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• Trump falls off Forbes list of 400 richest Americans

  05-10-2021 23:58 via kxan.com
  
  (KTVX) – Since the early 1980s, Forbes has published an annual list of the wealthiest 400 American citizens. For the first eight years — and also the last 25 years — former President Donald Trump was on that list.
  Not this year.
  Forbes' Dan Alexander explained that Trump, down $600 million since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, fell $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year's list. Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, according to Forbes.The last time Trump fai
  
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• Texas Sen. Ted Cruz blocks Biden State Department nominees over Russian gas pipeline

  05-10-2021 23:52 via kxan.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz vowed to block dozens of President Biden's State Department nominees in the U.S. Senate over a Russian gas pipeline project that he said needs to be shut down.Cruz said he is protesting the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline linking between Russia and Germany and will block Pres. Biden's nominations until he imposes sanctions on the project or shuts the pipeline down."It makes our European allies subject to energy blackmail by Putin and his successor
  
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• Workers at all of Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants go on strike

  05-10-2021 23:25 via kxan.com
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Work at all of the Kellogg Company's U.S. cereal plants came to a halt Tuesday as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike, but it wasn't immediately clear how much the supply of Frosted Flakes or any of the company's other iconic brands would be disrupted.The strike includes plants in Omaha, Nebraska Battle Creek, Michigan; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee.
  The union and the Battle Creek-based company have been at an impasse at the bargaining table for more t
  
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• Video catches high-speed chase, driver held hostage at gunpoint

  05-10-2021 23:10 via kxan.com
  
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (NewsNation Now) — A traffic stop in Florida escalated into a full-on hostage situation that was caught on camera.
  Authorities say the driver was held at gunpoint as the passenger, a friend of his, forced him to lead deputies on a chase.
  Deputies in Volusia County said it happened after they stopped at a red light. One of the deputies noticed a Mercury Grand Marquis and driver who had gotten away from them a few days before. A deputy on a motorcycle was also at the
  
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• Powerball jackpot: What would YOU do if you won?

  05-10-2021 23:05 via kxan.com
  
  WACO, Texas (KWKT) — It's been about four months since the last person had all five winning numbers for the big Powerball.On Monday night's drawing, a lucky winner could possibly walk out with an estimate of $670 million. The Powerball jackpot has slowly climbed thanks to the 40 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner — a record streak for the game dating back to June 5.Several people buying their ticket are excited to hear winner, winner, chicken dinner! Customers share wh
  
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• South By Southwest opens 2022 festivals registration, hotel lodging

  05-10-2021 22:55 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — South By Southwest announced Tuesday that registration for its 2022 conference and festival as well as booking for hotels are now open.SXSW plans to have an in-person conference and festival in 2022 as well as maintain SXSW Online, where audiences can virtually participate in online events. SXSW Online 2021 was held in March in lieu of the in-person festival during the coronavirus pandemic.SXSW 2022 will be the first in-person SXSW since 2019 as the 2020 festival was cancel
  
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• 'It's not going to be a perfect system': Mayor Adler acknowledges limitations in ACL Fest COVID-19 protocols

  05-10-2021 22:31 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — As Weekend 1 of Austin City Limits Music Festival wrapped up Sunday, local officials are reflecting on the event's COVID-19 protocols and possible impacts to local case rates.How it’s going with COVID-19 protocols, vaccinations at ACL festivalTo get into the festival, attendees had to show proof of full vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of the festival. Festival organizers reported on day one of the event (Friday) Eight-six percent
  
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• Peanuts gang to star in new holiday special 'For Auld Lang Syne' on Apple TV+

  05-10-2021 22:20 via kxan.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) — Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang will celebrate the holidays with a new TV special this year.
  Apple TV+, which became the new home to the Peanuts franchise in 2020, is creating a special for New year’s Eve called “For Auld Lang Syne,” the first Peanuts TV special without Charlie Brown's or Snoopy’s names in the title, Variety reported.Premiering on Apple TV+ on Dec. 10, the new special is the second New Year’s Eve-themed Peanu
  
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• Urban Meyer's behavior in viral video 'inexcusable', Jaguars owner says

  05-10-2021 22:05 via kxan.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan publicly reprimanded Urban Meyer on Tuesday for the coach's “inexcusable” behavior at an Ohio bar over the weekend.Khan released a statement condemning Meyer's actions, which were captured on video and released on social media. One shows a young woman dancing close to Meyer’s lap as he sits on a bar stool, a clip that quickly went viral. A second, more damning video appears to show Meyer touching the woman&rsq
  
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• Here's how many days some Central Texans were breathing highly polluted air last year

  05-10-2021 21:57 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The areas of Austin, Round Rock and Georgetown experienced elevated levels of air pollution in 2020 — Austin even ranks among the cities with the most days of pollution in Texas.
  There were 103 days of elevated pollution in the Austin-metro area in 2020, according to a new report from the nonprofit advocacy Environment Texas Research and Policy Center.
  Environment Texas Executive Director Luke Metzger says that's unacceptable.
  REPORT: Trouble in the Air: Millions of A
  
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• 28-year-old cyclist killed in crash identified by Cedar Park police

  05-10-2021 21:39 via kxan.com
  
  CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) — A 28-year-old man who died after a crash involving a bicycle and a vehicle Monday has been identified by Cedar Park police. SH 183 reopened in Cedar Park after cyclist-vehicle crashPolice responded to the crash around 11:50 a.m. Monday at the intersection of South Bell Boulevard and East Little Elm.Corey James Been, the cyclist involved in the crash, was taken to an area hospital where he died from his injuries, police say.The Cedar Park Traffic Division is inves
  
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• Austin Parks and Rec doesn't test for brain-eating amoeba because chlorine can kill it, city says

  05-10-2021 21:05 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the wake of a North Texas boy dying Sept. 11 from a disease caused by a brain-eating amoeba after playing at a splash pad, KXAN asked Austin officials what kind of testing the city does to prevent the amoeba from being in its water.A spokesperson for Austin Public Health said the parks and recreation department's aquatics team doesn't test for algae or bacteria in city-operated splash pads, because it has two levels of sanitation that include chlorine. The amoeba, known
  
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• Meet the Central Texas 12 year-old who's now a published author

  05-10-2021 20:12 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — Not many people can say they've written a book in their lifetime. One San Marcos CISD student has already crossed this off her bucket list — at the ripe old age of 12.Samantha Jordan published her book "Owl Eyes" after attending an eight-week writing summer program, Leap for Literacy, in summer 2020. It was during that summer writing camp that her book earned second place among all program attendees, and program director Stan Tucker helped her publish it. S
  
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• Austin, Q2 Stadium host Texas' first-ever World Cup qualifier Thursday — details for US vs. Jamaica

  05-10-2021 20:07 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The U.S. Men's National Team is in Austin for the first-ever World Cup qualifier in the Lone Star State.The U.S. host Jamaica Thursday at 6:30 p.m. CT at Austin FC's Q2 Stadium for the fourth of 14 qualifiers ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The U.S. are training at St. David's Performance Center this week before kickoff against Jamaica. Austin FC’s Q2 Stadium to host US men’s national team for World Cup qualifierThe U.S. will travel to Panama for a Su
  
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• Parents sue in boy's death from brain-eating amoeba in Texas

  05-10-2021 20:00 via kxan.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he’d visited sued the city that operated it for negligence.BACKGROUND: Boy dies from brain-eating amoeba found at Texas splash padTariq Williams and Kayla Mitchell filed the lawsuit Monday against the city of Arlington in Tarrant County District Court in Fort Worth.
  Their son, Bakari Williams, died Sept. 11 after being hospitalized
  
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• Verdict expected in case against Austin officers who shot, disfigured man

  05-10-2021 19:47 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man suing the Austin Police Department after officers shot him multiple times in 2017 is awaiting a jury verdict that's expected to be reached Tuesday.Lawrence Parrish was shot seven times by four APD officers in 2017, which resulted in more than a dozen surgeries and having to amputate a finger, according to his family.His case is being heard in the United States District Court Western District of Texas.Parrish's case began one night in April 2017, when police say his ro
  
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• 'Plaintiff gets nothing': Verdict released in lawsuit against Austin officers who shot man

  05-10-2021 19:47 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man suing the Austin Police Department after officers shot him multiple times in 2017 will receive nothing against the APD officers and the City of Austin.The verdict in the case of Lawrence Parrish, who was shot seven times by four APD officers in 2017, came down Tuesday. Parrish's injuries resulted in more than a dozen surgeries and having to amputate a finger, according to his family.His case was heard in the United States District Court Western District of Texas.KXAN
  
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• O,0,I,1? License plate confusion is costing some Texas drivers money

  05-10-2021 19:30 via kxan.com
  
  BUDA, Texas (KXAN) — Toll troubles are driving Stephen Heyman mad."The problem is they can't get my license plate right," he said from his bill-covered kitchen table in Buda.Last December, he bought a specialty license plate for his wife that reads: "QIDOC." It stands for "chi doctor.""She's an acupuncturist," said Heyman. "So, qi is chi, which is the main energy portion of acupuncture."
  The plate, however, turned out to be a pain. That's because toll scanners have trouble reading it.
  "It'
  
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• O,0,I, 1? License plate confusion's costing some Texas drivers money

  05-10-2021 19:30 via kxan.com
  
  BUDA, Texas (KXAN) — Toll troubles are driving Stephen Heyman mad."The problem is they can't get my license plate right," he said from his bill-covered kitchen table in Buda.Last December, he bought a specialty license plate for his wife that reads: "QIDOC." It's supposed to stand for "chi doctor.""She's an acupuncturist," said Heyman. "So, qi is chi, which is the main energy portion of acupuncture."
  The plate, however, turned out to be a pain because toll scanners have trouble reading it.
  
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• What is 'Rest Week'? Austin employers revamp mental health responses

  05-10-2021 19:17 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — By all accounts, University of Texas Austin Professor Kasey Claborn considers herself a Type A worker. As a research scientist and clinical psychologist at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, productivity has always been at the forefront of her managerial approach.Then, the pandemic hit. As the emotional toll of the pandemic mixed with the heaviness of her professional work, she noticed a severe dip in morale among her team. Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with ma
  
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• Man whose wife sued Ohio hospital to treat her husband with ivermectin for COVID-19 dies

  05-10-2021 19:01 via kxan.com
  
  BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (KXAN) — A COVID-19 patient whose wife sued an Ohio hospital to force the facility to treat her husband with the anti-parasite drug ivermectin has died.Fifty-one year-old Jeffrey Smith died Sept. 25 after a months-long coronavirus battle in the ICU, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Smith's story made headlines back in August, when a judge in Butler County, Ohio, ruled in favor of Smith's wife Julie Smith, who demanded the hospital treating Jeffrey give him ivermecti
  
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• Comfortable weather is here - how long will it last?

  05-10-2021 19:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Low humidity has arrived! Sunny, hot afternoons and cool fall-like mornings through the rest of the work week is expected.While daytime highs will still reach 90+ degrees in some areas each day, low humidity will make the temperatures feel much more comfortable than they did over the weekend. This however changes by the weekend as moisture moves back into our area. Pushing feels-like temps to uncomfortable levels (middle 90s).Clear skies and low humidity will drop morning l
  
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• 70 COVID-19 vaccines given at Austin City Limits Weekend 1, Travis County says

  05-10-2021 18:05 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Constable George Morales, who oversees Travis County's vaccine strike teams, told Travis County Commissioners Court Tuesday the team gave 70 doses of COVID-19 vaccine at Austin City Limits Music Festival during weekend one.READ MORE: How it’s going with COVID-19 protocols, vaccinations at ACL festivalOver the weekend, a Travis County spokesperson told KXAN the majority of people coming to the mobile clinic at the festival were getting booster shots. Those are only app
  
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• Wildlife officials warn of potential deer disease outbreak

  05-10-2021 17:55 via kxan.com
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP/KXAN) — Alabama wildlife officials are on the lookout for reports of sick deer after reports of an increase in sickness in neighboring Mississippi.Employees of the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries are monitoring a potential hemorrhagic disease outbreak among deer in northern Alabama. Officials say that in recent weeks they’ve heard reports of people finding emaciated deer and seeing evidence of it on game cameras. Cement truck wrecks in Liber
  
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• Cement truck wrecks in Liberty Hill, shuts down State Highway 29 for several hours

  05-10-2021 17:47 via kxan.com
  
  LIBERTY HILL, Texas (KXAN) — A cement truck overturned Tuesday near Liberty Hill High School and shut down State Highway 29 for around two hours, the Texas Department of Transportation said.
  Traffic Advisory: SH 29 closed just west of Liberty Hill High School due to overturned cement truck. Location is about two miles west of Loop 332/CR 200.Consider alternatives until cleared. #atxtraffic— TxDOT Austin (@TxDOTAustin) October 5, 2021
  The truck wrecked about two miles west of Loop 332
  
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• Cement truck wrecks in Liberty Hill, shuts down State Highway 29

  05-10-2021 17:47 via kxan.com
  
  LIBERTY HILL, Texas (KXAN) — A cement truck overturned Tuesday near Liberty Hill High School and shut down State Highway 29, the Texas Department of Transportation said.
  Traffic Advisory: SH 29 closed just west of Liberty Hill High School due to overturned cement truck. Location is about two miles west of Loop 332/CR 200.Consider alternatives until cleared. #atxtraffic— TxDOT Austin (@TxDOTAustin) October 5, 2021
  The truck wrecked about two miles west of Loop 332 and County Road 200,
  
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• Texas Hemp Harvest Fest gets green light from Travis County

  05-10-2021 17:06 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Travis County Commissioners Court approved a resolution issuing a mass gathering permit for the Texas Hemp Harvest Fest on Tuesday. That festival is scheduled to happen at Carson Creek Ranch on Oct. 23.
  This is the first-ever Texas Hemp Harvest Fest. Its website says there will be live music, vendors and food trucks at the event.
  Like Austin City Limits Music Festival, the event will require attendees to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test les
  
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• Car rentals like Airbnb? Some say it could be short-term answer for skyrocketing prices

  05-10-2021 16:56 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Car prices have skyrocketed due to the chip shortage and anyone who is selling their car is benefiting greatly from marked-up prices. In addition, people who continue to work from home due to the pandemic have found a unique way to get in on the action, profiting by renting out their car that would have otherwise just been sitting in their driveway unused.Meteorologist Sean Kelly spoke with Pat Notti, the vice president of marketplace and operations of Getaround, to see how
  
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• Mask or no mask? Austin-Travis County moves to Stage 3 COVID-19 risk-based guidelines

  05-10-2021 15:57 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A week and a half after Austin-Travis County hit the threshold for Stage 3 risk-based guidelines, Dr. Desmar Walkes, the local health authority, said we are officially moving to the lower stage of risk.
  “We're on the other side of the delta surge,” Walkes said in a joint city council, commissioners court meeting.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Austin within Stage 3 threshold – why health leaders aren’t moving us there yetAs of Monday, the 7-day rolling average of hosp
  
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• Austin-Travis County moves to Stage 3 COVID-19 risk-based guidelines

  05-10-2021 15:57 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A week and a half after Austin-Travis County hit the threshold for Stage 3 risk-based guidelines, Dr. Desmar Walkes, the local health authority, said we are officially moving to the lower stage of risk.
  “We're on the other side of the delta surge,” Walkes said in a joint city council, commissioners court meeting.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Austin within Stage 3 threshold – why health leaders aren’t moving us there yetAs of Monday, the 7-day rolling average of hosp
  
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• Austinite turning his life around has livelihood stolen, wants to get back to work

  05-10-2021 13:53 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austinite Phillip Wiggins has always believed you have to look good from head to toe."Well, the rank to me is, as a man, you must take care of your shoes," he said.Get your gifts early as toys may become scarce closer to holidaysThe Army veteran has always kept his shoes shined. It's a skill passed down from his grandfather, and over the years, Wiggins has honed his craft and started "Boots Shoes Pumps" in 2019 after he built a shoeshine cart."I know how to do it because he
  
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• Get your gifts early as toys may become scarce closer to holidays

  05-10-2021 13:17 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Halloween is right around the corner, but experts say you should already start thinking about Christmas.As ports are backing up, that means items — like toys — are becoming harder to get and are becoming more expensive.
  "With toys, it is lack of chips and expensive shipping," said Edward Anderson, professor of supply chain operations management at the University of Texas at Austin. "It is going to get worse over the holidays so if I was going to buy a toy f
  
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• Right to caregiver visits in Texas nursing homes on ballot for November election

  05-10-2021 12:56 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas voters will consider eight proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot in the November's upcoming statewide election, including one relating to nursing home and assisted living facility residents' right to visitors.
  It's a measure Mary Nichols has been fighting for after spending months apart from her mother last year when her mom's nursing home closed its doors to prevent the spread of COVID-19. When the state temporarily suspended visitation at long-term care f
  
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• Redevelopment coming soon to former Manor race track

  05-10-2021 08:52 via kxan.com
  
  MANOR (Austin Business Journal) - When the Manor Downs race track was at its peak, thousands of guests would pack the grandstands and turf club on race days, or funnel into the oval track for concerts, which attracted the likes of Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Cash.But now, more than a decade after its final horse race, the since-shuttered track is headed for new life that is emblematic of the Austin metro's rapid economic growth, as an industrial park that deve
  
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• Tesla expands hiring in Austin: Here are local programs to help get your foot in the door

  05-10-2021 05:32 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — As Tesla ramps up hiring, local programs are also trying to meet the need. The automaker posted hundreds of new jobs in Austin last week.Hiring ramps up at Tesla gigafactory, though experts say it’s just the beginningEd Latson, executive director of the Austin Regional Manufacturers Association (ARMA), says they expect that number to climb with the new year. Production is expected to begin in 2022.
  "I don't think this is the major wave anybody expected, I really think
  
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• Texas Senate approves map cementing GOP dominance in upper chamber

  05-10-2021 05:02 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — The Texas Senate has approved a new political map for its own members that would entrench Republican dominance in the chamber for the next 10 years, even as Democrats argued the changes do not reflect the interests of people of color in the state who have fueled Texas' growth over the last decade. White Texas voters are overrepresented in proposed maps, analysis showsThe proposal, put forth by state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, was approved late Monday by a v
  
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• New $1.4B budget for Travis County includes funding for elections office, mental health services

  05-10-2021 04:52 via kxan.com
  
  TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Travis County commissioners last month unanimously approved a $1.4 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The budget went into effect Friday.
  In addition to annual general fund operating costs, the new budget includes funding for the elections office ($5.8 million), mental health services ($5.1 million), emergency services ($1.1 million) and permanent supportive housing ($600,000).
  “Our FY 2022 budget directly addresses what our communi
  
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• ACL Fest ticket sales to help new Zilker Park train get up and running

  05-10-2021 03:35 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The new Zilker train is set to chug along the tracks mid-November all thanks, in part, to ticket sales from Austin City Limits Music Festival.BACKGROUND: Zilker train gets a new name — but it’s one Austinites have seen beforeThe Austin Parks Foundation told KXAN C3 Presents, the company that puts on ACL Fest, will again donate to the nonprofit once ACL has wrapped up. This year that money will be focused on rejuvenating, maintaining and operating the new train t
  
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• Cool mornings, hot afternoons and low humidity stick around

  05-10-2021 03:12 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Low humidity has arrived! Sunny, hot afternoons and cool fall-like mornings through the rest of the work week is expected.While daytime highs will still reach 90+ degrees in some areas each day, low humidity will make the temperatures feel much more comfortable than they did over the weekend. This however changes by the weekend as moisture moves back into our area. Pushing feels-like temps to uncomfortable levels (middle 90s).Clear skies and low humidity will drop morning l
  
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• Cool mornings and low humidity stick around

  05-10-2021 03:12 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Northerly flow behind Sunday's cool front is bringing low humidity, warm days and cool fall-like mornings through the rest of the work week.While daytime highs will still reach 90+ degrees in some areas each day, low humidity will make the temperatures feel much more comfortable than they did over the weekend.Clear skies and low humidity will drop morning low temperatures into the 50s in many areas outside of Austin, with lower 60s in more populated metro areas.We are track
  
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• How did the first weekend of diverting some 911 calls to 311 go?

  05-10-2021 02:44 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — After Austin's first weekend diverting some 911 calls to 311 in cases where there isn't an immediate threat, KXAN asked whether 311 received more calls than in weekends past. Crime no longer in progress? Don’t call 911, APD says; use 311 insteadCompared to the weekend of Sept. 17-19 when 311 received 994 service requests and the weekend of Sept. 24-26 when there were 911, 311 received 1,075 this past weekend of Oct. 1-3. However, it is important to note big events lik
  
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• Austin camping ban citations jump in September, data shows

  05-10-2021 02:29 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The number of camping ban-related citations given by the Austin Police Department jumped in September, according to numbers from the Downtown Austin Community Court.The data shows 64 citations were issued between Sept. 1 and Sept. 30. That is nearly double the total issued between July 11 (the start of Austin's phase three enforcement) and Aug. 31.PREVIOUSLY: Everything we know about the new Austin camping banNearly all the citations were for "camping in a public area" or "
  
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• San Marcos hospital network expands major pediatric and maternal services

  05-10-2021 02:06 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — Christus Santa Rosa is expanding services to San Marcos in partnership with its sister hospital in San Antonio.Additionally, if patients can't be treated at at Christus Santa Rosa-San Marcos, they will now be able to connect with pediatric emergency and other specialty doctors from the San Antonio location through telemedicine. Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with mask mandates compare to those withoutThis is expected to have a major impact on moms and kid
  
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• Austin police respond to report of suspicious package near Ascension Seton

  05-10-2021 01:29 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police are responding to a report of a suspicious package Monday evening near Ascension Seton off 38th Street in central Austin.
  The Austin Police Department says the call came in just after 5 p.m. for 1201 West 38th Street.Several officers are on scene now, and the Explosive Ordnance unit has been called, which is protocol for a suspicious package call, APD says.
  KXAN has reached out to Ascension Seton for more details. We have a crew headed to the scene.This i
  
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• Austin police respond to report of suspicious package at Ascension Seton

  05-10-2021 01:29 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police responded to a report of a suspicious package Monday evening at Ascension Seton off 38th Street in central Austin. The scene was cleared, and people were allowed to go back inside just before 7 p.m.The Austin Police Department says the initial call came in just after 5 p.m. for 1201 West 38th Street.Austin police are responding to a report of a suspicious package Monday evening near Ascension Seton off 38th Street in central Austin. (Andrew Choat/KXAN)Austin p
  
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• Texas Supreme Court refuses to resume a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging new state abortion law

  05-10-2021 01:08 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — The Texas Supreme Court denied a request Monday from Planned Parenthood to resume its lawsuit, filed in a state district court, that challenges the state’s near-total abortion ban.Planned Parenthood asked the all-Republican court last week to overturn the Texas Multidistrict Litigation Panel’s decision to indefinitely pause its suit alongside 13 other lawsuits filed in Travis County district court. The panel of five judges stopped the cases fr
  
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• Texas lawmakers weigh how to spend state's $16B in federal COVID-19 relief

  05-10-2021 00:41 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Nexstar) — With only two weeks left in the third special session, state lawmakers are weighing how to funnel federal COVID-19 relief for the first time in committee Monday.
  State Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, outlined the first draft of Senate Bill 8 during the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Monday morning.
  "Senate Bill 8 includes $7.2 billion to replenish the unemployment compensation fund, ensuring that businesses are not faced with an increase in unemployment taxes due t
  
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