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- Official says state cuts may impact CS projects
- Blood samples matched Pollard's DNA, forensic scientist testifies
- Mobile food vendors get Council's approval
- Time-lapse video of Discovery's RSS retraction
- Rule may slow Texas A&M provost search
- Pollard takes stand in defense in murder trial
- Kidnapped woman told police she escaped while man left to get drugs
- Police: 2 arrested, one fled traffic stop
- A&M student faces felony pot charge
- Gadhafi loyalists counter uprising
- Uncle, nephew fatally shot in Dallas-area home
- Quake epicenter sees flying boulders but no deaths
- Agencies won't 'shut down'
- Ex-Southeast Texas softball coach guilty of abuse
- 2 hurt in fight started at Texas cemetery
- Environmental groups sue EPA for plant info
- Prisons to cut programs and inmate meals in budget crisis
- Alleged terrorist charged in bomb plan after suspicious online purchases
- Genes show Asia's fire ants from U.S.
- Feds launch search for cartel members in U.S. in wake of ICE agent shooting
- Honoring black history in harmony
- Up the iron in yellow gardenias
- Tomato plants can be started now to mature fruit
- Letters for February 25
| Official says state cuts may impact CS projects Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST Expected reductions in state spending will make it difficult for College Station to prepare a 2012 budget, the city's top financial official said Thursday. Many of the area's top employers -- Texas A&M, Blinn College and the school districts -- r ... |
| Blood samples matched Pollard's DNA, forensic scientist testifies Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:41 AM PST A forensic scientist testified Thursday morning that six blood samples taken from inside the gambling home where a 22-year-old was killed during a deadly 2006 robbery matched the DNA of Artis Lee Pollard, a 27-year-old on trial for capitol murder. ... |
| Mobile food vendors get Council's approval Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST The College Station City Council on Thursday voted to allow mobile food vendors to operate in the city year-round. The carts had previously been allowed to only operate 21 days out of a year, but the city began to reconsider that rule as the business ... |
| Time-lapse video of Discovery's RSS retraction Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:30 AM PST Time-lapse video of space shuttle Discovery's RSS retraction. |
| Rule may slow Texas A&M provost search Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST If the search for Texas A&M provost is declared a failure, another candidate can't simply be appointed by the president, but rather a search committee would have to be involved again, according to a university rule faculty members lobbied for 1 ... |
| Pollard takes stand in defense in murder trial Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST Artis Lee Pollard took the stand in his capital murder trial Thursday and testified that he had been at the house where 22-year-old Terrell McCoy was shot to death in December 2006, but had been thrown out for cheating at gambling prior to the kill ... |
| Kidnapped woman told police she escaped while man left to get drugs Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:12 AM PST Eagle Staff Report A 26-year-old woman told police that she escaped from a man's College Station home after he choked, kidnapped and sexually assaulted her while he left to get crack cocaine to celebrate his birthday, according to police reports rel ... |
| Police: 2 arrested, one fled traffic stop Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Two Bryan men were charged with drug possession after a car in which they were riding was pulled over by police. According to the police report, an officer stopped a vehicle occupied by three men just before midnight Wednesday af ... |
| A&M student faces felony pot charge Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Eagle Staff Report A Texas A&M University sophomore was arrested on a felony charge of marijuana possession Thursday after police stopped him for speeding. According to the police report, an officer clocked Stephen Burke Ellwood driving on Texa ... |
| Gadhafi loyalists counter uprising Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST BENGHAZI, Libya -- Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that killed at leas ... |
| Uncle, nephew fatally shot in Dallas-area home Posted: 25 Feb 2011 12:18 AM PST GARLAND, Texas -- An argument at a Dallas-area home has led to a man and his nephew slain and police searching for the suspected shooter.Garland Officer Mike Hatfield says both victims were declared dead Friday at hospitals.Hatfield identified them ... |
| Quake epicenter sees flying boulders but no deaths Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST LYTTELTON, New Zealand -- At the epicenter, children in the school playground screamed as the earth rattled and cracked. Elderly residents toppled to the floor in the nursing home. Cliff faces fell, hurling truck-sized boulders across lawns and throu ... |
| Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Social Security checks would still go out. Troops would remain at their posts. Furloughed federal workers probably would get paid, though not until later. And virtually every essential government agency, like the FBI, the Border Patrol ... |
| Ex-Southeast Texas softball coach guilty of abuse Posted: 25 Feb 2011 12:21 AM PST BEAUMONT, Texas -- A Southeast Texas jury has convicted a 49-year-old former girls softball coach of sexually abusing a teenage player.The penalty phase was scheduled Friday in Beaumont for Louis Bowden Matthews Jr. He was convicted Thursday of conti ... |
| 2 hurt in fight started at Texas cemetery Posted: 25 Feb 2011 12:21 AM PST CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Two people have been hurt in a fight that broke out at a Texas cemetery as mourners gathered to remember a slain girl.Corpus Christi police say one person was stabbed and another was hit in the head with an urn Thursday night ... |
| Environmental groups sue EPA for plant info Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST DALLAS -- Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for access to 350,000 pages of documents about coal-fired power plants blamed for making Texas' pollution problems worse. The groups claim in their federal laws ... |
| Prisons to cut programs and inmate meals in budget crisis Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST AUSTIN -- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice plans to save money by eliminating 555 non-guard jobs and changing the menu for inmates, cutting back on dessert and substituting powdered milk. The layoffs, effective April 15, come as states ag ... |
| Alleged terrorist charged in bomb plan after suspicious online purchases Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST LUBBOCK -- A college student from Saudi Arabia who studied chemical engineering in Texas bought explosive chemicals online as part of a plan to hide bomb materials inside dolls and baby carriages to blow up dams, nuclear plants or the Dallas home o ... |
| Genes show Asia's fire ants from U.S. Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST Even as the United States battles the spread of fire ants within its borders, this country is serving as the jumping-off point for the pest to invade other nations. The aggressive, stinging ants arrived from South America and got a foothold in the ... |
| Feds launch search for cartel members in U.S. in wake of ICE agent shooting Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST Federal, state and local authorities across the country are sending a message to Mexican drug cartel members in the U.S.: If you kill a U.S. agent, there will be repercussions. "This is personal," Louie Garcia, deputy special agent with the Immigr ... |
| Honoring black history in harmony Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST Southwood Valley Elementary fourth-grader David Blair portrays jazz legend Duke Ellington while playing the recorder and keeping an eye on the musical conductor. He and his classmates are playing one of Ellington's classics in the school auditorium o ... |
| Up the iron in yellow gardenias Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Dear Neil: A friend has two gardenias in South Texas. They are always yellow. They're more than 30 years old, but they do bloom. They were fertilized once with azalea/gardenia/ camellia food. What should be done to help them? A. That sounds like i ... |
| Tomato plants can be started now to mature fruit Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:08 PM PST Gardeners look forward to harvesting that first ripe tomato. Early spring is the tomato race time. Tomatoes may be started indoors from seed. If you have places where temperatures will always be above 55 degrees, tomato plants can be started now to ... |
| Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST Eagle showed a lack of human dignity, concern I was horrified by the front-page article title covering the tragic loss of the young man attending A&M Consolidated High School who took his own life Monday. What an incredible lack of compassion ... |
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