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- Working on the railroad
- Obama visit is Friday
- Letter from Bush to the Aggie community:
- Senate committee approves health care plan
- Speech likely to draw rallies
- Navasota teacher arrested
- Ex-tax official is vindicated
- Judge Sims won't seek another term
- Bryan moves to scrap BVSWMA
- Bryan hosting livestock events this weekend
- Texas Transportation Institute hires Wood
- Scotty's House gets taken off jury list
- 3 guilty of harboring illegal immigrants
- Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually
- Panel passes health care bill
- 4.5 million Ford vehicles added to recall
- Mayor on trial over theft
- Man arrested in 1990 assault
- High court to hear Skilling's appeal
- Recall details
- Pros and Cons of Robotically-Assisted Prostate Surgery
- Father of Smith's baby due to testify
- Klum says she, Seal have new baby girl
- Thermometer can help when baking breads
- THATTAI
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Union Pacific workers repair a section of track at the railroad crossing at Bryan Avenue and 28th Street in downtown Bryan on Tuesday. ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT President Barack Obama's speech on volunteerism Friday at Texas A&M will be broadcast live on KAMU-TV for people who won't be able to see it in person, university officials said Tuesday.Details of the event are still being worked out and an offic ... |
| Letter from Bush to the Aggie community: Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT To My Fellow Members of the Texas A&M Family:Howdy! As you have probably heard, I have invited the 44th President of the United States of America to come visit the Bush Library and Texas A&M, and President Obama has graciously accepted. Alon ... |
| Senate committee approves health care plan Posted: 13 Oct 2009 08:11 AM PDT WASHINGTON â€" With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama’s goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.Maine Republ ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Republican organizers expect a few thousand protesters at Texas A&M for President Barack Obama's visit Friday, including busloads from Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and other parts of the state. "We felt it was our responsibility to host something ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT A Navasota elementary school teacher has been arrested after a complaint that he touched a student inappropriately.Navasota police arrested Roberto Andaverde, 34, at his home Friday, said Lt. Jorge De La Cruz. He was being held in the Grimes County J ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT In 1992, Brazos County Tax Collector Gerald "Buddy" Winn was forced to pay more than $10,000 to cover money reported missing from his office's accounts. He argued at the time that the money wasn't actually missing, but had no way to prove it. And on ... |
| Judge Sims won't seek another term Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Brazos County Judge Randy Sims will not seek re-election in 2010, he announced Wednesday. The decision was widely expected around the Brazos County Courthouse, and Sims has told people for months that he won't run again."I just don't think that any c ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT The Bryan City Council on Tuesday hired a law firm to create a corporation to replace the Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency.The College Station City Council postponed a similar vote last month that would have allowed for the creation of a n ... |
| Bryan hosting livestock events this weekend Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA cattleman's education clinic and the annual youth commercial heifer show are set for this weekend at the Brazos Valley Livestock Commission in Bryan.The 23rd Annual Brazos Valley-Brock Faulkner Cattleman's Clinic will be Friday, f ... |
| Texas Transportation Institute hires Wood Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT The Texas Transportation Institute recently hired a former Bryan district engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation to oversee several major programs.Bryan Wood started his new job Oct. 1. He's now the head of the department's Constructed F ... |
| Scotty's House gets taken off jury list Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT -- Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to remove the charity Scotty's House from the list of agencies to which residents may donate juror payments.The decision was made by a 3-2 vote. Those who voted for the change s ... |
| 3 guilty of harboring illegal immigrants Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT It took a federal jury about two hours of deliberation to convict three men connected to the construction of new-student housing at Texas A&M-Kingsville of conspiring to harbor illegal aliens. The decision against William Holtzapfel, 53, of Houst ... |
| Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey.More than half the dea ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first Republican supporter Tuesday and cleared a key Senate hurdle, a double-barreled triumph that propelled President Barack Obama's signature issue toward votes ... |
| 4.5 million Ford vehicles added to recall Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday that it would add 4.5 million older-model vehicles to the long list of those recalled because a defective cruise control switch could cause a fire.The latest voluntary action pushes Ford's total recall due to fa ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT BROWNSVILLE -- A bank teller allowed a South Texas mayor to deposit a $26,000 check made out to someone else into his business account, the clerk testified Tuesday at the politician's theft trial, because he did not think the well-known figure would ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT DICKINSON -- Authorities Tuesday made an arrest in a nearly 20-year-old Southeast Texas case in which an 8-year-old girl was attacked and left for dead in a field, unable to cry out for help because her throat had been slashed.DNA evidence tested las ... |
| High court to hear Skilling's appeal Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Tuesday it would take up former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his convictions for his role in the collapse of the energy giant, accepting another high-profile challenge to a favorite tool of prosecutors in w ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT The recall covers the following model years: 1995-2003 Ford Windstar; 2000-2003 Ford Excursion diesel; 1993-1997 and 1999-2003 Ford F-Super Duty diesel; 1992-2003 Ford Econoline; 1995-2002 Ford Explorer; 1995-2002 Mercury Mountaineer; 1995-1997 and 2 ... |
| Pros and Cons of Robotically-Assisted Prostate Surgery Posted: 13 Oct 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The use of minimally invasive procedures for radical prostatectomy may shorten hospital stays and decrease respiratory and surgical complications, but may also result in the increase of certain long-term complications, such as ... |
| Father of Smith's baby due to testify Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is due in court to testify at a preliminary hearing in the case involving the celebrity model's drug-overdose death.Defense attorneys said they had been notified by the prosecution that Larry ... |
| Klum says she, Seal have new baby girl Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT BERLIN -- German-born model Heidi Klum has given birth to a daughter, Lou Sulola Samuel -- her fourth child.Klum, who is married to Grammy-winning singer Seal, said on her Web site that the baby was born Friday.Klum already has two young sons with Se ... |
| Thermometer can help when baking breads Posted: 13 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT Dear Lisa: I recently heard someone talking about using a thermometer to test bread for doneness. Is that really a good way? What temperature should it be? -- Beth G.Dear Beth: Seasoned bakers often rely on the hollow sound that comes from thumping a ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT The name for these fried treats, thattai, may have been taken from the Tamil word meaning "flattie" or "pattie." These South Indian treats sometimes are found in shops, but connoisseurs swear by the fresh taste of homemade.Recipe is adapted from the ... |
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