Aggies fixing up B-CS Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT The Hallermann family couldn't have planned its move from a ranch in Caldwell to a home in Bryan at a better time. "You expect Aggies to be helpful," said Mylinda Hallermann, a former student. "But this is overwhelming."The family moved in about a mo ... |
Gangs put on notice Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT Jay Pritchard's street is littered with signs of gang activity. When the city of Bryan built the sidewalks along Beck Street, they were covered in gang graffiti within weeks. When spray paint and items stolen from a nearby store kept turning up on a ... |
Crocker recalls life overseas Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT Ryan Crocker celebrated his 21st birthday in Amsterdam -- he's astute enough to not divulge details other than to say that the city has "always had its attractions" -- and started hitchhiking the next day to Calcutta. "I thought I'd see the world," s ... |
CS may implement tax increase Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:09 PM PDT College Station residents could see a 3-cent property tax increase next fiscal year to help pay for a new fire station and meet police department needs. Jeff Kersten, the city's chief financial officer, said the proposal is still a "rough potential" ... |
Police: Bryan man resisted DWI arrest Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA 28-year-old Bryan man was in jail Saturday on charges of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest. Bryan police said officers stopped the man's vehicle around 1 a.m. Saturday after he ran a stop sign at the intersection of M ... |
A&M chapter makes it to DU Sweet 16 Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:10 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe Aggieland chapter of Ducks Unlimited has been named one of organization's top college chapters.To qualify for the "DU Sweet 16," chapters had to raise more than $11,000 in grassroots income during the 2009 calendar year. Collegi ... |
On the hunt Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:09 PM PDT Four-year-old Finley Allen searches the ground around her as she and other children race to grab eggs at the annual George Bush Presidential Library Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. ... |
Palin to tea party rally: Don't shut up Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. -- Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.The wind whipped U.S. flags behind ... |
U.S. troop deaths, injuries rise in Afghanistan Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT KABUL -- The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum.Th ... |
Haiti shelter plan emerging Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Aid officials say they have finally figured out where to put hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes in a cataclysmic earthquake: right back where they came from.Dreams of vast relocation camps have largely eva ... |
Cancer query impedes 9/11 payments Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer.Hundreds of people are suing New York City over cancer diagnoses they received after working at ground zero. A j ... |
46 missing after S. Korean ship sinks Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea -- Military divers plunged into the waters near South Korea's tense maritime border with North Korea on Saturday, searching in vain for 46 missing marines from a naval ship that exploded and sank, officials said.The ex ... |
Scientology sued under labor law Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT SAN JACINTO, Calif. -- At the edge of foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating teaching and pr ... |
Weatherizing effort falling short of goal Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT FRESNO, Calif. -- After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama's $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected.In Indiana, state-tra ... |
New Jersey county's Sunday buying ban may be checking out Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT PARAMUS, N.J. -- During a powerful storm that flooded basements, uprooted trees and left tens of thousands of families without power through a late winter weekend, residents of one New Jersey county had to wait until Monday morning to buy sump pumps, ... |
World unplugs for Earth Hour Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT LONDON -- Europe's best known landmarks -- including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum -- fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switche ... |
Woman's Club tour offers peek at 3 homes Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT For just $15, you can find decorating ideas, be inspired to build a new home and see inside homes you wouldn't otherwise have the chance to visit.The annual Woman's Club House and Garden Tour is April 14 and will feature three unique homes in Bryan-C ... |
Egg hunts go high-tech with GPS Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT It will take more than a basket to gather the eggs at the Easter hunt in Boulder Junction, Wis.Participants need GPS.Organizers will hide 12 large buckets of eggs in Boulder Junction Winter Park in a variation on geocaching, a popular outdoor activit ... |
Concert to help veterans take flight to see D.C. memorials Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT There's no better way to get onto my radar screen than to combine the arts with helping veterans. It's a combo that darn near makes the keyboard keys punch themselves -- a story that writes itself because it comes straight from the heart with no guid ... |
America Ferrera, from ugly to Viking bombshell Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT NEW YORK -- America Ferrera got her break as a curvy teenager in Real Women Have Curves and broke into stardom as the lovely Ugly Betty.A few months before the hit ABC series gets to its finale, the actress says she found some of herself in the blon ... |
Our Neighbors Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK SHOWChristine Phillips, a senior at A&M Consolidated High School, won Reserve Grand Champion Junior Breeding Dorset Ram honors at the San Antonio Livestock show for her ram, named Big Deal. In her free time, Phillips enjoys ... |
Calendar Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT Monday* College Station Noon Lions Club. Hilton Hotel, 801 University Drive E. 690-8525.Tuesday* Bryan Noon Lions Club. 11:30 a.m. Best Western Atrea, 1920 Austin's Colony Parkway. 731-5300.* Brazos County Senior Citizens Association luncheon. Noon. ... |
School menus Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT Here are this week's school menus. Milk is included. Friday is a holiday.BryanMonday: Chicken nuggets, munchable with pickle, mashed potatoes, green beans, whole grain roll, fruit.Tuesday: Bueno cheesy nachos, barbecue on a bun, ranch-style beans, Sp ... |
Peña Alejandro Engagement Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Amy Peña are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Nicole Peña, to Christopher William Jacob Alejandro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jaimé and Jodi Alejandro.Grandparents of the bride are Mrs. Mary Peña and the lat ... |
Jordan Tinkle Engagement Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT Mr. and Mrs. Lane Jordan of Kilgore are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kalli Adaline Jordan, to Zachary Clayton Tinkle, son of the late Penny Tinkle and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Tinkle of Bryan.The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate ... |
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