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- Nguyen back in Dallas for Cotton Bowl
- Board of Regents spot filled by former member
- Food carts may be rolling to CS
- Calvert's pick for police chief declines offer
- Road work to cause 29th Street delays
- Woman accused of attempting to run over ex-boyfriend
- Catching up on tax laws
- Texas sheriffs watching immigration bills closely
- Houston Ship Channel closed after animal fat spill
- FAA: Small plane crash near Dallas leaves 2 dead
- GOP revels in new power
- Update on Texas crash involving Colorado lawmaker
- $380 million jackpot draws 2 winners
- NH trooper helps speeding dad-to-be, issues ticket
- Cavs offer job to homeless man with golden voice
- Workers get surprise at Texas Governor's Mansion
- Hijacked drug work haunts scientist
- Police: 2 adults wounded in Omaha school shooting
- Teen suspect in Pearland bank robbery arrested
- Donley County man charged with killing son, 4
- Cleric who fought U.S. returns to Iraq from exile
- Report bodes well for job market
- Gibbs resigning as press secretary
- Texan writing Superman's story
- Guard: Jackson doc said to bag vials
| Nguyen back in Dallas for Cotton Bowl Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST ARLINGTON -- It's the best of both worlds for Dat Nguyen this week. The former Texas A&M All-American is ending his first season as an assistant coach at his alma mater by preparing for Friday's Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium. Last year at this ... |
| Board of Regents spot filled by former member Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST A member and former chair of the A&M System governing board has resigned, and the governor's office picked a former board chair to replace him. Austin lawyer Bill Jones, who presided as board chair over the 2007 search for Texas A&M preside ... |
| Food carts may be rolling to CS Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST The next new hot place to eat in College Station may be outside a truck.City employees said Wednesday that they are considering revising regulations to allow food carts and trucks to operate on a year-round basis. The current law prohibits mobile foo ... |
| Calvert's pick for police chief declines offer Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST At about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Calvert City Council and mayor believed they were done with the search for a new chief of police, having unanimously selected Eric Bruss for the position. He accepted, and planned to start work within three weeks. But ... |
| Road work to cause 29th Street delays Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Scheduled construction along 29th Street in Bryan will result in some lane closures. On Thursday, traffic possibly will be reduced to one lane in either direction on 29th Street between the Burton Creek bridge and the city limits s ... |
| Woman accused of attempting to run over ex-boyfriend Posted: 05 Jan 2011 06:28 AM PST A 24-year-old woman was arrested after she was accused of trying to hit her ex-boyfriend with a car in College Station late Tuesday. Bryan resident Brittany Lishae Adams was jailed Wednesday on a charge of aggravated assault with a weapon. College S ... |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:04 PM PST Tax documents should start appearing in your mailbox soon. The income tax filing season has begun -- with a few firsts -- and representatives of the Internal Revenue Service are encouraging taxpayers to get an early start rather than postponing fili ... |
| Texas sheriffs watching immigration bills closely Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:41 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- Illegal immigration isn't on the short list of issues Texas sheriffs gave this year's Legislature, but it could end up becoming a new priority for them. Texas has 254 sheriffs, and while opinions vary about whether illegal immigrati ... |
| Houston Ship Channel closed after animal fat spill Posted: 05 Jan 2011 07:34 AM PST HOUSTON -- Workers with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Texas General Land Office used pitchfork and fishnets Wednesday to pierce, corral and remove chunks of beef fat clogging the Houston Ship Channel, shutting down nearly a mile of one of the nation' ... |
| FAA: Small plane crash near Dallas leaves 2 dead Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:12 AM PST MIDLOTHIAN, Texas -- Authorities say two people have died after a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a private airstrip near Dallas. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said witness accounts indicated the single-engin ... |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Newly elected speaker John Boehner hailed the Republican Party's return to control of the House Wednesday, vowing a more open legislative process but acknowledging that "a great deal of scar tissue has built up on both sides of the ai ... |
| Update on Texas crash involving Colorado lawmaker Posted: 05 Jan 2011 07:33 AM PST AMARILLO, Texas -- A report on a deadly crash in Texas involving a Colorado legislator indicates that her 3-year-old grandson was ejected from the SUV and she then moved him away from the road and back into her vehicle. The Department of Public Saf ... |
| $380 million jackpot draws 2 winners Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:01 PM PST EPHRATA, Wash. -- After a nationwide frenzy for a life-changing chance to win a $380 million Mega Millions jackpot, the two winning tickets were sold in small Pacific Northwest towns just 125 miles apart. Shoppers at a Safeway supermarket in Ephrata ... |
| NH trooper helps speeding dad-to-be, issues ticket Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:10 AM PST Associated PressLONDONDERRY, N.H. -- Their son wasn't going to wait to be born, so John Coughlin rushed his laboring wife to the hospital. He called 911 when a state trooper tried to pull their car over, and the trooper turned the chase into an escor ... |
| Cavs offer job to homeless man with golden voice Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:54 AM PST CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Cavaliers have offered a job to a homeless Ohio man with a golden radio voice.Ted Williams, whose deep baritone and plight have made him an online video sensation, was contacted Wednesday by the Cavs. Team spokesman Tad Car ... |
| Workers get surprise at Texas Governor's Mansion Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST AUSTIN -- The $26 million renovation of the arson-damaged Texas Governor's Mansion has revealed an unexpected view of the world then and now. Dealey Herndon, the project manager, says restoration officials made a surprising discovery about the tall ... |
| Hijacked drug work haunts scientist Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST WASHINGTON -- David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths. Nichols makes chemicals roughly similar to ecstasy and L ... |
| Police: 2 adults wounded in Omaha school shooting Posted: 05 Jan 2011 07:31 AM PST OMAHA, Neb. -- Police say that two adults have been wounded in a shooting at a high school in Omaha, Neb. Omaha police officer Jake Bettin says no students were wounded and a suspect is in custody. The adults who were wounded were both male. There ... |
| Teen suspect in Pearland bank robbery arrested Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:42 AM PST PEARLAND, Texas -- A third suspect in a botched New Year's Eve bank robbery in Pearland in which about a dozen people were taken hostage has been arrested. The 17-year-old, who is the police say was the getaway driver and the nephew of one of the me ... |
| Donley County man charged with killing son, 4 Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:42 AM PST CLARENDON, Texas -- A Donley County man has been charged with capital murder in the death of his 4-year-old son. An affidavit from Sheriff Charles "Butch" Blackburn says 38-year-old Robert Monroe Babcock provided information that linked him to the ... |
| Cleric who fought U.S. returns to Iraq from exile Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:01 PM PST NAJAF, Iraq -- Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a fierce opponent of the United States and head of Iraq's most feared militia, came home Wednesday after nearly four years in self-imposed exile in Iran, welcomed by hundreds of cheering supporter ... |
| Report bodes well for job market Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:01 PM PST NEW YORK -- Companies added nearly 300,000 jobs in December, according to an unofficial count by a private payroll firm -- more than in any month in the past decade. The news raised hopes that the government's official report Friday on last month's j ... |
| Gibbs resigning as press secretary Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary and one of the most visible and forceful advocates for President Barack Obama, is quitting his job to become an outside political adviser, part of what he described as a "major retooling" at ... |
| Texan writing Superman's story Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST By JOE GROSS Austin American-Statesman AUSTIN -- A few months ago, an Austin writer named Chris Roberson received a phone call for which, in some ways, he had been waiting his entire life. An editor from DC Comics asked him to write the comic book S ... |
| Guard: Jackson doc said to bag vials Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:01 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- As Michael Jackson's lifeless body lay on a bed in his palatial mansion, a bodyguard obeyed a frantic doctor's instructions to bag up medicine bottles and intravenous bags and shield the Jackson children from seeing their father -- all ... |
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