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- A&M grads look ahead
- A welcome addition to Texas A&M
- Jin's forced to close for day
- Obama signs tax bill
- What the tax law means to you
- Police: Man caught cutting window screen arrested
- Laura Bush speaks freed Myanmar party leader
- Mexican drone crashes in Texas
- NASA fuels space shuttle in test for cracks
- Congress rushes to finalize bills before holidays
- N. Korea warns South to halt drills
- Bones may yield clues to Amelia Earhart mystery
- Dow might hit record high in 2011
- CIA chief pulled from Pakistan; drones kill 54
- Coast Guard finds little oil on seafloor
- Bears orphaned after attack debut in zoo
- Creativity for a cause
- Pope: Christians most persecuted
- Religion notes
- Letters for December 18
- Calendar
- Divers search for missing illegal immigrants in AZ
- Coyote rescued from slab of ice in Lake Michigan
- Neb. judge tosses illegal immigrant tuition suit
- Vikings express concern over Metrodome's safety
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:08 PM PST Glitter, feathers, and a Mexican flag were just a few of the accents some of the soon-to-be graduates of Texas A&M University adorned their mortarboards with for Friday's ceremony in Reed Arena. One student even decorated her cap with lights. " ... |
| A welcome addition to Texas A&M Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:08 PM PST Texas A&M broke ground on a $46 million liberal arts and humanities building Thursday, marking the 134-year-old historically agricultural school's first building designed specifically for arts and humanities. The 124,000-square-foot structure ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Jin's Asian Cafe, located at 110 Nagle Street in College Station, was temporarily closed recently after a visit from an officer with the Brazos Valley Health Department. The restaurant received a 65 on its health inspection on D ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON --President Barack Obama signed into law a huge, holiday-season tax bill extending cuts for all Americans on Friday, saluting a new spirit of political compromise as Republicans applauded and liberals seethed. The benefits range from tax ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- It's the most significant new tax law in a decade, but what does it mean for you? Big savings for millions of taxpayers, more if you have young children or attend college, a lot more if you're wealthy. The package, signed Friday by Pre ... |
| Police: Man caught cutting window screen arrested Posted: 17 Dec 2010 01:54 AM PST A 20-year-old man was charged with burglary after an officer reported seeing him cutting a window screen of a College Station home. Quinterius Ramone Williams of Calvert was jailed Friday on a charge of burglary of a habitation. College Station pol ... |
| Laura Bush speaks freed Myanmar party leader Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST DALLAS -- Former first lady Laura Bush, a longtime advocate for free elections in Myanmar, spoke for the first time Friday with the isolated Asian country's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released last month after more than seven ye ... |
| Mexican drone crashes in Texas Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST EL PASO -- Federal authorities are investigating why a Mexican drone was in Texas airspace and what caused the unmanned surveillance aircraft to crash into a backyard in El Paso. The crash occurred after sunset Tuesday behind a house in a former a ... |
| NASA fuels space shuttle in test for cracks Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery at the pad Friday, not for a flight but for tests to help understand mysterious cracks that appeared in the fuel tank during a launch attempt last month. Discovery is grounded until at le ... |
| Congress rushes to finalize bills before holidays Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Rushing to finish by Christmas, congressional Democrats worked Friday to secure Senate ratification of a new arms control treaty and to end the military's ban on openly gay service members as they neared the end of two tumultuous years ... |
| N. Korea warns South to halt drills Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea warned South Korea on Friday not to stage artillery drills on a front-line island the North bombed last month, saying it would hit back even harder than in the previous attack that killed four South Koreans.The North ... |
| Bones may yield clues to Amelia Earhart mystery Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST NORMAN, Okla. -- Three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are being analyzed to determine if they belong to Amelia Earhart -- tests that could finally prove she died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the f ... |
| Dow might hit record high in 2011 Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST NEW YORK -- Could the Dow set a record high next year? That question would have seemed crazy early last year when fear and panic enveloped the stock market and the Dow Jones industrial average plunged to 6,547 on March 9. Many investors thought i ... |
| CIA chief pulled from Pakistan; drones kill 54 Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST ISLAMABAD -- The CIA yanked its top spy out of Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened, and 54 suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone missile attack Friday in stark new signs of the troubled relationship between mistrustfu ... |
| Coast Guard finds little oil on seafloor Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST NEW ORLEANS -- Federal scientists said Friday extensive sampling of the Gulf of Mexico seafloor found oil in quantities too small to collect and in concentrations below harmful levels, except in the area surrounding the BP well. The Coast Guard's re ... |
| Bears orphaned after attack debut in zoo Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST BILLINGS, Mont. -- They will never escape their savage backstory, but three young bears whose mother led them on a rampage through a Montana campground embarked on a new career Friday: fuzzy zoo attractions.As a posse of preschoolers pressed close as ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST Above: Johnson Elementary fifth-grader Shelbie Walker and her classmates paint decorative plates Friday during their holiday party on the last day of school before winter vacation. The plates, which feature cheerful designs by the students, will be g ... |
| Pope: Christians most persecuted Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:14 PM PST VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI said recently that Christians suffer more religious persecution than any other group, denouncing lack of freedom of worship as an "intolerable" threat to world security. The message reflected a pressing concern by ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:08 PM PST Sunday * St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 2700 W. Villa Maria Road in Bryan, will hold a traditional worship service at 9 a.m. and a contemporary service at 11 a.m. The Rev. Jason Burnham will preach on "Love," the fourth in the Advent sermon ser ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST No reason not to have a council recall election Six years ago, my husband and I moved from an unincorporated area in the suburbs of Chicago where there are no extraterritorial jurisdiction laws. We liked the idea of being unincorporated. Frankl ... |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:08 PM PST Saturday CLUBS Photography club meeting, 9 a.m. Martha's Bloomers, Navasota. All levels of experience are invited to attend. 936-825-7400, ext. 100 or photoclub@marthasbloomers.com. EVENTS Toys for Tots toy drive, 6 to 10 p.m. Village Cafe in dow ... |
| Divers search for missing illegal immigrants in AZ Posted: 17 Dec 2010 05:47 AM PST GILA BEND, Ariz. -- Divers are searching for two, young illegal immigrants who are missing after running from a deputy during a traffic stop in Arizona and ending up in an agricultural canal.Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jeff Sprong said ... |
| Coyote rescued from slab of ice in Lake Michigan Posted: 17 Dec 2010 05:47 AM PST CHICAGO -- Chicago firefighters have rescued a coyote that had become trapped on a slab of ice floating in Lake Michigan.Firefighters say they got a call about the chilly coyote at about 9:30 a.m. Friday.The animal was crouched on a patch of ice drif ... |
| Neb. judge tosses illegal immigrant tuition suit Posted: 17 Dec 2010 05:46 AM PST OMAHA, Neb. -- A Nebraska judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition. The lawsuit filed in January on behalf of six Nebraska residents claimed their taxes were ... |
| Vikings express concern over Metrodome's safety Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota Vikings executive said Friday that the team is concerned about the safety of the Metrodome after a winter storm caused the building's roof to collapse, but he didn't rule out the team playing there next season.The Vikings h ... |
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