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- A&M gets $20M in stimulus aid
- Obama's A&M talk by invitation only
- Bryan schools await tax vote
- Complaint filed in camera fight
- Walk to benefit fight against ALS
- Children's museum earns global award
- Crash hurts driver of chicken truck
- Occupants of truck near Bryan creek found safe, officials say
- Woman arrested on prostitution charge
- Flags to be lowered in honor of Borlaug
- CS man rammed gate, police say
- Habitat for Humanity to host comedy show
- Texas judge clears way for gay divorce
- CBS worker arrested in Letterman blackmail plot
- Perry cousin slain by officers
- West Texas wind farm is a genuine blowhard
- Letterman: Affairs at root of extortion
- Campaigns mark anniversary of economic bailout
- Patients in the Dark About Risks of Prostate Cancer Screening
- Low-Cost Drugs Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke
- Cells Predict Diabetic Kidney Disease in Men
- Travolta attorney says he warned Bahamas defendant
- Jon Gosselin says he wants his kids off TLC show
- Autopsy shows that Jackson was healthy
- TLC ceases filming of 'Jon & Kate' kids
| A&M gets $20M in stimulus aid Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Texas A&M University has received about $20 million for research through President Barack Obama's economic stimulus funding, Interim President R. Bowen Loftin said Thursday. He also said several task forces would be created, whose tasks will incl ... |
| Obama's A&M talk by invitation only Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Brazos County residents hoping to see President Barack Obama speak on the Texas A&M campus this month will have a hard time tracking down a ticket if they haven't already been invited to the event, officials said Thursday. Details are still being ... |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Residents in the Bryan school district will have a final chance Saturday to weigh in on a proposal to increase the property tax rate by 5 cents. In July, the Bryan school board agreed to ask voters for the tax increase, which would raise the maintena ... |
| Complaint filed in camera fight Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT The man leading the charge against College Station's red light cameras acknowledges that he may have violated the Texas Election Code in his campaign to get rid of them.But Jim Ash said that the mistakes were unintentional and that he was working to ... |
| Walk to benefit fight against ALS Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Matt LaFauci was about 16 when his grandmother died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. If he hadn't been a fan of the New York Yankees, he admits, he would have known little about the progressive neurodege ... |
| Children's museum earns global award Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT The Children's Museum of Brazos Valley was one of four museums in the nation to be ranked as a Good to Grow! Museum by the Association of Children's Museums. The Bryan museum made the list because of its effort to encourage health and wellness, assoc ... |
| Crash hurts driver of chicken truck Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT The driver of a truck hauling live chickens was hospitalized Thursday after a traffic accident on Texas 30 east of the Navasota River.Grimes County Sheriff's Deputy Bill Bright said the Sanderson Farms truck collided with an earth mover the size of a ... |
| Occupants of truck near Bryan creek found safe, officials say Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:37 AM PDT A Bryan Fire Department water-rescue crew and dogs searched Thursday morning for occupants of a truck that went down a creek embankment, but learned two hours later that the two inside were safe, officials said. Battalion Chief Terry Barnett said em ... |
| Woman arrested on prostitution charge Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT A Houston woman was arrested on a prostitution charge after an undercover College Station police officer responded to her online ad for escort services, authorities said.Police received a complaint from a local business about the ad, and an officer c ... |
| Flags to be lowered in honor of Borlaug Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Gov. Rick Perry has ordered flags lowered to half-staff Tuesday in honor of Norman Borlaug, who died last month in Dallas at the age of 95. A public memorial for Borlaug -- an A&M distinguished professor of soil and crop sciences --is set for 11 ... |
| CS man rammed gate, police say Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT A 20-year-old College Station man has been charged with felony criminal mischief a month after he, according to police, rammed his truck through an apartment complex's security gates.Juan Phillip Mejias was arrested Wednesday after being linked to th ... |
| Habitat for Humanity to host comedy show Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humanity will host a comedy show Friday to raise money to build a home for a local family.The Hard Hat Comedy Show will be at Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater in College Station. Gates open at 6 p.m., with live music by t ... |
| Texas judge clears way for gay divorce Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT DALLAS -- A Texas judge cleared the way for two Dallas men to get a divorce, ruling Thursday that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he'd app ... |
| CBS worker arrested in Letterman blackmail plot Posted: 02 Oct 2009 01:05 AM PDT NEW YORK -- A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.Lette ... |
| Perry cousin slain by officers Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT AUSTIN -- A cousin of Texas Gov. Rick Perry was shot and killed over the weekend in his backyard during an exchange of gunfire with sheriff's deputies, officials said Thursday.Perry said Thursday that the death was tragic but stressed that he hardly ... |
| West Texas wind farm is a genuine blowhard Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT DALLAS -- The world's largest wind farm officially got up and running Thursday, with all 627 towering wind turbines churning out electricity across 100,000 acres of West Texas farmland.The Roscoe Wind Complex sprawls across four counties near Roscoe ... |
| Letterman: Affairs at root of extortion Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- David Letterman acknowledged on Thursday's show that he had sexual relationships with female employees and that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs.During the taping of CBS' The Late Show in New York, Letterman ... |
| Campaigns mark anniversary of economic bailout Posted: 01 Oct 2009 07:01 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- The campaigns of Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison are sniping over who is more fiscally disciplined.Both candidates for the 2010 Republican nomination for governor are marking the one-year anniversary Thursday of the day ... |
| Patients in the Dark About Risks of Prostate Cancer Screening Posted: 01 Oct 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Cancer screening is designed to save lives, but two new studies suggest patients should more carefully weigh the risks and benefits of prostate cancer testing. Researchers at the New Mexico VA Health Care System and University ... |
| Low-Cost Drugs Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke Posted: 01 Oct 2009 07:12 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A program that bundled two generic, low-cost drugs -- a cholesterol-lowering statin and a blood pressure-lowering drug -- and gave daily doses to 68,560 people with diabetes or heart disease for two years is estimated to have p ... |
| Cells Predict Diabetic Kidney Disease in Men Posted: 01 Oct 2009 07:10 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A key indicator for diabetic kidney disease in men may be traced to a cell type linked to allergic inflammation. More and more allergy patients are being diagnosed across the world, and kidney disease is a severe complica ... |
| Travolta attorney says he warned Bahamas defendant Posted: 02 Oct 2009 01:07 AM PDT NASSAU, Bahamas -- A lawyer for John Travolta testified Thursday that he warned a former Bahamas senator she would not get away with an alleged scheme to extort $25 million from the movie star, and even wore a wire to secretly record their conversati ... |
| Jon Gosselin says he wants his kids off TLC show Posted: 02 Oct 2009 01:06 AM PDT LOS ANGELES -- The father of the children on "Jon & Kate Plus 8" says it's "not healthy" for his kids to continue appearing on the TLC reality show.Jon Gosselin says he had "an epiphany one day" and realized his 5-year-old sextuplets and 8-year-o ... |
| Autopsy shows that Jackson was healthy Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT .In fact, the Los Angeles County coroner's report shows that Jackson was a fairly healthy 50-year-old before he died of an overdose. His weight, 136 pounds, was in the acceptable range for a 5-foot-9 man. His heart was strong with no sign of plaque b ... |
| TLC ceases filming of 'Jon & Kate' kids Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT NEW YORK -- TLC network has shut down filming of the children on Jon & Kate Plus 8 after receiving a cease-and-desist order from their father, Jon Gosselin.In a statement, the network said production would remain suspended "pending further conver ... |
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