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- A Christmas celebration
- Honors keep coming for Aggie
- Community rallies to help injured worker
- Kids give hearts to sick teen
- CS couple killed in Limestone County accident
- A little time in the light could brighten the blues
- Weather Whys: Hard freeze
- Web firm wins rent appeal
- Community donates gifts to theft victim
- CS couple killed, baby hurt in wreck
- A&M center provides aid to Iraq veterans
- Police say drugs found after chase
- Holiday closings
- Bethlehem full of cheer
- NORAD keeps Santa-tracker top secret
- Pope celebrates Christmas amid heightened security
- Houston family trims 100-year-old artificial fir tree
- Tax law full of business breaks
- Find joy in the reason for season
- EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
- Biden: Gay marriage 'inevitable'
- 'Spider-Man' returns with smooth landing
- Snow storm heads south
- Fighting epilepsy
- Sales could break records
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST William McFarland (left), playing Joseph, and Harper Cunningham, playing Mary, sit in front of the altar at St. Thomas Episcopal in College Station on Friday night during the church's Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist and Children's Posada. The service dr ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST The 33 Chilean miners rescued in October may still have been trapped today were it not for Plan B, the drilling effort cobbled together by Greg Hall. For that effort, the class of 1982 Aggie has been named a finalist for 2010 Dallas Morning News Te ... |
| Community rallies to help injured worker Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Judy Sutherland thought this Christmas would be like many before -- spent in Bryan-College Station with her only son, close friends and family. Instead, the single mother, who's worked various part-time jobs for College Station and Brazos County ov ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST This Christmas, a local family is celebrating the fact that their 13-year-old grandson, brother and cousin is home to take part in the holiday festivities. Montrail Webb, a seventh-grader at Sam Rayburn Middle School in Bryan, recently found out th ... |
| CS couple killed in Limestone County accident Posted: 24 Dec 2010 10:25 AM PST A College Station couple was killed and their infant daughter was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Limestone County Friday afternoon. Texas Department of Public Safety officials weren’t releasing the names of the couple pending notification ... |
| A little time in the light could brighten the blues Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST That sunlight affects mood has been theorized since the ancient Greeks, but when well-studied research finally was published in the 1980s, it was met with controversy. "This was someone standing up and for the first time saying people get depressed ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 03:55 AM PST Q: What exactly is a hard freeze? A: There are several types of freezes, explains Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University, and they are classified according to their severity. "In general terms, a hard freeze occurs when the air temperatur ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff Report A state appellate court has reversed the decision of a Brazos County jury and ordered a new trial in a dispute involving local Internet-services company GKG.Net and a property company from which it once leased office space. A three ... |
| Community donates gifts to theft victim Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Brazos Valley residents stepped up on Christmas Eve after hearing about Gloria Avila, whose home was burglarized by thieves who took all the presents she bought for Christmas. By mid-afternoon Friday, Avila had received several gi ... |
| CS couple killed, baby hurt in wreck Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff Report A College Station couple was killed and their infant daughter was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Limestone County Friday afternoon. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said Jennifer Stiegler, 32, and her hus ... |
| A&M center provides aid to Iraq veterans Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff Report This Christmas, 150 disabled veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom received checks in the mail for $500. The money came to them through a partnership between the Texas A&M Health Science Center Col ... |
| Police say drugs found after chase Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff Report A 20-year-old Bryan man remained in the Brazos County Jail on Friday on multiple charges, including evading arrest with a motor vehicle, driving while intoxicated and possession of cocaine and marijuana. According to the police re ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST Holiday schedule for Christmas Eve: * The Brazos County Courthouse and other county offices will be closed Monday. * Texas A&M University will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 2. Office and related activities will reopen at 8 a.m. on Jan. 3, b ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- The traditional birthplace of Jesus is celebrating its merriest Christmas in years, as tens of thousands of tourists thronged Bethlehem on Friday for the annual holiday festivities in this biblical West Bank town. Officials s ... |
| NORAD keeps Santa-tracker top secret Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Lots of military secrets are hidden behind the gleaming walls of NORAD'S headquarters building, including this one: Just how do they get Santa's flight path onto their computer screens every Christmas Eve? Tracking ... |
| Pope celebrates Christmas amid heightened security Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas Eve with an evening Mass on Friday amid heightened security concerns following the package bombings at two Rome embassies and Christmas Eve security breaches at the Vatican the past two years. B ... |
| Houston family trims 100-year-old artificial fir tree Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST HOUSTON -- It's balder. It has a little less spring. But it's standing proud to celebrate its 100th Christmas. It's a Christmas tree, bought for $11 at a Galveston department store by Jennie Martin, the grandmother of 78-year-old Lynn Ringh. Sinc ... |
| Tax law full of business breaks Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The massive new tax bill signed into law by President Barack Obama is filled with all kinds of holiday stocking stuffers for businesses: tax breaks for producing TV shows, grants for putting up windmills, rum subsidies for Puerto Rico ... |
| Find joy in the reason for season Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST "What do they mean, papers? We don't need any doggone papers. We're the wise men." "These Border Patrol agents are cold." "That's why they call them ICE, man." Dear reader: We come upon, in the middle of their dialogue, three turbanned individuals wh ... |
| EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Stymied in Congress, the Obama administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on power plant and oil refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement on the agency's w ... |
| Biden: Gay marriage 'inevitable' Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday the evolution in thinking that will permit gays to soon serve openly in the military eventually will bring about a national consensus for same-sex marriage. Changes in attitudes by military lea ... |
| 'Spider-Man' returns with smooth landing Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST NEW YORK -- It was a smooth landing for Spider-Man. A day after Broadway's costliest show was forced to cancel two performances following a scary fall by a stunt actor, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark resumed previews Thursday and came off without a h ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Christmas Eve snow storm that blanketed parts of the Midwest was headed southeast, expected to bring rare Christmas Day snowfall to Kentucky, Tennessee and even Georgia. After dumping 9 inches of snow in Iowa by Friday morning, ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 02:29 PM PST CHICAGO -- Epilepsy takes as many as 50,000 lives each year -- grim statistics Mike and Mariann Stanton hadn't heard of until their 4-year-old son, Danny, became one of them.Somehow, that horrible tragedy a year ago transformed a blissfully ordinary ... |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2010 02:28 PM PST NEW YORK -- Shoppers came back in force for the holidays, right to the very end. After two dreary years, Christmas 2010 will go down as the moment when Americans rediscovered how much they like to shop.People spent more than expected on family and fr ... |
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