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- Blaze destroys woman's Benchley home
- Group wants taxi rules changed
- BTU finances spark debate
- Two men arrested in CS armed robbery
- Vicitim's brother testifies
- A&M team aids in discovery
- No injuries reported after small fire at oil well site near Kurten
- Armadillo Dash tweaks 5K route
- No one injured after oil well explosion
- Bryan man accused of selling drugs
- Benefit to aid Haiti earthquake victims
- Rowdy protests target funding cuts at US campuses
- Obama urges Dems to approve health bill
- DPS: spring breakers avoid Mexican border cities
- DPS: spring breakers avoid Mexican border cities
- Toyota cars had 'black box' data
- Two people sought in billboard breaches
- Corn industry fights documentary
- Inventors tapped for bright ideas
- House passes tax breaks for new hires
- Defibrillator Test Linked to Cognitive Problems
- Give children the lifelong love of books
- Sarah Palin pitching TV show about Alaska
- Dead-looking sago palms might still recover
- Garden Calendar
| Blaze destroys woman's Benchley home Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:09 PM PST A few important documents, some pencils and a pair of shoes that had been left under a bed were among the few items Roger Adams listed as salvageable after a fire destroyed the home she'd lived in since 1998.The 65-year-old mother of three and grandm ... |
| Group wants taxi rules changed Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:09 PM PST A city of College Station transportation committee asked city staff members to draft changes to an ordinance regulating taxis after hearing from residents and businesses during a public meeting Thursday.The committee met to gather information from re ... |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:09 PM PST The Bryan City Council met Thursday with the Bryan Texas Utilities board of directors in a public meeting that both sides agreed was long overdue.More than 50 people crowded into a Bryan Justice Center courtroom, prompted by rumors that the meeting w ... |
| Two men arrested in CS armed robbery Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:55 AM PST College Station police Wednesday arrested four people on multiple charges during a traffic stop, including two men whom they said robbed a home at gunpoint the previous day.The four arrested, all College Station residents, include: * Allen Ross Flyn ... |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST A Rice University basketball player was doing nothing wrong when he was stabbed to death outside a College Station bar in April 2007, the man's twin brother tearfully told jurors Thursday.Jonathan Bailey was merely trying to save his brother from the ... |
| A&M team aids in discovery Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PST An international team of scientists -- including a group from Texas A&M University -- has made a discovery that could alter the way we understand physics. Researchers used the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on L ... |
| No injuries reported after small fire at oil well site near Kurten Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:40 AM PST Volunteer firefighters with Precinct 2 are working a small fire that broke out after an oil well tank battery exploded near a well site close to Kurten. No injuries were reported at the Petromax Oil Company’s site off Texas 21 and Soggy Bottom, Sher ... |
| Armadillo Dash tweaks 5K route Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST The fourth annual Armadillo Dash boasts more participants than ever and a new 5K route that reduces traffic delays. "We've already got 1,450 signed up, and we're expecting a few hundred more will register," said Jennifer Friedman, race director and a ... |
| No one injured after oil well explosion Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:12 PM PST No one was injured Thursday from an explosion at an oil well site in eastern Brazos County, officials said.A small fire broke out around 11 a.m. after an oil well tank battery exploded near the Petromax Oil Co. facility east of Kurten off Texas 21, b ... |
| Bryan man accused of selling drugs Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA Bryan man remained behind bars Thursday, accused of selling cocaine to an undercover College Station officer.According to a police report, Torrick Deshuin McMurray, 33, sold 2.9 grams of cocaine to an undercover officer Jan. 12 in ... |
| Benefit to aid Haiti earthquake victims Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportArea artists will perform a variety of music at Music for Haiti, a benefit for the victims of the recent earthquake. The event will be from 5 to 10 p.m. March 21 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Anderson. It will feature the blues ... |
| Rowdy protests target funding cuts at US campuses Posted: 04 Mar 2010 11:03 PM PST BERKELEY, Calif. -- Students staged raucous rallies to protest education funding cuts on college campuses nationwide Thursday, but some demonstrations got out of hand as protesters threw punches and ice chunks in Wisconsin and shut down a major freew ... |
| Obama urges Dems to approve health bill Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, pleading with them to put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment and vote for his massive health c ... |
| DPS: spring breakers avoid Mexican border cities Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:43 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The Department of Public Safety is advising Texans on spring break to avoid Mexican border cities because of drug cartel violence.DPS Director Steven McCraw on Thursday, in a statement, cited an increase in Mexican drug cartel-rela ... |
| DPS: spring breakers avoid Mexican border cities Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:43 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The Department of Public Safety is advising Texans on spring break to avoid Mexican border cities because of drug cartel violence.DPS Director Steven McCraw on Thursday, in a statement, cited an increase in Mexican drug cartel-rela ... |
| Toyota cars had 'black box' data Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PST review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.The AP investigation found that Toyota has been inconsistent -- and sometimes even contradictory -- in revealing exactly what the devices record and don't record, including critica ... |
| Two people sought in billboard breaches Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- City prosecutors have charged four people and four companies with illegally hanging giant billboards at an intersection near the site of the upcoming Oscars, days after they jailed a man for putting up a separate eight-story supergrap ... |
| Corn industry fights documentary Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The corn industry is lashing out at an Oscar-nominated documentary that has grossed out grocery shoppers, saying the film is unfair to many of the nation's farmers and shouldn't win.Food Inc., which was nominated for best documentary, ... |
| Inventors tapped for bright ideas Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- There wasn't a bottle of Oxiclean or a ShamWow anywhere. But there was Dawn Stephens' nifty new, all-in-one toilet-bowl-cleaning brush."We don't have to look for the cleaning liquid and the brush. The cleaning liquid is right inside t ... |
| House passes tax breaks for new hires Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Despite doubts among many lawmakers that it will create many jobs, the House on Thursday passed legislation giving companies that hire the jobless a temporary payroll tax break.The measure passed 217-201 on a mostly party-line vote. Th ... |
| Defibrillator Test Linked to Cognitive Problems Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems which, for most patients, improve within a year after the device is inserted. After an ICD is inserted, d ... |
| Give children the lifelong love of books Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PST Eagle Editorial Board "There is no substitute for books in the life of a child." -- Mary Ellen Chase The rapper Coolio said, "I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book." Many of us understand that experience. For us, a book ... |
| Sarah Palin pitching TV show about Alaska Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:38 AM PST NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel may not be Sarah Palin's only foray into television.The former vice presidential candidate has been pitching an idea for a show about Alaska to network executives. She's teamed with Mark Burnett, one of television's busie ... |
| Dead-looking sago palms might still recover Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PST By CHARLA ANTHONYSago palms (Cycas revoluta) are primitive subtropical plants. Recent periods of extended low temperatures in the Brazos Valley have left these popular landscape ornamentals looking ragged.Palmlike in appearance with stiff fronds grow ... |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PST Friday* Registration deadline for Gardening Study School on March 15-16. Topics to be covered include plant growth, pruning techniques, growing outdoor flowers, botanical gardens, classifying plants and bonsai. Details and registration forms at www.s ... |
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