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- Night of the Tigers
- N. Zulch flu closes schools
- Events to highlight mental illness issues
- Eateries build on Texas pride
- Voters go to polls on BISD tax hike
- Building a community
- Jones to get Aggie award for stadium
- Cook-off jump-starts Go Texan Weekend
- Vets' turkey shoot to aid U.S. soldiers
- Siblings arrested after drunk driving wreck, police say
- Rio strikes gold
- Health care overhaul: So near, yet so far
- Show me the cure
- Panel's leader worries some
- Liberals anxious to get new judges into courts
- Survivors of Indonesia quake found
- Gibbs: Obama 'disappointed' at losing Olympics
- Venezuela buys ConocoPhillips' gas project stake
- Bank of America board forms CEO search committee
- State asks feds for $4.7 billion for speedy trains
- Time Warner says it won't bid for NBC Universal
- September's 9.8% jobless rate highest since '83
- Eight Mile, Apple settle dispute
- Man pleads not guilty in Letterman plot
- Palin cover unveiled
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:33 PM PDT A&M Consolidated's Chris Nutall is held aloft by teammate Harley York as they and the rest of the Tigers football team celebrate a win over Bryan at the annual Crosstown Showdown on Friday at Kyle Field. ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:13 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportNorth Zulch schools will be shut down Monday and Tuesday because a mounting number of students have come down with the flu.A high school dance scheduled for Friday was canceled, along with all extracurricular programs scheduled for ... |
| Events to highlight mental illness issues Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:07 PM PDT Karen Garber's younger brother has struggled with depression his whole life.Her brother began drinking when he was 12. Now in his late 40s, he has liver problems, and Garber said she couldn't count the number of times he has been suicidal. The proble ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:07 PM PDT Alfonso Gonzalez's Bryan restaurant offers mushrooms from Madisonville and fresh produce from Calvert. "For the most part, I try to use Texas-grown products," said Gonzalez, executive chef and owner of La Riviera Restaurant & Bakery. "It's basica ... |
| Voters go to polls on BISD tax hike Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:15 PM PDT -- Eagle Staff ReportResidents in the Bryan school district will vote Saturday on whether to increase the property tax rate by 5 cents to help the district balance its budget.The increase would amount to an additional $50 a year per $100,000 of asses ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:07 PM PDT Habitat for Humanity construction supervisor Carson Pryor and Omar San Miguel cut boards for a home being built by area Catholic churches. San Miguel's family will receive a new home as part of another Habitat project being built by the Circle of Wom ... |
| Jones to get Aggie award for stadium Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:09 PM PDT -- Eagle Staff ReportThe owner of the Dallas Cowboys will be the first recipient of the "Spirit of Place" medal, a Texas A&M University College of Architecture award. Jerry Jones will receive the medal for "significant contributions to the built ... |
| Cook-off jump-starts Go Texan Weekend Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:15 PM PDT -- Eagle Staff ReportBurleson County's Go Texan Weekend will kick off Oct. 10 with a chili and barbecue cook-off. The two-day event, at the Buddy and Edile Lightsey Arena in Caldwell, will feature a dominoes contest, horse rides and a petting zoo for ... |
| Vets' turkey shoot to aid U.S. soldiers Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:15 PM PDT -- Eagle Staff ReportVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 4692 will be collecting items for care packages for U.S. service members during its monthly turkey shoot on Sunday.The event will begin at 1 p.m. at the post, 794 N. Harvey Mitchell Parkway in Bryan. ... |
| Siblings arrested after drunk driving wreck, police say Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:02 AM PDT College Station police said they arrested two siblings on drunk driving charges after one caused a three-vehicle accident following a night of drinking at a bar where the other works.A 22-year-old woman and her 21-year-old brother, both of Waxahachie ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT COPENHAGEN -- Like sweet, sultry samba music, Rio hit all the right notes.Chicago had Barack Obama. Tokyo had $4 billion in the bank. Madrid had powerful friends. But none of that mattered. Rio de Janeiro had the enchanting story -- of about 400 mill ... |
| Health care overhaul: So near, yet so far Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:14 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- After eight months in office, Barack Obama has now pushed closer than any other president in generations to creating a basic health care safety net for working Americans. Yet the fate of legislation delivering on his goal is far from ce ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Texas gave birth to the modern oil industry, invented the hand-held calculator and sent man to the moon. But can the Lone Star State cure cancer?Texas is ready to try by investing $3 billion over the next decade in cancer research and preve ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT DALLAS -- Gov. Rick Perry's surprise appointment of a conservative ally to lead a panel investigating whether Texas executed an innocent man has raised the question of whether politics will trump science on the state's forensics board.Williamson Coun ... |
| Liberals anxious to get new judges into courts Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Eight months into office, President Barack Obama is moving far more slowly than his predecessor to fill federal court vacancies, leaving liberals waiting for the judiciary to tilt to the left.At stake are precedent-setting rulings on is ... |
| Survivors of Indonesia quake found Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT PADANG, Indonesia -- Ratna Kurniasari Virgo lay surrounded by death for 40 hours -- trapped with a broken leg between the collapsed walls of her college and the bodies of her friends.Her rescue Friday was a rare tale of survival two days after a mass ... |
| Gibbs: Obama 'disappointed' at losing Olympics Posted: 02 Oct 2009 06:19 AM PDT ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- President Barack Obama is "disappointed" Chicago missed getting the 20016 Olympic Games but doesn't regret putting so much on the line to argue for it, his chief spokesman said Friday.Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One ... |
| Venezuela buys ConocoPhillips' gas project stake Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:22 PM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's state oil company said Friday it has purchased ConocoPhillips' 40 percent stake in a joint natural gas venture with Chevron Corp.State-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, said it will now team up with Chevr ... |
| Bank of America board forms CEO search committee Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:21 PM PDT CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Bank of America Corp. said Friday it created a six-member committee of directors to find a successor for CEO Ken Lewis.The move comes two days after the bank said Lewis plans to retire at the end of the year.The committee is b ... |
| State asks feds for $4.7 billion for speedy trains Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:20 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger requested $4.7 billion in federal stimulus money Friday to help build an 800-mile bullet train system from San Diego to San Francisco.The state's application for the grant calls for some $5 billion in st ... |
| Time Warner says it won't bid for NBC Universal Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:19 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The head of Time Warner Inc. says he's not interested in making a bid for NBC Universal. That could strengthen the hand of Comcast Corp. as it explores whether to buy a controlling stake in the parent of the NBC network and Unive ... |
| September's 9.8% jobless rate highest since '83 Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, the highest since June 1983, as employers cut far more jobs than expected.The report shows that the worst recession since the 1930s is still inflicting widespread pain and undersco ... |
| Eight Mile, Apple settle dispute Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT DETROIT -- Apple Inc. and the music publisher for Eminem have settled a lawsuit over the digital downloading rights to many of the Detroit rapper's songs, a lawyer said Friday.Eight Mile Style LLC claimed that its contract with Aftermath Records did ... |
| Man pleads not guilty in Letterman plot Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT NEW YORK -- A CBS News employee pleaded not guilty Friday to trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that spurred the TV host to acknowledge sexual relationships with women who worked on his show.Robert J. "Joe" Halderman, a prod ... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2009 06:16 AM PDT NEW YORK -- You know the title, now see the cover of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue."The former Alaska governor's memoir, a top-seller online weeks before publication, will feature an outdoor shot of Palin, wearing an American flag pin on her red fleece ... |
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