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- Freed prisoner denied funds
- Area Egyptians weigh in on revolt
- Man gets three years for arson
- Bryan school employees offered bonuses to resign
- Filing opens for city, school seats
- AP poll looks at feelings on declawing, debarking
- Texas Senate to investigate power outages
- Workshop to be held in Brenham
- 59 arrested in Super Bowl prostitution crackdown
- Hot to trot
- Obama budget is criticized for not cutting enough
- Leading lawmaker: Odds against legalized casinos
- Texas lawmaker gives feds copy of taped beating
- Every American will feel pinch
- Students die trapped in frigid Ga. cave waterfall
- Police chase ends with gunfire; man, child wounded
- China limits smoking in films, TV shows
- 2nd man involved in woman's torture-slaying to die
- 18 killed in cartel-plagued northern Mexican town
- Valentine kissing contest still going at 36 hours
- GM plans to pay bonuses
- Texas town known for refinery pollution does solar
- Vegas not feeling the love
- Parents fed up with forgetful teens
- Art for a good cause
| Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST When Anthony Graves was released from jail in October, prosecutors in Burleson County declared, "This man is innocent." But when District Attorney Bill Parham signed a release order to free Graves after 18 years in prison, he wrote that he'd found " ... |
| Area Egyptians weigh in on revolt Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST At the fabric of the Egyptian revolution was frustration about the economy -- the same kind of angst that brought hope for the Democrats in the U.S. in 2008 and kicked them out in 2010, a speaker said Monday night. "It's always about economic statu ... |
| Man gets three years for arson Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST A 20-year-old from College Station was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to arson of a building. Phillip Carl Musia Jr. told Judge Travis Bryan III that on March 29, 2009, he and three friends set a two-story Todd Trai ... |
| Bryan school employees offered bonuses to resign Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST The Bryan school board on Monday agreed to offer bonus pay to employees who resign early in the year. Up to $7,000 will be given to the first 150 full-time employees who submit a letter of resignation on or before April 1 and have worked three conse ... |
| Filing opens for city, school seats Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST matthew.watkins@theeagle.com A College Station municipal election that many expect to be politically charged opened with silence on Monday with no candidates filing running papers. In Bryan, two incumbent candidates -- council members Chuck Konder ... |
| AP poll looks at feelings on declawing, debarking Posted: 15 Feb 2011 12:05 AM PST LOS ANGELES -- Cats scratch and dogs bark. Is declawing or debarking the answer?Nearly 60 percent of American pet owners, including 55 percent of cat owners, say it is OK to have a cat declawed, but only 8 percent approve of having a dog's vocal cord ... |
| Texas Senate to investigate power outages Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:19 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- Two Senate committees will hold joint hearings into why power plants shut down unexpectedly and hundreds of thousands of Texas lost power earlier this month. The Business and Commerce Committee and the Natural Resources Committee ha ... |
| Workshop to be held in Brenham Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe 13th annual Macsabal Woodfire Workshop kicks off this week in Brenham, with events scheduled through Feb. 22. This is the first time the workshop will be held in the U.S. The festival originated in South Korea, and last year it ... |
| 59 arrested in Super Bowl prostitution crackdown Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:22 PM PST ARLINGTON, Texas -- Arlington police say they arrested 59 people on prostitution-related counts during a Super Bowl-week undercover operation. The police department ran its "You Never Know" campaign from Jan. 27 through Feb. 6, Super Bowl Sunday, in ... |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Ron and Reba Frazier of Anderson enjoy a Valentine's Day ride in the back of a carriage driven by Alexi Person and Eric Zylman of Hidden Oasis Carriage Co. through downtown Bryan on Monday night. Rides were available from 6 to 10 p.m. for couples as ... |
| Obama budget is criticized for not cutting enough Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Putting on the brakes after two years of big spending increases, President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.7 trillion budget plan Monday that would freeze or reduce some safety-net programs for the nation's poor but turn aside Republican de ... |
| Leading lawmaker: Odds against legalized casinos Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:21 PM PST GALVESTON, Texas -- The head of the Texas House Republican caucus says legislation to legalize casino-style wagering in Texas is unlikely to pass this session. State Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, says "the votes just aren't there." Legalized cas ... |
| Texas lawmaker gives feds copy of taped beating Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:36 AM PST HOUSTON -- A congresswoman has given the Justice Department a copy of 2010 surveillance video showing Houston police allegedly beating a 15-year-old burglary suspect. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee joins Congressman Al Green in seeking a federal inve ... |
| Every American will feel pinch Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Crumbling inner-city sidewalks, cleaner air, dirtier drinking water, more debt for some college students and higher heating costs for low-income families could be part of the legacy of President Barack Obama's proposed budget. One way o ... |
| Students die trapped in frigid Ga. cave waterfall Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:03 AM PST LaFAYETTE, Ga. -- Two college students have died in a Georgia cave after rappelling into a waterfall and getting stuck under the frigid water.Authorities in the north Georgia mountains say the two men from the University of Florida apparently died of ... |
| Police chase ends with gunfire; man, child wounded Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:22 PM PST TERRELL, Texas -- A two-county chase of a car by state troopers ended with gunfire on a rural road near Dallas.The Texas Department of Public Safety says the episode began about 2:15 p.m. Monday when a DPS trooper clocked the car speeding on Intersta ... |
| China limits smoking in films, TV shows Posted: 15 Feb 2011 12:06 AM PST BEIJING -- China is ordering makers of films and TV shows to limit the amount of smoking depicted on-screen, the latest effort to curb rampant tobacco use in the country with the largest number of smokers in the world.The order from the State Adminis ... |
| 2nd man involved in woman's torture-slaying to die Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:02 AM PST HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Two North Texas men looking for an adrenaline rush by committing a murder tried a pellet gun and then a crossbow before switching to a rifle to kill their 19-year-old mentally challenged victim.Michael Hall and Robert Neville lat ... |
| 18 killed in cartel-plagued northern Mexican town Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:21 PM PST CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- A series of shootings left 18 people dead Monday in a town in northern Mexico where a turf war has raged between two brutal drug cartels.The violence damaged the city hall, a court and the police headquarters in Padilla, a ... |
| Valentine kissing contest still going at 36 hours Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:38 AM PST PATTAYA, Thailand -- It was one long kiss -- one world-breaking embrace for mankind.Seven determined couples locked lips for more than 36 hours to celebrate Valentine's Day in this southern Thai beach resort town, a landmark "kissathon" that organize ... |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST DETROIT -- General Motors Co. will pay more than $189 million in profit-sharing to 48,000 U.S. hourly workers and millions more in performance bonuses to salaried employees, according to company documents obtained by The Associated Press.GM will pay ... |
| Texas town known for refinery pollution does solar Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:20 PM PST PASADENA, Texas -- A Houston-area town nicknamed "Stinkadena" because of refinery pollution has installed $2 million solar "labs" on the roofs of two local high schools. Sam Rayburn High School science specialist Grace Blasingame says Pasadena studen ... |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas' love life is in the dumps. Fewer than 92,000 couples married in or around Sin City last year. The last time the city of drive-through wedding chapels married fewer people, it was 1993.Nevada wedding professionals and official ... |
| Parents fed up with forgetful teens Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST NEW YORK -- A lost hoodie here, a forgotten backpack there. In Justin Bieber's case, an open fly on the Grammy red carpet! What's with teens and brain fog? Parenting teens and tweens can sometimes feel like kindergarten redux, except adolescent atti ... |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Missing Children's Day Poster Contest winners Tessa Miller (first place, from left to right), Hannah Valentino (second place), and Mary Dulke (third place) show their winning works at St. Joseph Catholic School, where they are fifth-graders, in the B ... |
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