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- In the Aggies' corner
- Edwards, Flores debate best way to care for vets
- Area representatives open to utilities reform
- Man dies in Robertson County crash
- Blaze damages Bryan home
- Police: Ecstasy, PCP and crack cocaine found in car
- 'Fill the Boot' funds to benefit charity
- More in Texas choose home schooling
- Man jailed in alleged assault on woman, 92
- 33 miners trapped for 17 days are alive
- Southern farmers say disaster aid plan failed them
- New office taking over BP payouts
- Egypt van Gogh theft blamed on alarms
- LA unveils costliest school in nation
- Book: Today's religious debates not new
- Turnham 60th
- Card rules won't banish all fees
- Letters for August 23
- Calendar
- 2-foot-long alligator found hiding under NYC car
- General has faith in Iraq's forces
- THIRD & SHORT
- SPORTS IN BRIEF: Piniella retires after Cubs' loss to Braves
- Rangers salvage split in Baltimore
- Pence's homer sends Astros to victory
| Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT Texas A&M soccer fans, in town before classes start Aug. 30, turn up the volume before a corner kick by the Aggies in the first half of a match against St. John's on Sunday at the A&M Soccer Complex in College Station. The support apparently ... |
| Edwards, Flores debate best way to care for vets Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT In a political season wrought with fighting over taxes, climate change and Lower Manhattan mosques, veterans' care hasn't emerged as a major talking point. But the candidates in the contentious U.S. House District 17 seat have found a way to inje ... |
| Area representatives open to utilities reform Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT State Rep. Fred Brown said he likely will sponsor legislation this winter that would disassemble part of an 11-year-old law that allows cities to keep secret salary and bonus information at municipally-owned power companies. The issue made its way ... |
| Man dies in Robertson County crash Posted: 23 Aug 2010 01:12 AM PDT Authorities said a 52-year-old man died over the weekend after his truck hit a tree in Robertson County. The wreck happened at about 9 p.m. Saturday, five miles west of Marquez, according to Texas Department of Public Safety officials. Richard Clint ... |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT Firefighters spent more than 30 minutes extinguishing a fire that caused major damage to a Bryan home early Sunday. Firefighters reported no serious injuries in the blaze on the 2000 block of Broken Arrow, although one resident was treated for min ... |
| Police: Ecstasy, PCP and crack cocaine found in car Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report A Bryan man faces multiple felony charges after College Station police said they arrested him with ecstasy, PCP and crack cocaine in his car. Police pulled the 35-year-old driver over on Texas Avenue on Saturday after an office ... |
| 'Fill the Boot' funds to benefit charity Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportBryan firefighters will be stationed at intersections across the city Friday through Sunday, asking for the public's help for a well-known national charity.The "Fill the Boot" fundraiser takes place annually across the U.S. to benef ... |
| More in Texas choose home schooling Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:54 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Millions of students returned to public schools across Texas while tens of thousands of others were staying home to hit the books.Monday was the first day of classes in most public schools.The Houston Chronicle reports a growing number of ... |
| Man jailed in alleged assault on woman, 92 Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:56 PM PDT HOUSTON -- A man invited into a Houston woman's home and allowed to care for her 92-year-old mother has been charged with aggravated sexual assault after the mother was found near death in her bathtub.Fifty-six-year-old Dean Wood remained in the Harr ... |
| 33 miners trapped for 17 days are alive Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's president euphorically waved the note, written deep inside a collapsed mine, that his country waited 17 agonizing days to see: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter," one of the trapped miners wrote in red letters. Autho ... |
| Southern farmers say disaster aid plan failed them Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:55 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS -- The permanent disaster aid program in the 2008 Farm Bill was intended to spare Congress from having to scrape up extra money every time a drought, flood or hurricane struck farm country, but growers in the South claim the plan has fail ... |
| New office taking over BP payouts Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- The new administrator for damage claims from Gulf oil spill victims said Sunday it was his idea, not BP's, to require that anyone who receives a final settlement from the $20 billion compensation fund give up the right to sue the oil g ... |
| Egypt van Gogh theft blamed on alarms Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT CAIRO -- None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday.Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of Poppy F ... |
| LA unveils costliest school in nation Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinat ... |
| Book: Today's religious debates not new Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT By CARL HOOVER Waco Tribune-Herald WACO -- Public fights over the role morality and churches should play in American life. Vocal evangelicals tripped by personal scandals. Heated debates over science versus religion, definitions of obscenity, a pre ... |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:36 AM PDT Nick and Billie Turnham of Bryan will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on August 26, 2010. They were married at Freewill Baptist Church in Bryan, Texas. A reception at Briarcrest Country Club will be given by their children, Karen Bradberry a ... |
| Card rules won't banish all fees Posted: 22 Aug 2010 04:22 AM PDT Help is on the way for cardholders this weekend. Newly purchased gift cards won't expire as quickly, and late fees on credit card payments won't be as punishing.The final stage of consumer protections signed into law earlier this year goes into effec ... |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT A farewell from a giant of the music community Editor's note: Just days before his death much too early on Saturday, music promoter and Bryan-College Station booster Willie Bennett sent a final letter to the community he loved so much: I m ... |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe Second Annual Emergency Preparedness Fair is 8 a.m. to noon. Aug. 28 at the LDS Church, 2500 Barak Lane in Bryan. Learn to prepare for possible emergencies and learn the emergency preparedness resources available; American Red ... |
| 2-foot-long alligator found hiding under NYC car Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:56 PM PDT NEW YORK -- A 2-foot-long alligator has been spotted under a car in New York City. Animal Care and Control experts removed the critter from the Queens street on Sunday afternoon. They aren't sure how the alligator got there. Spokesman Richard Gen ... |
| General has faith in Iraq's forces Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- It would take "a complete failure" of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, the top American commander in Iraq said as the final U.S. fighting forces prepared to leave the country. With a major mil ... |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT NFL TAMPA, Fla. -- By the time Tampa Bay closed out an exhibition victory over Kansas City, Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman had regained his composure and was talking positively about the thumb injury that will sideline him until at least the op ... |
| SPORTS IN BRIEF: Piniella retires after Cubs' loss to Braves Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT Piniella retires after Cubs' loss to Braves CHICAGO -- Lou Piniella's long and colorful career has spanned 48 years, from an aggressive outfielder with a sharp batting eye to a successful manager whose highlight-reel base-throwing tantrums sometimes ... |
| Rangers salvage split in Baltimore Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT BALTIMORE -- The reliable duo of Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero provided the Texas Rangers with a satisfactory finish to an otherwise lamentable road trip. Hamilton and Guerrero each hit three-run homers, Tommy Hunter earned his career-high 1 ... |
| Pence's homer sends Astros to victory Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT MIAMI -- Hunter Pence rounded second base at a gallop before downshifting into a home-run trot that allowed him to savor his go-ahead hit. The solo homer in the eighth inning Sunday helped the Houston Astros avert a series sweep by beating Florida ... |
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