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- Two die in Brazos Valley wrecks
- Watkins' exit plan not yet decided
- A&M gives notices to lecturers
- Dress-wearing bank robber found in Hearne, police say
- Bryan Council to give Watkins written notice
- CS schools rezoning plans made public
- Coulson named finalist for Superintendent of the Year
- Psychologist: Killer has PTSD
- Bryan entities, Brazos County open redistricting talks
- Obama to honor troops as Iraq combat mission ends
- Police say they have bank robbery suspect in custody
- Mexico says drug lord 'the Barbie' captured
- Bedbugs prove hard to eradicate
- UT prepares for supercomputer
- Texas warden was last voice heard by 140 inmates
- Despite questionable links, VA covers diabetes
- Mexico firing suspicious officers
- Earl threatening East Coast
- Volcano erupts after 400 years of rest
- Hilton says purse, cocaine not hers
- Media attacks French first lady
- Letters for August 31
- Calendar
- Reins pass to Iraq
- Third & Short
| Two die in Brazos Valley wrecks Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Two area residents died Monday in unrelated accidents on Brazos Valley roads -- a career truck driver trying to miss hitting a cow and a cook bringing food to construction workers. Madisonville resident Andres Hinojosa, 34, was d ... |
| Watkins' exit plan not yet decided Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT The Bryan council voted Monday to give City Manager David Watkins notice in writing that he was being let go, but apparently the exit strategy is still being hammered out. The measure that passed with the support of five council members included ... |
| A&M gives notices to lecturers Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:29 PM PDT Walter Daugherity, a 24-year Texas A&M senior lecturer with a Harvard doctorate, knew his job could be cut, but it still was jarring to be called into his boss's office last week. "I assumed it would be about the budget reduction," he said ab ... |
| Dress-wearing bank robber found in Hearne, police say Posted: 30 Aug 2010 11:38 AM PDT A police report filed earlier this month described an armed bank robber this way: The suspect is as a male wearing a long, black dress. Wait. What? Brandon Okeith Hutchins, a 27-year-old Bryan resident with a goatee, was arrested Sunday on a charge ... |
| Bryan Council to give Watkins written notice Posted: 30 Aug 2010 02:28 PM PDT The Bryan City Council on Monday evening voted to give written notice to the city manager that they intend to fire him. The motion also included authorizing Mayor Jason Bienski and City Attorney Janis Hampton to continue to negotiate what's called a ... |
| CS schools rezoning plans made public Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT College Station students may find themselves attending a different school next year than the one they're in now. After months of talking about it, trustees on Monday got their first look at recommended plans for new school attendance zones. Offi ... |
| Coulson named finalist for Superintendent of the Year Posted: 30 Aug 2010 10:27 AM PDT College Station's top administrator Eddie Coulson on Monday was named one of five finalists for the Superintendent of the Year Award. The selection made by the Texas Association of School Boards was pared down after conducting interviews with each o ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT A psychologist testified Monday that a homeless man was triggered by post traumatic stress disorder when he fatally beat an acquaintance in an abandoned downtown Bryan building. Kim Arredondo said Danny Grammer, 24, told her that he didn't remember b ... |
| Bryan entities, Brazos County open redistricting talks Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT Every 10 years Americans can be certain of two things: the U.S. Census Bureau will count the country's population down to the tiniest of towns and redistricting then will redraw electoral boundaries. The first round unfolded Monday when the Brazos ... |
| Obama to honor troops as Iraq combat mission ends Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:25 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he'll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the st ... |
| Police say they have bank robbery suspect in custody Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT A police report filed earlier this month described an armed bank robber this way: The suspect is a male wearing a long, black dress. Wait. What? Brandon Okeith Hutchins, a 27-year-old Bryan resident with a goatee, was arrested Sunday on a charge ... |
| Mexico says drug lord 'the Barbie' captured Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:28 AM PDT MEXICO CITY -- Federal police on Monday captured a long-sought, alleged Texas-born gang kingpin who faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in ce ... |
| Bedbugs prove hard to eradicate Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.The pr ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT AUSTIN -- The University of Texas is getting another supercomputer in a $9 million system expected to support more than 1,000 research projects, the school and other groups announced Monday.UT joined with the government's National Science Foundation ... |
| Texas warden was last voice heard by 140 inmates Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:26 AM PDT HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The voice of Charles Thomas O'Reilly is the last one about 140 people Texas death row inmates have heard over the past six years.O'Reilly has been the warden of the state prison simply called the Huntsville Unit, where he preside ... |
| Despite questionable links, VA covers diabetes Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT RALEIGH, N.C. -- By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped photos.The jaunt didn't make for much of a war story, and there ... |
| Mexico firing suspicious officers Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's federal police agency has fired nearly 10 percent of its force this year for failing checks designed to detect possible corruption, a major obstacle in the country's battle against increasingly brutal drug gangs.Mexico's appro ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday as it rapidly intensified into a major Category 4 storm taking a path projected to menace the United State ... |
| Volcano erupts after 400 years of rest Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT TANAH KARO, Indonesia -- Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters Monday after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more than a mile into the air -- an eruption that caught scientists off-guard.T ... |
| Hilton says purse, cocaine not hers Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT LAS VEGAS -- Paris Hilton denied owning the purse in which police say less than a gram of cocaine was found after a traffic stop on the Las Vegas Strip, according to an arrest report. "She told me the purse was not hers, that she had borrowed it f ... |
| Media attacks French first lady Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian state media called France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a "prostitute" on Monday in an unusual attack on the wife of a world leader that shows deep anger over her support for an Iranian woman who faced death by stoning ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT Let the Bush-era tax cuts expire this year Congress soon will have a momentous decision whether to let the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy stand or expire. I prefer to rely on history to inform my judgments as to the proper course of action. ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT MARK YOUR CALENDARS The 2010 Architecture for Health Visiting Lecture Series begins at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Wright Gallery, second floor of Building A Langford Architecture Center. Lectures will be held each Wednesday through Dec. 1. Wednesda ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Firmly ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, President Barack Obama will have but a moment before trying to hasten peace nearby between Israelis and Palestinians. Left unclear is whether winding down the war that inflamed Arab passi ... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT COLLEGE FOOTBALL COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Suspended Missouri running back Derrick Washington was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a former tutor in her apartment over the summer. Assistant Boone County prosecutor Andrea Hayes said that a single cou ... |
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