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• Queerbomb seeking community funding for 2024 Pride event

  10-05-2024 17:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Queerbomb, a community-run and funded annual Pride festival in Austin, is getting ready for its 2024 celebration, but it still needs funding for the event.
  Queerbomb is known for being an radical, alternative and free Pride festival that's happened every year since 2010, according to its website.READ MORE: “What I always wanted Pride to be:” Queerbomb Austin returns after pandemic pauseThe organization has an active GoFundMe page that's seeking to raise $10,000. As o
  
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• Would you use AI to speak to a dead relative?

  04-06-2024 16:05 via kxan.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death.She told him one of the things she'd miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants because he is so well read and always shares his wisdom, Bommer recalled during a recent interview with The Associated Press at his home in a leafy Berlin suburb.That conversation sparked an idea for Bommer: Re
  
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• Couple finds $100,000 while magnet fishing in NYC

  04-06-2024 15:59 via kxan.com
  
  CORONA, Queens (WPIX) - A leisure day of magnet fishing at Corona Park in Queens, New York, became a life-changing moment for a local couple who discovered a safe with an estimated $100,000 inside.For James Kane and Barbi Agostini, magnet fishing has been a hobby that's bonded the couple for nearly a year. They got the idea to try magnet fishing during the COVID-19 pandemic and have since chronicled their journey on their YouTube channel -- called Let's Get Magnetic -- where they showcase an arr
  
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• Opening statements expected Tuesday in Hunter Biden's gun trial

  04-06-2024 15:50 via kxan.com
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (NewsNation) — Opening statements are set to begin Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.The younger Biden has been accused of lying on a federal form when he bought a .38-caliber Colt Cobra Special in 2018. Hunter Biden falsely said he was not a drug user, despite being addicted to cocaine at the time. He has since pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.Hunter Biden trial: Jury selectionA jury was seated
  
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• Opening statements begin in Hunter Biden's gun trial

  04-06-2024 15:50 via kxan.com
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (NewsNation) — Opening statements began Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.The younger Biden has been accused of lying on a federal form when he bought a .38-caliber Colt Cobra Special in 2018. Hunter Biden falsely said he was not a drug user, despite being addicted to cocaine at the time. He has since pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.Hunter Biden trial: Opening statementsHunter Biden's defense k
  
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• Several northbound lanes of Highway 183 blocked after pedestrian hit, injured

  04-06-2024 15:18 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- All but one lane of U.S. Highway 183 northbound were blocked Tuesday morning after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle in north Austin.
  Austin-Travis County EMS said on X the crash happened in the 13600 block of Hwy 183 northbound, near Pond Springs Road.
  Only the left lane of the northbound side of the highway was open for several hours Tuesday morning.
  ATCEMS posted at 6:30 a.m. it was responding to the crash. In an update at 6:44 a.m., ATCEMS said medics transported an adult pa
  
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• Family searching for answers after Bastrop custody death

  04-06-2024 14:00 via kxan.com
  
  BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) – The family of 36-year-old Marsha Hernandez has been left baffled and grasping for answers, after the wife and mother of three died in Bastrop County custody in early April.Hernandez, of Smithville, had just begun serving a six-month jail sentence as part of a plea agreement to resolve a 2021 possession of controlled substance charge. On April 9, just days into the jail term, something went wrong.The cause of Hernandez’s death remains unclear, as the Travis Cou
  
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• San Marcos city leaders to discuss how $1.3 million in grant funding should be spent

  04-06-2024 13:27 via kxan.com
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — At Tuesday's City Council meeting, San Marcos leaders will hold a public hearing to discuss funding for its grant program supporting community development.According to the City of San Marcos, leaders will discuss the use of $766,063 for its Community Development Block Grant program. The city also plans to reallocate an additional $655,089 from previous years to the program, the total equaling $1.4 million.On Friday, June 7 the city will also have a public comment
  
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• Sea otters turn to rocks and trash in fight for survival

  04-06-2024 12:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Sea otters are on the edge of extinction. There are currently around 3,000 of them living off the coast of California's Monterey Bay, according to Brett Long with the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.New research from biologists currently with the University of Texas at Austin is shedding light on how these furry, cuddly creatures may survive."Monterey Bay is just full of them. So I said, why not? Who doesn't want to work with a fuzzy teddy bear like animals?" s
  
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• Austin FC signs free agent defender Mikkel Desler

  04-06-2024 05:15 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin FC made more roster moves Monday, signing Danish defender Mikkel Desler as a free agent.Desler's contract is good through the 2027 season with a team option for 2028, and with his experience with Toulouse FC in France's Ligue 2, he can help Verde and Black out right away in the back. Austin FC signs Ghanaian winger Osman Bukari as designated player for $7.5 million"He’s an accomplished professional who has a lot of experience competing at an elite level in Euro
  
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• McNeil alum Armoni Brooks hosting third basketball camp

  04-06-2024 04:51 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) - When Armoni Brooks was in high school at McNeil, the Mavericks basketball team had a lot of success including a trip to the regional semifinal. Brooks looks back on his time as a Mav fondly."I haven't been back to McNeil in a while," said Brooks. "Everything is looking like the same. It's great to be back in this building. We used to have a lot of fans at the games and have it rocking." Kavan throws another one-hitter, Texas gets 1 run in the 7th to make WCWS title seriesBrooks b
  
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• SAFE Alliance to break ground on permanent housing project next week

  04-06-2024 04:32 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Crews will break ground next week on a permanent supportive housing project spearheaded by the SAFE Alliance.
  "There aren't similar resources in the community, so it truly fills a gap," said Julia Spann, Safe Alliance's CEO. The apartment complex will serve survivors of domestic violence who are experiencing homelessness.
  SAFE currently already serves this population, but in a shorter-term capacity.
  SAFE Alliance will soon break ground on a permanent housing project. Completion
  
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• Kavan throws another one-hitter, Texas gets 1 run in the 7th to make WCWS title series

  04-06-2024 03:20 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Pure hustle out of Alyssa Washington and another pitching gem by Teagan Kavan on Monday sent the Texas Longhorns to the Women's College World Series championship series.Washington dove across home to avoid a tag during a rundown in the top of the seventh inning, scoring the game's only run to lift the Longhorns to a 1-0 win over Stanford at OGE Field at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. Horns Report: Texas softball on brink of WCWS Finals, rowing team wins NCAA titleWith Washing
  
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• Nearly 200 pets adopted, fostered from AAC over weekend, but capacity issues persist

  04-06-2024 02:26 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Between Friday and Sunday, 192 pets were fostered or adopted from the city's Austin Animal Center (AAC), the shelter said on social media Monday. Staff said 101 pets left the shelter through foster or adoption over the weekend and another 91 were waiting on a spay or neuter before they too headed out the door.
  It comes after a memo was put out by the AAC late last month -- once again detailing how overcrowded the shelter is and announcing another restriction on intake.Austin Ani
  
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• Jamie Vinson comes back to Austin, signs with Texas Longhorns men's hoops

  04-06-2024 01:53 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austinite is coming home to play for the Longhorns via one of the most successful basketball programs in the country.Jamie Vinson, a 6-foot-11 center who played his last two years of high school basketball for Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, will play for the Longhorns next season, head coach Rodney Terry announced Monday.
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• How Mexico's new president could impact Texas

  04-06-2024 01:01 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Nexstar/AP) — Mexico’s projected presidential winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president in the country’s 200-year history.Sheinbaum, the favored successor of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vowed to continue on the direction set by the populist leftist leader. But the cool-tempered scientist offers a sharp contrast in style — and a break with Mexico’s male-dominated political culture.The leftist h
  
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• Austin Water to repair waterline in SW Austin on June 7, service disruption possible

  04-06-2024 00:34 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Water wants southwest Austin residents to conserve water and limit nonessential use starting Friday so crews can fix a waterline, the utility said Monday.A 48-inch waterline near the Davis Lane pump station is leaking and has to be taken offline. That may, or may not, result in low water pressure or service disruptions for some residents, according to a press release. ‘There’s a boat hurtling toward us’: Multiple injured on Lake LBJ after empty boat
  
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• Austin Police to run 'No Refusal' initiative this summer

  03-06-2024 23:37 via kxan.com
  
  Editor's note: The above video shows KXAN News' top morning headlines from Monday, June 3, 2024.AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The City of Austin will operate its No Refusal initiative each night in June, July and August in an effort to crack down on impaired driving, city leaders announced in the Austin Mobility newsletter Monday.No Refusal is done in collaboration between the Austin Police Department and the city's Vision Zero program, which aims to reduce the number of severe and fatal crashes on Austin ro
  
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• WCSO: 2 arrested in drug operation at Taylor senior apartment

  03-06-2024 22:43 via kxan.com
  
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) -- Two people were arrested after officials executed a drug operation at an apartment complex for older adults in Taylor earlier this week, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.On Thursday, officials responded to an apartment complex on 3700 N Main St. in Taylor, according to WCSO. Denise Pippin, 60, and Lesley Nettles, 66, were found with approximately 7.36 ounces of "suspected methamphetamine," scales, baggies and cellphones, according t
  
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• Students, teachers can get free entry to these Texas attractions — learn how

  03-06-2024 22:18 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two Texas attractions are honoring students and teachers with free admission after a long school year.
  Typhoon Texas waterpark in Pflugerville is recognizing students with good grades for a few days this week, and teachers will be celebrated the whole month of June at the San Antonio Zoo.
  Here are the details of the events and how you can qualify.
  'Great Grades Days' at Typhoon TexasStudents who earned three "A" grades or more on their most recent report card can enjoy free
  
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• Man sentenced to 60 years in prison for 2022 fatal shooting

  03-06-2024 22:11 via kxan.com
  
  Editor's note: The above video shows KXAN News' top morning headlines from Monday, June 3, 2024.AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a fatal shooting that happened in north Austin in 2022.According to court documents, a jury found Yongyoon Kim, 33, guilty of two counts of murder, which is a first-degree felony.
  Kim has a jail credit of 859 days, or a little over two years, according to court documents. His 60-year and 50-year sentences will run concurrently.
  Austin poli
  
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• LIVE Horns Report: Texas softball on brink of WCWS Finals, rowing team wins NCAA title

  03-06-2024 21:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — On this week's Horns Report, Roger Wallace and Billy Gates preview the Women's College World Series semifinal between the Texas Longhorns and Stanford Cardinal. If it seems like the teams have played each other recently, it's because they opened WCWS play against each other.The teams face off again at 6 p.m. CT Monday and Texas will advance to the WCWS Finals with one win while the Cardinal has to beat Texas twice to advance. If Stanford wins the first game, the second game
  
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• Horns Report: Texas softball on brink of WCWS Finals, rowing team wins NCAA title

  03-06-2024 21:59 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — On this week's Horns Report, Roger Wallace and Billy Gates preview the Women's College World Series semifinal between the Texas Longhorns and Stanford Cardinal. If it seems like the teams have played each other recently, it's because they opened WCWS play against each other.The teams face off again at 6 p.m. CT Monday and Texas will advance to the WCWS Finals with one win while the Cardinal has to beat Texas twice to advance. If Stanford wins the first game, the second game
  
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• Starlink satellite flickers over Central Texas Sunday

  03-06-2024 21:43 via kxan.com
  
  CENTRAL TEXAS (KXAN) — Some Central Texans witnessed some flickering lights in the sky late Sunday as a Starlink satellite passed over the area.A KXAN viewer in Dale reached out around 10 p.m. Sunday after spotting the lights twinkling faintly in the sky. Starlink provides internet coverage to more than 70 countries and is a subsidiary of aerospace company SpaceX.Historic coordinate data from online satellite tracking resource Find Starlink confirmed a Starlink satellite was visible around
  
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• Austin mom sentenced in toddler's death

  03-06-2024 21:35 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin woman was sentenced to 15 years in state prison in the death of her 22-month-old daughter in 2020.Tamara Calvery, 33, was sentenced in April after pleading guilty, according to court documents. She was charged with serious bodily injury to a child causing death in January 2020.PREVIOUS: 29-year-old Austin mom arrested after death of toddlerAustin police said Calvery called 911 on Jan. 17, 2020, saying her daughter struck her head on a dresser and was having troubl
  
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• LCRA goes back down to Stage 1 of drought response as lake levels increase after rain

  03-06-2024 21:07 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The Lower Colorado River Authority announced Monday it was able to loosen its water restrictions in Central Texas after recent rains have helped increase the region's water supplies.
  The LCRA on Monday moved from Stage 2 to Stage 1 of its drought response thanks to an increase to two water supply reservoirs — lakes Buchanan and Travis — whose combined storage has increased to more than 1.11 million acre-feet, or about about 56% of capacity after recent rainfall. That
  
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• Driver sentenced after hitting, killing wife in 2021

  03-06-2024 21:02 via kxan.com
  
  Editor's note: The above video shows KXAN News' top morning headlines from Monday, June 3, 2024.AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A man was sentenced to a year in jail related to the 2021 death of a woman police identified as his wife.
  Ricardo Vasquez-Lopez pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony collision involving injury charge, according to court paperwork. He received a one-year sentence and will get a credit for 170 days already served.PREVIOUS: Man drove his truck away after running over, killing wife in s
  
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• Pop icon Cyndi Lauper announces farewell tour — including an Austin stop

  03-06-2024 19:54 via kxan.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Legendary pop icon Cyndi Lauper is out to have fun again this fall with her newly announced farewell tour.Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" Tour will begin on Oct. 18 - four decades after her 1983 breakthrough solo album "She's So Unusual" - with her performing at the Centre Bell in Montreal.The 70-year-old award-winning singer-songwriter rose to fame in the 1980s with such hits as “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and “Time After Time.”
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• Rural Texas nursing program aims to help recruit and retain nurses

  03-06-2024 19:19 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new state program is trying to help address the nursing shortage in rural Texas communities.
  On Monday, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) announced applications are open for the Rural Nursing Recruitment & Retention Program (RNRR).This comes a few weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott announced $17 million in grant funding awarded to rural hospitals by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Abbott: $17M in grant fu
  
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• What to know about fawn season in Central Texas

  03-06-2024 19:14 via kxan.com
  
  Editor's note: The above video shows KXAN News' top morning headlines from Monday, June 3, 2024.AUSTIN (KXAN) — Doe, a deer, a female deer! It's the thick of fawn season here in Central Texas, and plenty of does are welcoming their newest bundles of joy. But amid the warmer weather and burgeoning wildlife, The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is stressing Texans educate themselves on the dos and don'ts of fawn season.Here in Texas, TPWD estimates there are approximately 5.3 million wh
  
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