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• Texas Exes end Torchlight Parade in light of Charlottesville rally

  09-10-2017 23:52 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The tradition of a torchlight rally ahead of the Red River Showdown is coming to an end this year.
  The Texas Exes alumni organization, which hosts the event, decided after the deadly protests in Charlottesville they would stop the torchlight portion of the pre-game festivities in order to make everyone feel welcome.
  The chaos in Charlottesville began in August when white nationalists carried torches through the University of Virginia campus.
  Last year, the Torchlight P
  
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• Astros beat Red Sox 5-4 in Game 4, advance to ALCS

  09-10-2017 23:50 via kxan.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Justin Verlander came out of the bullpen for the first time in his career, beating Chris Sale in an aces-turned-relievers role reversal on Monday and the Houston Astros advanced to their first AL Championship Series by rallying past the Red Sox 5-4 and eliminating Boston in four games.
  “When we saw Verlander run to the ‘pen we said, ‘Our horse is on the mound, we need to win this game,'” said Houston third baseman Alex Bregman, who homered off Sale to
  
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• Rodney Reed heads to Bastrop for pivotal hearing

  09-10-2017 23:35 via kxan.com
  BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) – Death row inmate Rodney Reed, who has maintained his innocence in the killing of Stacey Stites, is heading back to Bastrop District Court for a hearing this week that could alter the trajectory of his decades-long legal battle.
  Reed’s defense team says it will show new evidence that points to Jimmy Fennell, 44, Stites’ fiancé at the time of her death, as the real killer.
  In this writ of habeas corpus hearing, Reed’s defense team says it will
  
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• VIDEO: Man clings to school bus in road rage incident

  09-10-2017 23:16 via kxan.com
  PARKVILLE, Md. (WBAL) — A Maryland man seen on video clinging to the front of a moving Baltimore County school bus has been arrested.
  County police said the incident occurred around 3:15 p.m. Thursday in Parkville.
  Police said the man told them that someone threw a bottle from the bus and struck his car.
  VIDEO: Central Texas school bus driver fired after railroad incident 
  “A school bus traveling from Loch Raven Middle School was in traffic, it was sitting next to another vehicl
  
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• Buda man accused of sending nude photos to Central Texas child

  09-10-2017 22:26 via kxan.com
  HAMILTON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A 53-year-old man from Buda is in jail on charges of online solicitation of a minor in Hamilton County, about 30 miles west of Waco.
  Michael Hartley is accused of communicating with a child he believed to be under the age of 17, sending multiple nude photos of himself along with links to adult websites. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office says Hartley asked the child to watch them and “tell him what they thought.”
  The investigation into hi
  
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• Radio host Delilah taking break after son’s suicide

  09-10-2017 22:05 via kxan.com
  Radio host Delilah said she is taking a break from her nationally syndicated program to grieve after her son took his own life last week.
  Delilah posted on Facebook Saturday that her son, Zachariah, killed himself Tuesday morning. Zachariah “was being treated, counseled, and embraced fiercely by family and friends while battling depression for some time now,” she said.
  “I will be absent from the radio and on social media for a time as I grieve and try to process this loss with
  
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• PHOTOS: Wildfires whip through California Wine Country

  09-10-2017 21:41 via kxan.com
  SONOMA, Calif. (KXAN) — A state of emergency has been declared in large parts of California’s Wine Country, after devastating wildfires swept through the region Monday.
  Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties are included in the emergency declaration, and mandatory evacuations are underway.
  Thousands of homes are threatened, as photos show homeowners struggling to keep encroaching fires away from their homes. Wine country wildfires torch California homes GLEN ELLEN, CA - OCTOBER 09:A resident
  
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• Dad sent missing toddler outside because she didn’t drink her milk, police say

  09-10-2017 21:27 via kxan.com
  RICHARDSON, Texas (AP/KXAN) — A 3-year-old Texas girl is missing after her father made her stand outside in the middle of the night as punishment for not drinking her milk.
  An arrest affidavit reveals that 37-year-old Wesley Mathews ordered Sherin Mathews to stand next to a tree near their home in the Dallas suburb of Richardson about 3 a.m. Saturday. He went outside about 15 minutes later to check on her, but Sherin was gone.
  Authorities say the father didn’t notify police that his
  
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• Woman complains it took too long for APD to respond to indecent exposure

  09-10-2017 20:22 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A woman driving in north Austin says she called 911 to report that a man had exposed himself to a young woman, then followed after her when she ran away from him. The caller says she was told by dispatch it would take time to respond to the call.
  The caller says she was driving on Gracy Farms Lane near Stonehollow Drive on Sunday when she saw a young girl running and looking behind her. She says she pulled over and asked the girl if she was okay, and she said, “No.&rd
  
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• Jack Daniel’s general store opens for a week in downtown Austin

  09-10-2017 20:02 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — For one week, those in downtown Austin can step inside a pop-up general store and get a taste of Lynchburg, Tennessee — the home of Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
  The store features a barbershop where people can get $5 haircuts, a mini-version of Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House where visitors can buy goodies for $1, a station where they can take a virtual reality tour of Lynchburg and places for photo opportunities. People can also learn more about the whiskey-mak
  
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• Hollywood condemnation of Weinstein grows louder

  09-10-2017 19:54 via kxan.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hollywood establishment, slow to react to the initial sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, began speaking out against him more forcefully Monday after the powerful studio boss was fired by his own company.
  Among the A-listers weighing in were his longtime allies and beneficiaries Meryl Streep, Judi Dench and director Kevin Smith. They spoke up with a combination of disgust over his alleged behavior and remorse or defensiveness over their own busine
  
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• Decades in the making, Weinstein’s fall comes swiftly

  09-10-2017 19:54 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The allegations against Harvey Weinstein spanned three decades. His downfall came in three days.
  That was all it took to topple one of Hollywood’s most high-profile and sharp-elbowed moguls — a combative power player who, like few ever have, regularly dominated the Academy Awards.
  But it was the all-powerful Weinstein who was ousted Sunday night from the company he co-founded and that bears his name. Following a devastating New York Times expose that detailed ye
  
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• Now you can wear Whataburger jewelry

  09-10-2017 19:31 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Whataburger and James Avery are teaming up to make it easy for you to buy jewelry for that person in your life who also loves the orange and white stripes.
  The two companies created a charm that combines the Lone Star State and the Whatburger logo. According to Whataburger’s website, the sterling silver charm is made in Texas and is only available on Whataburger’s site.
  The $60 charm can be placed on a bracelet or necklace.
  According to Whataburger’s Twitt
  
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• Wind-whipped wildfires sweep into California wine country

  09-10-2017 19:15 via kxan.com
  SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country Monday, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending an estimated 20,000 people on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames.
  The state’s fire chief called the damage estimates conservative and said the fires were burning throughout an eight-county swath of Northern California, including Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties.
  Numerous people had been hur
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Wine country wildfires torch California homes

  09-10-2017 19:15 via kxan.com
  SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through Northern California early Monday, sending residents on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames as homes and businesses burned in wine country. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties as officials estimated the fire had wiped out “well in excess of” 50 structures.
  Brown said in his statement that the multiple fires “threatened thousands of homes.&r
  
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• Arrest made in Roman candle robbery spree

  09-10-2017 18:56 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Authorities believe Sean O’Brien of Lockhart is the masked robber that has been targeting 7-Eleven’s across Austin in the past few weeks.
  Austin police say they arrested O’Brien, 44, at his home on Saturday, Oct. 7. Dubbed the “Roman Candle” robber by the Austin Police Department, O’Brien is linked to four convenient store robberies.
  During the robberies, police say the suspect would carry a lit roman candle and their face would be covere
  
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• Police: Austin man traveled to Orlando to have sex with 9-year-old

  09-10-2017 18:25 via kxan.com
  ORLANDO, Fla. (KXAN) — An Austin man who police say traveled to Orlando, Fla. to meet and have sex with a 9-year-old girl ended up being arrested by undercover officers instead.
  Orlando police arrested Mark Nichols, 64, on Saturday after weeks of corresponding with him via email and text messages. According to an arrest affidavit, on Aug. 25, an Orlando police detective in their Internet Crimes against Children Task Force posted an ad on a website stating they were trying to meet “ex
  
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• WATCH: Waterspout forming in swimming pool at Panama City Beach

  09-10-2017 17:39 via kxan.com
  PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – Waterspouts typically form in the ocean or Gulf of Mexico, but this weekend one formed in a swimming pool, thanks Hurricane Nate.
  The video was taken at a hotel pool in Panama City Beach, Florida on Sunday. It shows what appears to be a waterspout spinning around.
  Nate was a Category 1 when it came ashore for the second time near Biloxi, Mississippi.
  A waterspout forms from the bottom and builds upward.
  Tropical Depression 17 has now formed. Hurricane seaso
  
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• Lot at I-35 and Yarrington Road will turn into retail, office space

  09-10-2017 17:22 via kxan.com
  KYLE, Texas (KXAN) — One of the last empty tracts of land along Interstate 35 between Austin and San Marcos will see bulldozers and construction crews soon enough.
  Last week, the Kyle City Council approved a development agreement with PGI Investments for their 47-acre property at the northwest corner of Yarrington Road and I-35. The city says the property will be turned into a multi-use development including office space, an anchor store (either a grocery store or a department store), a ho
  
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• Bears break into Colorado pizza restaurant

  09-10-2017 16:47 via kxan.com
  ESTES PARK, Colo. (KXAN/NBC) — A mama bear and her cubs decided to skip delivery this weekend and go straight to the pizza source Saturday in Colorado.
  The bears broke into Antonio’s Real New York Pizza in Estes Park. The restaurant’s security cameras captured them opening cabinets, checking for food and eating some salami.The restaurant posted on Facebook about the incident, asking that police not harm animals that get into businesses or homes. It said new bear-proofing on dum
  
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• Trump lists demands on immigration in exchange for DACA

  09-10-2017 15:53 via kxan.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has told congressional leaders that his hard-line immigration priorities must be enacted in exchange for extending protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many of whom were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
  Trump’s list of demands included overhauling the country’s green-card system, a crackdown on unaccompanied minors entering the country, and building his promised wall along the southern borde
  
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• Dove apologizes for Facebook soap ad that many call racist

  09-10-2017 15:37 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dove is facing heat for a body wash ad showing a black woman taking off her shirt to reveal a white woman, with many social media users calling it racist.
  Dove has removed the post from its Facebook page and posted comments on social media Saturday saying it “missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully.” In an emailed statement Sunday, Dove said the ad, a three-second video clip, “did not represent the diversity of real beauty which is some
  
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• Texans star J.J. Watt breaks left leg against Chiefs

  09-10-2017 14:59 via kxan.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — J.J. Watt broke his left leg on Sunday night against the Kansas City Chiefs, leaving the Houston Texans without one of their biggest stars for the second straight season.
  The team announced that he sustained a tibial plateau fracture.
  The three-time Defensive Player of the Year returned this season after missing the last 13 games of last season after his second back surgery. He played every game in his first five seasons in the NFL before his injury last year.
  “I feel
  
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• Austin commemorates first Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  09-10-2017 14:45 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — For most of the country, Monday is Columbus Day. In Austin, this year the city is recognizing it as Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead.
  Last week the Austin City Council passed a resolution to make the change. The city is not alone — Los Angeles recently became the biggest city to abolish Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Seattle made the change in 2014.
  Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first coined in Berkeley, Calif., in 1977 as part o
  
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• Northbound MoPac Express Lane faces biggest challenge Monday evening

  09-10-2017 14:22 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority says the new Northbound Mopac Express Lane had nearly 10,000 motorists drive through in its first weekend of being open.
  Monday evening will be the lane’s first big test, although it is expected to be less congested than normal because many people have the Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday off.
  “We assume that traffic in the regular lanes will be a lot better because as people choose to use the toll
  
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• Jason Aldean returns to Las Vegas to visit survivors

  09-10-2017 13:19 via kxan.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Country star Jason Aldean has returned to Las Vegas a week after a mass shooting during his performance at a music festival left 58 people dead and hundreds more hurt.
  University Medical Center of Southern Nevada thanked Aldean on Facebook Sunday for visiting with survivors. The hospital says Aldean’s visit “helped heal hearts and cheer those who were wounded.”Aldean’s wife, Brittany, posted a picture of herself and Jason on Instagram looking at the
  
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• PHOTOS: Car crashes into home with family inside near West Lake Hills

  09-10-2017 13:09 via kxan.com
  WEST LAKE HILLS (KXAN) — A car crashed into a two-story house near West Lake Hills Monday morning, in an area west of Texas State Highway Loop 360.
  A car crashed into a house on Wilson Heights Drive Oct. 9 (KXAN Photo/Julie Karam)It happened around 4:17 a.m. at a home on 1200 Wilson Heights Drive.
  Residents were home sleeping at the time and left the house. The driver was the only one in the car and got out of it without help after the crash.
  Austin police said no one was hurt or transport
  
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• Jerry Jones: NFL can’t tolerate players disrespecting flag

  09-10-2017 12:44 via kxan.com
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says the NFL can’t leave the impression that it tolerates players disrespecting the flag and that any of his Cowboys making such displays won’t play.
  Jones had his strongest comments so far on the anthem controversy Sunday night. They started with his response to a question about Vice President Mike Pence leaving the game in Indianapolis after about a dozen San Francisco players knelt during the anthem.
  Jones said after t
  
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• Manor crash kills man, injures 3 other people including 1 child

  09-10-2017 06:42 via kxan.com
  MANOR, Texas (KXAN) – A man in his 20s was killed and three other people including a child were sent to the hospital after a two-vehicle crash in Manor Sunday night, said Austin-Travis County EMS.
  It happened just after 10 p.m. in the 18600 block of Blake Manor Road near East Metro Park in Manor.
  One man was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man was transported to Dell Seton Medical Center with potentially serious injuries, ATC EMS said.
  A woman in her 30s and a girl were airlifted to
  
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• Suspects sought in deadly south Austin stabbing

  09-10-2017 05:40 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police say a fight between three men Sunday night ended with one man being stabbed to death.
  Police say they responded to Griffis SoCo Austin Apartments in the 500 block of East Stassney Lane just east of Congress Avenue just before 9:30 p.m. for a disturbance in the parking lot. Witnesses told police the victim, identified as 23-year-old Fabian Gutierrez, was fighting with two other men when he was stabbed.
  Gutierrez was taken to the hospital where he died from his
  
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• Suspect sought in south Austin homicide

  09-10-2017 05:40 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police are investigating the death of a man in south Austin as a homicide.
  An Austin Police Department spokesperson on the scene said the suspect is on the run, but called it an isolated incident, and said there is no threat to the public.
  Police said the call came in at about 9:22 p.m. of a disturbance in the parking lot of Griffis SoCo Austin Apartments in the 500 block of East Stassney Lane just east of Congress Avenue.
  When officers arrived they found a man, beli
  
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• Police searching for suspect in south Austin homicide

  09-10-2017 05:40 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin Police are investigating the death of a man in south Austin as a homicide.
  An Austin Police spokesperson on the scene said the suspect is on the run, but called it an isolated incident, and said there is no threat to the public.
  Right now there is not a description of the suspect, but witnesses are talking to investigators to help them piece together what happened.
  Police said the call came in at about 9:22 p.m. of a disturbance in the parking lot of Griffis SoCo Aus
  
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• Police investigating homicide after man shot, killed in south Austin

  09-10-2017 05:40 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Police are investigating a homicide after a man was shot and killed Sunday night in south Austin, the Austin Police Department said.
  Police said the call came in at about 9:22 p.m. in the 500 block of East Stassney Lane just east of Congress Avenue.
  Austin-Travis County EMS said they performed CPR on a man in his 20s and transported him to St. David’s South Austin Medical Center with critical life-threatening injuries, where he later died.
  Austin police said they have
  
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• Police investigating homicide after man killed in south Austin

  09-10-2017 05:40 via kxan.com
   
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin Police are investigating a homicide in the death of a man in south Austin.
  An Austin Police spokesperson on the scene said the suspect is on the run, but called it an isolated incident, and said there is no threat to the public.
  Right now there is not a description of the suspect, but witnesses are talking to investigators to help them piece together what happened.
  Police said the call came in at about 9:22 p.m. of a disturbance in the parking lot of Griffis S
  
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• Cantu talking High School Football

  09-10-2017 03:59 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin American Statesman reporter Rick Cantu joins More Than the Score to talk High School Football.
  
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• Small fire damages dorm room at Huston-Tillotson University in east Austin

  09-10-2017 03:31 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – A small fire damaged a dorm room at Huston-Tillotson University on Sunday evening, said the Austin Fire Department.
  It happened about 7:54 p.m. in a room on the second floor of Allen-Frazier Residence Hall, a women’s dorm at the university located on Chicon Street in east Austin.
  Firefighters said they had the fire knocked down by 8:13 p.m. and that the building had been evacuated.
  There is no word yet what caused the fire or how much damage it caused.
  This is a devel
  
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• Girls take longer to heal from concussions, study finds

  09-10-2017 03:11 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Concussions are keeping girls out of games much longer than boys.  A new study says girls take longer to heal from a brain injury.
  Sydney Montoya has had three concussion in the last few years.  “It felt like it lasted forever,” said Montoya. “I just sat in a dark room, because lights and sound bothered me.”
  The 17-year-old says her concussions kept her out of school and also games for weeks.
  The study published by The Journa
  
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• Packers beat Cowboys in Arlington again, 35-31

  09-10-2017 01:36 via kxan.com
  ARLINGTON (KXAN) — Aaron Rodgers led a nine-play, 62-second go-ahead touchdown drive to lead Green Bay to a 35-31 win over Dallas.
  Rodgers hit Davante Adams on a 12-yard back-shoulder fade with 11 seconds left for the go-ahead touchdown.
  Prescott had just led the Cowboys on a 79-yard touchdown drive that ate up nearly nine minutes of game clock. Prescott scored on an 11-yard touchdown to take a 31-28 lead with just 1:13 left in the game.
  Dallas is off next week on a bye, then they play thr
  
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• Film producer Harvey Weinstein ousted from Weinstein Co.

  09-10-2017 01:34 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Film producer Harvey Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Co., effective immediately, following new information revealed regarding his conduct, the company’s board of directors announced Sunday.
  Weinstein had previously voluntarily taken a leave of absence following decades of sexual harassment allegations detailed Thursday in a New York Times expose. The board on Friday endorsed that decision. But it went further Sunday, removing Weinstein from the company he
  
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• Houston police chief on gun control: If not now, then when?

  09-10-2017 01:30 via kxan.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says inaction on gun control has “failed thousands of families” and is urging people to take a stand against gun violence following the mass shooting in Las Vegas a week ago.
  Acevedo tweeted Sunday: “When will we stand up and say enough?”
  He says he has “spoken out against gun violence,” and that everyone else should too, asking: “If not now, then when?”
  In a follow-up tweet, the chief, who has
  
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• President Trump scheduled for Dallas fundraiser Oct. 25

  09-10-2017 01:28 via kxan.com
  DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas County Republican Party says President Donald Trump will be in Dallas later this month for a fundraiser for his re-election campaign and for the Republican National Committee.
  The Dallas location of the fundraiser scheduled for Oct. 25 isn’t disclosed.
  The prices to attend, however, are listed in the Sunday announcement from the county GOP.
  The cost ranges from $2,700 to attend the dinner to $100,000 per person for a roundtable with the president.A photo oppo
  
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• Hotels for Harvey victims in federal program being extended

  09-10-2017 01:25 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Federal disaster agency officials say Hurricane Harvey survivors who need more time to find housing are getting an extension to stay temporarily in hotels while they look for an alternative place to live.
  FEMA says the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which pays for short-term hotel stays, has been extended by 14 days to Oct. 24.
  The agency said Sunday those already in the program will get a phone call advising them what they need to do to stay at the hotel
  
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• South Austin crash sends 4 to the hospital, including 1 child

  09-10-2017 00:55 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Four people including one child are in the hospital after a serious two-vehicle crash in south Austin Sunday afternoon.
  It happened at about 2:15 p.m. on a westbound Ben White Boulevard service road just east of the interchange with Interstate 35.
  Austin-Travis County EMS said the child was taken to Dell Children’s medical Center with potentially serious injuries. Two adults with potentially serious injuries were transported to St. David’s South Austin Medical C
  
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• Suspected drunk driver hits cyclist, says he tried to call a cab during ACL

  09-10-2017 00:40 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A suspected drunk driver who hit a cyclist Friday night and is charged with leaving the scene told police he tried to get a cab first.
  According to his arrest warrant, Zachary Davis, 39, told Austin police he should have never gotten behind the wheel and tried to call a cab, but the company told him because of the Austin City Limits Music Festival going on it was going to be a two-hour wait.
  Police say Davis hit the cyclist on South 1st Street near Gibson Street in south Au
  
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• 2 children ejected from car in Caldwell County rollover crash

  09-10-2017 00:33 via kxan.com
  CALDWELL COUNTY (KXAN) — Paramedics took one woman in her 20s and two children to the hospital after a serious rollover crash involving a single vehicle on SH 130 and Briar Patch in Caldwell County.
  According to the Caldwell County Office of Emergency Management, the two children were ejected from the car during the crash. Austin-Travis County EMS said the woman suffered potentially serious injuries. They did not release information about the childrens’ injuries.
  Southbound US 183 re
  
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