building and upgraded the blaze to a two-alarm fire within a few minutes of the original ca
  
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• The Latest: On edge in Mexico as hospital evacuates visitors

  23-09-2017 15:40 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on earthquakes in Mexico (all times local):
  11:00 a.m.
  No place is treating more victims of this week’s deadly earthquake than Mexico City’s Xoco General Hospital.
  When the seismic alarm for a new quake sounded on Saturday morning, hospital workers ordered visitors to evacuate.
  That included 43-year-old Syntia Pereda, who was at the bedside of her sleeping boyfriend. Forty-nine-year-old Jesus Gonzalez fell from a third-story balcony of a building w
  
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• The Latest: New quake causes alarm in shaken Mexico

  23-09-2017 15:40 via kxan.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on earthquakes in Mexico (all times local):
  8:45 a.m.
  Quake alarms sounded in Mexico City as a new quake struck, prompting people with fresh memories of this week’s devastating temblor to flee homes and hotels.
  Alejandra Castellanos was on the second floor of a hotel in a central neighborhood and ran down the stairs and outside with her husband.
  In her words, “I was frightened because I thought, not again!”
  At the site of an office that colla
  
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• NFL commissioner, players’ union angrily denounce Trump

  23-09-2017 14:52 via kxan.com
  SOMERSET, N.J. (AP) — The National Football League and its players’ union on Saturday angrily denounced President Donald Trump for suggesting that owners fire players who kneel during the national anthem and that fans consider walking out in protest “when somebody disrespects our flag.”
  “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players,” the league commissioner, Roger Goodell, said in a
  
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• Sen. Franken talks Texas, health care and Trump

  23-09-2017 06:13 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (Nexstar) — United States Senator Al Franken, D-Minnesota, walked out to a standing ovation at one of the opening presentations at the Texas Tribune Festival 2017.
  As he sat down, Franken, waving down the applause, said, “Save it for the end.”
  The former Saturday Night Live comedian and writer said it can be “excruciating” not to tell jokes as a senator. Promoting his book Al Franken: Giant in the Senate, he shared stories about his nearly 10 years in Co
  
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• Dump truck runs over construction worker inside portable toilet

  23-09-2017 05:48 via kxan.com
  KENNER, Louisiana (KXAN/NBC News) — A construction worker is recovering after he took a break from work to use the restroom, and found the portable toilet he was in squished by a dump truck.
  Crews were working on an expansion project at the New Orleans airport when the accident happened. Officials say the 28-year-old has a collapsed lung, pelvic fractures and possible internal bleeding. The injuries are considered to be non life-threatening.
  It was only the man’s second day on the jo
  
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• Not home? Walmart wants to walk in and stock your fridge

  23-09-2017 04:09 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Would you be OK with letting a stranger into your house for the sake of convenience?
  Walmart is testing the idea with a new service that lets a delivery person walk into your home when you’re not there to drop off packages or put groceries in the fridge.
  “This may not be for everyone,” wrote Sloan Eddleston, Walmart’s head of e-commerce strategy, in a blog post Friday; “but we want to offer customers the opportunity to participate in tests toda
  
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• Robert E. Lee’s name removed from Dallas park

  23-09-2017 04:04 via kxan.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Robert E. Lee’s name has been removed from the Dallas park where a statue of the Confederate general had been a focal point until recently.
  The Dallas Park Board voted unanimously Friday to restore temporarily the name Oak Lawn Park. The park was renamed Lee Park in the Texas centennial year of 1936.
  The Oak Lawn name will be a temporary placeholder until the city settles on a new permanent name.
  The move comes a week after the city removed a massive heroic statue of Le
  
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• Texas among 21 states targeted in attempted election hack

  23-09-2017 03:55 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN/AP) — No voter data was compromised, but Texas was one of 21 states the federal government notified about hackers targeting their systems last September.
  Many states learned of the attempted hack on Friday from the Department of Homeland Security. It said the hackers were believed to be Russian agents targeting voter registration systems. Most of the attempts were unsuccessful, although Homeland Security has not released which states had systems that were breached.
  The Te
  
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• Parents say school route is unsafe in Vista Ridge neighborhood

  23-09-2017 02:46 via kxan.com
  LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — Nathanael Ferguson has two children at Camacho Elementary school in the Leander Independent School District, and he says he would never let them bike to school.
  “Thankfully there hasn’t been a tragedy yet, but under present circumstances it seems reasonable to think it’s only a matter of time before we have one,” Ferguson said.
  The Leander Independent School District no longer provides bus service for students in the Vista Ridge neighborhood.
  
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• Police searching for man who tried to lure child in east Austin

  23-09-2017 02:31 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department is asking the public for help after a child escaped from a potential kidnapping situation in east Austin earlier this week.
  According to police, the suspect went up to the child on Tuesday around 8:10 p.m. and asked for help finding his lost brown dog on the 2500 block of Rosewood Avenue. He promised the child money if the child helped him look for it. He then allegedly forced the child into his vehicle, but the child escaped within a few minute
  
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• Austin police search for attempted kidnapping suspect

  23-09-2017 02:31 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department is asking the public for help after a child escaped from a potential kidnapping situation in east Austin earlier this week.
  According to police, the suspect went up to the child on Tuesday around 8:10 p.m. and asked for help finding his lost brown dog on the 2500 block of Rosewood Avenue. He promised the child money if the child helped him look for it. He then allegedly forced the child into his vehicle, but the child escaped within a few minute
  
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• Austin Mexic-Arte museum collecting donations for Mexico after earthquake

  23-09-2017 02:03 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Thousands of people continue to feel the effects of an earthquake that rocked Mexico City earlier this week. This weekend, a local museum is trying to encourage Texans to come and help our neighbors to the south.
  The Mexic-Arte museum in downtown Austin celebrates the art and culture of Mexico and how it impacts people here in Austin.  This weekend will hold a special meaning for Sara Palma, the graphic designer at the museum. She’s lived in Austin for a yea
  
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• NFL Hall of Famer battles home builder filing for bankruptcy

  23-09-2017 02:00 via kxan.com
  DALLAS (KXAN) – Six months after KXAN first aired its investigation into Bella Vita Custom Homes, LLC, the case against the custom home builder remains in limbo in federal bankruptcy court.
  After paying initial deposits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bella Vita Custom Homes with not much to show for it, dozens of homebuyers across Central Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex are fighting to get their money back after the company filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2016.
  One
  
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