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- Pets ready for their Christmas close-up
- County commissioners keeping quiet on annexation
- Brazos Animal Shelter director resigns
- Bryan considers residential warranty option
- CS trustees get preview of new state test
- Bryan council votes to release BTU's top-level salary data
- House Democrats consider changes to tax deal
- Work starts on new liberal arts building
- Rise in sales, hiring forecast
- Drug cartels' patron saints crossing the border
- GOP gains House supermajority
- Death penalty counts drop in Texas
- Low sales land team in N.D. instead of Hawaii
- Winter storm spurs closures, rescues in Northeast
- Gunman kills self at school meeting
- Segregation drops to record low
- Police think deaths may be linked
- Bryan wins Showdown
- Smokers at Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Yahoo cuts work force by 4%
- Catching Lung Cancer Culprit
- Promising Results for Lung Cancer Patients
- New Radiation Treatment for Elderly People with Cancer
- 'King's Speech' leads the Golden Globe nominees
- Put Puerto Rican twist on classic eggnog
| Pets ready for their Christmas close-up Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST City of College Station employee Gerald Guillory, playing the part of Santa, offers comforting words to Khloe the Chihuahua at Central Park in College Station on Tuesday. Khloe and other family pets got their chance to have their pictures taken with ... |
| County commissioners keeping quiet on annexation Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST Brazos County Commissioners discussed College Station's possible annexation of Wellborn for almost an hour Tuesday but declined to formally chime in on the debate -- for now. Commissioners voted 2-2 on a non-binding resolution that would have asked ... |
| Brazos Animal Shelter director resigns Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST Ashley Wesp has resigned after four years as executive director of the Brazos Animal Shelter, effective Dec. 1. The shelter's board of directors announced Tuesday that Melissa Ball, who has served as the shelter's operations manager since 2004, woul ... |
| Bryan considers residential warranty option Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST Bryan residents may soon have an option to buy insurance to protect against water and sewer line damage. The Bryan City Council on Tuesday requested that city staff research a warranty program available to residents through the National League of Ci ... |
| CS trustees get preview of new state test Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST College Station school board members were unexpectedly quizzed during a meeting Tuesday by administrators who wanted them to get the feel of the next Texas standardized test. Starting next school year, most Texas public school students will start ta ... |
| Bryan council votes to release BTU's top-level salary data Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST The Bryan City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to release salary figures for the top managers at the city's electric utility. BTU's board of directors will consider the resolution at its meeting Wednesday, and the information is expected to be ... |
| House Democrats consider changes to tax deal Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST WASHINGTON -- House Democrats considered changes in legislation to avoid a Jan. 1 jump in income taxes on Tuesday, despite a warning from Republicans that the bill's passage could be endangered as a result. "This agreement is not subject to being re ... |
| Work starts on new liberal arts building Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:11 PM PST The new liberal arts building may be ready just in time for my last semester as an English major at Texas A&M. The university is set to break ground on the building Thursday at 10 a.m. It will be on the historic grassy knoll between the Melbern ... |
| Rise in sales, hiring forecast Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST WASHINGTON -- A strong start to the holiday season is raising confidence that the consumer is back and that 2011 could be a better year for the economy than expected. Retail sales are rising, boosted by the best month for department stores in two ye ... |
| Drug cartels' patron saints crossing the border Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Dark imagery associated with the Mexican drug war, including images of the unofficial patron saints of death and smuggling, are showing up north of the border, a sign of the cartels' growing influence among American smuggling networks, ... |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:16 PM PST AUSTIN -- The general election was more than a month ago, yet the Republican tidal wave keeps getting bigger in Texas. Two state lawmakers announced Tuesday that they are switching from Democrat to Republican, including one from a South Texas Demo ... |
| Death penalty counts drop in Texas Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST HOUSTON -- Texas juries sentenced eight convicted killers to death in 2010, the fewest in the nation's most active death penalty state since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment. The figures released Monday by the Austin-base ... |
| Low sales land team in N.D. instead of Hawaii Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST FARGO, N.D. -- There is an old saying in the sales business: Always be closing. Here is a new one: Always be freezing, if you do not sell enough. The company that makes Hot Tamales candy offered its sales team an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii i ... |
| Winter storm spurs closures, rescues in Northeast Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:16 PM PST BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Hoods were up and heads were down as a storm that plagued the Midwest for days plodded eastward Tuesday with knifing winds and blowing snow, stranding dozens of motorists on a southern Ontario highway and giving much of the northeast ... |
| Gunman kills self at school meeting Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:16 PM PST PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- A gunman opened fire at a school board meeting Tuesday, sending the audience scrambling before he exchanged shots with a security guard and then killed himself, police said. No one besides the gunman was injured. Witnesses sai ... |
| Segregation drops to record low Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST WASHINGTON -- America's neighborhoods took large strides toward racial integration in the last decade as blacks and whites chose to live near each other at the highest levels in a century. Still, segregation in many parts of the U.S. persisted, wi ... |
| Police think deaths may be linked Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:16 PM PST BABYLON, N.Y. -- A serial killer may have abandoned four badly decomposed bodies, each apparently dumped from a car, along a desolate, wind-swept stretch of highway not far from Long Island's Jones Beach, police said Tuesday. Police found the rema ... |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST Bryan's DJ Payton raises his arms in the air after Bryan takes the lead late in the fourth quarter against A&M Consolidated on Tuesday. For more on the game, go to www.brazossports.com. |
| Smokers at Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis Posted: 14 Dec 2010 05:45 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- On top of a myriad of other risks, smokers have yet another reason to kick the habit. A recent study published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases identified smoking in more than a third of the cases of rheumatoid art ... |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo is reducing its work force by 4 percent as it hands out 600 layoff notices for the holidays. The job cuts announced Tuesday follow weeks of speculation about whether a long-running financial funk would spur Yahoo to trim its ... |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST (IVANHOE NEWSWIRE)-- Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States with about 170,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Cancer researchers have identified six gene markers present in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC ... |
| Promising Results for Lung Cancer Patients Posted: 14 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST (IVANHOE NEWSWIRE)-- Combining epigenetic therapy and molecular targeted therapy has shown promising results for combating advanced lung cancer. Epigenetic therapy is designed to control the expression of good and bad genes that influence the devel ... |
| New Radiation Treatment for Elderly People with Cancer Posted: 14 Dec 2010 05:45 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) A new type of targeted radiation therapy, stereotactic radiation therapy, is just as good as surgery for patients 75 and older with early-stage lung cancer, according to this study. In this study, researchers compared two tr ... |
| 'King's Speech' leads the Golden Globe nominees Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:16 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- The King's Speech is precisely the kind of film that has long appealed to awards voters: It's historical, focuses on royalty, depicts a character overcoming physical adversity and features a classy cast.So it should come as no surprise ... |
| Put Puerto Rican twist on classic eggnog Posted: 14 Dec 2010 01:36 PM PST Daisy Martinez says coquito -- an intensely rich Puerto Rican version of eggnog -- is a must in her family's home during the holidays. And this is no everyday drink. Made from coconut cream, eggs, sweetened condensed milk, heavy cream, evaporated ... |
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