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- Eye on the prize
- Judge proposes budget cuts
- Mother testifies in son's defense
- Hearne Junior High makes strides
- Gang member gets 20 years
- CS council OKs RV parks in city
- 2 women jailed for offering sex to cops
- Moving up the ladder
- Social networks see rise in older users
- Johnson taking it to the field
- Engineers to remove cap from BP well
- U.S. birth rate drops to new low
- Woman's body found in her cluttered home
- Economic outlook deteriorating
- Feds arrest Texan in powder-filled letters hoax
- HP, Dell bidding war still going strong
- Faith Calendar
- Paris archbishop expresses concern over crackdown
- Calendar
- U.S. public tepid in response to Pakistan floods
- Slashing suspect traveled with Marines for 5 days
- Feds: Don't tip off miners on surprise inspections
- Sheriff's deputy fatally shot near AZ-Utah border
- Bryan doctor injured; woman charged with intoxication assault
- Police: Traces of cocaine, prescription pills found in Bryan home
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Hearne High School's Cey'quan Williams waits for the signal to run out onto the field for his team's opening night matchup against Franklin in Hearne on Friday. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Brazos County Judge Randy Sims proposed slicing $26.1 million from the county budget Friday, saying he wanted to keep taxes down in a troubled economy. The suggested 17.4 percent reduction will still be accompanied by a recommended county tax rat ... |
| Mother testifies in son's defense Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Francis Janssen was having a tumor surgically removed from her throat when jury selection began in her son's murder trial Tuesday She said she had asked for the procedure to be delayed, but her doctor refused. "I was told that if I waited even a ... |
| Hearne Junior High makes strides Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT HEARNE -- Recognized. It's not a word most people have associated with Hearne Junior High School. Until now. For the first time, the school has been rated recognized by the Texas Education Agency, which ranks schools as exemplary, recognized, ... |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT A Bryan gang member was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to firing a gun at a rival gang member's car in a drive-by shooting. The bullet was fired in retaliation for prior gang violence, prosecutors said, and nearly st ... |
| CS council OKs RV parks in city Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT More RV owners may soon be calling College Station home after the City Council voted this week to change an ordinance to allow RV parks in the city. RV parks were not allowed in the city limits under the previous ordinance. The 5-1 vote will allow ... |
| 2 women jailed for offering sex to cops Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Two Bryan women were in jail Friday after being accused of offering to have sex with police officers. An undercover officer said he was flagged down by a woman near West Martin Luther King Jr. Street around 10:15 p.m. Thursday. T ... |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Daniel Westergaard (right) salutes after being congratulated on his promotion to the rank of major during a ceremony Friday on the Texas A&M campus. Westergaard works with the university's Army ROTC program. |
| Social networks see rise in older users Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT By SARAH LUNDY The Orlando Sentinel ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ruth Roseboom checks her Facebook page at least once a day. The 78-year-old grandmother from Celebration, Fla., has 40 Facebook friends and likes to see what they are up to at any given time. Ro ... |
| Johnson taking it to the field Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Jerrod Johnson is always looking for ways to become a better football player and sometimes that happens in unusual places. The star quarterback from Texas A&M spent last spring student-teaching elementary and high school kids, and football was ... |
| Engineers to remove cap from BP well Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- Engineers will soon start the delicate work of detaching the temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing from BP's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well and the hulking device that failed to prevent the leak -- all while trying to avoid more ... |
| U.S. birth rate drops to new low Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Forget the Dow and the GDP. Here's the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many people apparently decided they couldn't afford more mouths to feed.The birth rate dropped for the secon ... |
| Woman's body found in her cluttered home Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT LAS VEGAS -- A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman came to a ghastly end this week when her husband found her corpse in their home amid a labyrinth of squalor that had been impassable even to search dogs. Bill James apparently had no i ... |
| Economic outlook deteriorating Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The economy turns out to be weaker than we thought, and the outlook for the rest of the year is now looking dimmer. New figures issued Friday show the economy struggled this spring, growing at a meager 1.6 percent annual pace. The in ... |
| Feds arrest Texan in powder-filled letters hoax Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT DALLAS -- Federal agents have arrested a Dallas man for allegedly mailing white powder-filled envelopes to IRS and Social Security offices in Texas and Maryland.Michael Wayne Patterson, 51, who was taken into custody Thursday appeared before a federa ... |
| HP, Dell bidding war still going strong Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT SEATTLE -- Hewlett-Packard Co. boosted its bid for 3Par Inc. to $1.88 billion Friday, topping Dell Inc.'s offer by 11 percent and again raising the stakes in the bidding contest for the data-storage company. The $30-per-share offer from HP came ju ... |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Saturday * St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 217 W. 26th St. in Bryan, will hold a Taizé prayer service at 6 p.m. Taizé prayer is an ecumenical contemplative service of song, silence and Scripture. The service will last about 45 minutes. Sunday * ... |
| Paris archbishop expresses concern over crackdown Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT PARIS -- The archbishop of Paris joined the tide of criticism over France's crackdown on Gypsies, calling it a "circus," while the EU's justice commissioner on Thursday denounced French officials' discriminatory tone about the vulnerable minority. ... |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT Saturday EVENTS Second annual Emergency Preparedness Fair, 8 a.m. to noon. LDS Church, 2500 Barak Lane, Bryan. Free. Learn how to prepare for emergencies and what resources are available. There will be displays and classes on preparedness topic ... |
| U.S. public tepid in response to Pakistan floods Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Americans are giving a paltry amount for relief efforts in flood-stricken Pakistan compared to other overseas disasters. They were more than 40 times more generous for the Haiti earthquake.Reasons include the slow-motion nature of the cal ... |
| Slashing suspect traveled with Marines for 5 days Posted: 27 Aug 2010 08:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military says there was no sign the suspect in the slashing of a New York cab driver might not be able to cope with the experience of living with troops fighting in Afghanistan. Michael Enright, a freelance journalist from ... |
| Feds: Don't tip off miners on surprise inspections Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:51 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- Some mine companies are tipping off their underground workers before federal officials make surprise inspections, an illegal practice that has become more prevalent since a West Virginia explosion killed 29 miners, the nation's top mi ... |
| Sheriff's deputy fatally shot near AZ-Utah border Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:42 AM PDT FREDONIA, Ariz. -- Dozens of law officers, some in helicopters or leading tracking dogs, searched a remote desert area in northern Arizona early Friday for a gunman who allegedly shot and killed a Utah sheriff's deputy.Deputies on foot were chasing b ... |
| Bryan doctor injured; woman charged with intoxication assault Posted: 27 Aug 2010 10:22 AM PDT A Bryan woman has been charged with intoxication assault after running over a Bryan doctor while driving under the influence, authorities said. According to the police report, witnesses saw Lori Kay Carder, 46, attempt to turn into the Shell gas sta ... |
| Police: Traces of cocaine, prescription pills found in Bryan home Posted: 27 Aug 2010 08:06 AM PDT Two Bryan residents were arrested after authorities reported finding prescription pills and evidence indicating cocaine was being manufactured in their home. David Lee Curley and his female roommate, both 27, were each jailed Thursday on two counts ... |
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