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- Staying on top of truancy
- Bryan cutting back
- Generator isn't clogging roads
- Construction budget OK'd
- Memorial planned for former A&M prof
- 189 Aggies earn national recognition
- A&M administrator named to new post
- Input welcome on interchange plans
- Springsteen, Jay-Z, Urban join Haiti telethon
- Police: Photos of missing AZ baby cause concern
- 100 signs going up to help stop thefts
- Man arrested after altercation at H-E-B
- Brown wins Kennedy's seat
- French braid brings end to hair fight at Texas school
- Troubles at every turn in Hasan's medical training
- Haiti aid workers still battling to get in
- Google scraps China cell phone launch
- Texas man with bullet in head seeking damages
- Pa. couple charged with stealing from dead friend
- States collecting old meds
- HIV tests ordered before births
- Getting back into the grind
- Kraft to buy Cadbury for $19.5B
- Dems trying to save health bill
- Spaghetti by any other number isn't the same
| Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST It's been described as the last chance -- one final opportunity for chronically truant students to avoid jail time.On Tuesday, Justice of the Peace Tommy Munoz announced he'll be turning to technology -- GPS tracking devices -- to help monitor studen ... |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST Bryan officials are looking for $1.4 million to cut from the city's budget.City Manager David Watkins told the City Council at a Tuesday meeting that the cuts would come from a variety of areas, including holding vacant positions open, delaying the T ... |
| Generator isn't clogging roads Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST An extra-wide load is inching its way through the Brazos Valley without problems and with only minimal traffic back-ups, officials moving the mammoth piece of equipment said.On Tuesday night, a 1.7 million-pound generator came to rest at the interse ... |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST College Station school trustees on Tuesday approved a maximum budget of about $1.75 million for the first construction phase of a new high school. The funding package is just one of three the board will be asked to approve in constructing College Sta ... |
| Memorial planned for former A&M prof Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA private memorial service is scheduled for Friday in Minneapolis for former Texas A&M professor Rezneat Milton Darnell Jr., an ecologist and marine biologist who passed away last month after a brief illness.Family members said ... |
| 189 Aggies earn national recognition Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportTexas A&M has 189 freshmen among new National Merit Scholars, prompting a recently released report to rank the university in the country's top 10 institutions for enrolling such high-achieving students.The 27-student gain of Nat ... |
| A&M administrator named to new post Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST A longtime Texas A&M administrator has been named chief of staff at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.John Scroggs, who served as the director and chief of staff for the Office of the Dean of Faculties and ... |
| Input welcome on interchange plans Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe Texas Department of Transportation will host a public meeting Thursday to discuss plans for the interchanges at Texas 105 and F.M. 1774 and Texas 30 at F.M. 244. TxDOT officials hope to gather input on the safety of the intercha ... |
| Springsteen, Jay-Z, Urban join Haiti telethon Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:34 PM PST NEW YORK -- The music world's top stars are signing on for Friday's "Hope for Haiti" telethon.Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Keith Urban and Alicia Keys are just a few of the performers who will be featured, according to M ... |
| Police: Photos of missing AZ baby cause concern Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:29 PM PST TEMPE, Ariz. -- Newly released photographs believed to have been taken the last day a missing Arizona baby was seen show the boy as lethargic and holding what appears to be a medicine bottle.Tempe police Sgt. Steve Carbajal says the photos are from t ... |
| 100 signs going up to help stop thefts Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe College Station Police Department is beefing up its "Lock, Take and Hide" campaign by placing an additional 100 signs throughout the city. The department began the campaign in November by placing 25 signs throughout the city rem ... |
| Man arrested after altercation at H-E-B Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA 42-year-old College Station man was in jail Tuesday after managers at H-E-B called police to report an intoxicated man was yelling at employees and customers.When police arrived around 10 p.m. Monday, employees told officers that ... |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST BOSTON -- Four years ago, the Massachusetts lieutenant governor passed over Scott Brown as a potential running mate in her bid to replace then-Gov. Mitt Romney because she and her staff saw him as a political lightweight.On Tuesday, Brown pulled off ... |
| French braid brings end to hair fight at Texas school Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:52 PM PST MESQUITE, Texas -- A 4-year-old Dallas-area boy disciplined for having long hair has returned to his class with a brand new 'do.Pre-kindergartner Taylor Pugh rejoined his classmates at his suburban elementary school Tuesday.Elizabeth Taylor says her ... |
| Troubles at every turn in Hasan's medical training Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:53 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Often teetering on failure during his medical training, Nidal Hasan hit a particularly rough patch in 2007 when his Army superior cited him for unprofessional behavior, inappropriately discussing religion, underperforming in his residen ... |
| Haiti aid workers still battling to get in Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The world still can't get enough food and water to the hungry and thirsty one week after an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital. The airport remains a bottleneck, the port is a shambles. The Haitian government is invisible, ... |
| Google scraps China cell phone launch Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST BEIJING -- Google on Tuesday postponed the launch of two mobile phones in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking.The delay affects separate phones made by Motorola and ... |
| Texas man with bullet in head seeking damages Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:54 PM PST BEAUMONT, Texas -- A Groves man with a bullet in his head since 2006 is continuing his lawsuit over efforts to have the slug removed.The Beaumont Enterprise reported Tuesday that Joshua Adams Bush is appealing recent dismissal of his battery lawsui ... |
| Pa. couple charged with stealing from dead friend Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:55 PM PST WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- A northeastern Pennsylvania couple is charged with stealing a bank card from a friend who died on their couch and running up more than $1,000 in charges.Investigators say they think the couple went through Kimberly Rose Lacey's p ... |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST LAYTON, Utah -- A steel mailbox-sized bin in the lobby of a police department in northern Utah was full again, crammed with half-full prescription bottles, over-the-counter cold meds and even an odd topical cream from 1983."It's anything and everythi ... |
| HIV tests ordered before births Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST AUSTIN -- Pregnant woman are being tested during their last trimester for the virus that causes AIDS as part of a new effort to save young lives in Texas.Under the law, which took effect this month, health care providers must conduct the HIV testing ... |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST Edgar Galvan, a 22-year-old senior Texas A&M mechanical engineering major, adds classes to his schedule online as fellow Aggies are reflected on the glass panels lining the outside breezeway of Evans Library (left) while others work inside the li ... |
| Kraft to buy Cadbury for $19.5B Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST Kraft Foods' $19.5 billion deal to buy chocolate and gum maker Cadbury will create the world's largest candy company, greatly expand Kraft's share of that lucrative business and open opportunities worldwide to sell its other snacks.Cadbury shareholde ... |
| Dems trying to save health bill Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Democrats faced the unthinkable Tuesday -- losing their prized health care overhaul along with Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, just as Kennedy's and President Barack Obama's goal seemed tantalizingly close to reality.Obama and party le ... |
| Spaghetti by any other number isn't the same Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST Dear Lisa: I'm curious about the significance of the numbers on packages of imported pasta. I have a couple of packages of pasta from Italy, and one says "Spaghetti no.116," and the other is "Rigatoni no.126." I notice that the American brands of pas ... |
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