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- Ready for a winning year
- Projects moving Navasota forward
- Aggie on a global mission
- A year in B-CS politics
- Police arrest alleged thief
- Suddenlink keeps stations on with deal
- Leak: Karzai ignored U.S. warnings of corruption
- Electric car sales are stalling
- World rings in new year
- Stocks end up after rocky year
- Governors ditch glitzy inaugural events
- New Year's Eve twisters kill 6 in Midwest
- Peaceful end to bank standoff
- Once-famous fowl is alive and well in Austin
- N.M. denies a pardon for Billy the Kid
- Faith Calendar
- Monks on assignment at Emory University
- Letters for January 1
- Girl, 17, among 8 victims in New Orleans fire
- Florida St. wins Chick-fil-A Bowl; USF takes Meineke crown
- THIRD & SHORT
- Budinger sparks Rockets in victory
- UCF edges Georgia for Liberty Bowl trophy
- SPORTS IN BRIEF
- Irish hammer Hurricanes in Sun Bowl
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST Anna Garbs, 11, of Marshall sports her New Year's glasses while watching the Texas A&M men's basketball game against McNeese State at Reed Arena on Friday. |
| Projects moving Navasota forward Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST Buoyed by a reinvigorated sense of civic pride, Navasota, the small but historically vibrant city along Highway 6 between College Station and Houston, has been pursuing a number of improvements designed to build for its future while preserving and h ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST For most Americans, 2011 will be a year full of new and old comforts, smarter phones, faster connections, more Facebook friends and unthought-of innovations. But Aggie alumna April Alvarado is trading all that in for a year of serving others while e ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST The cities of Bryan and College Station saw their share of good, and what some would call ugly, events in 2010. In Bryan, a wound began to heal as city officials dropped a long-standing lawsuit against its sister city. In College Station, a wound wa ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST College Station police said they arrested a man they believe was involved in 60 burglaries that occurred between Nov. 4 and Dec. 20. Jaime Rodriguez, 23, remained in the Brazos County Jail on Friday in lieu of $405,000 bail for 12 charges that incl ... |
| Suddenlink keeps stations on with deal Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportSuddenlink and Viacom announced Friday that they had reached an agreement in principle on a long-term contract that will allow Suddenlink to continue to carry popular Viacom cable networks. The new agreement covers all of the Viacom ... |
| Leak: Karzai ignored U.S. warnings of corruption Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry a year ago because they considered him corrupt and ineffective, and threatened to end aid unless he went. Karzai ... |
| Electric car sales are stalling Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST DETROIT -- This was the year General Motors Co. and Nissan made good on their promises to bring mass-produced electric cars to the market. But don't count on seeing one in traffic soon. Sales so far have been microscopic and they're likely to stay t ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST NEW YORK -- Nearly a million revelers crowded New York's Time Square to witness the traditional dazzling ball drop, fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbor and communist Vietnam held a rare Western-style countdown to the new year as the world ush ... |
| Stocks end up after rocky year Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST NEW YORK -- Stocks ended a gut-wrenching 2010 quietly Friday. The major indexes were little changed and trading volume was at one of its lowest levels of the year as many traders took the day off. Despite investors' concerns about the U.S. economy, ... |
| Governors ditch glitzy inaugural events Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST LANSING, Mich. -- In better days, newly elected governors were welcomed into office with star-studded galas, serenades by rock bands, even an NFL stadium transformed into a winter wonderland. But with many now facing multibillion-dollar deficits and ... |
| New Year's Eve twisters kill 6 in Midwest Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Forecasters said storms could hit along a stretch from ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST PEARLAND -- A standoff at a suburban Houston bank where two masked gunmen took seven hostages and three other people hid in a closet ended peacefully Friday after a negotiation of more than four hours. The last two hostages and the second suspect i ... |
| Once-famous fowl is alive and well in Austin Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST By ANDREA BALL Austin American-Statesman AUSTIN -- Two decades ago, Homer the Homeless Goose squawked his way to international fame. In the late 1980s, the Austin fowl grabbed headlines when local homeless activists threatened to eat him unless city ... |
| N.M. denies a pardon for Billy the Kid Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The rehabilitation of Billy the Kid lies dead in the dust. In one of his last official acts -- or non-acts -- before leaving office, New Mexico's governor refused to pardon the Old West outlaw Friday for one of the many murders ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:58 PM PST Sunday * Faith United Church (UCC), 2901 Austin's Colony Parkway in Bryan, will celebrate the Christmas season with a worship service at 10:30 a.m. Adult Sunday study begins at 9:15 a.m, with fellowship at 10 a.m. Pastor Karl Tewold's worship message ... |
| Monks on assignment at Emory University Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST ATLANTA -- Munching on pizza. Posting on Facebook. Hanging out with friends on weekends. Some of the newest students at Emory University's student body may act like typical college kids, but there's a key difference: They're Tibetan monks sent by th ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST Eagle's editorial was a hatchett job on McMillan A total "hatchet job" was done on Jana McMillan. The editorial (Eagle, Dec. 26) laments that "McMillan's criticism of current council members will have a chilling effect on future council races," pos ... |
| Girl, 17, among 8 victims in New Orleans fire Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A 17-year-old girl and three other young adults were among the eight people who died in a warehouse fire on a freezing night in New Orleans. The city coroner's office released the identities of four of the victims on Friday, thre ... |
| Florida St. wins Chick-fil-A Bowl; USF takes Meineke crown Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST Wire reportsATLANTA -- Jimbo Fisher grew up playing quarterback, taught the position early in his coaching career and admired high-powered offenses like those Steve Spurrier once employed at Florida years ago. But it was Florida State's defense that ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:48 PM PST NFL NFL.com reported Friday that former Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips could surface in Houston as the Texans' defensive coordinator. The Texans are expected to shake up their coaching staff in the wake of a disappointing season. Frank Bush ... |
| Budinger sparks Rockets in victory Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:02 PM PST HOUSTON -- Reserve guard Chase Budinger scored a season-high 22 points, Kevin Martin added 20 and the Houston Rockets beat the Toronto Raptors 114-105 on Friday night. Rookie Patrick Patterson set career highs in points (15) and rebounds (10) for th ... |
| UCF edges Georgia for Liberty Bowl trophy Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:00 PM PST MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Central Florida wants to be in a BCS automatic-qualifying conference some day. A program that didn't start playing football until 1979 just burnished its resume in a big way by beating a team from one of those power leagues. Latavi ... |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:00 PM PST Dallas' Kitna questionable; McGee likely to start IRVING -- Jon Kitna is listed as questionable for the Dallas Cowboys' season finale. He did not practice Friday, increasing the odds that former Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee will make the f ... |
| Irish hammer Hurricanes in Sun Bowl Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:59 PM PST EL PASO -- A far-from-perfect first season as Notre Dame coach could not have ended much better for Brian Kelly and his Fighting Irish. Freshman Tommy Rees passed for 201 yards and two touchdowns to Michael Floyd as Notre Dame beat Miami 33-17 in th ... |
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