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- Shedding light on modern art
- A&M System grades faculty — by bottom line
- Business owners recognized for making an impact
- Wellborn group looking for deal after being denied hearing
- Doctor says homeless killer was not insane
- Court says gay couples can't divorce in Texas
- Bryan gang member gets 15 years
- Police: Two left kids at home alone
- Funding for school bus seat belts getting slashed
- Grease fire sends woman to hospital
- Inmate dies after escape attempt at Texarkana jail
- Texas man slits throat in court after sentencing
- Cooking school is planned for Sept. 14
- Pre-registration for Buddy Walk open
- Obama: Iraq war is over for U.S.
- Afghan leader ruffled by probe
- Volcano erupts after 400 years of rest
- Four Israelis killed on eve of peace talks
- Mexico captures reported drug lord 'The Barbie'
- Media attacks French first lady
- Fish pond ready for a win
- Investors brace for sluggish September
- Feds appeal stem cell research block
- Black children must learn to swim
- Secret testimony reveals stars' loss
| Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:04 PM PDT Craig Hollinger, program director at the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, works to install track lighting for an exhibit beside a large limestone sculpture at the Arts Center in College Station on Tuesday. The untitled sculpture will be one of seve ... |
| A&M System grades faculty — by bottom line Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT Frank Ashley felt the shifting winds several years ago: As state officials embarked on accountability measures for K-12 teachers, he said, he told his faculty colleagues that public sentiment would eventually demand such measures in higher education. ... |
| Business owners recognized for making an impact Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT In 1932, a local man began collecting scrap metal from a dump yard in Bryan and taking it to a warehouse in Houston, where the materials could be used to support World War II efforts. Eventually, his work led to a scrap metal businesses being estab ... |
| Wellborn group looking for deal after being denied hearing Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:04 PM PDT A group of Wellborn residents pursuing efforts to form their own city said Tuesday that they are ready to work toward some sort of an agreement with the city of College Station after the Texas Supreme Court declined to intervene. The leader of the ... |
| Doctor says homeless killer was not insane Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT Two psychological diagnoses have emerged in the trial of a Bryan homeless man accused of fatally beating another homeless man with a steel pipe. Local psychologist Kim Arredondo, called to testify by the defense, has said that Danny Grammer, 24, ... |
| Court says gay couples can't divorce in Texas Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:12 AM PDT DALLAS -- A Texas court of appeals has ruled that gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriages are banned. The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Dallas judge did not have jurisd ... |
| Bryan gang member gets 15 years Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT An admitted Bryan gang member was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday as part of a plea agreement for his role in a 2009 drive-by shooting. Jerry Reyes Gomez, 24, was convicted of deadly conduct, evading arrest with a motor vehicle, engaging ... |
| Police: Two left kids at home alone Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:04 PM PDT Two Bryan residents were charged this week in separate cases involving children left home alone, authorities said. Thomas Melvin Cariss, 29, and Susie Ann Gonzales, 19, were charged Monday with abandoning or endangering a child with intent to retu ... |
| Funding for school bus seat belts getting slashed Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:13 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Education Agency budget cuts are slashing the amount of money set aside for equipping new school buses with seat belts. It's a law that legislators and Gov. Rick Perry approved with fanfare four years ago. Now only $3.6 mill ... |
| Grease fire sends woman to hospital Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report A woman was taken by helicopter to a hospital Tuesday night after suffering burns from a grease fire, authorities said. District 2 Volunteer Fire Department Chief Merrie Noak said firefighters were called to a home on Kurten Cem ... |
| Inmate dies after escape attempt at Texarkana jail Posted: 01 Sep 2010 02:07 AM PDT TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Authorities say a federal inmate has died after falling five stories while trying to escape from a jail in Texarkana, Ark.The U.S. Marshals Service says 30-year-old Anthony Lewis of Springhill, La., escaped from a fenced recreation ... |
| Texas man slits throat in court after sentencing Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:14 AM PDT DALLAS -- A suburban Dallas man used a razor blade to slit his throat moments after a judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Marcial Anguiano of Duncanville left court Tuesday morning on a stretcher with his neck bandaged. The Dallas Morning N ... |
| Cooking school is planned for Sept. 14 Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe annual Taste of Home Cooking School is set for Sept. 14 at the Brazos County Expo.Doors open at 4 p.m. with the show beginning at 6:30 p.m. The event features on-stage preparation of recipes, with culinary tips and techniques.A ... |
| Pre-registration for Buddy Walk open Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportResidents are invited to participate in the seventh annual Buddy Walk, organized by the Down Syndrome Association of Brazos Valley. Buddy Walk, which celebrates individuals with Down syndrome, is set for Oct. 10 from noon to 4 p.m. ... |
| Obama: Iraq war is over for U.S. Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: "It is time to turn the page." Now, he said, the nation's most urgent priority ... |
| Afghan leader ruffled by probe Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- A bribery probe involving a top adviser to President Hamid Karzai has angered the Afghan leader and threatens to damage U.S. relations with Kabul just three months after a White House visit that seemed to smooth ties at a critic ... |
| Volcano erupts after 400 years of rest Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:09 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. ... |
| Four Israelis killed on eve of peace talks Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT JERUSALEM -- Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility. Assailants ... |
| Mexico captures reported drug lord 'The Barbie' Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT MEXICO CITY -- A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico's most savage assassins became the third major drug lord brought down by Mexico in less than a year, and could provide intell ... |
| Media attacks French first lady Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:09 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 on ... |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT Texas A&M electrician and all-around handyman Cecil Duke, 56, cleans spigots on the Fish Pond fountain Tuesday afternoon. The fountain was being freshened up in preparation for Corps of Cadet freshmen to chase down, carry and throw yell leaders i ... |
| Investors brace for sluggish September Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT CHICAGO -- The economy is weakening, home sales are plunging and stocks are on a long slide. Now comes something even scarier for investors -- the beginning of what is traditionally the worst month in the market.Could stocks be headed for another Sep ... |
| Feds appeal stem cell research block Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday asked a federal judge to lift a restraining order that it says could undercut federally funded embryonic stem cell research.The Justice Department filed its request with U.S. District Judge Royce Lamb ... |
| Black children must learn to swim Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT Can you swim? If you are African American, the chances of you drowning are up some 30 percent or more over your white counterparts. Is this another achievement gap? In early August, six African-American teen-agers from Louisiana drowned when they ... |
| Secret testimony reveals stars' loss Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Roughly two weeks before a judge would sentence her to jail, Lindsay Lohan sat in a downtown courtroom and recounted to a grand jury how a burglar's black fingerprints on her wall left her so unnerved that she had to move.Moments later ... |
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