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- Headstands for health
- Brazos joins water fight
- Aggies preserving history
- Month honors South's soldiers
- Power back on in CS
- Official honored for volunteerism
- Watkins defends Bryan's budget
- Paris-to-Atlanta flight diverted to Maine airport
- Authorities looking for robbery suspect
- Mushroom festival to get 8 new sculptures
- Texas lawmaker to introduce anti-immigration bill
- Jury selection begins in Texas child slayings case
- Wrong house demolished in Denton
- Chopper flying low to take aerial photos
- Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog
- Reach for it
- Survey: Consumer confidence up
- Website: Bullock is divorcing James, adopting baby
- Southwest fined for breaking bump rules
- Ford reports another profit, but shares plummet
- Gulf put on watch
- Breast Cancer Risk Factors Differ Among Ethnic Groups
- Goldman executives deny wrongdoing in crisis
- Young adults face coverage obstacles
- Facebook's expansion fuels criticism
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT Holistic nurse and yoga instructor Filipa Lakos helps 3-year-old Taro Moore do a headstand during an open house Tuesday at The Brazos Healing Center on the ground floor of the East Professional Building in College Station. The new facility offers cla ... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Brazos County on Tuesday joined the parade of local governments expressing opposition to a long-term plan to build a massive reservoir on the Navasota River. The five-member Commissioners Court unanimously approved a resolution against a proposal to ... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT Pointe du Hoc will be saved -- again. And Texas A&M can claim partial credit -- again. On D-Day, then-Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder, who would become Texas A&M's president 15 years later, and his 2nd Ranger Battalion climbed the site's 90-foot c ... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Brazos County commissioners on Tuesday declared this month Confederate History and Heritage Month, but, after a spirited discussion on the cause of the Civil War, also included in their resolution a note on the "evil" of slavery.The month, which will ... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:19 PM PDT Electricity was restored to about 5,600 homes and business in College Station around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after an outage caused by transformer problems at the Southwood substation, city officials said.Power was out for less than 30 minutes in the city ... |
| Official honored for volunteerism Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT This June will be a memorable one for Ronnie Jackson. He'll be celebrating 21 years of community service in Bryan-College Station.The coordinator of neighborhood services for the city of Bryan will also be attending the national Jefferson Awards cere ... |
| Watkins defends Bryan's budget Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Bryan City Manager David Watkins on Tuesday tried to set the record straight regarding the city's finances.Watkins told the City Council during a workshop presentation about the city's budget that he hears chatter about the city spending more money t ... |
| Paris-to-Atlanta flight diverted to Maine airport Posted: 27 Apr 2010 08:11 AM PDT BANGOR, Maine -- The Transportation Security Administration says a flight from Paris to Atlanta has been diverted to an airport in Maine after federal air marshals responded to a passenger causing a disturbance.Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott says th ... |
| Authorities looking for robbery suspect Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating the man who robbed a a Bryan convenience store March 20. Police said a the man walked into the Easy Shop on College Avenue, threatened to punch the clerk ... |
| Mushroom festival to get 8 new sculptures Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA new tradition will begin at this year's Texas Mushroom Festival in Madisonville.Eight decorated mushroom sculptures will be on display during the Oct. 23 festival. An additional eight will be added each year, if all goes according ... |
| Texas lawmaker to introduce anti-immigration bill Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:38 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas lawmaker says she plans to push for a law similar to Arizona's get-tough immigration measure.San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle report Wednesday that Republican Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball says she will introduc ... |
| Jury selection begins in Texas child slayings case Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:16 AM PDT EDINBURG, Texas -- Jury selection is under way in the retrial of a South Texas man accused of killing three children.Twenty-nine-year-old John Allen Rubio is a Brownsville man accused in the 2003 slayings of the children of his common-law wife. Polic ... |
| Wrong house demolished in Denton Posted: 27 Apr 2010 07:51 AM PDT DENTON, Texas -- A Denton woman is trying to figure out what to do after a demolition crew wrongly tore down most of her house, instead of one across the street.Francis Howard told the Denton Record-Chronicle that "I don't have the words to say" ab ... |
| Chopper flying low to take aerial photos Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA helicopter flying low over parts of College Station this week is taking aerial photographs, officials said Tuesday.College Station police, responding to several calls about the helicopter, said the company has permission for the l ... |
| Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:17 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog.Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he needed just one shot from the laser-sighted pistol he sometimes carries while jo ... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT Ed Moctezuma, 2, tries to catch a solitary bubble while playing with his parents at Tanglewood Park in Bryan on Tuesday. ... |
| Survey: Consumer confidence up Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Key pillars of the U.S. economy are getting stronger.The best consumer confidence reading since September 2008's financial meltdown and bullish earnings reports this week from companies ranging from Whirlpool to UPS show increasing demand ... |
| Website: Bullock is divorcing James, adopting baby Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:09 AM PDT Associated PressNEW YORK -- Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from her husband, Jesse James, and is adopting a baby boy as a single parent, a story posted Wednesday on People magazine's website said."Yes, I have filed for divorce," the 45-year-old ... |
| Southwest fined for breaking bump rules Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT DALLAS -- Southwest Airlines Co., which bumped more passengers than any U.S. carrier last year, has been fined $200,000 for violating rules on kicking passengers off oversold flights.The Transportation Department said Tuesday that it reviewed passeng ... |
| Ford reports another profit, but shares plummet Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford Motor Co. earned $2.1 billion in the first quarter as the economic clouds parted and consumers grew confident enough to buy cars again. But the confidence didn't extend to investors, who pushed Ford's shares down Tuesday on co ... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT BILOXI, Miss. -- This time, it's not a hurricane that threatens to wreck their livelihoods -- it's a blob of black ooze slowly making its way toward the Gulf Coast.Hotel owners, fishermen and restaurateurs are keeping anxious watch as an oil slick s ... |
| Breast Cancer Risk Factors Differ Among Ethnic Groups Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:45 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Breast cancer occurs more frequently in certain ethnic and racial groups, but the reasons behind these differences are not fully understood. For example, factors known to increase the risk of breast cancer among white women hav ... |
| Goldman executives deny wrongdoing in crisis Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs executives on Tuesday unflinchingly defended their conduct and denied the huge Wall Street investment bank helped cause the near-meltdown of the nation's financial system.The executives, blistered by lawmakers for "unbrid ... |
| Young adults face coverage obstacles Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is pushing to speed up insurance coverage for young adults in their 20s -- a key early benefit of his prized health care overhaul -- but the law's fine print suggests some won't be able to sign up until next year. ... |
| Facebook's expansion fuels criticism Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook's plan to spread its online social network to other websites could be detoured by regulators looking into privacy concerns that have raised the ire of federal lawmakers.Four senators said Tuesday that Facebook needs to make ... |
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