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  A young surfer was killed last month after a shark attack off Surf Beach, approximately  120 miles northwest of Los Angeles, reports say.   Lucas Ransom McKain, 19, a chemistry student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, was approximately a hundred yards from shore when the shark attacked him, biting through the surfboard and severing his left leg. The wound was mortal and he died shortly afterward, according to reports.   Risking another attack, a friend swam…

Reports say a six-year-old died in southeast Houston Saturday, and then on Sunday a three-year-old boy drowned in Oak Ridge North in Montgomery County. Also on the same weekend, a 13-year-old was pulled from a southwest Houston pool and was fighting for her life in the hospital. The six-year-old was at his grandmother’s home when he was found unresponsive in the water, reports say. He was taken to the hospital, but died shortly afterward. The three-year-old crawled out of a…

Reports say a white 2009 Acura traveling northbound on Northland Dr. reportedly ran the red light at the intersection of Northland Dr. and Balcones Dr. as a tan 1997 Ford, driven by Federico Orozco, entered the intersection and was struck by the Acura. Orozco was extricated from the Ford and transported to University Medical Center-Brackenridge by Austin-Travis County EMS with serious injuries. Orozco was also transported and pronounced deceased at the hospital as a result of the injuries he sustained…

Austin Police Officers responded to a crash in the 10800 block of Metric Blvd late last month involving a motorcycle that was traveling south bound on Metric Boulevard. The crash occurred when a Capital Metro bus came to a stop in the right lane and other vehicles stopped behind it. The motorcycle struck the back of a stopped flatbed truck. The driver of the motorcycle, who was wearing a helmet, was transported to University Medical Center-Brackenridge with critical injuries by…

Austin Police Officers responded to a single-vehicle crash in the 10200 block of Dessau Rd to assist a driver of a red Jeep Wrangler that was traveling southbound on Dessau Rd. Riding with five other Hispanic male occupants, the driver of the Jeep lost control, of the vehicle, crossed the center median, rolled over across the north bound lanes of Dessau Rd., and came to rest in the grass on the east side of Dessau Rd. Four of the occupants…