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- Slocum: 'Do what is right'
- Council OKs parking changes
- Navasota preps for Blues Fest
- Brazos Valley under heat advisory
- CS police searching for dog that bit kid
- Obama to sign $600 million border security bill
- Bryan OKs funds switch
- Two file for vacant CS City Council spot
- Immigration chief: 'We're going to get this right'
- Girl, 2, found dead in hot vehicle in Wylie
- White presses Perry again to debate
- Debate churns about keeping troops in Iraq
- BP agrees to pay $50M for Texas refinery penalties
- Pa. passengers call JetBlue flight attendant rude
- Plan floated to give Christmas Mountains to school
- 3 Fla. kids buy plane tickets, fly alone to Tenn.
- Houston mom, grandma accused of prostituting girl
- Blog on Mexico's drug war goes viral
- Officials testing seal at busted Gulf well
- North Dakota man swallows other inmate's glasses
- GM is closer to public stock sale
- Unemployment claims edge up
- Perry again rejects debate with White
- Lesbian cadet quits West Point, cites 'don't ask'
- Stabbing spree suspect nabbed before Israel flight
| Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:19 PM PDT The students may have heard the advice before -- be honest, treat others like you'd want to be treated, do the right thing -- but they heard it again on Thursday evening from an Aggie football great. "Do what is right" said R.C. Slocum, the winning ... |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT The College Station City Council was busy Thursday night directing the police department to ban certain substances, changing Northgate parking prices and agreeing to re-brand the EXIT Teen Center to include senior citizens. David Gwin, the city's ec ... |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:19 PM PDT It may not be the birthplace of the famed sound, but this weekend, Navasota will be packed with fans and musicians celebrating the blues. "I would estimate we'll get about 1,500 visitors each day," said Mary Crawford, who's been the Navasota Blues ... |
| Brazos Valley under heat advisory Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:24 AM PDT National Weather Service forecasters on Friday issued a heat advisory through Saturday warning Brazos Valley residents to use caution because of hot weather. The heat advisory was issued about 7 a.m. and continues through 8 p.m. Saturday for Texas c ... |
| CS police searching for dog that bit kid Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:18 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report College Station police are asking for the public's help in locating a dog who bit a child at Anderson Park Thursday evening. According to police, the child was bitten by a young black dog, similar to a Labrador retriever, with w ... |
| Obama to sign $600 million border security bill Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:24 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is signing a bill Friday to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border. The Senate passed the $600 million measure during a special session Thursday. The border security measure would fund the hiri ... |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:18 PM PDT To fill a $1.8 million deficit budget deficit, Bryan school trustees this week approved a transfer of funds from the district's Group Benefits Risk Pool to the general fund. The risk pool was created to cover emergency and expensive health care costs ... |
| Two file for vacant CS City Council spot Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportTwo College Station residents filed paperwork Thursday to fill an empty seat on the College Station City Council.The filing period for the Place 5 seat previously held by Larry Stewart, who died in June, ends Aug. 27. Early voting b ... |
| Immigration chief: 'We're going to get this right' Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:53 AM PDT PHOENIX -- The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that the removal of illegal immigrants from the country is at an all-time high. ICE Director John Morton visited Phoenix in part to combat a common belief that the f ... |
| Girl, 2, found dead in hot vehicle in Wylie Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:13 AM PDT WYLIE, Texas -- Wylie police say a 2-year-old girl has died after being left in a hot SUV. Investigators say the girl, whose body was located late Thursday afternoon, apparently had been in the vehicle for about three hours. The name of the victim ... |
| White presses Perry again to debate Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:24 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White is again pressing Republican Gov. Rick Perry to debate, but Perry says White first must release more financial records. White pushed the issue as both appeared Thursday before the Texa ... |
| Debate churns about keeping troops in Iraq Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:18 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- As the U.S. winds up combat operations in Iraq this month, a gap is widening between the militaries of both countries and their political masters over whether American soldiers should stay beyond the 2011 deadline for a complete U.S. troo ... |
| BP agrees to pay $50M for Texas refinery penalties Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:25 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- Beleaguered oil giant BP has agreed to pay a record $50 million fine for failing to correct safety hazards at its Texas City oil refinery after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it ... |
| Pa. passengers call JetBlue flight attendant rude Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:26 AM PDT PITTSBURGH -- A pair of Pittsburgh women aboard a JetBlue flight said flight attendant Steven Slater -- hailed by some as folk hero -- was rude to passengers and instigated the confrontation that resulted in his barreling down an emergency chute fr ... |
| Plan floated to give Christmas Mountains to school Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:20 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- Control of the state-owned Christmas Mountains, property that at one time drew the attention of the National Park Service, could end up with a university.Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson has discussed the idea to shift control ... |
| 3 Fla. kids buy plane tickets, fly alone to Tenn. Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:19 AM PDT JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Three Florida children bought tickets with baby-sitting money and flew to Nashville, Tenn., on Southwest Airlines -- unbeknownst to their parents. Fifteen-year-old Bridget Brown had $700 saved and asked a 13-year-old friend w ... |
| Houston mom, grandma accused of prostituting girl Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:14 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Prosecutors say a 14-year-old girl's mother and her grandmother have been charged in Houston with forcing the child to work as a prostitute. The women, ages 33 and 55, remained in the Harris County Jail on Friday. Investigators say the ... |
| Blog on Mexico's drug war goes viral Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT MEXICO CITY -- An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere -- an inside view of their country's raging drug war. Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than si ... |
| Officials testing seal at busted Gulf well Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- In the strongest indication yet that BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico may be plugged for good, officials on Thursday said they're conducting tests to determine if further work to seal the well is needed.A final decision was ... |
| North Dakota man swallows other inmate's glasses Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:54 AM PDT BISMARCK, N.D. -- A North Dakota inmate was not afraid of making a spectacle of himself when he grabbed another suspect's glasses and started to eat them.Burleigh County Sheriff's Maj. Les Witkowski says the 42-year-old inmate at the county detention ... |
| GM is closer to public stock sale Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT DETROIT -- In a signal moment for the turnaround of the American auto industry, General Motors is edging toward a public stock sale, and its profits are now solid enough that the demanding CEO will step aside, saying his work is done.GM said Thursday ... |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The economy is looking bleaker as new applications for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in almost six months. It's a sign that hiring remains weak and employers may be going back to cutting their staffs. Analysts sa ... |
| Perry again rejects debate with White Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White is again pressing Republican Gov. Rick Perry to debate, but Perry says White first must release more financial records. White pushed the issue as both appeared Thursday before the Texas Association of Br ... |
| Lesbian cadet quits West Point, cites 'don't ask' Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT WEST POINT, N.Y. -- A lesbian cadet asked Monday to resign from the U.S. Military Academy because she can no longer lie about her sexuality and was troubled by the anti-gay attitudes of some around her.Katherine Miller of Findlay, Ohio, also said she ... |
| Stabbing spree suspect nabbed before Israel flight Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:19 PM PDT ATLANTA -- Elias Abuelazam was about to board a plane for Israel when police arrested him in connection with a three-month stabbing spree that left five men dead, 13 others wounded and a Michigan city in terror. In the moments before the pudgy man i ... |
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