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• Longhorns move to No. 21 in AP Top 25, USA Today Coaches Poll

  27-11-2022 23:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Poll voters moved the Texas Longhorns up three spots in both the Associated Press Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll rankings, both released Sunday.After their 38-27 win over Baylor on Friday, the Longhorns are now No. 21 in both polls. In the AP Top 25, Texas earned 316 points and fell between No. 20 South Carolina and No. 22 Central Florida. In the coaches poll, Texas earned 292 points and landed between No. 20 South Carolina and No. 22 North Carolina.Full AP Top 25Full US
  
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• Central Texas boy raising thousands to lay wreaths at veteran graves

  27-11-2022 22:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The holidays mark the season of giving, and one 11-year-old Cedar Park boy is giving back to those who've served, one wreath at a time.For four years now, Remmer Machamer has helped raise thousands of dollars to sponsor wreaths that adorn veterans' graves at Texas State Cemetery. This December, he is looking to help lay wreaths at 3,300 graves. State of Texas: ‘Passing the torch,’ Congressman-elect Casar aims to push progressive policies in DCWhile attending a D
  
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• Texas State fires Jake Spavital as head football coach

  27-11-2022 22:14 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — Texas State University fired Jake Spavital as its head football coach Sunday, the school's athletic director announced.Don Coryell wrote a letter saying that "we are making a change in the leadership of our football program." He said he told Spavital his decision Sunday afternoon.MORE THAN THE SCORE: Stay up to date on sports stories like these, and sign up for our More than the Score sports newsletter at kxan.com/newsletters"Jake has been a tremendous member of
  
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• Austin indie bookstore Malvern Books to close end of year

  27-11-2022 20:28 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — For Becky Garcia, manager of Malvern Books, the shop was the vision of its owner, Joe Bratcher, brought to life. It was a space that worked to champion the work of independent publishers and bring recognition to lesser-known titles, particularly those in fiction and poetry.It was a niche Malvern Books has filled since first opening in October 2013. Now, more than nine years later, Garcia said she hopes that's the legacy it maintains when the bookstore closes on Dec. 31.Brat
  
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• Texas father arrested in 2020 'suspicious' death of 2-year-old daughter

  27-11-2022 18:42 via kxan.com
  
  WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — A Texas father is behind bars after his 2-year-old daughter was found dead in his home which police described as "a home with horrible filth."
  Garrett Lloyd Wayne Jos Gestes, of Wichita Falls, was arrested and charged with abandoning or endangering a child on November 22, 2022.According to court documents, Wichita Falls Police Department, paramedics, and Wichita Falls Fire Department responded to a call about a dead 2-year-old in the 1600 block of Longview on De
  
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• Texas teen charged with murder gets 15 years in prison

  27-11-2022 18:18 via kxan.com
  
  BELTON, Texas (FOX 44) -- A teenager charged with murder in a Belton shooting has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.Belton Police officers arrested Timothy Joseph Grouss in August 2020, when he was 16 years old, on a murder charge in connection with the shooting of 16-year-old Belton High School junior Fernando Martinez on August 27.
  Officers say Grouss led them on a chase before they apprehended him near the intersection of Orion Drive and East Cedar Crest Lane around 11:15 p.m.Grouss was ta
  
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• USPS Operation Santa: Make holiday magic for children writing to North Pole

  27-11-2022 17:50 via kxan.com
  
  HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The U.S. Postal Service is looking for kind-hearted, generous people across the country to sign up and adopt letters to Santa.
  Those interested in making a believer's day can go to USPS Operation Santa, create an account and have their identities verified to help fulfill the holiday wishes of children and families who have written to Santa.
  For 110 years, Operation Santa has relied solely on the random acts of kindness and generosity of strangers to help
  
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• Our warming trend continues ahead of next cold front

  27-11-2022 14:15 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) --After a beautiful, warm Sunday expect temperatures to become chilly quickly after sunset. The area will see scattered clouds along with patchy fog at sunrise Monday with most lows in the middle/upper 30s to low 40s.Highs reach the upper 60s to low 70s again Monday with warming continuing Tuesday as daily maximums reach the middle/upper 70s to around 80°.Our next chance of rain arrives Tuesday out ahead of our next approaching cold front. The question is how far to the west of
  
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• A comprehensive map of how Texans voted in the 2022 gubernatorial election

  27-11-2022 14:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott easily won reelection to a third term in the Nov. 8 election, defeating Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by double digits.Abbott received almost 55% of the statewide vote, to O’Rourke’s roughly 44%.For in-depth coverage of the races and election news, head to KXAN's election coverage pageKXAN looked at precinct-level results in each county across the state to get a better picture of how Texans voted. Big citi
  
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• 1 dead after single-vehicle crash in south Austin

  27-11-2022 13:50 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) – One person died early Sunday after a vehicle struck a tree in the 8800 block of South Congress Avenue, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.ATCEMS said at 1:54 a.m., it was conducting a vehicle rescue with CPR in progress. At 2 a.m., the adult patient was pronounced dead at the scene, according to an ATCEMS tweet.EMS officials said to avoid the area and expect extended closures for an investigation.“Power is reported to be out in the area possibly from this inci
  
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• Aggies stun No. 5 LSU, end disappointing season at 5-7

  27-11-2022 05:54 via kxan.com
  
  COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Devon Achane had a career-best 215 yards rushing with two touchdowns, and Texas A&M stunned No. 6 LSU 38-23 on Saturday night, all but certainly knocking the Tigers out of contention for the College Football Playoff.“They have done some incredible things and I don’t want this loss to at all take away from what they’ve accomplished this year,” LSU coach Brian Kelly said. “This was not a step back. This was a bump in the road an
  
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• Kansas State tops Kansas, Longhorns left out of Big 12 title game

  27-11-2022 05:28 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The No. 23 Texas Longhorns needed one more thing to go their way in order to get another shot at No. 4 TCU in the Big 12 Conference championship game, but Kansas State wouldn't allow it.The No. 12 Wildcats fought off the pesky Jayhawks 47-27 to claim second place in the Big 12 Saturday with a 7-2 record. Kansas State will now face the Horned Frogs for the conference title at 11 a.m., Dec. 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.MORE THAN THE SCORE: Stay up to date on sports stor
  
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• Austin airport expects more days of post-Thanksgiving travel than usual

  27-11-2022 05:20 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin-Bergstrom International Airport says post-turkey day travel is expected to last for nearly a week after Thanksgiving, a change from the usual two-day dash to get home after the holiday.
  Elizabeth Ferrer, a public information officer at AUS, says this staggering of travel is caused in part by fliers having more access to work remotely."Because of the options that people have nowadays, to telework, not everybody necessarily is flying out on Sunday, or Monday," said
  
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• No. 1 Texas volleyball caps regular season with sweep of West Virginia, will find out 1st round opponent Sunday

  27-11-2022 03:38 via kxan.com
  
  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (KXAN) — The top-ranked Texas volleyball team put a bow on another dominant regular season with an emphatic road sweep of West Virginia.The No. 1 Longhorns beat the Mountaineers 25-18, 25-16, 25-11, and now have to wait and see who their opening-round opponent in the NCAA tournament will be. The tournament selection show is at 6:30 p.m. Sunday on ESPNU. Before the selection show begins, the team will help light the UT Tower burnt orange to signify their Big 12 Conference
  
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• No. 4 Longhorns thump UTRGV 91-54, honor program legend Leon Black in the process

  27-11-2022 02:03 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — It wasn't quite peach baskets nailed to poles, but Saturday's game between the No. 4 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team and UTRGV was a throwback that honored a university legend.The Longhorns dispatched the Vaqueros, members of the Western Athletic Conference, easily 91-54 as part of the Leon Black Classic. Black played at UT and was the head coach from 1967-1976. He was responsible for integrating the program by recruiting its first seven African-American players, givi
  
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• Austin bookstore owner talks the importance of supporting local on 'Small Business Saturday' and beyond

  27-11-2022 01:35 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thais Perkins opened her store, Reverie Books, a little over a year ago to give people in the community, including younger folks, a comfortable place to gather and learn. “I had a little money for my grandmother, who loved books and birds and lived on a ranch in the hill country. So this is in part because of her,” Perkins said.  Lucy in Disguise costume shop on South Congress to close by year’s endThe store is filled from floor to ceiling with v
  
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• State of Texas: 'Passing the torch,' Congressman-elect Casar aims to push progressive policies in DC

  27-11-2022 01:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Newly-elected members of Congress are already gearing up for action on Capitol Hill. On the week after the election, members-elect from across the country traveled to Washington for the orientation for freshman members.
  As a newly elected congressman (TX-35), Democrat Greg Casar traveled to the Capitol to begin the process of learning the ropes.“Orientation started out like so many other jobs, you get your parking pass and are given your laptop,” Casar said.&
  
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