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- Blinn College hosts retirement ceremony for chancellor
- Brazos Valley under flash flood watch
- Report says 2 used stun gun in attack
- Man accused of stealing DVD player
- Police say man was asleep inside truck
- 147 die in Iraq blasts
- Records show that Hutchisons are millionaires
- Health profits exaggerated
- Air traffic controllers to track flights with GPS
- Yuppie 911 irks rescue workers
- R.I. tracking swine flu electronically
- Sheriff in balloon saga spouting off
- Study: Kids need more vitamin D
- Gates sways education spending
- Coming to your house: 3-D
- Excess Pregnancy Pounds Hard to Shed
- Letters for October 26
- Calendar
- Employer mandate likely to go
- Fire in Calif. mountains prompts evacuations
- Companies' earnings reports may be misleading
- Condition Raises Parkinson's Risk 5-Fold
- Drug may Slow ALS
- Yankees advance to World Series
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Texas A&M soccer fans pound the field partition as they cheer on the Aggie soccer team during the first half of the game against Texas Tech at the A&M Soccer Complex on Sunday. The game ended tied at 0. ... |
| Blinn College hosts retirement ceremony for chancellor Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Donald Voelter intended on staying for five years after being hired at Blinn College as a business instructor.That plan didn't quite work out. Instead, he stayed almost four decades, rising to the top spot in the Blinn system. Colleagues took several ... |
| Brazos Valley under flash flood watch Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:42 AM PDT The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding in areas of the Brazos Valley through Monday night.The weather service issued a flash flood watch for a portion of southeast Texas -- including Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison and Washington ... |
| Report says 2 used stun gun in attack Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT Police are asking for help in finding two men accused of using a stun gun on a College Station resident whom they robbed. Officials responded to the 900 block of Kalanchoe Court at about 10 p.m. in reference to a report of robbery.A man said a pair a ... |
| Man accused of stealing DVD player Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT A 24-year-old Bryan man was arrested over the weekend after police said he stole a DVD player by hiding it under a child in a store buggy. Bryan police said they responded to Wal-Mart on Aug. 12 in reference to a theft report. Officers said they watc ... |
| Police say man was asleep inside truck Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT A 43-year-old Bryan man posted bail Sunday after being arrested when police said they caught him asleep behind the wheel. He was charged with driving while intoxicated with open containers of alcohol, which is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a f ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- A pair of suicide car bombings Sunday devastated the heart of Iraq's capital, killing at least 147 people in the country's deadliest attack in more than two years. The bombs targeted two government buildings and called into question Iraq' ... |
| Records show that Hutchisons are millionaires Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT AUSTIN -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison would have to take a pay cut if she's elected governor, but her husband's income, a multimillion dollar investment portfolio and other assets have already contributed to significant family wealth.Hutchison's ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo?Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry.In the he ... |
| Air traffic controllers to track flights with GPS Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Air traffic controllers at Bush Intercontinental Airport rely on radio reports to guide traffic in the Gulf. They'll soon be able to track flights in real time using GPS.Every flight over the Gulf of Mexico is a test of old-fashioned aeron ... |
| Yuppie 911 irks rescue workers Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT FRESNO, Calif. -- Last month, two men and their teenage sons tackled one of the world's most unforgiving summertime hikes: the Grand Canyon's parched and searing Royal Arch Loop. Along with bedrolls and freeze-dried food, the inexperienced backpacker ... |
| R.I. tracking swine flu electronically Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State health officials are tracking the spread of swine flu through electronic prescription records, developing what they believe is a model that could help doctors more easily identify and respond to an outbreak of the illness.Rh ... |
| Sheriff in balloon saga spouting off Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The sheriff at the center of the runaway balloon saga says he's not enjoying the media spotlight, but that's never stopped the John Wayne fan from using it to offer brash opinions on hot topics.Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderd ... |
| Study: Kids need more vitamin D Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT CHICAGO -- At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don't get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.By a looser measure, almost 90 percent of bla ... |
| Gates sways education spending Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and seco ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in theaters this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they're surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.Next year, ... |
| Excess Pregnancy Pounds Hard to Shed Posted: 25 Oct 2009 07:10 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Obese women who gain more weight than recommended during pregnancy are more likely to retain as much as 40 percent of that weight one year after they give birth, according to a Kaiser Permanente study. "We found that near ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT Election letters deadline is Tuesday Tuesday at 5 p.m. is the deadline for letters to the editor concerning the Nov. 3 voting on 11 proposed constitutional amendments and, in College Station only, whether to keep red-light cameras at heavily tr ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT MARK YOUR CALENDARSKeep Brazos Beautiful's 8th annual Crape Myrtle and Shade Tree Sale has started. www.keepbrazosbeautiful.org.MondayCLUBSCollege Station Senior Advisory Committee meeting, 10 a.m. The Exit Teen Center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. Visito ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms would owe significant penalties if any worker needed government subsidies to buy coverage on their own, acco ... |
| Fire in Calif. mountains prompts evacuations Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- California officials say a wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains has prompted mandatory evacuations of about 60 homes.California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokeswoman Cherie Alver says a trailer and two outbuild ... |
| Companies' earnings reports may be misleading Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT CHICAGO -- More than 80 percent of major companies reporting third-quarter results this month have beaten Wall Street expectations. So is business that good? No. Are companies gaming the system? Yes.Corporate America has a habit of low-balling the ea ... |
| Condition Raises Parkinson's Risk 5-Fold Posted: 25 Oct 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Carriers of a rare genetic condition called Gaucher disease face a five-fold risk of developing Parkinson's disease. The discovery was made by investigators from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Nati ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 07:11 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A compound closely related to a drug already used to treat sepsis shows promise in slowing the progression of ALS, a deadly condition for which there is currently no cure. In a study examining the effects of an enzyme called ac ... |
| Yankees advance to World Series Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees are back in baseball's big event.The sport's top spenders finally cashed in with their first pennant in six years Sunday night, beating the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 in Game 6 of the AL championship series behind the sav ... |
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