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The National Football League ended its draft today. No Texas players were taken... that is the first time that has happened since 1937.
The Longhorns snapped the longest draft streak in the country.
Texas was one of only two Big 12 teams teams without a draft pick... the other being Kansas.
Missouri Defensive End Michael Sam was selected in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams. He is the first openly gay player to be drafted and would be the first open player in the league if he makes the team.

About one in five Britons recently said they would consider having sex with a specific genus of robot. This seems low. I think a lot of people are lying.

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Former bartender Sara LeVine created the 'ATX Safer Streets' organization, which aims to change the face of Austin transit. LeVine and fellow members are calling for peer-to-peer ride sharing services like Uber and Sidecar, as well as more overnight parking in downtown's core area. She believes better late night transportation networking will curb the number of people that choose to get behind the wheel after they've had too much to drink. The group is holding their first public event on May 11th from 4pm to 7pm on East 6th street.

Austin police have issued a a warning to the public about a synthetic marijuana after a rash of incidents downtown. It's called "The Walking Dead" and over the last 10 days, 38 people have overdosed on it. Austin Travis County EMS reported another incident this morning. Organized Crime Commander Chris Mc Ilvain says the department is still trying to find out what is in it.

"We have one empty bag of the Walking Dead," sid McIlvain. "That is the substance that we believe is being attributed to the overdoses, mainly because of victim statements."

The supply of Walking Dead came down from Dallas where dozens of others also overdosed over a similar time frame.\

It was sold by 42-year-old Jonathan Martin in the downtown area. He won't be charged in this case, because police aren't sure what exactly the Walking Dead is yet, or if it's even illegal. Organized Crime Commander Chris McIlvain says that's often the case with synthetic marijuana.

"Law enforcement would seize it, break down the formula, create an analog and make it illegal," said McIlvain. "Chemists would then change the formula, keeping the effects the same, so when it was seized again it wouldn't match the analog and therefore it was not illegal."

Signs and symptoms that we've been seeing are wide and varied," said EMS Capt. Darren Noak, "seizure acitivity, blackouts, psychotic episodes, violent aggressive behavior, chest pain and increased heart rate."

Synthetic marijuana is usually an inert leaf that is dried, then sprayed with chemicals to imitate the effects of marijuana. Many brands, like Kush, Scooby Snacks and Mad Monkey are legal and sold in stores.

This eight-legged, male-and-female-reproductive-organ-having goat—nicknamed "octogoat"—was born earlier this week in Croatia.

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An Amur tiger walks across a passageway after a news conference at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday. The mesh pathway, called Big Cat Crossing, is part of a concept called animal rotation that zoos use to enrich the experience of both creatures and guests. Image via Matt Slocum/AP.

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No adult is under the illusion that menstrual blood is the tranquil blue color of, say, toilet bowl cleaner or one of the mediocre flavors of Mountain Dew, so why do ads for maxi pads have to sanitize a natural, healthy part of the human experience?

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A Los Angeles band figured out a way to make $20,000 from Spotify by doing absolutely nothing.

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There's a new red band trailer out for Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West, and I'm inclined to say against my better judgment that this movie might actually be kind of funny.

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A Tokyo cab driver has been arrested for allegedly feeding his female passengers snacks laced with diuretics so he could satisfy his fetish for seeing them lose control and urinate on his back seat.

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A convicted killer will be living in Austin with the man who based the Hollywood film "Bernie" on his life.  In 1999, a jury convicted Bernie Tiede in the shooting death of 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent. Tiede was a former mortician in Carthage, Texas. He befriended Nugent, a rich widow, before their relationship turned toxic.  Seventeen years later, a judge agreed to reduce Tiede's sentence after it was revealed he had been sexually abused throughout his youth.  In a strange twist the judge ordered Tiede to live with Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater who co-wrote the dark comedy "Bernie" about the crime. Tiede was released Tuesday on a $10,000 bond. On Wednesday, he became a resident of Hyde Park.  Linklater told KEYE TV Tiede will be living in an apartment on his property.

In Mooney's Bay Park, to be precise. Wait, why are you laughing?

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Oh good, another thing to fill our nightmares! A rare "goblin shark" was caught by Georgia fisherman Captain Carl Moore about 10 miles off the coast of Key West in April. The last recorded sighting of this species of deep-sea nightmare shark was in 2000.

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Austin police are investigating, after an attempted kidnapping of a 12 year-old girl in the Milwood neighborhood in Northwest Austin. 

According to APD. the girl was riding her bike to a friends house, when she passed a parked four-door gray car on Ganymede Drive.  "Someone apparently opened the driver's side rear door and tried to pull her off of her bike," said Public Information Specialist Jennifer Herber.  The girl managed to get away and called police from her friend's house.  

"She described him as a hispanic male wearing blue jeans, unfortunately, we don't more of a description than that and we don't know the make and model of the vehicle," said Herber. 

Parents are urged to call police if they notice anything suspicious.

If you can't birth a genuinely good idea, there's a mounting body of evidence saying you should try the most deliberately stupid idea possible. How about a storage unit company that's calling itself a technology startup?

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During the airing of tonight's 24: Live Another Day, Fox aired an extended trailer for their upcoming Batman prequel, Gotham. It features Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Jada Pinkett Smith as a new character called Fish Mooney, and all the original characters in the comic before they turn into their future selves.

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America's sweetheart Julia Roberts apparently only knows a handful of bad words, and most of them are too tame to censor on network TV. Sally Field, meanwhile, knows all the curses, and will gleefully combine any one of them with the suffixes "-sucker" and "-licker."

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There are legitimate reasons to store breast milk in the office fridge, but it's hard to think of a plausible excuse for dumping the rest of the regular milk into your coffee and then replacing it with milk from your own body.

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George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words have nothing on Russia's mat, a profane vocabulary that's common throughout the country, and especially prevalent in male-dominated spaces like prisons and the army. Mat has a long history in poetry, parody, and political speech, and, on Monday, Vladimir Putin signed legislation to ban it.

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