House GOP candidates focused on the budget Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST Taking a cue from the cordial tone of last week's Republican U.S. House candidate forum, the four GOP candidates vying to represent Brazos County in the Texas House of Representatives expressed few differences on the issues Monday night during a foru ... |
Corps commandant resigns Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST On R. Bowen Loftin's first full day as sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency, one of the campus' most respected administrators tendered his resignation. Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne, the 38th commandant of the Corps of Cadets, on Friday left th ... |
Corps commandant resigns Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST On R. Bowen Loftin's first full day as sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency, one of the campus' most respected administrators tendered his resignation. Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne, the 38th commandant of the Corps of Cadets, on Friday left th ... |
Nurse awarded for saving runner Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST Lynne Harkey was at mile 20 in the Chevron Houston Marathon and making good time when she noticed a man collapsed on the ground.Harkey, a College Station emergency room nurse, stopped running and went to work. The man had suffered a heart attack. He ... |
Bryan police investigate bus stop, gas station robberies Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:25 AM PST Bryan police are investigating armed robberies at a bus stop and gas station on Sunday night.Officer Jason James said police received a call around 5:14 p.m. reporting that a black man displayed a handgun and took an undisclosed amount of cash from t ... |
Malfunction cited in CS power outage Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA power outage that affected about 4,300 College Station homes Sunday night was caused by an equipment malfunction, city officials said.About 4,300 homes and businesses were without power for about 35 minutes starting around 10 p.m. ... |
Cameron officials investigate fire that destroyed bar, damaged apartments Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:15 AM PST Fire officials said they believe a blaze that destroyed a Cameron bar and damaged three apartments early Monday was started by a faulty electrical appliance. Cameron Volunteer Fire Department Chief Henry Horelica said firefighters were dispatched to ... |
Man charged for altercation at club Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportPolice charged a Bryan man with aggravated assault after they said he skipped out on his tab at a strip club and attempted to hit the club's manager with his vehicle. On Dec. 28, police responded to a call from the manager at Silk S ... |
Obama announces plans meant to help middle class Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Declaring America's middle class is "under assault," President Barack Obama unveiled plans Monday to help hurting families pay their bills, save for retirement and care for their kids and aging parents. His comments previewed Wednesday' ... |
UT developing 5 percent budget cut Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:55 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas is developing a plan to cut about $29 million from the state-funded portion of its two-year budget.President William Powers Jr. on Monday said the "sizable amount of money" adds up to a 5 percent cut as requ ... |
Blasts at popular Baghdad hotels kill 37 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST BAGHDAD -- Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100.The attacks were another blow to an Iraqi government ... |
Firing of Wyo. officers who Tasered tractor driver upheld Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:26 PM PST GLENROCK, Wyo. -- Officials in the small Wyoming town of Glenrock have upheld the firing of two police officers who chased and Tasered a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in a parade.The Glenrock Town Council voted Monday night to uphold last year's ... |
80 homes evacuated in San Antonio Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing the evacuation of dozens of homes.Ga ... |
Homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:07 AM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate. Gaping ... |
S.C. official takes heat for welfare remark Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When things looked their darkest for Gov. Mark Sanford -- when he was in danger of being impeached for running off to Argentina to see his mistress -- his best insurance policy may well have been South Carolina's lieutenant governor ... |
No survivors found after crash Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST BEIRUT -- The first sign of trouble was a flash of light on the horizon Monday -- and then witnesses said the Boeing 737 tumbled like "fire falling down from the sky" into the stormy Mediterr-anean Sea.All 90 aboard were feared dead in the pre-dawn c ... |
Homes sell, but prices fell in '09 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Sales of previously occupied homes rose in 2009 for the first time in four years, despite a December slump that was due to a tax credit that led many buyers to complete sales earlier.Still, prices plunged more than 12 percent last year ... |
Whitacre is GM's permanent CEO Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST DETROIT -- Ed Whitacre Jr. is dropping the interim from his CEO title at General Motors Co. and he reaffirmed Monday the automaker would repay in full its loans from the U.S. and Canadian governments by June.Whitacre said GM's board asked him to beco ... |
Family: Kerrigan died of heart attack Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST WOBURN, Mass. -- Daniel Kerrigan, who rushed to his sobbing daughter Nancy and carried her into the locker room after an attack at a skating competition nearly derailed her Olympic dreams, died after what authorities said was a violent struggle with ... |
Apple to unveil e-reader Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST SEATTLE -- The company whose CEO proclaimed in 2008 that people don't read anymore may now be poised to sweep in and school the electronic book reader market.That company is Apple Inc., and its CEO, Steve Jobs, was predicting Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle ... |
'Chemical Ali' hanged for murders Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, who was hanged Monday, ordered the infamous poison gas attack on the northern Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988 that killed 5,000 people and earned him the chilling moniker "Chemical Ali ... |
Genes May Affect Breast Cancer Treatment Success Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:45 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A genetic signature may help predict which breast cancer patients are resistant to chemotherapy drugs, something that may guide treatment choices. The genes were discovered by a group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who e ... |
New Options for Childhood Birthmarks - Research Summary Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:36 PM PST BACKGROUND: Vascular birthmarks, including hemangiomas and other malformations, occur in roughly 10 percent of births, which adds up to about 400,000 babies every year in the United States. Hemangiomas are the most common form of benign tumors affec ... |
Letters for January 26 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST Willing to leave county if the price is right I happened to catch the news the other night where the supposedly poor Bryan school district and the wealthy College Station district are ending the transfer of money from the latter to the former. G ... |
Calendar Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST TuesdayCLUBSBryan Noon Lions Club, 11:30 a.m. The Best Western Atrea, 1920 Austin's Colony Pkwy., Bryan. 731-5300.Brazos County Senior Citizens Association luncheon, noon. 1402 Bristol St., Bryan. 822-6873.College Station Kiwanis Club, noon, Hilton H ... |
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