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- Last-minute miracle?
- Bryan weighs zoning issue
- Bickering hinders county panel
- Man says he was attacked, robbed
- Newest CS school is Greens Prairie
- Report cites crew error in Black Hawk crash
- Officials investigate fatal wreck off Texas 30
- Teenager accused of smoking marijuana
- Club puts out call for young artists
- DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage
- Sworn to protect
- Swine flu shots recalled
- Climate talks outcome remains to be seen
- National champs!
- Man dies in Houston crane accident
- Lawmaker scolds administration on Fort Hood info
- Exit, smoking: Actors can't light up on Colo stage
- 80-year-old sailor rescued at sea
- Move aims to cut dropouts
- Traffic lights too green to melt snow
- Gitmo detainees going to Illinois prison
- House votes to quiet noisy TV ads
- Police: Fortune teller targeted wrong car
- Boeing's 787 jetliner makes its first test flight
- Dems closer to passing health bill
| Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST Hermann Prieto needed an A on his final to bump his introductory biology grade from the C range to a B. With finals week upon him, he turned to one of a handful of Aggieland's off-campus tutoring services for a boost. "Some instructors think of it as ... |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST The Bryan City Council on Tuesday directed city administrators to come up with a definition for facilities that care for elderly or disabled individuals that would permit their operation within residential areas. The issue arose recently after a neig ... |
| Bickering hinders county panel Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST Fed up with months of infighting on the Brazos County Historical Commission, member Ray George made an attempt at a recent meeting to put an end to disputes over the volunteer board's finances and the chairman's attempts to force a member to resign.H ... |
| Man says he was attacked, robbed Posted: 15 Dec 2009 11:47 PM PST College Station police early Wednesday were investigating a report of a man who said he was assaulted by five or six men and robbed.Police responded to the lobby of a hotel on University Drive at about 1:45 a.m., Sgt. Thomas Brown said. The Bryan man ... |
| Newest CS school is Greens Prairie Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST College Station school board members on Tuesday picked Greens Prairie Elementary as the name of a new school set to open in 2011. The decision came down to two options; the other choice was Prairie Trail Elementary School.Superintendent Eddie Coulso ... |
| Report cites crew error in Black Hawk crash Posted: 15 Dec 2009 08:38 AM PST An investigative board has found that the crew of an Army Blackhawk helicopter that crashed at Texas A&M University did not follow correct emergency procedures.Two crew members died and three were injured in the Jan. 12 crash during a training ex ... |
| Officials investigate fatal wreck off Texas 30 Posted: 15 Dec 2009 11:51 PM PST Officials are investigating a Brazos County wreck that left one person dead early Wednesday.The accident happened off Texas 30 between Pate Road and Rainbow Trail around 5 a.m., a Texas Department of Public Safety official said. Further details were ... |
| Teenager accused of smoking marijuana Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST A 19-year-old Lubbock man is facing drug charges after his roommate complained to police that he was smoking marijuana in their apartment.College Station officers said they found Yaroslav Sigida in the Holleman Drive apartment around 12:30 p.m. Monda ... |
| Club puts out call for young artists Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe Boys & Girls Clubs of the Brazos Valley is looking for young artists to compete in the organization's National Fine Arts Exhibit.Artwork may be submitted in four age divisions and 10 categories, including watercolor, pastel, ... |
| DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage Posted: 15 Dec 2009 06:45 AM PST WASHINGTON -- The City Council voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, giving supporters a victory after a string of recent defeats elsewhere and sending the issue to Congress, which has final say over laws in the nation's capital.Mayor Adrian Fenty ... |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST Jeff Capps reaches to hug his wife's grandmother, Blanche Barrilleaux, before being sworn in as College Station's new chief of police Tuesday afternoon in the City Council chambers. The 43-year-old was named interim police chief in June and has been ... |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST Staff and Wire reportHundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for young children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.The shots, made by Sanofi Pasteur, were distribu ... |
| Climate talks outcome remains to be seen Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST COPENHAGEN -- The success of the U.N. climate conference hung in the balance Tuesday as China and the U.S. deadlocked over whether Beijing will allow the world to check its books and verify promised cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Princes, presiden ... |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST Blinn Head Football Coach Brad Franchione holds his team's newest National Championship trophy while standing with school president Dan Holt at the Bryan City Council meeting Tuesday. ... |
| Man dies in Houston crane accident Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:44 AM PST HOUSTON -- A crane collapse in Houston has killed a 41-year-old man.Police say the accident happened at a printing company.Police say Cesar Barrios Gomez of Houston was dead at the scene.Authorities say Gomez had been trying to maneuver the crane to ... |
| Lawmaker scolds administration on Fort Hood info Posted: 15 Dec 2009 06:41 AM PST WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs a Senate oversight committee, chided the Obama administration Tuesday for not providing information to lawmakers probing the Fort Hood killings.The Connecticut independent said his Homeland Security panel ... |
| Exit, smoking: Actors can't light up on Colo stage Posted: 15 Dec 2009 06:42 AM PST DENVER -- The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld a state ban on smoking on stage, ruling that public health trumps actors' freedom of expression.The court ruled 6-1 Monday that the statewide smoking ban can legally apply to theaters.Theater production ... |
| 80-year-old sailor rescued at sea Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:44 AM PST SABINE, Texas -- The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued an 80-year-old man who sent out a distress call onboard a 34-foot sailboat 10 days after departing from Houston.A Coast Guard statement said Tuesday that the man was headed to Kemah, about 30 miles to ... |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST DALLAS -- Texas lawmakers should focus on middle school students to help avoid higher dropout rates, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Tuesday.The initiative is one of four Dewhurst said would be studied by the Senate Committee on Education during interi ... |
| Traffic lights too green to melt snow Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST MILWAUKEE -- Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm -- a problem blamed for dozens of acc ... |
| Gitmo detainees going to Illinois prison Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... |
| House votes to quiet noisy TV ads Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The House on Tuesday voted to level off the abrupt spikes in volume felt by television viewers during commercial breaks.The bill -- approved by a voice vote -- is aimed at stopping TV ads from playing noticeably louder than programs."I ... |
| Police: Fortune teller targeted wrong car Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST McALLEN -- A South Texas fortune teller paid to pray to a "death saint" popular with drug traffickers schemed instead to rob one of her clients of the drug proceeds the woman was ferrying back from Michigan, a police investigator testified Tuesday.Bu ... |
| Boeing's 787 jetliner makes its first test flight Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing's new 787 jetliner finally got airborne Tuesday, the long-delayed inaugural flight of the world's first commercial plane mostly constructed from lightweight composite materials.The sleek jet lifted off from Everett's Paine F ... |
| Dems closer to passing health bill Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Prodded by President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats won tentative backing from one holdout and worked intensely to satisfy another Tuesday as they grappled with the last, lingering disputes blocking passage of health care legislation by ... |
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