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- An Arctic holiday experience
- Scott & White hospital to bring 400 jobs
- Duplicate street names can be a pain in emergencies
- Flores tapped for trio of committees
- Police: Masked men attempted to rob Madisonville store at gunpoint
- Blasts at Swiss, Chile embassy in Rome, 2 injured
- Holidays bring spike in thefts
- Blood center open for holiday donations
- Perry issues disaster proclamation over wildfires
- Mexico investigates report of 50 missing migrants
- Obama signs repeal of "don't ask, don't tell"
- Stepdad gets 45 years for death of McAllen toddler
- There are rules to follow to get well water
- Fraud: $250,000 worth of coins seized for Texas
- Group pushing to talk about death penalty's place
- Apparent murder, suicide in 2 Pine Springs deaths
- Death toll from Mexico crude-oil blast rises to 29
- Rust Belt loses political clout
- Hillsides collapse as storm lashes SoCal
- Contractor gets 25 years over Lufkin tornado scam
- Family's triple tragedy highlights Mexico impunity
- Digital dominates George W. Bush archives
- Terrorism low priority in poverty-stricken Yemen
- White House defends intel chief after terror gaffe
- New kind of care from The Med
| Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST Jerod Williams, 10, leaps into a pile of snow unloaded from the Arctic Wolf Ice Center's ice scrapers while attending the Winter in Texas Camp in College Station on Wednesday. Campers get to skate and play games at the annual day camp, which continue ... |
| Scott & White hospital to bring 400 jobs Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST A new Scott & White hospital in College Station will create 400 news jobs with an annual payroll of about $20 million, company executives said Wednesday. The total project cost, including purchase of 98 acres of undeveloped land on the corner o ... |
| Duplicate street names can be a pain in emergencies Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST "911. What's your emergency?" "I need help. Please come to 1 - - 5 Forest Drive." "We're sending someone your way." Five minutes later and emergency responders aren't at your door? They could be in the wrong part of town. There is a Forest Drive in ... |
| Flores tapped for trio of committees Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST Brazos County's new U.S. congressman will serve next year on committees that draw on his past work experience, campaign promises and predecessor's expertise. Bill Flores, a Republican, announced this week that he's been assigned to the Natural Reso ... |
| Police: Masked men attempted to rob Madisonville store at gunpoint Posted: 22 Dec 2010 02:01 AM PST Madisonville police arrested two men early Wednesday after a store employee reported they attempted to rob her at gunpoint. Police responded at 1 a.m. to a call at Brookshire Brothers at Texas 21 and Texas 75, Lt. Allen Gudgell said. A store employee ... |
| Blasts at Swiss, Chile embassy in Rome, 2 injured Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:48 AM PST ROME -- Rome's police chief says all embassies have been informed about a pair of package bombs that exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies, injuring two people who opened them.Chief Francesco Tagliente said a suspicious package found at the Ukr ... |
| Holidays bring spike in thefts Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST The holidays bring good tidings and cheer, but they also bring a spike in shoplifting and home burglaries as thieves try to do their shopping without going through the check-out line or keep their eyes peeled for lucrative break-in opportunities. Am ... |
| Blood center open for holiday donations Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:11 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Blood donations tend to decrease around holidays, so to help ensure adequate supply is available, the Blood Center of Brazos Valley will have a special open house on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. The center will be open from 7 ... |
| Perry issues disaster proclamation over wildfires Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:18 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The threat of extreme wildfires has led Gov. Rick Perry to issue a disaster proclamation for most of Texas. The proclamation covers 244 of the state's 254 counties. Perry says lack of precipitation has dried grass and other vegetati ... |
| Mexico investigates report of 50 missing migrants Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:49 AM PST Associated PressMEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities said Wednesday they are investigating the possible kidnapping of 50 illegal migrants in the southern state of Oaxaca, a day after saying there was no evidence of the crime.Honduran, Guatemalan and Sa ... |
| Obama signs repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed a new law Wednesday that will allow gays for the first time in history to serve openly in America's military. And he urged those kicked out under the old law to re-enlist. Framing the issue as a matter of ... |
| Stepdad gets 45 years for death of McAllen toddler Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:19 AM PST EDINBURG, Texas -- A man charged with beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter to death when she wouldn't stop crying as he watched a World Cup match on television has pleaded guilty to murder. A judge in Edinburg on Tuesday accepted the plea from 28-yea ... |
| There are rules to follow to get well water Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:51 PM PST By ASHLEY McCOLLUM Special to The Eagle For many Texans, there's nothing as refreshing as a drink of cool, clear water from a well drilled deep underground. Whether it's for drinking, watering gardens or caring for livestock, water from individual w ... |
| Fraud: $250,000 worth of coins seized for Texas Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:48 AM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says $250,000 worth of gold coins linked to fraud have been recovered to benefit Medicaid. Abbott's office says authorities on Monday seized the 101 coins from a depository account in Wilmington, Del. ... |
| Group pushing to talk about death penalty's place Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST HOUSTON -- An alliance of nearly 60 current and former prosecutors, judges, police chiefs, governors, death row exonerees and crime victims filed a legal brief Wednesday asking Texas' highest criminal court to let an unusual hearing on the constitut ... |
| Apparent murder, suicide in 2 Pine Springs deaths Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:20 AM PST PINE SPRINGS, Texas -- An East Texas sheriff says the shooting deaths of a woman and her husband at their Pine Springs home appear to be a murder and then a suicide. The bodies of 71-year-old Bonnie Hays and 68-year-old Billy Hays were discovered M ... |
| Death toll from Mexico crude-oil blast rises to 29 Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:20 AM PST MEXICO CITY -- The death toll from a massive crude-oil explosion that laid waste to parts of a central Mexican city has risen to 29. Authorities in Puebla state say they located the remains of a baby in the arms of one of the other 28 victims. Sunda ... |
| Rust Belt loses political clout Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- After years of losing residents to more prosperous states, the nation's Rust Belt now confronts another blow to its economic prospects: losing some of its votes in Congress. The latest census figures show that states in much ... |
| Hillsides collapse as storm lashes SoCal Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- Axl Dominguez awoke early Wednesday to a bumping sound and looked out the window to a scary sight: plastic trashcans floating down the flooded street.And then the water came rushing into his house."We didn't have time to get a ... |
| Contractor gets 25 years over Lufkin tornado scam Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:18 AM PST LUFKIN, Texas -- A building contractor convicted of scamming victims of a December 2009 tornado in Lufkin must serve 25 years in prison. A judge in Lufkin on Tuesday sentenced 43-year-old Jason Lynn McKnight of Wells. A jury in October convicted ... |
| Family's triple tragedy highlights Mexico impunity Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:21 AM PST CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- A daughter is found dismembered. Her mother is shot dead trying to bring the killer to justice. Two days later, a brother-in-law's body is dumped on the street after his lumber business is torched. No one is under arrest for ... |
| Digital dominates George W. Bush archives Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:11 PM PST LEWISVILLE -- Archivists responsible for putting together the presidential library of former President George W. Bush are tasked with processing 80 terabytes of electronic information -- 20 times the Clinton administration's four terabytes. Bush's ... |
| Terrorism low priority in poverty-stricken Yemen Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST SANAA, Yemen -- A doctor would have recognized the signs of chronic malnutrition immediately in the 7-month-old girl -- the swollen stomach, the constant cough. Her mother, though, had only traditional healers to turn to in her Yemeni mountain villa ... |
| White House defends intel chief after terror gaffe Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST WASHINGTON -- After the nation's top U.S. intelligence official fumbled a simple question about terrorism on national television, the White House on Wednesday acknowledged that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had been in the dark abo ... |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST Tripp Lewis, Guardian EMS regional manager for B-CS, examines the interior of the new ambulance put into service by The Med in College Station. The ambulance, which will be owned and operated by Guardian Ambulance, the largest private emergency vehic ... |
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