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- Churches plan special services for Christmas
- Bryan church builds three-wheeled vehicles for disabled overseas
- Police probing house fire in Bryan
- Holiday closings
- NORAD tracks Santa's sleigh for a high-tech Ho Ho
- CA woman arrested on suspicion of dumping newborn
- Rare blizzard strikes West Texas
- Storm interrupts some travelers' holiday plans
- Some weather-related delays in Texas
- Senate gives Obama present of health bill
- Transit officials in Dallas investigate fatality
- Signs point to modest rebound
- South Texas police say girl was abused by family
- Bethlehem rings in the holiday
- Stocks close with new highs for year
- Tug grounds on same reef as Exxon Valdez tanker
- Thieves try to steal ATM from Dallas City Hall
- Senate votes to up debt limit to $12.4T
- Small, private funeral held for Brittany Murphy
- Efforts to research mission ranch lack funds
- Shoppers give stores last-minute gift of spending
- Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Linked to Cancer
- The Heart of a Mummy
- Bad Cholesterol Levels Drop, More Screening Needed
- Show mixes theater and motocross
| Churches plan special services for Christmas Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST Most of the 60,000 or so college students in Bryan-College Station have headed home for the holidays. Even so, area churches were expecting record crowds at Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services.In attendance will likely be a mix of longtime resid ... |
| Bryan church builds three-wheeled vehicles for disabled overseas Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST Eighty-six-year-old Chester Jones can be found most days surrounded by woodworking equipment in an unheated workshop behind the Twin City Mission. He toils with saws, drills and welders to build wooden three-wheeled vehicles that look like a mix betw ... |
| Police probing house fire in Bryan Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST A Bryan family of three lost its home in a fire Thursday. The Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the blaze, but fireworks are suspected to be the cause.Bryan Battalion Chief Joe Ondrasek said firefighters were dispatched at 12:14 p.m. to the sing ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:05 PM PST A list of what's open and closed in the Bryan-College Station area for the Christmas holiday.* Schools Closed* Texas A&MClosed* Blinn College Closed* BanksClosed* Brazos County Courthouse Closed* Bryan Municipal Court Closed* CS Municipal Court C ... |
| NORAD tracks Santa's sleigh for a high-tech Ho Ho Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:30 PM PST COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Even Santa Tweets.A military installation in Colorado has been issuing Christmas Eve reports of Santa Claus' progress to eager children for more than five decades.Now the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, ... |
| CA woman arrested on suspicion of dumping newborn Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:32 PM PST STANTON, Calif. -- Authorities say a Southern California woman has been arrested after the body of her newborn daughter was found in a trash bin.Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says the 19-year-old Anaheim woman, whose name wasn't rele ... |
| Rare blizzard strikes West Texas Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST DALLAS -- In much of the rolling plains of West Texas, a blizzard has never been recorded.There has been one now.The region west and northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area saw blizzard-like conditions throughout the day Thursday as up to 8 inches o ... |
| Storm interrupts some travelers' holiday plans Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST MINNEAPOLIS -- A blustery storm spread snow and ice across the heartland Thursday as Americans rushed to get home for the holidays, grounding flights, stranding drivers on white-knuckle highways and forcing churches to cancel Christmas Eve services." ... |
| Some weather-related delays in Texas Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:19 AM PST DALLAS -- Christmas Eve weather-related travel delays hit Texas as a massive winter storm rolled through the nation's midsection.The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Minnes ... |
| Senate gives Obama present of health bill Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Months ago, a delegation of Republican senators went to the White House with a request for President Barack Obama to take a more gradual approach to health care.He demurred, according to one official familiar with the meeting, saying th ... |
| Transit officials in Dallas investigate fatality Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:13 PM PST DALLAS -- Transit officials in Dallas are investigating the death of a man who lay down on the tracks in front of an oncoming train.The death of the man Thursday evening was the first Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail fatality since March 2007, when a 5 ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:33 PM PST WASHINGTON -- A fitful economic recovery is drawing strength from a stabilizing job market and signs that manufacturing will contribute to the rebound. The evidence signals a better-than-expected end to the year, though doubts remain about growth in ... |
| South Texas police say girl was abused by family Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:13 PM PST SAN JUAN, Texas -- Police in a South Texas town say a 16-year-old Mexican girl was raped, deprived of food and forced into household labor by a family who sneaked her across the Mexican border into the United States.San Juan Police Chief Juan Gonzale ... |
| Bethlehem rings in the holiday Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Thousands of pilgrims from around the world descended on the traditional birthplace of Jesus on Thursday, greeted by choruses, scout troops and rock bands for the most upbeat Christmas celebrations this Palestinian town has se ... |
| Stocks close with new highs for year Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:33 PM PST NEW YORK -- Stocks ended a holiday-shortened session Thursday at new highs for the year following upbeat reports on unemployment and durable goods orders.A weaker dollar also helped buoy the market, lifting energy and materials stocks. Christmas Eve ... |
| Tug grounds on same reef as Exxon Valdez tanker Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:29 PM PST ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two decades after the Exxon Valdez disaster, a tugboat working to prevent another oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef and spewed a sheen of fuel oil.The 136-foot tug Pathfinder had just finishe ... |
| Thieves try to steal ATM from Dallas City Hall Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:14 PM PST DALLAS -- A maroon minivan smashed through a back window at Dallas City Hall in what police say was a failed attempt to steal a city credit union ATM.The van rammed the building around 4:15 a.m. Thursday. Several city workers in the area say they saw ... |
| Senate votes to up debt limit to $12.4T Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:32 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year.The Senate's rare C ... |
| Small, private funeral held for Brittany Murphy Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- Brittany Murphy's family and friends celebrated her life at a private Christmas Eve funeral.The 32-year-old actress was buried Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. The intimate gathering was "very nice, very respectf ... |
| Efforts to research mission ranch lack funds Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST FLORESVILLE -- Ruins that archeologists call one of the last links to the original ranches and cowboys that shaped Texas have been kept behind a gate, literally buried, for more than two decades -- awaiting the funding that would allow people to see ... |
| Shoppers give stores last-minute gift of spending Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST NEW YORK -- Shoppers appear to have given the nation's stores a needed last-minute sales surge.Early readings from Toys R Us, Sears Holdings Corp. and several mall operators showed packed stores on Christmas Eve following a busy week fueled by shoppe ... |
| Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Linked to Cancer Posted: 24 Dec 2009 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country where foods are not fortified with folic acid, had an increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they received treatment with folic acid and vitamin B12. Most epidemio ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2009 05:49 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not strictly modern, but afflicted ancient people, too. "Atherosclerosis is u ... |
| Bad Cholesterol Levels Drop, More Screening Needed Posted: 24 Dec 2009 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) Even though the number of adults in the U.S. with high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL or "bad" cholesterol) decreased by about one-third between 1999 and 2006, many at-risk adults still are not being screened ... |
| Show mixes theater and motocross Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- The Nuclear Cowboyz may do for motocross what World Wrestling Entertainment did for wrestling.Feld Entertainment Inc., the live entertainment production company behind Disney on Ice and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus ... |
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