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Something's cooking at Rudder

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Going from station to station, 10 Rudder High School students on Tuesday swiftly moved across the kitchen preparing a meal for a catering event to follow that evening. With a teacher watching their every move, the students smiled at the pressure. T ...

Twilight Rapist case building

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

The man police believe is the Twilight Rapist is a former Texas Department of Criminal Justice employee who's been living near Houston. Billy Joe Harris, 43, of Missouri City was being held in Jackson County Jail on burglary charges after breaking ...

Ogden named president pro tem

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Bryan's state Sen. Steve Ogden was elected president pro tem of the Texas Senate on Tuesday, the first day of the 140-day legislative session. That makes him third in line for the governorship if Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst leave of ...

Brazos County jury finds man guilty in retrial

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 08:59 AM PST

A nine-woman, three-man jury on Tuesday found a 29-year-old Bryan man guilty in connection with a gang-related drive-by shooting after six hours of deliberation.  It was the second trial for David Samaripas Jr., who originally was was convicted ...

Man charged in CS McDonald's stabbing

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

UPDATE: College Station police have charged a man in connection with the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl at a McDonald’s restaurant two days earlier. John Robert Murphy III, 23, of College Station, was charged with injury to a child causing ser ...

Panel reviews CS growth issues

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

A city-organized panel of residents on Tuesday presented the College Station City Council with a list of regulatory requirements that committee members identified as troublesome to development. The five topics -- paint and building colors, signs, ar ...

Man found guilty in retrial for shooting

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

The punishment phase in the retrial of a 29-year-old Bryan man found guilty Tuesday in connection with a 2007 gang-related drive-by shooting begins Wednesday. It took a jury of nine women and three men nearly six hours to deliver the verdict after ...

Video: McDonald's stabbing suspect

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:59 AM PST

College Station police have released a video of the man they say stabbed a 12-year-old girl as he was leaving the McDonald's at George Bush Drive and Wellborn Road on Monday night.

Dad pursued Ariz. massacre suspect before shooting

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 11:27 PM PST

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Mysterious black bag in hand, Jared Loughner ran into the desert, his angry father stopping pursuit in his truck. Hours after Randy Loughner's futile confrontation with his 22-year-old son Saturday morning, six people were shot dead ...

Tax zone in works for new business

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

A financial services company looking to hire more than 500 people is being lured to Bryan with relatively few economic incentives, city staff told the Bryan City Council on Tuesday. Penncro Associates wants to build a call center in vacant office s ...

Woman charged with taking money from Bryan business

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 03:20 AM PST

A 27-year-old Bryan woman faces a felony theft charge after she was accused of stealing more than $4,000 from her employer. Crystal Marie Leyendecker was charged Monday with theft between $1,500 and $20,000. A Bryan officer said he responded June 18 ...

Texas Railroad Commission may get a new name

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 11:24 PM PST

HOUSTON -- What is 120 years old, has nothing to do with trains, planes or automobiles and oversees a massive chunk of the nation's oil and gas activities? The Railroad Commission of Texas -- of course. And now -- after being turned down in two ot ...

Texas Legislature convenes amid budget shortfall

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:42 AM PST

AUSTIN -- The Texas Legislature opened its 2011 session Tuesday with a blast of conservative chest-beating, a fizzled leadership challenge and a gigantic budget shortfall that could change state government as the people have come to know it. The Sen ...

ABC chief: Giffords coverage shows lack of unity

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 01:54 AM PST

PASADENA, Calif. -- The new president of ABC News said Monday that his organization needs to work with more unity, and its weekend coverage of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting proved it. Unlike rivals CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News Channel, ABC di ...

Water main break in Dallas on freezing day

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 11:23 PM PST

DALLAS -- An unwanted gush turning to slush led to traffic detours in downtown Dallas after a water main broke. Crews worked Wednesday to close the pipeline on the freezing day. Ankle-deep water rushed through some intersections in an area near Da ...

Haiti slow to rebuild

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake. The bodies still being found in the rubble are a s ...

Houston Livestock Show, Rodeo reveals lineup

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 01:56 AM PST

HOUSTON -- Janet Jackson, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban are among the performers scheduled for the 2011 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Organizers on Monday announced the lineup. The livestock show and rodeo will open March 1, with Cla ...

Texas Legislature convenes with GOP in control

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 11:26 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Legislature opened its 2011 session Tuesday with a blast of conservative chest-beating, a fizzled leadership challenge and a gigantic budget shortfall that could change state government as the people have come to know it. ...

South reacts to winter storm with nonchalance

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The snow-and-ice storm that has shut down much of the South slowly rolled toward the Northeast on Tuesday, revealing a regional culture clash along the way.Southerners seemed resigned to waiting out winter headaches such as slick roa ...

Texas speaker wins second term

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

AUSTIN -- Republican Joe Straus, who had been repeatedly criticized as too moderate for conservative Texas, easily won a second term as leader of the state House on Tuesday as lawmakers began a legislative session that must confront a massive budget ...

Troubled Arizona man still able to get gun

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Jared Loughner had trouble with the law, was rejected by the Army after flunking a drug test and was considered so mentally unstable that he was banned from his college campus, where officials considered him a threat to other studen ...

Verizon to start selling iPhone on Feb. 10

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:06 AM PST

NEW YORK -- Verizon Wireless made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday that it will start selling a version of the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10, giving U.S. iPhone buyers a choice of carriers for the first time. Since its 2007 debut, Apple Inc.'s phone has ...

Portugal resisting international bailout

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

LISBON, Portugal -- Portugal insists that it does not need an international bailout to solve its debt problems. It faces a bond auction Wednesday that could reveal the price of going it alone -- and perhaps even add to the European financial crisis. ...

FDA criticized for procuring execution drugs for states

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that it has nothing to do with drugs used in executions, has quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a scarce type of anesthetic so the states could continue putting inmates to death. ...
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