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B-CS rainfall exceeds monthly average

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Rainfall totals at Easterwood Airport are 3.72 inches above normal for the month. Based on yearly averages, though, Bryan-College Station remains 4.33 inches below normal.Recent rainfall has helped to raise the water level in Lake Somerville a foot, ...

Animal shelter pact not renewed

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

The Bryan City Council on Tuesday decided against renewing an annual contract worth more than $145,600 with the Brazos Animal Shelter after two people raised concerns about the shelter's management and details of the contract.The shelter had requeste ...

B-CS banks joining forces

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Officials from two Bryan-College Station banks said Tuesday that a planned merger would enhance their ability serve the community.The Bank and Trust of Del Rio will join with Texas Enterprise Bank. The business will be renamed The Bank and Trust of B ...

Second man convicted in 2008 murder

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 09:02 AM PDT

The second of two men accused of robbing and stabbing to death a Bryan man for $43 and a cell phone was found guilty of murder Tuesday after a trial that lasted more than a week. Jurors will now decide the sentence of O.C. Hayward, 26, with the punis ...

Bank and Trust merges with Texas Enterprise in Bryan

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 06:33 AM PDT

The Bank and Trust of Del Rio officials on Tuesday announced plans to merge with Texas Enterprise Bank. The business will be renamed The Bank and Trust of Bryan-College Station, and combined assets will total almost $200 million, officials said. Of ...

Rudder to host memorial for Pruitt

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Services for longtime community leader and activist Mell Pruitt have been set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Rudder High School's Margaret Rudder Auditorium.Pruitt died Monday at the age of 79.Visitation is scheduled to start at noon Friday at the Brazos Va ...

Bryan man guilty of murder

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A Bryan man faces up to 99 years in prison after being convicted of murder by a jury Tuesday. O.C. Hayward, 26, was the second man convicted of robbing and stabbing Wesley Miller to death for $43 and a cell phone.Jurors will now decide the sentence, ...

Cold front, more rain expected across Brazos Valley

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 03:45 AM PDT

The National Weather Service forecast rain and a cold front for the Brazos Valley area Tuesday.The weather service issued a hazardous weather outlook for southeast Texas -- including Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison and Washington counties -- statin ...

Man accused of breaking into Bryan bar

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:56 AM PDT

Police said they arrested a 28-year-old man on a burglary charge early Tuesday after they caught him trying to take money from a jukebox in a Bryan bar.William James Johnson of Bryan was arrested on a charge of burglary of a building.Police said they ...

Funding for signs pits CS, district

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

College Station city and school leaders disagreed Tuesday over who should pay for road signs needed to enforce a ban on hand-held cell phones in school zones.Texas House Bill 55, which went into effect Sept. 1, lets local government agencies prohibit ...

Rudder's Rangers plan mock battle

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Grenade explosions and rifle fire will fill the air near the quadrangle formed by the Corps of Cadets' dorms at 6 p.m. Thursday. But there's no need to be alarmed: The grenades will be fake and the M-16 will be firing blanks. Rudder's Rangers -- a 37 ...

Man charged with dealing cocaine in Cameron park

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:30 AM PDT

Police said they arrested a 28-year-old man after they saw him dealing cocaine in a Cameron park.Christopher Demon Johnson of Cameron was arrested Monday on charges of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance in an amount from four to 200 gr ...

Contest to exhibit Blinn students' work

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Current and former Blinn College art students may enter a contest to have their work displayed at Texas A&M University. Blinn is co-sponsoring the contest with the European Union Center. The theme is "Express your vision of the European Union thr ...

'Q-tip tax' debate rolls on

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- They were calling it the tax on Q-tips.Amid Republican ridicule, a Democratic chairman backed down Tuesday and exempted consumer items of $100 or less -- from condoms to contact lenses -- from a proposed tax on medical device manufactu ...

Keeping an eye on Northgate

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Steven Vandiver of RedMoon Broadband in Plano installs one of four surveillance cameras at the Northgate Promenade area Tuesday. The cameras, which are set to start functioning this weekend, will record 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which Colleg ...

Complexes on alert amid terror probe

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- The government expanded a terrorism warning from transit systems to U.S. stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes as investigators searched for more suspects Tuesday in a possible al-Qaida plot to set off hydrogen-peroxide bombs hidde ...

State: Health reform could cost Texans up to $20B

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- A preliminary state report shows the pending federal health care reform plan would add about 2.5 million Texans to the state public insurance rolls.The report by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission also says the added enrollm ...

OH man who made toddler smoke pot gets 10 years

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio man who videotaped himself forcing his 18-month-old niece to smoke marijuana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.Prosecutors say 19-year-old Melvin Blevins of Pataskala was part of a marijuana-trafficking ring. A video ...

McDonald's fries the holy grail for potato farmers

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

KIMBERLY, Idaho -- From the fields of Idaho to tasting rooms in suburban Chicago, potato farmers, researchers and industry representatives are in the midst of an elusive hunt: finding a new spud for McDonald's french fries.A decade has passed since t ...

Laredo man dies after police use Taser on him

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

LAREDO, Texas -- Three Laredo police officers are on administrative duty pending investigation of the death of a man they shocked with a Taser gun.Police spokesman Alberto Escobedo says the three officers answered a pre-dawn criminal mischief report ...

Judge removes self from Bush library lawsuit

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

DALLAS -- A judge has recused himself from a property dispute between some ex-condo owners and Southern Methodist University over the site of George W. Bush's presidential library.State District Judge Martin Hoffman was scheduled to hold another he ...

Zelaya holed up in embassy

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Baton-wielding soldiers used tear gas and water cannons to chase away thousands who demonstrated outside the Brazilian embassy Tuesday, leaving deposed President Manuel Zelaya and 70 friends and relatives trapped inside with ...

Obama tackles Mideast

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders to relaunch Mideast peace negotiations Tuesday, grasping a newly personal role in their historic standoff. He won an awkward, stonefaced han ...

Baucus continues push for health care changes

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Bidding for support from Democrats as well as a single Republican, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee gaveled open a long-awaited debate over health care Tuesday with fresh plans to reduce costs on working-class families and i ...

New Treatment Could Spare Heart Patients From More Surgery

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 07:11 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered a minimally invasive procedure that dramatically cuts costs and could spare heart patients further surgery. It's called CT-guided tube pericardiostomy and it's used to treat pericardial effusion, the ...

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