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- Longtime A&M archivist to retire
- County touts drug-card savings
- Prof explores Texas trail
- B-CS ban on K2 enforced
- Cigarette blamed in CS house fire
- Aggie publishes book about his time in Iraq
- Doubts about economy linger
- Plant accused of killing trees
- Bill proposes deferred adjudication in DWI cases
- SUV driver killed in crash with Texas school bus
- New first-class postage stamps are all 'forever'
- Infant's body found in Houston trash bin
- Home prices fall in big U.S. cities
- Arlington officer, 2 others dead at apartment
- Police: Body of apparently burned child found
- Many still stranded as flights resume after storm
- Several hurt as chairs drop from Maine ski lift
- Willingham lawyers ask court to reconsider rebuke
- African leaders tell Ivory Coast incumbent to go
- Scouting out the competition
- Heart Disease and Stroke Costs on the Rise
- Restaurant Monitor
- New generation of Italian chefs shake up classics
- Jarred cake makes fun, tasty gift
- Chicken dish is weeknight friendly and dinner party ready
| Longtime A&M archivist to retire Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST David Chapman flips open a rare book from the 1700s, Vida de La Venerable Madre Maria. He walks over to some 18 or so cardboard boxes filled with open records requests related to the collapse of Aggie Bonfire. He stops amid shelves of documents, ever ... |
| County touts drug-card savings Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST Brazos County officials celebrated a flimsy paper card Tuesday that they say has saved their constituents over $1.2 million in prescription drug costs. The county has distributed the card for three years. It's free to any Brazos County resident and c ... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST More than 300 years ago, the Spanish and the French used the trail that runs through what is now Professor Christopher Talbot's front yard about nine miles east of Nacogdoches. Today, four children, a few pet goats, chickens and a donkey travel the r ... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST As politicians and law enforcement across the state and nation continue to push for bans on K2, local authorities are working to enforce city ordinances that made the substance illegal in Bryan and College Station. Since this summer, when both cities ... |
| Cigarette blamed in CS house fire Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:31 AM PST College Station fire officials were blaming an improperly discarded cigarette for a small fire early Tuesday that caused minor damage to a home. No one was injured and no one was displaced, fire officials said. Fire crews were called to the home on H ... |
| Aggie publishes book about his time in Iraq Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST For Charles C. "Brad" Bradbury, Texas A&M Class of '46, writing a book about his adventures in Iraq during the 1950s was therapeutic. In the recently self-published We've Never Had a King: Guests of the State, the 84-year-old Bradbury recounts ta ... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST NEW YORK -- Holiday spending surged this year, but Americans still have their doubts about the economy.With unemployment high and home prices falling in the nation's largest cities, consumer confidence took an unexpected turn for the worse in Decembe ... |
| Plant accused of killing trees Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST BASTROP -- Along a stretch of Highway 21, in a pastoral, hilly region of Texas, is a vegetative wasteland. Trees are barren, or covered in gray, dying foliage and peeling bark. Fallen, dead limbs litter the ground where pecan growers and ranchers ha ... |
| Bill proposes deferred adjudication in DWI cases Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:38 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- A new legislative proposal would allow first-time drunken drivers in Texas to be acquitted if they complete supervision and treatment, a move supporters say would reduce court backlogs and shift the judicial system's focus to punishi ... |
| SUV driver killed in crash with Texas school bus Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:36 PM PST CROSBY, Texas -- Authorities say the driver of an SUV was killed in a collision with a South Texas school bus carrying a girls' basketball team.The Harris County Sheriff's Office says the accident happened Tuesday night outside Crosby. The bus was ca ... |
| New first-class postage stamps are all 'forever' Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Rummaging around for 1- and 2-cent postage stamps when postal rates go up is heading the way of the Pony Express. Beginning in January, all new stamps good for 1 ounce of first-class mail will be marked as "forever." The move is design ... |
| Infant's body found in Houston trash bin Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:37 PM PST HOUSTON -- Houston police say the body of a baby girl with the umbilical cord still attached was found in a box near a trash bin at a gated apartment complex.Houston police Sgt. Will Gonzales says a maintenance worker found the box Tuesday morning ne ... |
| Home prices fall in big U.S. cities Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST NEW YORK -- Home prices are dropping in the nation's largest cities and are expected to keep falling next year, as fewer people purchase homes and millions of foreclosures come on to the market. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home pr ... |
| Arlington officer, 2 others dead at apartment Posted: 28 Dec 2010 11:37 PM PST ARLINGTON, Texas -- A suburban Dallas police officer and two others were found shot to death at an apartment complex Tuesday, shortly after the officer responded to an emergency call about a domestic disturbance.Dispatchers received a call about shot ... |
| Police: Body of apparently burned child found Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST HOUSTON -- Police are investigating the death of a child whose burned body was found in a shallow ditch near a busy Houston toll road. Houston police investigator Leslie Martinez says a passer-by discovered the body Tuesday morning along a roadway be ... |
| Many still stranded as flights resume after storm Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST NEW YORK -- Two magic words -- "on time" -- started appearing on some airport departure boards Tuesday as stranded passengers' patience and cash waned after a blizzard that brought transportation to a halt in the Northeast during one of the busiest t ... |
| Several hurt as chairs drop from Maine ski lift Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine -- A 35-year-old chair lift set for upgrades or replacement failed Tuesday at one of Maine's most popular ski resorts, sending skiers plummeting into ungroomed snow far below that fell with the Northeast's recent blizzard a ... |
| Willingham lawyers ask court to reconsider rebuke Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST AUSTIN -- Innocence Project attorneys who say a Texas man convicted of arson was wrongly executed have asked an appeals court to reconsider its rebuke of a judge who held a recent hearing in the case.Lawyers for the family of Cameron Willingham asked ... |
| African leaders tell Ivory Coast incumbent to go Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- West African leaders who came to deliver an ultimatum to Laurent Gbagbo met with him late into the night Tuesday after threatening a military ouster if he doesn't accept an offer to go into exile a month after the disputed ele ... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST Dobie high assistant girls basketball coach Tucker Smith, 69, has the stands all to himself in Viking Gym as he scouts the Bryan High School versus Nimitz basketball game for later use in the McDonald's All-Star Invitational Tournament Tuesday. The t ... |
| Heart Disease and Stroke Costs on the Rise Posted: 28 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) America is winning the battle against stroke and heart disease, but still losing the war. In Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2011, published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the association reports th ... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:49 PM PST The Restaurant Monitor is a weekly listing of scores for restaurants inspected by the Brazos County Health Department.Inspection scores are on a 100-point scale. Generally, scores below 80 might cause the department to schedule a follow-up visit. A s ... |
| New generation of Italian chefs shake up classics Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:49 PM PST MODENA, Italy -- In Massimo Bottura's hands, the traditional Italian peasant pasta and bean dish known as pasta e fagioli is rethought as a gustatory metaphor for the people who have influenced him.A cream of beans and foie gras represents French che ... |
| Jarred cake makes fun, tasty gift Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:49 PM PST Dear Lisa: I loved the recipes you provided for the mixes. I was wondering if you know about baking cakes in mason jars that are sealed with the lids. I want to be able to make these. -- Tim G. Dear Tim: These cakes are fun to make and to give as g ... |
| Chicken dish is weeknight friendly and dinner party ready Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:48 PM PST During the busy holiday season it's good to have a few "utility" recipes in your pocket. That is, dishes that are easy enough to prepare for a weeknight family dinner, but dressy enough for company.This recipe for pecan-crusted chicken breast with bo ... |
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