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Five stories that have North Texas talking: SMU NCAA Tournament Hopes Dashed; Surprise concert for SXSW crash victim; Printing presses at Star-Telegram roll for last time; and more.

Allen school district officials say the high school graduation ceremony scheduled for early June is moving to the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

UPDATE, 6:35 p.m.: Austin police say any additional charges in the SXSW crash will be presented to the Travis County Grand Jury at a later date.

"The reason only one capital murder charge was filed is that Texas State law requires two or more deaths in the same criminal transaction for the filing of a capital murder charge," police said in an update sent to reporters.

Thursday, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said that Owens would face two charges of capital murder and multiple counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle.

An immense Buddha statue made from exquisite jade can be seen in Garland through this weekend as it makes its way around the world.  The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace sits 8 feet tall and weighs 4-and-a-half tons. The group behind the tour claims it has been valued at $5 million. 

Five stories that have North Texas talking: Worst traffic spots in Texas listed in new study; $400,000 worth of sorority pins stolen in inside job; Texas Revolution is center of upcoming History Channel series; and more.

Larry Brown has had a singular career in the basketball world. He’s coached multiple NBA and college teams and he’s the only coach ever to win both the NCAA and pro titles. And now, three weeks before the Final Four comes to North Texas, he’s taken his latest reclamation project, SMU, to the brink of its first NCAA tournament in two decades.

The Mustangs lost in their conference tournament yesterday, but they’re expecting an NCAA bid on Sunday. Earlier this week, Brown sat down with KERA’s vice president of news, Rick Holter, for this week’s Friday Conversation.

We'll be posting updates with new information and eyewitness accounts throughout the day.

A driver plowed through a barricade into a crowd of people in downtown Austin where South By Southwest Festival events were happening around 12:30 a.m. A woman on a moped and a male cyclist were killed and dozens of others were injured, three critically. The driver had been fleeing from police after trying to avoid a sobriety checkpoint that had been set up nearby. Police have the driver in custody, identified as 21-year-0ld Rashad Charjuan Owens, and are charging him with two counts of capital murder and 23 counts of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.