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- Rain falls across B-CS
- Bryan standoff ends peacefully
- BP: cap gets some Gulf oil, crude still spews
- Group to help world's orphans
- Police take barricaded man into custody
- Water system in CS flushed
- A&M editor featured speaker at event
- BP cuts pipe, plans to lower cap over Gulf spill
- Man charged with cutting common-law wife
- Caught in the spill
- Pinewood derby set for Saturday
- iPad may help ailing news industry
- Gary Coleman's parents seek custody of his remains
- Sisters find $18,000 in duffel, give it to owner
- 'Serendipity' kicks off 83rd National Spelling Bee
- Former 'World's Ugliest Dog' Miss Ellie dies at 17
- Selig won't reverse ump's mistake on perfect game
- Pay with time, not cash
- Data: Safest U.S. cities are in border states
- Cannabis caravans roam states
- BP receives $69M bill from gov't for oil cleanup
- Partner devastated by NY death of Ted Koppel's sonafter binge drinking
- Garden Calendar
- Fire ants most active in summer
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT Showers Wednesday and Thursday put Bryan-College Station ahead of average rainfall for the month of June but didn't eliminate the 4.76 inch shortfall for the year. Josh Lichter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Houston, said rain ... |
| Bryan standoff ends peacefully Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT A 45-year-old Bryan man remained behind bars without bail Thursday after a seven-hour standoff with police that ended shortly after a tactical response team entered his home.Donald Glynn Adams was charged with aggravated assault against a public serv ... |
| BP: cap gets some Gulf oil, crude still spews Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT GRAND ISLE, La. â€" BP reported some oil was flowing up a pipe Friday from a cap it wrestled onto its broken Gulf of Mexico well but crude still spewed and it was unclear how much could be captured in the latest bid to tame the nation’s worst oil spill ... |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT The Coalition for Life and Planned Parenthood on East 29th Street in Bryan will soon have a new neighbor. The salon that used to occupy the home between the two organizations closed, and the Central Texas Orphan Mission Alliance is moving in. The Bry ... |
| Police take barricaded man into custody Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:38 AM PDT Police said they took a man into custody Thursday morning after he barricaded himself inside his Bryan home for seven hours and threatened to shoot himself and anyone who entered. Donald Glynn Adams, 45, was taken into custody at 11:12 a.m., at his ... |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT College Station officials flushed excess chlorine from the city's water system Thursday after detecting levels of the substance above acceptable standards for consumption.The elevated chlorine levels did not pose an immediate risk to residents, offic ... |
| A&M editor featured speaker at event Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportMary Lenn Dixon, editor-in-chief of Texas A&M University Press, will be a featured speaker at the Press Women of Texas annual conference in Bryan on Saturday. Dixon's presentation will be at the Clara B. Mounce Public Library fr ... |
| BP cuts pipe, plans to lower cap over Gulf spill Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:56 AM PDT METAIRIE, La. â€" BP used giant shears to slice off a pipe Thursday in the company’s latest bid to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil, but the cut was irregular and placing a cap over the gusher will now be more challenging, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen sai ... |
| Man charged with cutting common-law wife Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:40 AM PDT A 32-year-old Bryan man faces a felony charge after police said he cut his common-law wife with a pocket knife in front of their children.Robyn Odale Haak remained jailed Thursday on a charge of aggravated assault. Bail was set at $7,000.A Brazos Cou ... |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:34 PM PDT Birds mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana Coast on Thursday as effects from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico become more evident.Associated Press photos by Charlie Riedel ... |
| Pinewood derby set for Saturday Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe George Bush Presidential Library and Museum will host a pinewood derby for Cub Scouts on Saturday.The event, which begins at 10 a.m. in the rotunda of the library on the Texas A&M campus, is free and open to the public.Compe ... |
| iPad may help ailing news industry Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Good news for the news business: Companies are paying newspapers and magazines up to five times as much to place ads in their iPad applications as what similar advertising costs on regular websites.This doesn't mean Apple's tablet compute ... |
| Gary Coleman's parents seek custody of his remains Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:07 AM PDT SALT LAKE CITY -- The estranged parents of former child TV star Gary Coleman are seeking custody of his body and want it returned to the star's boyhood home in Illinois, his former manager said Thursday.Coleman died Friday in Utah from a brain hemor ... |
| Sisters find $18,000 in duffel, give it to owner Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:41 PM PDT SPANISH FORK, Utah -- Two sisters found nearly $18,000 in an abandoned duffel bag outside a Spanish Fort store and notified police.Twenty-one-year-old Michelle Pientka and her 16-year-old sister Jessica say they found the bag at a Macey's parking lot ... |
| 'Serendipity' kicks off 83rd National Spelling Bee Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:46 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- With a touch of "serendipity," the search for a champion speller was under way.Fourteen-year-old Allison Black of Ider, Ala., looking just a tad nervous in her pink blouse and black skirt, stepped to the microphone Thursday morning and ... |
| Former 'World's Ugliest Dog' Miss Ellie dies at 17 Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:46 PM PDT PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- Miss Ellie, a small, bug-eyed Chinese Crested Hairless dog whose pimples and lolling tongue helped her win Animal Planet's "World's Ugliest Dog" contest in 2009, has died at age 17 after a career in resort show business in the ... |
| Selig won't reverse ump's mistake on perfect game Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:08 AM PDT NEW YORK -- The imperfect game stands.An umpire's tears and admission he blew a call failed to move baseball commissioner Bud Selig to award Armando Galarraga the perfect game he pitched. The play and its aftermath quickly became the talk of the spor ... |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- No money? No problem! Pay with time, instead.That's what Maria Villacreses did when the economy put a hitch in her wedding plans: She used "time dollars" on everything from a wedding-day makeover to an elaborate seven-layer cake.In ... |
| Data: Safest U.S. cities are in border states Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT MEXICO CITY -- It's one of the safest parts of America, and it's getting safer.It's the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it ... |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT HELENA, Mont. -- As Bob Marley music wailed in the next room, the makeshift clinic hummed along like an assembly line: Patients went in to see a doctor, paid $150 and walked out with a recommendation that they be allowed to buy and smoke medical mari ... |
| BP receives $69M bill from gov't for oil cleanup Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The federal government sent BP a bill for $69 million on Thursday to cover initial costs of responding to the nation's largest oil spill. President Barack Obama planned his second visit in a week to the battered Gulf Coast.Facing questi ... |
| Partner devastated by NY death of Ted Koppel's sonafter binge drinking Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:10 AM PDT NEW YORK -- The longtime partner of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel's son said she was devastated when he was found dead in a woman's apartment after a day of bar hopping.Ilona Lieberman called the death of Andrew Koppel a "devastating tragedy for ... |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT Saturday* Independent Growers Market, 7 to 11 a.m. Sons of Hermann Lodge parking lot, 1104 W. William J. Bryan Parkway. Garden- and orchard-direct produce. annfo5@hotmail.com.* Brazos Valley Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon. Texas Avenue and William Jo ... |
| Fire ants most active in summer Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT By CHARLA ANTHONYFire ants costs Texas more than a billion in annual argriculture losses and more. The insects can be a health threat for people, pets and plants and can be controlled through the use of pesticides.Fire ants, found in Texas' urban and ... |
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