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• A rare treat next week: Blue supermoon, lunar eclipse

  23-01-2018 23:40 via kxan.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The last day of January will bring a rare treat for skygazers: It’s a full moon, but the second one in one calendar month, so it becomes a blue moon. It also happens to be a supermoon, meaning the moon is closer to earth, and there will be a total lunar eclipse.
  And, according to EarthSky.org, it’s the first blue moon total lunar eclipse in the Americas since March 1866.
  Jan. 31’s supermoon, according to NASA, will also feature a total lu
  
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• Control burn nearly destroys homes, buildings in Bastrop County

  23-01-2018 23:11 via kxan.com
  BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A homeowner conducting a controlled burn on their property near Camp Swift Tuesday nearly burned down several structures when the fire escaped the control area.
  Bastrop County ESD No. 2 firefighters responded to the fire on Luke Lane around 1:30 p.m. Firefighters quickly worked to put out the fire as it crept up to homes.
  In a tweet, the agency said it “barely saved these structures” and reminded people to be fire wise.
  An hour after the fire star
  
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• VIDEO: Skiers injured by sudden eruption from Japanese volcano

  23-01-2018 22:48 via kxan.com
  TOKYO (AP) — Twelve people, including eight soldiers, skiing on the slopes of a volcano near a famous hot spring resort in central Japan were injured Tuesday by flying rocks during a sudden eruption, officials said. One soldier later died.
  The eruption quickly darkened the ski slope at Mount Kusatsu-Shirane with black ash, as volcanic rocks rained down on gondolas and people skiing down the slopes, sending them desperately seeking shelter at a mountaintop station.
  The eight soldiers were i
  
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• Four Lubbock children missing, officials ask for help finding them

  23-01-2018 22:19 via kxan.com
  LUBBOCK, Texas (KLBK) — State officials on Tuesday asked for the public’s help to find four missing Lubbock children.
  Ely Munoz, 14, Jacob Munoz, 11, Aubrey Munoz, 6 and Arian Walzier, 4 were last seen on Dec. 14 according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
  “They may be in the company of their mother,” NCMEC said on its website.
  The mother was identified by officials as Crystal Munoz, 34. The mother did not have custody and was ordered by a court t
  
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• Buda competes with large cities for piece of $400M to improve roads

  23-01-2018 22:05 via kxan.com
  BUDA, Texas (KXAN) – The city of Buda is asking the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization to consider the city for some major transportation improvement projects worth around $10 million.
  CAMPO recently asked area cities to submit possible projects to the organization and will allocate $400 million for transportation funding over the next four years to multiple towns.
  The city of Buda submitted four projects — the most costly of which would reconstruct West Goforth Road as
  
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• Construction starts on three new flyovers at I-35 and US 183

  23-01-2018 22:01 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Department of Transportation will start work on building not one, but three direct connectors at Interstate 35 and US 183 in north Austin. Starting Wednesday crews will break ground on the $124.2 million project between Rundberg Lane and US 290 East.
  Samantha McNeal is all too familiar with the backup on northbound I-35 to the US 183 ramp that tends to cause a traffic nightmare for people trying to merge onto the freeway. She says she’s curious to see h
  
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• San Antonio senator stands trial in fraud case

  23-01-2018 21:12 via kxan.com
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas state senator is facing fraud charges in connection with his role at a now-defunct oil field services company that federal prosecutors say was a Ponzi scheme.
  The federal criminal fraud case against Democratic Sen. Carlos Uresti of San Antonio opened Monday. The nearly dozen charges against Uresti include securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. His co-defendant Gary Cain faces nine felony charges and is being tried alongside the lawmaker.
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• Cincinnati police searching for heavily tattooed man accused of assault

  23-01-2018 20:41 via kxan.com
  CINCINNATI (WCMH) — Cincinnati-area Crime Stoppers are looking for a man accused of climbing through a window and assaulting someone.
  Michael Mann, 34, is described as being 6’3″ and 185 pounds. He has multiple face tattoos and is wanted for aggravated burglary and domestic violence. Police say he is known to live in the Price Hill neighborhood.
  Cincinnati.com reports the victim has a child with Mann.
  Anyone with information is asked to call 513-352-3040.
  
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• Missouri store pulls Holocaust-style patches

  23-01-2018 19:41 via kxan.com
  ST. PETERS, Mo. (KSDK) — A Missouri tactical shop pulled a controversial patch from its website after complaints from the son of a Holocaust survivor.
  The patch resembles a star Jewish people were forced to wear in Hitler’s Germany, but this patch was designed for gun owners who feel they are being persecuted, too.
  The online description of the product reads, in part, “The similarities of the current attitude of the legislative environment and the systematic persecution th
  
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• Williamson County urges residents to get flu vaccine as peak season nears

  23-01-2018 19:23 via kxan.com
  GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — As this flu season approaches its peak season, the Williamson County and Cities Health District says its county is experiencing a moderate number of flu cases.
  The agency monitors flu activity through reports of flu tests and counts of patients with flu-like symptoms from hospitals, school districts and selected clinics throughout the county. Data from past years show this season’s flu numbers are in line with other peak flu season years, such as 2012/
  
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• Two juveniles arrested in LBJ High School threat

  23-01-2018 18:50 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two juveniles have been arrested and accused of making threats about a gun on campus at LBJ Early College High School, according to officials with the Austin Independent School District.
  This comes after district police put the east Austin high school on lockdown three times this month – twice after a report of a gun on campus and once after a report of a suspicious person with a weapon near campus. In all three cases, officers searched inside and outside LB
  
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• Caught on camera: Homeless man, 2 others help save San Francisco clerk from attack

  23-01-2018 18:40 via kxan.com
  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — Three Good Samaritans are being thanked for helping save a woman being attacked while she was working at a gas station in San Francisco.
  The victim told officers that a suspect started choking her unprovoked.
  Brian Holste
  The attack was caught on camera. It happened on the morning of Jan. 14 in the city’s Fillmore District.
  The victim says a man had bought something at the Shell Gas Station, then returned about 20 minutes later and attacked her. Po
  
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• Rodeo Austin announces lineup, including Ludacris and Lee Brice

  23-01-2018 18:19 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — When the rodeo comes to town, so will a number of entertainers. Rodeo Austin announced the lineup of musicians who will perform during the 2018 ProRodeo and Concert Series.
  Tickets cost between $20 and $175 and go on sale Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. People can buy them online or by calling 877-987-6487.
  Below is the list of performances:March 10: Josh Turner
  March 11: Duelo (Dia Del Vaquero)
  March 12: Ludacris
  March 13: Cody Johnson
  March 14: Chris Janson
  March 15: Young the Giant
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• Johnson & Johnson loses $10.7B after sweeping US tax changes

  23-01-2018 17:50 via kxan.com
  Johnson & Johnson posted a rare quarterly loss, a whopping $10.71 billion, due to a $13.6 billion charge related to last month’s U.S. tax overhaul.
  While the loss was expected and the company’s adjusted results beat Wall Street expectations, shares fell nearly 3 percent in morning trading, an unusually big swing for the health care giant.
  On Tuesday, J&J reported a big jump in sales, but that was offset by sharply higher spending on production, marketing, administration and r
  
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• Victim in Texas high school shooting ‘in good spirits’

  23-01-2018 17:40 via kxan.com
  ITALY, Texas (AP) — Officials say a 15-year-old girl who was shot at a Texas high school is “in good spirits,” but they won’t say what prompted her classmate to open fire in a school cafeteria with dozens of other students nearby.
  Superintendent Lee Joffre told reporters Tuesday outside Italy (IT’-lee) High School that he met with the girl at a Dallas hospital and that she’s “sending a message of recovery and strength.” Joffre did not give her cond
  
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• Texas 16-year-old charged in high school cafeteria shooting

  23-01-2018 17:40 via kxan.com
  ITALY, Texas (AP) — A 15-year-old girl who was wounded in a Texas high school shooting is “in good spirits,” and the 16-year-old boy suspected of opening fire in the cafeteria has been charged as a juvenile with aggravated assault, officials said Tuesday.
  School District superintendent Lee Joffre told reporters outside Italy High School that he visited the girl at a Dallas hospital.
  “It is an amazing demonstration of her strength that she was able to survive this,”
  
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• Girl shot at Texas school ‘in good spirits’; boy charged

  23-01-2018 17:40 via kxan.com
  ITALY, Texas (AP) — A 15-year-old girl who was wounded in a Texas high school shooting is “in good spirits,” and the 16-year-old boy suspected of opening fire in the cafeteria has been charged as a juvenile with aggravated assault, officials said Tuesday.
  Italy Independent School District Superintendent Lee Joffre, who visited the girl at a Dallas hospital and spoke to reporters outside Italy High School, said, “It is an amazing demonstration of her strength that she was
  
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• Two 12-year-olds charged with cyberstalking in girl’s suicide

  23-01-2018 17:34 via kxan.com
  PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two 12-year-olds in Florida have been charged with cyberstalking in connection with the death of a middle school student who killed herself two weeks ago.
  The circumstances around the death of 12-year-old Gabriella Green on Jan. 10 led to the arrests of the two Surfside Middle School students, Panama City Beach officials said in a news release Monday.
  Police did not release the names of the two children who were arrested because they are minors.
  Investigators
  
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• Fire at Manor baseball field engulfs announcer’s box

  23-01-2018 17:01 via kxan.com
  MANOR, Texas (KXAN) — People won’t be playing on a baseball field in Manor for a while after part of it was engulfed in flames Monday night.
  Manor police and firefighters showed up to the Manor Youth Baseball Field to find the announcer’s box and two nearby electric poles in flames around 6:50 p.m. The fields are on the 600 block of E. Parsons St., near Manor Excel High School. It was put out at 7:02 p.m.
  Officials are investigating it as suspicious until they can rule otherwis
  
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• Hollywood producer of ‘Princess Diaries’ imparts wisdom to UT students

  23-01-2018 16:26 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A major Hollywood producer visited Austin this week and stopped by the University of Texas to inspire the next generation.
  Debra Martin Chase owns her own production company and produced “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” and “The Cheetah Girls,” among others. She was the first black woman to produce a mainstream studio movie with “The Princess Diaries.”
  “I remember those early days of walking in the room and people assuming I
  
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• Two dead, 19 others injured in Kentucky school shooting

  23-01-2018 16:05 via kxan.com
  BENTON, Ky. (AP) — A 15-year-old male student opened fire with a handgun inside a rural Kentucky high school Tuesday morning, killing two classmates and injuring 19, including 14 with gunshot wounds. Police led a suspect away in handcuffs and said there is no reason to suspect anyone else in the nation’s first fatal school shooting of 2018.
  Hundreds of students ran for their lives out of Marshall County High School, jumping into cars and running down a highway, some not stopping unti
  
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• One dead, others injured in Kentucky school shooting

  23-01-2018 16:05 via kxan.com
  MARSHALL COUNTY, Ky. (KXAN) — A suspect was taken into custody after one person was killed and others wounded Tuesday morning at a rural Kentucky high school.
  Gov. Matt Bevin ran out a side door at the Capitol, saying he was headed to the scene at Marshall County High School in southwest Kentucky, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) northwest of Nashville, Tennessee.
  Police said the school remains on lockdown. The FBI said it is working with state and local law enforcement to respond.
  State p
  
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• ‘Shape of Water,’ ‘Three Billboards’ lead Oscar nominations

  23-01-2018 15:17 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and “Mudbound” director of photography Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman nominated for best cinematography in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.
  Oscar voters put forward nine best-picture nominees: “The Shape of Water ,”
  
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• In Oscar nominations, fresh voices lead the way

  23-01-2018 15:17 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Academy Awards showered outsiders, on screen and off, with milestone-setting nominations that celebrated Guillermo del Toro’s full-hearted ode to outcasts “The Shape of Water,” embraced first-time filmmakers like Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele, and made “Mudbound” director of photography Rachel Morrison the first woman ever nominated for best cinematography.
  In nominations that spanned young and old, studio blockbusters and passion-fueled in
  
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• Del Toro’s ‘Shape of Water’ lands a leading 13 Oscar nods

  23-01-2018 15:17 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and “Mudbound” cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.
  Oscar voters put forward nine best-picture nominees: “The Shape of Water,” ”Thre
  
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• Hearing will help determine who gets custody of abducted Round Rock girls

  23-01-2018 14:56 via kxan.com
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Two girls who were abducted from Round Rock and later found in Colorado will have a hearing Tuesday to determine who will care for them.
  A Williamson County judge will take a look at how the 7-year-old and 14-year-old are doing during the hearing that starts at 11 a.m. The judge will decide if they should stay in foster care, or go with family members or friends. The judge may or may not make a decision Tuesday.
  The girl’s mother, Tonya Bates, 4
  
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• Abducted Round Rock girls will soon find out who they will stay with

  23-01-2018 14:56 via kxan.com
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Two girls who were abducted from Round Rock and later found in Colorado will have a hearing Tuesday to determine who will care for them.
  A Williamson County judge will take a look at how the 7-year-old and 14-year-old are doing during the hearing that starts at 11 a.m. The judge will decide if they should stay in foster care, or go with family members or friends. The judge may or may not make a decision Tuesday.
  The girl’s mother, Tonya Bates, 4
  
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• Abducted Round Rock girls will remain in foster care

  23-01-2018 14:56 via kxan.com
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Two girls who were abducted from Round Rock and later found in Colorado will remain in foster care.
  After a hearing Tuesday morning, a Williamson County judge granted the Department of Family and Protective Services conservatorship of the two sisters, a 7-year-old and 14-year-old. The children have been in state care since they were found at the beginning of the month.
  While they remain in foster care, family visits can be scheduled and the state will cont
  
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• Parents, community fight to keep Norman Elementary open

  23-01-2018 13:40 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Norman Elementary School has an uncertain future amid changes and renovations within Austin ISD, but parents and the community arrived at Monday’s board meeting to offer their take: it should remain open.
  Parents, neighbors and members of a nearby church showed up, some with signs, concerned the school at 4001 Tannehill Lane in east Austin would be shut down.
  “Instead of closing or privatizing schools, we need to look at community school models that have been su
  
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• Teen’s first feature-length film highlights eating disorder recovery

  23-01-2018 13:17 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A young Austin filmmaker is branching out from her usual short films and web series to write and direct her first feature-length movie about eating disorders and what treatment looks like for those who make it there.
  “This is actually the last scene,” Sofia Martinez, the name and creative mind behind Martinez Films, said Sunday afternoon after shooting for several hours in an office building conference room downtown.
  The set is borrowed space and the gear they&r
  
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• Teenage filmmaker’s new project takes on stigma of eating disorders

  23-01-2018 13:17 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A young Austin filmmaker is branching out from her usual short films and web series to write and direct her first feature-length movie about eating disorders and what treatment looks like for those who make it there.
  “This is actually the last scene,” Sofia Martinez said Sunday afternoon after shooting for several hours in an office building conference room downtown.
  The set is borrowed space and the gear they’re using needs a little tape every now and the
  
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• Cosby jokes in 1st show since 2015 he ‘used to be’ comedian

  23-01-2018 12:50 via kxan.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby performed in public for the first time since a sex abuse scandal embroiled him in 2015, joking that he “used to be a comedian” and playing with a jazz band in his hometown as a retrial looms in his criminal sexual assault case.
  The 80-year-old entertainer took the stage for about an hour Monday night at a Philadelphia jazz club for his first show since May 2015. Before a friendly crowd, he told stories, honored old friends and finished by leading
  
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• Undersea quake sends Alaskans fleeing from feared tsunami

  23-01-2018 12:16 via kxan.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful undersea earthquake sent Alaskans fumbling for suitcases and racing to evacuation centers in the middle of the night Tuesday after a cellphone alert warned that a tsunami could smash into the state’s southern coast and western Canada.
  The killer wave never materialized, but people endured several tense hours in shelters, waiting for a potential catastrophe that could wipe their communities away at any moment.
  The magnitude 7.9 quake in the Gulf of
  
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• Alaska hit by 7.9 earthquake; tsunami warning canceled

  23-01-2018 12:16 via kxan.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck off an island in the Gulf of Alaska, prompting a tsunami threat that sent the state’s residents along the southern coast and western Canada fleeing for higher ground just after midnight Tuesday.
  After a few intense hours, the tsunami warning was canceled, allowing people to return home from shelters. There were no immediate reports of damage, not even on Kodiak Island, the closest land to the epicenter of the magnitude 7.9 quake.
  
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• Alaska earthquake prompts tsunami warning; no wave reported

  23-01-2018 12:16 via kxan.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia while the remainder of the U.S. West Coast was under a watch.
  The strong earthquake hit at 12:32 a.m. and was recorded about 175 miles southeast of Kodiak Island. Warnings from the National Weather Service sent to cellphones in Alaska warned: “Emergency Aler
  
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• Motorcyclist badly injured after two drivers hit his bike and drove away

  23-01-2018 06:09 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police are searching for a driver who hit a motorcyclist, then left the scene in south Austin early Sunday morning.
  According to APD, the driver pulled out in front of Joshua Finney, who had the right of way going through the intersection of South Congress and Stassney Lane a little after 2 a.m. Sunday.
  Detectives say witnesses described the car that took off as a black or dark gray late-model Lexus sedan. Detectives also say right after the first car hit Finney, kno
  
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• Austin woman celebrates 92nd birthday with indoor skydive

  23-01-2018 05:30 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 92-year-old Austin woman celebrated her birthday a little differently than most residents at the Conservatory at Wells Branch retirement community.
  Jeanne Wiant abandoned her plans to fall from a plane, saying she’s “beyond that.”
  “I don’t want to do what George H.W. Bush does anymore,” she said laughing, referencing the president marking his 90th birthday with a jump from a plane.
  Instead, Wiant traveled to iFly Austin indoor skydiving
  
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• Uber driver illegally in U.S. charged with 4 California rapes

  23-01-2018 05:20 via kxan.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and robbing four victims, California prosecutors said.
  Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez drove women to their homes, assaulted them, and stole property including cellphones, computers and jewelry, officials said. He collected his fare payments through the smartphone app Venmo to disguise his identity and his Uber records.
  DNA evid
  
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• Hawaii emergency official to retire by end of 2018

  23-01-2018 05:00 via kxan.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — The executive officer of Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency is planning to retire by year’s end.
  Toby Clairmont told The Associated Press Monday his decision has nothing to do with the recent alert that mistakenly warned the public of a missile headed to Hawaii. He says he decided on retirement two years ago and no one asked him to step down.
  Clairmont says he posted his career plans on Facebook but wasn’t prepared to publicly announce his retirement.
  Cl
  
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• Neil Diamond says he has Parkinson’s, retires from touring

  23-01-2018 04:17 via kxan.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Diamond is retiring from touring after he says he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
  Days shy of his 77th birthday, the rock legend is canceling his tour dates in Australia and New Zealand for March. He was on his 50th anniversary tour.
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer offered his “sincerest apologies” to those who planned to go to his shows and says he plans to still write, record and work on other projects “for a long time to come.”
  
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• Buda getting new splash pad just in time for summer heat

  23-01-2018 04:10 via kxan.com
  BUDA, Texas (KXAN) — Green Meadows Park in Buda will be getting a new splash pad this summer, after a contract for the purchasing and installation of the water feature was recently approved by Buda City Council.
  Green Meadows Park, located on Green Meadows Lane — across Interstate 35 from downtown Buda — will get a splash pad that has 19 spray features including water tunnels, spray jets, geysers and side winders.
  The city says construction for the $359,000 splash pad will begi
  
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• Photo showing inmate wearing guard’s uniform leads to 2 firings

  23-01-2018 02:09 via kxan.com
  BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) — A photo that appears to show an inmate at Kentucky’s Boyd County Detention Center in a guard’s uniform has been confirmed by officials.
  Officials say the photo shows Brandon Scites standing in a jail cell with clothing worn by guards.
  A guard who asked to remain anonymous says she took the photo originally as evidence to show her supervisor for when she reported the incident.
  “Apparently he had had it for two days,” she said.
  Scites is in j
  
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• Michigan doctor detained by ICE after 40 years in US with no clear reason why

  23-01-2018 01:45 via kxan.com
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Even as the issue of immigration has been central to the government shutdown in Washington, a respected doctor at Kalamazoo’s Bronson Methodist Hospital who has been living in America for nearly 40 years finds himself in jail after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took him from his home in handcuffs.
  Lukasz Niec is an internal medicine doctor putting in long hours as a hospitalist for Bronson. His co-workers describe him as the model of what a
  
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• Vermont governor signs pot bill with ‘mixed emotions’

  23-01-2018 01:37 via kxan.com
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Phil Scott on Monday privately signed Vermont’s marijuana bill into law, making the state the first in the country to authorize the recreational use of the substance by an act of a state legislature.
  The law, which goes into effect July 1, allows adults to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana, two mature and four immature plants.
  Vermont will become the ninth state in the country, along with Washington, D.C, to approve the recreational use of marijuana. The
  
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• Retailers lock up Tide pods after dangerous social media challenge

  23-01-2018 01:20 via kxan.com
  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Retailers are taking action after the dangerous Tide pod challenge took over social media.
  The trend has been sweeping the web since late 2017, showing teens attempting to eat laundry pods in any way possible, including putting them on pizza, creating an “edible” recipes and just breaking them open to slurp up the liquid inside.
  The harmful fad forced the American Association of Poison Control Centers to issue a national alert warning people
  
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• Government shutdown Monday impacted LBJ Presidential Library visitors

  23-01-2018 00:52 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — John and Liz Ellis had a plan mapped out and ready on their first trip to Austin from the Dallas area.
  “For as long as we’ve lived in Texas, we haven’t been here,” Liz Ellis said.
  One of the stops they made was the LBJ Presidential Library & Museum. However, like the rest of the visitors stopping by the library Monday morning, they couldn’t get in due to the government shutdown. It’s usually open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through F
  
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• Nick Foles becomes second Westlake quarterback to win Super Bowl

  23-01-2018 00:50 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Nick Foles has put Westlake’s football program in some elite company. With Foles leading the Eagles into Super Bowl XLII against the Patriots, Foles and Drew Brees are just the second quarterback duo from the same high school to play in a Super Bowl.
  The other came from the same family: Peyton and Eli Manning, who both attended Isadore Newman High School in New Orleans.
  Foles may be the most unlikely to lead his team to the Super Bowl. The NFC Championship game was ju
  
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• Nick Foles becomes second Westlake quarterback in Super Bowl

  23-01-2018 00:50 via kxan.com
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Nick Foles has put Westlake’s football program in some elite company. With Foles leading the Eagles into Super Bowl XLII against the Patriots, Foles and Drew Brees are just the second quarterback duo from the same high school to play in a Super Bowl.
  The other came from the same family: Peyton and Eli Manning, who both attended Isadore Newman High School in New Orleans.
  Foles may be the most unlikely to lead his team to the Super Bowl. The NFC Championship game was ju
  
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