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  <title>Bank Robbery Suspect Being Sought</title>
  <description>Austin police are on the scene of a bank robbery in Northwest Austin. The robbery happened around 2 p.m. at the Wachovia Bank in the 8400 block of Mesa Drive.</description>
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  <title>Officials To Ticket Smokers In Public Places</title>
  <description>Wednesday, the Austin-Travis County Health Department plans to start coming down hard on smokers. A letter from the department says they plan to write tickets to smokers who violate the city's smoking ban. That's a fine of up to $500.</description>
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  <title>Feedback Forum: Have You Used The Toll Roads Yet?</title>
  <description>The first toll road in Austin is now open. Have you used it yet? Share your views below.</description>
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  <title>Halloween On Sixth Street 2006</title>
  <description>Thousands turned out to celebrate Halloween on Sixth Street Tuesday night, and there were some pretty creative costumes out there. But despite the big crowds, police say only 11 people were arrested, and people were well-behaved for the most part.</description>
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  <title>Part Of Toll Roads Now Open</title>
  <description>But in this time of trial and error, whether the roads are a quicker option is up for debate. Many Austin-area drivers were a part of history, but during rush hour at the Loop One extension, record speeds were not reached.</description>
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  <title>Blanco High Repairing Damages From Vandals</title>
  <description>Vandals trashed a high school in the Hill Country, causing nearly a half million dollars in damage. Vandals caused extensive damage to the relatively new campus in Blanco.</description>
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  <title>Georgetown Council To Discuss Smoking, Scooters</title>
  <description>Georgetown city leaders are looking to change the rules about smoking in public places. The city manager revised the city's smoking ordinance. Council members will look over the draft at Tuesday night's meeting.</description>
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  <title>Money-Saving Tips For Halloween</title>
  <description>Halloween is a week away, and if you're still trying to figure out what your kids will wear or what you might wear for a costume party, KXAN has some money-saving ideas for you.</description>
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  <title>Austinites Have Roles On 'Friday Night Lights'</title>
  <description>By now, you know the NBC series "Friday Night Lights" is being shot on location in and around Austin. And plenty of Central Texans have had fun playing extras and bit parts.</description>
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  <title>I-35 Open Again After Overnight Wreck</title>
  <description>Emergency crews shut down part of Interstate 35, south of Austin, after a wreck and fuel spill. It happened at around 11:30 p.m. Monday, just south of the Cabela's in Buda.</description>
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  <title>GOP Candidate Catches Grief For Steamy Romance Novel</title>
  <description>Texas agriculture commissioner Susan Combs says a romance novel she wrote is lighthearted and entertaining. But critics say Republican Combs, who's running for state comptroller, think otherwise.</description>
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  <title>Getting Kids To Exercise More</title>
  <description>Is your child getting enough exercise? A new study done by the Travis County and AISD says probably not. Roughly 25 percent or one fourth of Travis County fourth graders are obese, but some argue this doesn't just impact those families with obese children. It impacts all families.</description>
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  <title>Austin WorkSource Job Fair</title>
  <description>Some 900 job seekers got one-stop shopping in Austin Tuesday. Austin WorkForce held a job fair at their career center on Airport Boulevard. More than 70 different potential employers showed up including AISD, Austin Fire Department and UT.</description>
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  <title>Hitch50: 50 State Capitols In 50 Days</title>
  <description>Hitch50 is the project of two guys, Fiddy and Scotty, who are attempting to hitchhike to all 50 state capitols in 50 days. They started from New York's Times Square and made their way to Albany.</description>
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  <title>Sewage Truck Overturns In Manor</title>
  <description>A messy traffic accident near Manor is keeping emergency crews busy Wednesday morning. Travis County officials tell KXAN that a sewage truck lost control and overturned at the intersection of FM 969 and Burleson-Manor Road.</description>
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  <title>2 Bats Found With Rabies In Central Texas</title>
  <description>A dead bat found at a North Austin school has tested positive for rabies . That's after a rabid, disoriented bat was found outside a Texas State University dorm in San Marcos just two days earlier.</description>
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  <title>Arrest Made In 2005 Murder Case</title>
  <description>It's a murder investigation with more twists and turns than a crime drama. Tuesday, KXAN NBC Austin uncovered the latest chapter of a Central Texas murder cover-up.</description>
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  <title>Texan Convicted Of Possessing Memorabilia From Canadian Library</title>
  <description>New York -- A New York jury has convicted an Austin Community College professor of criminal possession of music memorabilia from Canada. Barbara Moore was convicted Tuesday on two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of stolen property.</description>
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  <title>Austin-Area Briefs -- 10/25/06</title>
  <description>In Wednesday's Austin-area briefs, police investigate an unusual wreck in East Austin, construction begins Wednesday on what some call a free alternative to one toll road and more.</description>
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  <title>October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month</title>
  <description>And the older you get, the more likely you are to get it. Your first line of defense is to get a yearly mammogram. Women who are 40 or older should get one every single year.</description>
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Fay may strengthen and hit Florida again (AP) 8/20/2008 2:40 AM

People stand at the end of a pier during a lull in Tropical Storm Fay in Key West, Florida on August 18. Fay has hit Florida with severe winds and drenching rains, but it did not strengthen into the potentially devastating hurricane residents had been dreading.(AFP/Getty Images/Eric Thayer)AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday reaching the coast and headed for the Atlantic Ocean, where it could strengthen and curve back toward Florida — possibly as a hurricane.


Rice to sign missile defense deal with Poland (AP) 8/20/2008 2:13 AM

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski arrive in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. Poland's government gave its formal approval to a missile defense deal with the United States on Tuesday, as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Warsaw to sign the agreement. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an infuriated Russia to threaten its former Soviet satellite.


Bush defends terror war in speech to veterans (AP) 8/20/2008 2:45 AM

In this Sept. 22, 2006, file photo, President Bush walks with Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to the East Room at the White House to hold a press conference. Running for president, Bush couldn't name the new leader of Pakistan. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Musharraf became a crucial but ultimately frustrating ally in the war against Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech to a major veterans group.


Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed (AP) 8/20/2008 2:31 AM

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hand with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at president palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.


Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area (AP) 8/20/2008 3:00 AM

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is reflected in bullet-ridden window in central Gori, Georgia Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.  A small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Tuesday, the first sign of a Russian pullback of troops from Georgia after a cease-fire intended to end fighting that reignited Cold War tensions. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.


Richards, Jones squander chances at Olympic gold (AP) 8/19/2008 11:20 PM

United States' LoLo Jones reacts after the women's 100-meter hurdles final during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium  at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Lolo Jones was supposed to take the Olympic 100-meter hurdles title. Other entrants knew it. Jones knew it. Even told herself so right before the start, mouthing, "I can win this race," when she was introduced to the crowd.


Obama, VP choice to campaign together Saturday (AP) 8/20/2008 1:43 AM

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at a town hall meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina August 19, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.


Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled (AP) 8/20/2008 2:48 AM

Map shows number of students receiving corporal punishment, by state, school year 2006-2007.AP - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year — and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.


DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries (AP) 8/20/2008 12:37 AM

In this Monday, May 9, 2005 file photo, LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band performs with the band at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Moore is recovering from an ATV accident on his Virginia farm. According to the band's Web site, Moore was taken to the University of Virginia Health System for treatment after the Monday, June 30, 2008 wreck in Charlottesville. A publicist for the Dave Matthews Band said on Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 that sax player LeRoi Moore died Tuesday, of injuries suffered in the June accident, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. Moore was 46.  (AP Photo/Michael Kim, File)AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.


AP NewsBreak: Umpires refuse replay call with MLB (AP) 8/19/2008 11:24 PM

Home plate umpire James Hoye, center, signals safe as Oakland Athletics catcher Kurt Suzuki, left,  scores past the tag attempt by Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro, right,  after a double by Daric Barton in the second  inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Umpires want baseball to take another look at instant replay. Umps said their governing board voted Tuesday to boycott a conference call with management intended to discuss implementing replay and are angry that their concerns aren't being addressed.


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