| Court's Saddlery destroyed Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST Thick smoke hung over downtown late Sunday as lifelong Bryan resident Kathy Court wrapped herself in a blanket and watched her decades-old family business burn to the ground. "This was all we knew. This was our life," said Court, 52, the owner of C ... |
| 'Twilight Rapist' suspect captured Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST Sheriff Jerry Wakefield would wake in the night and think about the elusive man who raped and terrorized Leon County's elderly women in 2009. "It's something you never get out of your head," Wakefield said of the man dubbed the Twilight Rapist becaus ... |
| Fire destroys Court's Saddlery in Downtown Bryan Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:30 AM PST Smoke filled Downtown Bryan on Sunday evening after a fire destroyed Court's Saddlery and an adjacent building. Bryan firefighters had the blaze under control and said no injuries were reported. The cause remained under investigation at the site in t ... |
| Police believe they've captured the 'Twilight Rapist' Posted: 09 Jan 2011 07:26 AM PST DNA evidence has linked a 53-year-old man in police custody to a series of rapes and burglaries involving elderly women in rural Central Texas towns in 2009. Dubbed the Twilight Rapist, a man attacked at least 12 victims between January and November ... |
| Sheriff says Ariz. rampage suspect not cooperating Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:11 PM PST PHOENIX — A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. Pu ... |
| Docs optimistic, but Giffords in for long recovery Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:50 PM PST -TUCSON, Ariz. -- Recovering from a gunshot wound to the head depends on the bullet's path, and while doctors are optimistic about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' odds, it can take weeks to months to tell the damage. Doctors say the bullet traveled the len ... |
| CS police investigate McDonald's robbery Posted: 10 Jan 2011 12:08 AM PST College Station police early Monday were searching for a culprit after a robbery was reported at a McDonald's restaurant. The crime was reported at 5:38 a.m. at the McDonald's on George Bush Drive near the Texas A&M campus, Officer Rhonda Seaton ... |
| Arctic blast coats South in treacherous snow, ice Posted: 10 Jan 2011 01:28 AM PST ATLANTA -- Stranded vehicles littered roadsides Monday as several inches of snow and sleet coated Atlanta and other parts of the South, freezing the morning commute in many areas and canceling thousands of flights at the world's busiest airport.Sleet ... |
| Some Texas schools close over wintry weather Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:13 PM PST DALLAS -- Dozens of schools north and east of Dallas closed or planned to start late as a winter storm moved out of North Texas. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth said a winter weather advisory was in effect until 9 a.m. Monday. American Ai ... |
| Condemned inmates' last words often telling Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST ST. LOUIS -- John Clayton Smith was a killer, and he didn't claim otherwise. The Missouri man broke into the home of a former girlfriend in 1995, stabbed her 11 times, then took the knife to her stepfather and killed him, too. But in eight years on ... |
| NYPD charge model with murder in castration death Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:09 PM PST NEW YORK -- Police in New York have charged a Portuguese male model with murder in the slaying of a celebrity Portuguese television journalist, who was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel.The New York City Police Departme ... |
| Thank brain for love of music Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST NEW YORK -- Whether it's the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says.The brain substance is involved both in anticipating ... |
| Lawsuit over videotaping at Texas drug facility Posted: 10 Jan 2011 12:38 AM PST DALLAS -- A lawsuit has been filed against a company that formerly managed a Dallas-area drug treatment facility and allegedly videotaped 36 female residents without their written permission. The Dallas Morning News reports, for its Monday editions, ... |
| 4 die, infant hurt when train hits SUV in NE Ind. Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:10 PM PST WATERLOO, Ind. -- Authorities say four people were killed and an infant was injured when their SUV crashed into a highway median, veered down an embankment and landed upside down in the path of an oncoming freight train in northeastern Indiana.The De ... |
| Straus fighting to keep speaker seat Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST AUSTIN -- Republican Rep. Beverley Woolley has heard the threats and seen the television ads warning her that supporting Joe Straus for speaker of the Texas House could cost her re-election. Still, she's standing by him. "I've got broad shoulders," ... |
| Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism risk Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST CHICAGO -- Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children.Children born less than two years after their siblings were considerably more lik ... |
| Thousands begin voting in Sudan Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST JUBA, Sudan -- Men and women walked to election stations in the middle of the night Sunday to create a new nation: Southern Sudan. Some broke out into spontaneous song in the long lines. And a veteran of Sudan's two-decade civil war, a conflict that ... |
| Make it quick Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST Members of the Texas A&M Fish Drill Team are put through their paces outside the arches to the Corps barracks, despite the wet, cold conditions on Sunday afternoon. |
| 'True Grit' takes weekend No. 1 Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- True Grit seized the reins at the weekend box office with $15 million, taking the No. 1 spot and becoming the first Western to top the $100 million mark since the 1990s, according to studio estimates released Sunday. The Paramount rel ... |
| Thumbnail sketches of victims in rampage Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:59 AM PST JOHN ROLL, 63:Named Arizona's chief federal judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-rela ... |
| PBS looks to revisit 1973 documentary Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST PASADENA, Calif. -- PBS is looking at ways to make its 1973 documentary An American Family publicly available again to coincide with an upcoming HBO film that shows how television cameras changed the life of the Loud family. The HBO film, set to air ... |
| Giffords story: A lesson in leaping to conclusions Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:15 AM PST PASADENA, Calif. -- The rapidly replicated false report that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died after being shot in the head provided media outlets another lesson this weekend in the danger of leaping to conclusions.NPR News' executive editor apologize ... |
| Measuring Quality of Life in Cancer Trials Posted: 09 Jan 2011 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Quality of life measures seem to be most useful for clinical decision-making in trials where quality of life is the primary outcome, according to a new study. There has been increasing interest in the value of patient-reported ... |
| Geography Plays Role in Cancer Screening Posted: 09 Jan 2011 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Not only do race and ethnicity play a part in whether a person gets screened for colon cancer or not, but where a person lives also play a role, according to new research. It is known that racial minorities have lower colorect ... |
| Saving Derek From Paralysis - Research Summary Posted: 09 Jan 2011 05:50 PM PST BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT: Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue found inside of bones, which contain stem cells. A bone marrow transplant is a procedure in which healthy bone marrow stem cells are injected into a patient in order to replace bone marro ... |
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