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• Texas beats Texas Tech in wild Game 1 of WCWS finals after hit during intentional walk attempt

  05-06-2025 05:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — If the opening game of the Women's College World Series championship series is any indication of what the rest of it will be, then buckle your seat belts, softball fans.Texas claimed a 2-1 win over Texas Tech to take a 1-0 series lead Wednesday at Devon Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in a game not short on drama.
  OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA - JUNE 04: Kayden Henry #21 of the Texas Longhorns celebrateS scoring with Joley Mitchell #9 in the sixth inning against the Texas Tech R
  
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• How much is city spending on homeless clean up?

  05-06-2025 04:44 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN)— How much is the city spending overall on homeless camp clean up each year?It turns out that answer is more difficult to find out without a lot of digging.
  In 2021, Austin voters reinstated a camping ban that required enforcement of anyone camping in public spaces.Since then the city has spent millions of dollars and cleaned up millions of pounds of trash.KXAN has covered clean ups since the ban went into effect, many times covering the same camps being cleaned up over and ov
  
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• Texas’ undocumented college students no longer qualify for in-state tuition

  05-06-2025 04:02 via kxan.com
  
  TEXAS (The Texas Tribune)-- Undocumented students in Texas are no longer eligible for in-state tuition after Texas agreed Wednesday with the federal government's demand to stop the practice.The abrupt end to Texas' 24-year-old law came hours after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was suing Texas over its policy of letting undocumented students qualify for lower tuition rates at public universities. Texas quickly asked the court to side with the feds and find that the law was unconstit
  
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