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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kens5.com | Mary Posani
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas defeated Texas A&M 17 to 7 in College Station on Saturday night, reigniting a rivalry after a 13-year hiatus. The Longhorns celebrated the big win on Kyle Field. There was a moment when some players moved center field to the Aggies logo – but head coach Steve Sarkisian stopped them. Earlier the same day, Michigan upset No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, beating the Buckeyes 13 to 10 on their home turf.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
kvue.com | Britny Eubank |Mary Posani
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police responded to two separate SWAT situations overnight. At around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, police got a call from a woman on East Stassney Lane who said her boyfriend had assaulted her. Officers arrived at the scene a few minutes later and found a man had barricaded himself inside an apartment with a gun. SWAT officers were called in to assist.
At around 2:45 a.m. Thursday, SWAT officers entered the apartment and found the man dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Mary Posani
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department said a woman is in the hospital after she was shot at a northeast Austin apartment complex. The shooting happened at the Casa Hills Apartments @ 290 on Regan Hill Drive, near Berkman Drive, in the St. Johns neighborhood. Police say the woman was shot inside an apartment, but officers did not provide details on the extent of the woman's injuries.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Grace Arnis |Mary Posani
AUSTIN, Texas — A man and his dog escaped a house fire in southeast Austin early Thursday morning. At around 2:25 a.m., firefighters with the Austin Fire Department (AFD) responded to multiple calls about a house fire on Bucks Run, just south of William Cannon Road. When firefighters arrived at the house, they saw flames coming through the roof, walls, windows and doors.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Mary Posani
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is working to increase the reliability and resilience of transmission lines in North Travis County. Construction has started to "storm harden" 14 miles of high voltage transmission lines. That means upgrading the lines to better withstand extreme weather conditions like wind and ice. The upgraded lines can also reduce outages and lower restoration times and costs.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Mary Posani
LEANDER, Texas — A wild crash was caught on camera in Leander. The Leander Fire Department said on Wednesday, Aug. 2, crews responded to an accident with injury at Crystal Falls Parkway and US 183. The driver of an SUV had struck a Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) utility pole in the area. Video shared to Facebook by the fire department shows the crash, then the pole bouncing on the powerlines.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Grace Arnis |Mary Posani |Johann Castro
AUSTIN, Texas — Investigators with the Austin Police Department are trying to figure out what happened to a man found dead on Ben White Boulevard. Police said a woman called 911 just after midnight Friday after finding a body in a wooded area on East Ben White Boulevard, east of Burleson Road. Police said the man, later identified as 26-year-old Skylee Williams, had some sort of trauma to his body but did not specify what kind of injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Mary Posani
AUSTIN, Texas — Police are investigating a stabbing in Downtown Austin that put two people in the hospital. It happened around 2:15 a.m. Friday on West Sixth Street and West Avenue. Police say someone flagged officers down, and they located two people who had been stabbed. Austin-Travis County EMS said both people were taken to a hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries.
At this time, it is unclear if the two people stabbed each other or if there was a third party involved.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
kvue.com | Grace Arnis |Mary Posani
AUSTIN, Texas — As elevated fire weather concerns continue across the Austin area and wildfires burn in Bastrop and Burnet counties, evacuations may be top of mind for Central Texans. Residents near the Powder Keg Pine Fire in Bastrop County were temporarily evacuated Tuesday evening, though the Mesquite Field Fire – also in Bastrop County – did not require any evacuations to be ordered. Meanwhile, some homes were evacuated as a result of the Wandering Oak Fire in Burnet County.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
kcentv.com | Grace Arnis |Mary Posani |Melia Masumoto
AUSTIN, Texas — As elevated fire weather concerns continue across the Austin area and wildfires burn in Bastrop and Burnet counties, evacuations may be top of mind for Central Texans. Residents near the Powder Keg Pine Fire in Bastrop County were temporarily evacuated Tuesday evening, though the Mesquite Field Fire – also in Bastrop County – did not require any evacuations to be ordered. Meanwhile, some homes were evacuated as a result of the Wandering Oak Fire in Burnet County.
