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• Texas softball coach Mike White reprimanded following ejection, offensive gesture in Big 12 tourney

  15-05-2022 23:44 via kxan.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KXAN) — Texas softball head coach Mike White was publically reprimanded by the Big 12 Conference after making an offensive gesture during Friday's conference tournament game against Oklahoma State.White was thrown out of the game after arguing a call in the first inning, and while walking back to the dugout, turned around and flipped off umpire Naomi Urdahl regarding a call that replay officials reversed.White said he "fully accepts responsibility" for his actions dur
  
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• Texas law enforcement on horseback looking for escaped murderer in Leon County

  15-05-2022 22:33 via kxan.com
  
  LEON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Reward money for capturing the most wanted fugitive in Texas increased over the weekend and the search continues Sunday near Centerville.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement agencies are on horseback and with trained dogs looking for Gonzalo Lopez, 47. He escaped police custody May 12 after stabbing the driver of a transport bus from Gatesville to Huntsville. Lopez, affiliated with the Mexican Mafi
  
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• Buffalo supermarket gunman drove 200 miles, did 'reconnaissance' before mass shooting

  15-05-2022 19:41 via kxan.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white 18-year-old who shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had researched the local demographics while looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents, arriving there at least a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance, law enforcement officials said Sunday.Authorities said the gunman shot, in total, 11 Black people and two white people Saturday in a rampage motivated by racial hatred that he broadcast live. GALLERY
  
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• NBPD: Man drowns in Guadalupe River on Saturday

  15-05-2022 18:39 via kxan.com
  
  NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (KXAN) — A man drowned Saturday in the Guadalupe River, the New Braunfels Police Department said.NBPD officers and the New Braunfels Fire Department responded to the 1400 block of Gruene Road near the Gruene River Bridge for a report of a man who didn't resurface after swimming. First responders pulled a 28-year-old man out of the water who had been underwater for around 20 minutes, NBPD said.Emergency personnel attempted to save the man's life, but it was not successf
  
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• ATCEMS: 2 overnight auto-pedestrian crashes in Austin

  15-05-2022 14:06 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two people are recovering in the hospital after Austin-Travis County EMS responded to two separate crashes involving pedestrians early Sunday morning.
  The first collision happened around 2:30 a.m. on East Riverside Drive near South Lakeshore Drive.
  Medics said a person was "struck by multiple vehicles," but Austin Police said they are still working to confirm if several vehicles were involved. The person was transported to Dell Medical Center with critical life-threatening
  
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• ACTEMS: 2 overnight auto-pedestrian crashes in Austin

  15-05-2022 14:06 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two people are recovering in the hospital after Austin-Travis County EMS responded to two separate vehicle-pedestrian crashes early Sunday morning.
  The first collision happened around 2:30 a.m. on East Riverside Drive near South Lakeshore Drive.
  EMS reported a person was "struck by multiple vehicles," but Austin Police said they are still working to confirm if several vehicles were involved. The person was transported to Dell Medical Center with critical life-threatening in
  
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• State of Texas: Abbott pledge to push for school choice brings praise, concern

  15-05-2022 13:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's renewed push for school vouchers is a piece of his "parental rights" platform, which itself could be a signal of future political aspirations, according to a political science and communication professor."Make no mistake, the governor is laying out not only a strategy to embolden his campaign for re-election, I think everything he's been doing since the end of the special session has been a test to see how these themes would work at a national le
  
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• Record heat continues today with even hotter weather arriving tomorrow

  15-05-2022 11:30 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — We had record warmth in Austin on Saturday with highs surpassing the previous record high of 96 from back in 2003.Our hottest start to the month of May on record continues into today with unseasonably hot temps and a high near 99 in Austin. The record high in Austin for Sunday is 98 from back in 1925 and we expect to break that record.Highs on SundayTriple digit heat will be more likely tomorrow. (Camp Mabry's first triple digit reading of the season) Arriving a month and a
  
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• First triple digit day of 2022 possible Monday

  15-05-2022 11:30 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — We're almost halfway through May and every day so far has been above normal so far as we continue to be on track toward a record hot month.High temperatures on Sunday reached the mid to upper 90s across most of Central Texas with some low 100s in the Hill Country. The record high at Austin's Camp Mabry was 98 set in 1925.Tonight will be mainly clear the majority of the time with some patchy low clouds developing by sunrise.
  Don't forget we have a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE Sunday
  
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• First Warning: Much needed rain may finally be on the way (UPDATED)

  15-05-2022 04:40 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — With barely half an inch of rainfall in Austin this month and drought conditions worsening, our luck may be about to change.We're seeing more consistent signals pointing toward more rain opportunities during the final third of May.NOTE: This article was posted Saturday, but updated on Sunday with new information that continues to point to the same outcome.The importance of May & June rainMay is typically our wettest month of the year, by far, with an average of more tha
  
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• First Warning: Much needed rain may finally be on the way

  15-05-2022 04:40 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — With barely half an inch of rainfall in Austin this month and drought conditions worsening, our luck may be about to change.We're seeing more consistent signals pointing toward more rain opportunities during the final third of May.The importance of May & June rainMay is typically our wettest month of the year, by far, with an average of more than 5" of rain in Austin. Our wettest period of the year usually cuts off by mid-June as we head into a hot summer. July-August i
  
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• Strange looking mammatus clouds form over Central Texas Saturday

  15-05-2022 04:03 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) - KXAN received several photos from viewers of mammatus clouds Saturday afternoon and early evening through our ReportIt feature.Mammatus clouds look like lumps or pouches on the underside of a cloud, usually a thunderstorm's anvil. They form when cold air sinks into dry air and forms these little pockets or pouches, usually when a thunderstorm is late in development or starting to fall apart.While most of Central Texas did not have storms on Saturday, one severe storm formed over
  
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• GALLERY: Buffalo supermarket mass shooting scene

  15-05-2022 03:47 via kxan.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Ten people were killed and three others suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a mass shooting at a Tops Markets grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday.‘Pure evil’: 10 dead, 13 shot in Buffalo supermarket mass shootingView photos from the scene in the gallery below.
  (WIVB Photo/Tara Lynch)(WIVB Photo/Tara Lynch)Buffalo Police respond to a shooting at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)A crowd
  
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• Austin airport to form 'green team' — what it will do for the community

  15-05-2022 02:08 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Head of the Aviation Department Jacqueline Yaft said Austin-Bergstrom International is in the process of creating a "green team," according to a Thursday memo.
  In the memo to the mayor and council members, Yaft wrote AUS is hoping to get the team established in Fiscal Year 2023. The team will be made up of community volunteers, business partners and city staff.
  Together, they'll focus on the "environmental stewardship" of the airport as the facility expands.
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