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- Shimmering snowflakes
- Traffic cameras are coming down
- Officers' focus is safety on holiday
- Residents speak against fee hike
- Area resident dies from H1N1 flu
- One found dead in mobile home fire
- Weekend to attract all sorts of Aggies, visitors
- Debt bugging more this year
- Tax credit gives home sales best surge in decade
- Perry touts endorsements from party activists
- Dems vow to 'get it done' on health care
- Atty: Fort Hood suspect may use insanity defense
- Election convoy hijacking leaves 21 dead
- Bryan is bowling for boys and girls
- CS seeks feedback over school calendar
- CS, Austin mayors make bet on game
- Freight train derails
- Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snag
- Ala. DA: 14-year-old might have arranged gang rape
- Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails
- Cancer Patients Struggle with Insomnia
- Prostate Cancer: Surveillance or Surgery?
- Exercise to Reduce Risk of Stroke
- Drug Ads Could Cost Taxpayers
- Prostate Cancer: Surveillance or Surgery? - Research Summary
| Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Bryan City Parks and Recreation Department employee Jose Benavides, 25, hangs an electrically-lit snowflake in a tree at Sue Haswell Park Monday afternoon. A special ceremony at the park on Dec. 3 will mark the lighting of dozens of similar snowflake ... |
| Traffic cameras are coming down Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST The white flash capturing red light runners in College Station won't be seen after Tuesday, according to city officials.The City Council voted unanimously Monday to contact the camera provider, American Traffic Solutions, Tuesday to have the cameras ... |
| Officers' focus is safety on holiday Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Law enforcement officers gearing up for the high volume of traffic over the Thanksgiving holiday have a message for drivers: They'll be watching.Fifty-eight people died over the same holiday weekend last year in the Lone Star State. Meanwhile, more t ... |
| Residents speak against fee hike Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST More than 10 people spoke against a proposed park fee increase during the College Station City Council meeting Monday.Concerns included how the spike in non-residential fees could hurt the city economically by teams not wanting to pay additional cost ... |
| Area resident dies from H1N1 flu Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST The H1N1 flu is to blame for the death of a Brazos County resident, health department officials confirmed Monday. Officials said state law prevents them from providing information about the case, including age, gender and city of residence. They said ... |
| One found dead in mobile home fire Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Investigators late Monday were trying to identify a person found dead after a fire destroyed a mobile home in Brazos County earlier in the day, officials said. Authorities said they were investigating what caused the fire off Lake Ridge Drive south o ... |
| Weekend to attract all sorts of Aggies, visitors Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST It's the one week during the year when you can see an elephant and a longhorn on the Texas A&M campus.It's not a circus, though at times during the week of the Aggie v. Longhorn football game it might seem as though it is.Festivities kick off at ... |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST WASHINGTON -- A lot more Americans are feeling stressed out by debt this holiday season, raising the glum likelihood they'll behave like Scrooge rather than Santa.In fact, 93 percent say they'll spend less or about the same as last year, according to ... |
| Tax credit gives home sales best surge in decade Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST WASHINGTON -- First-time buyers taking advantage of a special tax credit gave sales of existing homes their biggest surge in a decade, raising hopes for a turnaround in the housing market and pleasing Wall Street.Though rising foreclosures and disapp ... |
| Perry touts endorsements from party activists Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:28 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- Republican Gov. Rick Perry's campaign says two-thirds of the state's Republican Party executive committee is supporting him for re-election.His campaign said Monday that 41 of the 62 committee members back him. They are powerful acti ... |
| Dems vow to 'get it done' on health care Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Failure is not an option on health care, a leading Democratic senator said Monday, even as Republicans turned up the heat on moderates who hold the fate of the legislation in their hands."We're not going to not pass a bill," said Sen. ... |
| Atty: Fort Hood suspect may use insanity defense Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:28 PM PST FORT WORTH, Texas -- An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack on his Texas post will likely plead not guilty to the charges against him and may use an insanity defense at his military trial, his attorney said Monday.John Gal ... |
| Election convoy hijacking leaves 21 dead Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST MANILA, Philippines -- Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists, and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political violence in yea ... |
| Bryan is bowling for boys and girls Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST Bryan employees from various departments are bowling to support the Boys and Girls Club of the Brazos Valley. A dozen city employees representing the police, engineering, public works and code enforcement, among others, will participate Wednesday in ... |
| CS seeks feedback over school calendar Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST College Station officials are encouraging community members to offer input on the 2010-2011 school year calendar by visiting their Web site. Residents can vote online for three calendar options, which differ by the days breaks would be taken and how ... |
| CS, Austin mayors make bet on game Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST The mayors of College Station and Austin are making a wager over the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Aggies and the Longhorns.Whichever city is home to the losing team will hand over some trees that will be planted in the winning team's ci ... |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST HOUSTON -- Crews are working to clear wreckage from the derailment of more than two dozen freight cars of a Union Pacific freight train in southwest Houston.No injuries were immediately reported in the derailment late Monday morning.Union Pacific spo ... |
| Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snag Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- A pair of astronauts zipped through the third and final spacewalk of their mission Monday, helping to install a 1,200-pound oxygen tank at the International Space Station and accomplishing everything else on their list."You mea ... |
| Ala. DA: 14-year-old might have arranged gang rape Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST MONROEVILLE, Ala. -- A 14-year-old Alabama girl might have helped arrange the gang rape of her ninth-grade classmate and could face charges as an accomplice based on her comments in a televised interview, a district attorney said.The girl told report ... |
| Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST BOULDER, Colo. -- A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section of the U ... |
| Cancer Patients Struggle with Insomnia Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) Three-quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders, which can become chronic, hindering patients' ability to fully recover.A study of 823 cancer patients showed they exper ... |
| Prostate Cancer: Surveillance or Surgery? Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:40 PM PST MIAMI, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More and more men with prostate cancer are choosing not to have any treatment at all. In the past, these men often did what's called watchful waiting -- simply waiting for something to happen with the cancer before ... |
| Exercise to Reduce Risk of Stroke Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Jogging, playing tennis or swimming may be the key to preventing stroke in men. A new study suggests men who regularly exercise at a level that is moderate-to-heavy intensity may be less likely to suffer stroke than men w ... |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for high-dollar drug advertising that does little to boost sales. A joint Harvard University of British Columbia (UBC) study examined U.S. sales patterns of clopidogrel, a top-selling dru ... |
| Prostate Cancer: Surveillance or Surgery? - Research Summary Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:36 PM PST BACKGROUND: According to the American Cancer Society, more than 192,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. About 27,000 will die. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in men in this country, other than skin canc ... |
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