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- Columbine tragedy inspires challenge
- Bryan mayor repays city for bar tab
- B-CS economy continues slide
- Leon County crash into home kills pilot
- 99-year term given to killer
- Regents to weigh $70M upgrade
- Tailgating scores big with many
- Authorities searching for mental patient
- Bush photographer to speak at A&M
- New developments under way in B-CS
- Sugar makes Dr Pepper special from Dublin, Texas
- Hometown heroes
- More than 1,000 animals rescued in Houston
- Slain Texas teacher faced trouble at school before
- Nominations sought for Chamber awards
- Asking price for Lay condo: $12.8M
- Networking event planned for Oct. 15
- Fed to slow pace of $1.45T program
- New Treatment for Advanced Melanoma
- Fat Cells 'Hide' Cancer from Chemo
- Study: Smoking Bans Prevent Heart Attack
- Phillips book tells of incest
- Immune Response to Spinal Cord Injury may Worsen Damage
- Listen to Your Body: Save Your Life
- Listen to Your Body: Save Your Life - Research Summary
| Columbine tragedy inspires challenge Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT A lot of today's Jane Long Middle School students were in diapers when the Columbine High School shooting happened more than 10 years ago. But on Wednesday morning, they were reminded of the story and encouraged to display kindness to everyone to pre ... |
| Bryan mayor repays city for bar tab Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT Bryan Mayor Mark Conlee recently used a city procurement card to pay a bar tab of nearly $400 from a meeting with developers, then reimbursed the city after an open records request was filed by The Eagle.Conlee said he had planned to split the bill - ... |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT Bryan-College Station's economy is continuing the slide it began in January, but local officials note signs of improvement in some sectors.The region's economic index, which was started in January 2000 with a baseline of 100, fell from 120.6 in July ... |
| Leon County crash into home kills pilot Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT An unidentified pilot died Wednesday when his plane crashed into a home in the Hilltop Lakes community in Leon County. Leon County Sheriff Jerry Wakefield said the home at 22 Golfview Drive was a complete loss. "It appears there are two residents of ... |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT After Bryan resident O.C. Hayward learned in September 2008 that a man with whom he had just smoked crack had died, he became visibly upset and declared that he couldn't go to jail for 50 years, a witness testified during Hayward's trial. On Wednesda ... |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT A $70 million upgrade to Texas A&M University's heating and power systems would replace aging equipment and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent, officials said. It will be one of several items the Texas A&M University System Board of R ... |
| Tailgating scores big with many Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT What started off with an ice chest and a card table has grown to a tradition that includes a day of cooking and camaraderie for Aggie fan Hunter Shurtleff.Shurtleff -- who has been tailgating at Texas A&M home football games since 2000 -- said t ... |
| Authorities searching for mental patient Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT The Burleson County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating a mental patient who may be dangerous.Sharon Stone is 63, white, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 200 pounds with shoulder-length reddish-brown hair. She has a diste ... |
| Bush photographer to speak at A&M Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT The director of the White House's photo office under President George H.W. Bush will speak at Texas A&M at 6 p.m. Oct. 5.David Valdez -- who published George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile -- was named to the post after serving as th ... |
| New developments under way in B-CS Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:51 PM PDT A number of developments are under way in Bryan-College Station this week. In College Station: * O'Bannon's facade: 103 Boyett St. A non-residential architectural standards review to allow for façade changes to the exterior of the building. ... |
| Sugar makes Dr Pepper special from Dublin, Texas Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT DUBLIN, Texas -- For Dr Pepper drinkers, this is Mecca.Tens of thousands of people trek to tiny Dublin in north-central Texas each year to buy cases of the nation's third most popular soft drink from a bottling company that uses real sugar in its fla ... |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT Lowe's employee Valerie Trevino and her co-workers plant a garden at the Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley on Wednesday. The volunteers also replaced carpeting in the museum's spaceship structure. The improvements were part of the Lowe's Heroes ... |
| More than 1,000 animals rescued in Houston Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Animal rescue personnel removed more than 1,000 birds, gerbils, snakes, dogs and a goat from wretched conditions at a home in the Houston area.The creatures remained with the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Th ... |
| Slain Texas teacher faced trouble at school before Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT TYLER, Texas -- Special education teacher Todd Henry worked with troubled students for years and had been injured at school before.The onetime prison therapist who died Wednesday after being stabbed in a classroom, allegedly by one of his students, m ... |
| Nominations sought for Chamber awards Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the Volunteer of the Year and Citizen of the Year awards. The annual honors are presented to residents who have contributed to the community and the Chamber in major ways. The ... |
| Asking price for Lay condo: $12.8M Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:53 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Three fireplaces. Four bedroom suites. Six elevators. Nine bathrooms. A 12,827-square-foot Houston condominium where disgraced Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay lived is on the market for $12.8 million. Linda Lay has listed the luxury con ... |
| Networking event planned for Oct. 15 Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:50 PM PDT The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce is hosting its Business After Hours on Oct. 15. The free program will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Brazos County Expo Complex, 5827 Leonard Road in Bryan. Food, drinks and networking will be offered ... |
| Fed to slow pace of $1.45T program Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT With the economy on the mend, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it was slowing the pace of a program to lower mortgage rates and prop up the housing market.The Fed decided to stretch out its goal of buying $1.45 trillion in mortgage-backed securi ... |
| New Treatment for Advanced Melanoma Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Malignant melanoma is one of the hardest cancers to treat once it has spread throughout the body. Researchers in Berlin, Germany hope new research may lead to a cure in the future. In a new trial researchers have seen rapid sh ... |
| Fat Cells 'Hide' Cancer from Chemo Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Obese children with leukemia relapse significantly more than lean children, and now new research explains why this happens. Obese kids with leukemia have a 50 percent increased risk of relapsing compared to thinner children. "( ... |
| Study: Smoking Bans Prevent Heart Attack Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Community-wide smoking bans lower your risk of heart attack, according to a new study. One year after the smoking ban was instituted, communities saw a 17 percent reduction in heart attacks compared to communities without smoki ... |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT CHICAGO -- Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday that her late father, John Phillips, who was a leader of the 1960s pop group the Mamas and the Papas, raped her when she was a teenager and that her sexual relationship with him later bec ... |
| Immune Response to Spinal Cord Injury may Worsen Damage Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:09 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. A new study by neuroscientists at The Ohio State University Medical Center may have solved the mystery of what thes ... |
| Listen to Your Body: Save Your Life Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:04 PM PDT DALLAS (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- We all know about the typical warning signs of disease. Lumps in the breast could mean breast cancer. A dark spot on your skin may mean melanoma. That spare tire around your mid-section could put you at risk for heart di ... |
| Listen to Your Body: Save Your Life - Research Summary Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:00 PM PDT LES'S STORY: On February 13th, 2009, Les Duncan suffered his fifth brain hemorrhage. Duncan suffers from cavernous angioma, a genetic condition that causes the blood vessels in his brain to become tangled and knotted. These vascular malformations ar ... |
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