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Twenty-nine of the 30 Major League Baseball teams have adopted some form of "pride" event in June. But one holdout shows no signs of budging.

KUT A person carries a bucket filled with firewood in the Travis Heights neighborhood of South Austin on Tuesday. When Cornell Woolridge finally ventured out of his Northwest Austin home to get water and food following the extreme weather last week, he noticed police vehicles outside an elderly neighbor’s house. “It left me with a lump with my throat,” he said. A younger man was crying outside the house. It was his neighbor’s son, who had just learned his father had passed away inside. ...

Austin Energy tells customers to prepare for outages to last longer Hundreds of thousands in Austin area remain without power Its the third day of waking up in the dark and cold for many people as state officials begin to try to explain how this all happened. FOX 7 Austins John Krinjak has latest details. AUSTIN, Texas - As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 192,000 Austin Energy customers remained without power. Thats just the customers, but the number of people affected, is even higher. Austin E...

Diana Gomez and her boyfriend, Curtis Feronti, have been hunkered down in a powerless apartment in the Crestview neighborhood in Austin for almost two days. Like millions of other Texans who lost power early Monday morning, Gomez is worried about the plummeting temperatures in the apartment. “Right now it’s reading at 50 degrees,” she said after checking her thermostat. Gomez and Feronti say they are mostly staying in a bedroom under the covers because it’s the warmest option right now....