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- Mother's pain elicits plea for safety
- Wellborn groups say they have signatures to force recall votes
- A&M System rethinks policy on records requests
- Still feeling that competitive fire
- CS fitness challenge begins Saturday
- Holiday closures
- Unemployment claims are down
- Coasts almost cleared of oil
- Woman charged in boy's death
- Enrollment jumps at junior colleges
- Texas, EPA fight over regulations grows fierce
- Woman suspected of killing Houston boy
- Houston mayor orders city employee furloughs
- U.S. teen birth rate higher than many European countries
- Texas, EPA fight over regulations
- Judge halts vote on radioactive waste dump
- Vatican creates financial watchdog
- Houston city workers must take furloughs
- No. 7 Texas A&M routs San Diego State 96-52
- Genetic Code Cracked for Most Common Pediatric Brain Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer Progresses When Genes are Silenced
- Jana McMillan responds to Eagle's criticism
- Ready, set, grow: Learn about gardening
- Garden calendar
- Immune Cells Plays Shocking Role in Lupus
| Mother's pain elicits plea for safety Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST Four times a year, Joyce Briggs and other members of her family gather on the side of Harvey Mitchell Parkway between Holleman Drive and Luther Street. Passersby might not notice the small memorial, a white wooden cross covered in flowers with a pho ... |
| Wellborn groups say they have signatures to force recall votes Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:04 PM PST The groups trying to thwart the possible annexation of Wellborn said Thursday they have obtained enough voters' signatures to force recall elections for two members of the College Station City Council. The announcement by Citizens for Wellborn and S ... |
| A&M System rethinks policy on records requests Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:04 PM PST By ROY BRAGG San Antonio Express-News Texas A&M University System officials will take a second look at a controversial decision widely seen as an attempt to prevent student journalists at Tarleton State University from investigating their own sch ... |
| Still feeling that competitive fire Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST If you get in Judy Heaney's way as she's driving to the basket, don't expect her to let up. "Basketball is a contact sport," the 70-year-old founding member of the Ag Silvers senior women's basketball team said. Heaney started recruiting members of ... |
| CS fitness challenge begins Saturday Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST Eagle Staff Report The first College Station Mayor's Challenge will be staged from Jan. 1-16. The Mayor's Council on Physical Fitness and the Armadillo Dash Half-Marathon and 5K are promoting the six-week event. Awards will be given March 6 as part ... |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST The following is the schedule of closures for the New Year's holiday: * Texas A&M University: Campus offices are closed until 8 a.m. Monday, but spring semester classes won't begin until Jan. 18. * Schools: Bryan and College Station school distri ... |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Far fewer people are applying for unemployment benefits as the year ends, raising hopes for a healthier job market in 2011.Applications are at their lowest level since July 2008, the Labor Department says. They fell to 388,000 in the we ... |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST EAST GRAND TERRE ISLAND, La. -- Dig 2 feet into the sand on this wind-swept beach and up comes the foul smell of oil. The unmistakable whiff of crude eight months after the BP spill is one of the last in-your-face reminders of the long, tainted summ ... |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2010 02:12 AM PST Associated PressHOUSTON -- A woman has been charged with capital murder in the death of a 12-year-old Houston boy whose badly burned body was found in a ditch this week following his Christmas Eve disappearance.Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, was arrested We ... |
| Enrollment jumps at junior colleges Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST AUSTIN -- Community college enrollment in Texas surged 12.2 percent from 2008 to 2009, a trend officials expect to continue even as educators worry whether funding levels during a state budget crunch can support the growth. Citing the most recent st ... |
| Texas, EPA fight over regulations grows fierce Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:43 AM PST HOUSTON -- A longstanding tit-for-tat between Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over how to regulate pollution has grown fierce in recent months, leaving industry frustrated and allowing some plants and refineries to spew more toxic ... |
| Woman suspected of killing Houston boy Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST HOUSTON -- A woman charged with capital murder in the death of a 12-year-old Houston boy who disappeared Christmas Eve acknowledges dumping his badly burned body in a ditch but won't say whether she killed him, police said Thursday. Mona Yvette Nels ... |
| Houston mayor orders city employee furloughs Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:42 AM PST HOUSTON -- Mayor Annise Parker is ordering most Houston city workers to take six unpaid days off over the next six months as she tries to close an estimated $30 million budget shortfall. Parker said police, firefighters, grant-funded positions and w ... |
| U.S. teen birth rate higher than many European countries Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST ATLANTA -- The rate of teen births in the U.S. is at its lowest level in almost 70 years. Yet, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate is far lower in many other countries. The most convincing explanation is that contraceptive use is hi ... |
| Texas, EPA fight over regulations Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST HOUSTON -- A longstanding tit-for-tat between Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over how to regulate pollution has grown fierce in recent months, leaving industry frustrated and allowing some plants and refineries to spew more toxic ... |
| Judge halts vote on radioactive waste dump Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST AUSTIN -- A Texas judge ordered a temporary halt Thursday to a proposal that could allow three dozen states to dump their radioactive waste in far West Texas, a ruling that sided with environmentalists and caught the state attorney general's office ... |
| Vatican creates financial watchdog Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on Thursday created a financial watchdog agency and issued new laws to fight money laundering and terrorist financing in a major effort to shed its image as a tax haven that for years has been mired in secrecy and scandal. ... |
| Houston city workers must take furloughs Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST HOUSTON -- Mayor Annise Parker is ordering most Houston city workers to take six unpaid days off over the next six months as she tries to close an estimated $30 million budget shortfall. Parker said police, firefighters, grant-funded positions and w ... |
| No. 7 Texas A&M routs San Diego State 96-52 Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:29 PM PST SAN DIEGO -- Danielle Adams scored 23 points and No. 7 Texas A&M routed San Diego State 96-52 Thursday night to win the Surf 'N Slam championship game. Adams was virtually unstoppable as she dominated her counterpart, 6-foot-3 Paris Johnson, San ... |
| Genetic Code Cracked for Most Common Pediatric Brain Cancer Posted: 30 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) Medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain cancer and leading killer of children with cancer, has been genetically decoded by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The genetic "map" is believed to be the fir ... |
| Ovarian Cancer Progresses When Genes are Silenced Posted: 30 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) Many mechanisms change the activity of genes. Epigenetics determine when genes are turned on and off, and these epigenetics allow for cells to become cancerous. This was especially seen in ovarian cancer. Researchers at the Duke ... |
| Jana McMillan responds to Eagle's criticism Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST After reading The Eagle's Dec. 26 editorial, I feel the need to respond to the material written about me. With one notable exception, every statement of fact made about me in the editorial is false. So, what was true? It was, "There are a lot of peo ... |
| Ready, set, grow: Learn about gardening Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST Central Texas gardeners face unique challenges to develop and maintain a beautiful landscape. They must select plants wisely and pay careful attention to improving environmental conditions through site selection, soil preparation, plant care and effi ... |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST Saturday * Brazos Valley Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon. Texas Avenue and William Joel Bryan Parkway in Bryan. Locally grown fresh produce and other items. www.brazosvalleyfarmersmarket.com, hpw@tconline.net or 229-5503. * Tenth Street Farmers Market ... |
| Immune Cells Plays Shocking Role in Lupus Posted: 30 Dec 2010 05:49 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) A new study provides insight into the underlying pathology associated with the autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The research shows an unexpected role for a key type of immune cell could provide a potential ... |
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