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- Cotton Bowl campout begins
- Healing unites those left behind after violent crimes
- A&M linebacker Miller given prestigious Dick Butkus Award
- Ogden pushes constitutional amendment requiring balanced federal budget
- Brazos Valley agency giving the gift of warmth
- Bryan postpones picks for animal shelter advisory committee
- Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61
- Police: No one injured in gas well explosion near Franklin
- Police: Man charged with robbery after $40 theft
- Texas leaders tell agencies to find more savings
- Council OKs fee changes at facilities
- 'Beauty and the Beast' closing 2010 OPAS season
- Driver charged with controlled substance possession
- Hundreds of angels still in need of gifts
- Mexico: Soldiers kill 6 gunmen in northern Mexico
- Penny Zent the guest of honor at dinner
- Prison for man in scalding of autistic girl
- Camp Hearne plans Christmas event
- Bexar County Jail strip search settlement reached
- Obama battles Dems over tax deal
- Texas comptroller to release education report
- Tax deal may pave way for U.S.-Russia arms treaty
- Tobacco company settles lawsuit
- Study: U.S. students lag in academics
- Elizabeth Edwards loses cancer battle
| Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST Robby Gilpin (second from left) and Ely Poutous (second from right) play a video game Tuesday as their friends watch while camping out at Kyle Field for tickets to the Cotton Bowl Classic. The 1,250 student tickets will go on sale Thursday at 7 a.m. ... |
| Healing unites those left behind after violent crimes Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST Gitania Oges and Markeith Raiden slowly approached the Christmas tree, with an angel ornament in hand, when the name of their father was read aloud at the Brazos County Administration Building. They attended the eighth annual Tree of Angels ceremony ... |
| A&M linebacker Miller given prestigious Dick Butkus Award Posted: 07 Dec 2010 09:27 AM PST Texas A&M senior linebacker Von Miller was just handed the top collegiate linebacker honor — the Dick Butkus Award. Butkus came to the Aggie football practice at Kyle Field to deliver the coveted award in person late this afternoon as the tea ... |
| Ogden pushes constitutional amendment requiring balanced federal budget Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST A movement to amend the U.S. Constitution and require a balanced federal budget is gaining steam among Republicans nationwide, and Bryan's state senator, Steve Ogden, is preparing to help lead the charge in Texas. Ogden filed a resolution last week ... |
| Brazos Valley agency giving the gift of warmth Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST There's a chill in the air, but one local agency is making sure Brazos Valley residents struggling to keep their heaters on aren't being left in the cold. The Brazos Valley Community Action Agency's utility assistance and home weatherization program ... |
| Bryan postpones picks for animal shelter advisory committee Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST The Bryan City Council decided Tuesday to wait until the new year to appoint new members to the city's animal shelter advisory committee. The terms of the current four members will expire at the end of the year, but Mayor Jason Bienski said the coun ... |
| Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:42 AM PST WASHINGTON -- A family friend says Elizabeth Edwards has died of cancer. The friend says the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards died in North Carolina Tuesday morning.The friend spoke on the condition of anonimity ... |
| Police: No one injured in gas well explosion near Franklin Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:47 AM PST Law enforcement authorities were at the scene early Wednesday of a gas well explosion near Franklin. The explosion on F.M. 46 in Robertson County was reported shortly before 6 a.m., a Texas Department of Public Safety official said, adding that DPS ... |
| Police: Man charged with robbery after $40 theft Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:08 AM PST A 24-year-old man faces a felony robbery charge after police said he injured two employees while attempting to steal from a College Station store. Eduardo De La Torre-Hernandez of Navasota remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $10,000 bail. Two office ... |
| Texas leaders tell agencies to find more savings Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:27 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The state's top three elected officials asked Texas agencies Tuesday to plan for additional cuts of 2.5 percent as lawmakers address a budget shortfall expected to exceed $20 billion. The cuts, requested in a letter from Gov. Rick ... |
| Council OKs fee changes at facilities Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:17 PM PST The Bryan City Council on Tuesday approved several changes to its Parks and Recreation programs and facilities. This is a list of the changes: Pavilion and facility reservation fee per use * Non-resident pavilion fees were decreased by $3 for half ... |
| 'Beauty and the Beast' closing 2010 OPAS season Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST Dead week is in full swing at Texas A&M, and finals are right around the corner. But that doesn't mean the fun, music and games have to end. MSC OPAS will offer the final performances of 2010 Saturday and Sunday with Beauty and the Beast. The s ... |
| Driver charged with controlled substance possession Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:39 AM PST A defective tail light led to a man's arrest on felony charges for possession of prescription drugs, according to a police report. Bryan resident Daniel Salas Herrera was jailed Tuesday on a charge of driving while his license is suspended -- which ... |
| Hundreds of angels still in need of gifts Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe Bryan-College Station Salvation Army is in need of the community's help to give more than 430 children a Christmas. Through the organization's Angel Tree program, community members can "adopt" and buy gifts for local children wh ... |
| Mexico: Soldiers kill 6 gunmen in northern Mexico Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:25 AM PST MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Defense Department says soldiers killed six assailants in a clash in the northern state of Tamaulipas, across the border from Texas.The Defense Department statement indicates troops were headed to inspect a ranch in the munici ... |
| Penny Zent the guest of honor at dinner Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA dinner honoring Penny Zent, one of the community's biggest supporters, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 11 at Miramont Country Club. Zent, station manager for KAMU-FM and an employee with Education Broadcast Services at Texas A&M, ... |
| Prison for man in scalding of autistic girl Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:05 AM PST SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty over the scalding of an 8-year-old autistic girl in the shower after she had soiled herself. A judge in San Antonio on Monday sentenced Victor Acosta I ... |
| Camp Hearne plans Christmas event Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Camp Hearne, the recently reopened German prisoner of war camp in Robertson County, will be open Dec. 18 for what organizers hope will become an annual Christmas event. Those in attendance will be shown My Christmas Soldier at ... |
| Bexar County Jail strip search settlement reached Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:21 AM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Thousands of people who were strip searched in non-felony cases when being booked into the Bexar County Jail could benefit from a multimillion dollar lawsuit settlement.Details on the class-action settlement were posted Wednesday at be ... |
| Obama battles Dems over tax deal Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama struggled Tuesday to prevent wholesale defections by fellow Democrats that could sink the tax deal he worked out with Republicans -- angry opposition that could subject millions of Americans to a big holiday-sea ... |
| Texas comptroller to release education report Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:24 AM PST DALLAS -- Texas Comptroller Susan Combs is set to release an education report that will include a rating system for school districts that compares student performance to district spending.Combs was expected to release the report, titled "Connecting t ... |
| Tax deal may pave way for U.S.-Russia arms treaty Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON -- A U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, President Barack Obama's top foreign policy priority, may now hinge on the fate of his top domestic goal, winning approval of a contentious tax cut plan.If Obama persuades reluctant congression ... |
| Tobacco company settles lawsuit Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death settlement won from a chewing tobacco company.A le ... |
| Study: U.S. students lag in academics Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST United States students are continuing to trail behind their peers in a pack of higher-performing nations, according to results from a key international assessment. Scores from the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment to be released ... |
| Elizabeth Edwards loses cancer battle Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She was 61.She died at her North ... |
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