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- Here to pump you up
- Loftin: We're in this together
- Locals speak against reservoir
- Easter celebrations
- Jail enforces new system
- Man gets probation for threatening cop
- Holiday closings
- Several local egg hunts this weekend
- Reward offered for missing sculptures
- Volunteers needed for collection event
- Defying gravity
- New mileage rules to cost consumers
- Cardinals defend pope on church abuse scandal
- Officials warn of invasive plant
- Gunmen attack 2 Mexican army bases
- Flood brings health hazards
- Young adults ready to be put on parents' plans
- Proposal backs movie bets
- Big deals boost U.S. auto sales in March
- Life Vest Saves Hearts
- Kidney Transplant or Not?
- Jackson doc fights to keep license
- Sexually Transmitted Disease: The Next Superbug?
- Redbud trees suited for Brazos Valley landscapes
- Garden calendar
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT Tackle the test. That was the message Jerrod Johnson, quarterback for the Texas A&M University football team, had when he dropped by Fannin Elementary on Thursday to pump up fifth-graders who soon will be embarking on the Texas Assessment of Know ... |
| Loftin: We're in this together Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT The well-being of Texas A&M and the Bryan-College Station community are intertwined, the university's president, R. Bowen Loftin, said Thursday. "We're in this together," Loftin told roughly 200 people gathered for the Chamber of Commerce's Inner ... |
| Locals speak against reservoir Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT More than 100 Brazos Valley residents crowded into a public meeting Thursday night to show opposition to a massive reservoir proposed along the eastern border of Brazos County. One of them was Madison County resident Cathy Cox, who lifted her 6-year- ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 11:40 AM PDT FridayGOOD FRIDAY SERVICES* St. Francis Episcopal Church, 7:30 a.m. 1101 Rock Prairie Road, College Station. Walking Pilgrimage: Stations of the Cross. 696-1491.* St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 217 W. 26th St. in Bryan. 11:30 a.m., Walking Pilgrimage ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT Before inmates could move into the new minimum security facility on Sandy Point Road in early March, about 150 correctional officers underwent training to learn the new jailing philosophy -- called direct supervision -- that would be implemented. Bra ... |
| Man gets probation for threatening cop Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA 55-year-old Bryan man was sentenced to probation by a Brazos County jury on Thursday for threatening a police officer with an unopened knife in 2007.Jose Guerrero was convicted by the same jury on Wednesday of attempted aggravated ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT Here is what is open and closed for the Good Friday holiday.* Federal offices: Open.* State offices: Many state offices will be closed. The Bryan Department of Public Safety office will close at noon.* City offices: Bryan, College Station and Navasot ... |
| Several local egg hunts this weekend Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportEaster weekend has plenty of egg hunts on the schedule, starting Friday at the Lincoln Recreation Center in College Station.The hunt will begin at 1 p.m. for children 11 and under. For more information, call 764-3779.Saturday's egg ... |
| Reward offered for missing sculptures Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportLocal metal artist Jim Prevost is asking for the public's help in locating two metal sculptures that were taken between Feb. 20 and March 13. The sculptures were at Heirloom Gardens on Wellborn Road in College Station. One of the sc ... |
| Volunteers needed for collection event Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportCollege Station officials are looking for volunteers to help with the community's Household Hazardous Waste and Computer Collection event set for April 24.Volunteers will assist the Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency with s ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT Rudder gymnast Enoch Rodriguez warms up as he and his teammates wait to compete at the Regional Gymnastics meet at Rudder High School on Thursday. For more on the meet, see Sports, B1. ... |
| New mileage rules to cost consumers Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Drivers will have to pay more for cars and trucks, but they'll save at the pump under tough new federal rules aimed at boosting mileage, cutting emissions and hastening the next generation of fuel-stingy hybrids and electric cars.The ne ... |
| Cardinals defend pope on church abuse scandal Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT VATICAN CITY -- Cardinals across Europe used their Holy Thursday sermons to defend Pope Benedict XVI from accusations he played a role in covering up sex abuse scandals, and an increasingly angry Vatican sought to deflect any criticism in the Western ... |
| Officials warn of invasive plant Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT AUSTIN -- A South American lake weed known as giant salvinia is posing a huge threat to the Texas ecosystem, officials warned Thursday.The floating, rootless fern has spread to 17 Texas lakes since it was discovered in a small pond near Houston 12 ye ... |
| Gunmen attack 2 Mexican army bases Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico -- Dozens of gunmen tried to blockade two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers, the army said Wednesday in announcing what appeared to be a rare drug cartel offensive. One soldier wa ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The sun is out. The water is falling. Traffic is starting to flow again. Though things appear to be looking up in Rhode Island, the state hit hardest this week by three days of rain and record flooding, health and environmental of ... |
| Young adults ready to be put on parents' plans Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT CHICAGO -- Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer's human resources office to ask how soon she could get her 22-year-old daughter back on her health insurance.In about six months, ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Think you're better than Hollywood at gauging whether an upcoming flick will be a box office bomb or a sleeper hit? You'd get a chance to put your money behind that under two proposals that movie studios are denouncing as legalized gam ... |
| Big deals boost U.S. auto sales in March Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT DETROIT -- Car shoppers flocked to showrooms last month, lured by big promotions from Toyota and other automakers that could persist into the spring.Toyota's unprecedented incentives, including low-interest financing, cheap leases and free maintenanc ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:41 PM PDT PLANO, Texas. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than 1.2 million Americans will have a heart attack this year. Up to 450,000 will experience cardiac arrest. This means their heart will stop beating, and they could die within minutes. Something that's as ea ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:48 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new clinical prediction index has been developed to determine the risk of death in kidney patients considering transplantation. A new study seeks to develop and test a new index that can calculate survival for various options ... |
| Jackson doc fights to keep license Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson's doctor is "hanging on by a thread" and must be allowed to continue practicing medicine to pay for his defense on a manslaughter charge in the pop star's death, the physician's lawyers said in court papers.Responding t ... |
| Sexually Transmitted Disease: The Next Superbug? Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:48 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A sexually transmitted infection may be on its way to becoming untreatable after showing growing resistance to multiple antibiotic drugs. Researchers at the Health Protection Agency in London say some strains of the bacteria t ... |
| Redbud trees suited for Brazos Valley landscapes Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT The branches of redbud trees throughout the Brazos Valley are covered with flowers, a sign that spring has arrived. Redbuds, which are deciduous, have long been popular for their early spring flowers. Eastern redbud is a variable species, partly bec ... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT Saturday* Brazos Valley Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon. Texas Avenue and William Joel Bryan Parkway in Bryan. Locally grown fresh produce and other items. Live music, raffles, treats and activities for children. www.brazosvalleyfarmersmarket.com, hpw ... |
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