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- 10 years after bonfire collapse
- Jones leads Oklahoma rout of Texas A&M, 65-10
- Murano reflects on talks with victims' families
- 10-year remembrances may be last ones set up by A&M
- Cemetery reclaimed
- DWI cases involve children in vehicles
- Great strides
- Concert to benefit fire department
- Mourners honor Fort Hood victims at funerals
- Study: Bill to raise health costs
- Report probes Medicare payouts
- Pushing for abortion rights
- Shuttle set for Monday liftoff
- Iran artists retaliate against government's tight grip
- Obama discusses climate, arms
- Memorial to world war victims scattered across globe
- Controversial California prosecutor retiring
- Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches shrinking
- French having some luck with Afghan informants
- Crabbers resist Va. buyout
- Disney's Tiana is historic, but do girls understand?
- Travelers can keep an eye on home security
- It's app time. College, not iPhone
- 'Riverdance' farewell tour is an athletic endeavor
- McKellen rules in AMC remake of 'The Prisoner'
| 10 years after bonfire collapse Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:35 PM PST How the families of 12 fallen Aggies have coped with tragic lossEagle Staff ReportTwelve families forever changed when bonfire collapsed a decade ago on the Texas A&M campus.Gone for each was a loved one who died too young and without warning.The ... |
| Jones leads Oklahoma rout of Texas A&M, 65-10 Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:31 PM PST A week after throwing five interceptions, Landry Jones passed for a career-high 392 yards and five touchdowns -- two to DeMarco Murray -- as Oklahoma became bowl-eligible with a 65-10 rout of Texas A&M on Saturday night.Murray rushed 18 times for ... |
| Murano reflects on talks with victims' families Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST Elsa Murano read the reports about bonfire's 1999 collapse and picked the brains of experienced officials. But before the former Texas A&M president would decide whether the tradition should return to campus, she embarked on a journey that she ca ... |
| 10-year remembrances may be last ones set up by A&M Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST As long as Texas A&M exists, Aggies likely will gather at 2:42 a.m. every Nov. 18 to mark the bonfire collapse that killed 12 and injured 27.But this week's events might be the last time A&M as an institution marks the 1999 event with remembr ... |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST Down a private drive that leads to a dirt road about a mile off Mumford Road, there's a 600-acre tract. Four of those acres were donated in 1875 by a man named James Henry for the purpose of building a church, a school and a cemetery. In 1930, the ch ... |
| DWI cases involve children in vehicles Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:37 PM PST A Bryan man was in jail Saturday night after police said he almost hit a patrol car after a night of drinking.According to the police report, Jose Hernandez Martinez, 28, failed to yield the right of way when leaving a bar parking lot Friday night an ... |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST Bengall Belle Madison Haas cheers as the A&M Consolidated Tigers take the field to play Tyler's Robert E. Lee Red Raiders in Corsicana on Saturday. Lee won 38-20. ... |
| Concert to benefit fire department Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST -- Eagle Staff ReportA concert is scheduled Thursday in Somerville to benefit the volunteer fire department.The Kingsmen will play at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 517 8th St.Band members include Ray Dean Reese on bass; Harold Reed, tenor; Cody ... |
| Mourners honor Fort Hood victims at funerals Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST KIEL, Wis. -- The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once pro ... |
| Study: Bill to raise health costs Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:46 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Overall spending on health care would rise as a result of legislation approved a week ago by the House, and billions of dollars in projected savings contained in the measure will be difficult to maintain, according to a report by a top ... |
| Report probes Medicare payouts Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year.Excerpts of ... |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion limits.They're blanketing Capitol Hill with lobbyists, petitions, le ... |
| Shuttle set for Monday liftoff Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Monday on a trip to stock up the International Space Station with several years' worth of spare parts.Mission managers gave the go-ahead Saturday as forecasters put the odds ... |
| Iran artists retaliate against government's tight grip Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:07 PM PST BEIRUT -- Iran's greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country's ruling hard-line clerics.So it was a bombshell when Shajarian -- so revered that his audiences pelt him with roses -- deman ... |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST SINGAPORE -- President Barack Obama and nearly two dozen fellow leaders from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region agreed Sunday that next month's much-anticipated international climate change meetings will be merely a way station -- not the once hoped- ... |
| Memorial to world war victims scattered across globe Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:14 PM PST It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million f ... |
| Controversial California prosecutor retiring Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:20 PM PST BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.Ed Jagels, ... |
| Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches shrinking Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:18 PM PST KAILUA, Hawaii -- Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles."It really used to be a beautiful beach," said the 35-year-old mother of two. "And now when you loo ... |
| French having some luck with Afghan informants Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:11 PM PST COMBAT OUTPOST ROCCO, Afghanistan -- Shortly before nightfall, an Afghan farmer slipped into this NATO outpost with a bag of ammunition and gear he'd collected from nearby Taliban positions. It turned out not to be much: pieces of 82-millimeter morta ... |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:16 PM PST VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- To ease pressures on the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, Virginia is paying watermen to stay out of the water, using $6.7 million in federal disaster aid to buy back crabbing licenses.Many longtime crabbers won't take th ... |
| Disney's Tiana is historic, but do girls understand? Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST NEW YORK -- Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney's first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is, too, but not because the princess is black."She understands that this is a princess who is African American," said Alford, who is black ... |
| Travelers can keep an eye on home security Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST This holiday season, many travelers will be able to keep a close eye on home.Thanks to new security system technology, including live video feed, you can monitor everything from the front door to the sump pump from hundreds of miles away."You can see ... |
| It's app time. College, not iPhone Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST NEW YORK -- If you're throwing around the term "app" a lot but it has nothing to do with iPhones, you must have a high school senior in the family working on a college app.Application, that is.And while it's stressful for teenagers to deal with coll ... |
| 'Riverdance' farewell tour is an athletic endeavor Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST Just offer the notion that she's an athlete and Alana Mallon says "absolutely!"She and her Riverdance colleagues are long-jumpers without the sand, sprinters without the blocks, high jumpers who set the bar high every night. Mallon is one of six lead ... |
| McKellen rules in AMC remake of 'The Prisoner' Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:05 PM PST NEW YORK -- A man named Michael from New York wakes up in the desert, much to his surprise.Fortunately, a pleasant-looking village is nearby.Unfortunately, Michael wants to get back to New York and finds he can't."That's not possible," the Village el ... |
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