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Recall date not moving

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST


The recall election of College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and two other City Council members will be on May 14 after a district judge denied a group of residents' request to move up the vote.
Judge Travis Bryan III on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit ...

Fire hazard expected to remain high

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST


All eight Brazos Valley counties remain under a burn ban as drought conditions across the state are expected to worsen in coming months, experts with the Texas Forest Service predicted Thursday.
Mark Stanford, fire operations chief, has worked fo ...

Woman gets 10 years probation

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST


A 30-year-old Bryan woman convicted of aggravated assault against a police officer received a 10-year probated sentence and was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine on Thursday.
Demetrice La' Cole Nelms was found guilty Wednesday of dragging a police offi ...

Judge sides with CS on recall election date

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:13 AM PST

A Brazos County district judge on Thursday denied a special group’s request to move up the recall election of College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and two other members of the City Council.
The election will be held on its previously scheduled d ...

Years after vanishing in Iran, US man proven alive

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:06 AM PST

WASHINGTON -- Four years after retired FBI agent Robert Levinson vanished in Iran, the AP has learned the U.S. has proof he's alive. It's a remarkable development in a case that had seemingly gone cold.Levinson's fate has been a mystery since 2007. I ...

Judge sides with CS on recall election date

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:13 AM PST

A Brazos County district judge on Thursday denied a special group’s request to move up the recall election of College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and two other members of the City Council.
The election will be held on its previously scheduled d ...

Event aims to teach children the basics of business

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST


In an effort to give youngsters a taste of what it's like to run a business, organizers of a special May 1 event are hoping to flood Bryan-College Station with lemonade stands.
Lemonade Day, part of a nation-wide program, is designed to teach chil ...

Another candidate enters race for CS City Council seat

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:25 AM PST

College Station has its first contested City Council race after another candidate filed for the open Place 1 seat. Shawn Rhodes, 39, submitted his paperwork at City Hall on Thursday. He will face Blinn College professor Blanche Brick, 71, who filed o ...

Council races contested

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:02 PM PST

College Station has its first contested City Council races after two candidates filed for seats on Thursday.Shawn Rhodes, 39, submitted his paperwork for the Place 1 position. He will face Blinn College professor Blanche Brick, 71, who filed on Wedne ...

A&M division gets makeover

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST


Texas A&M officials said Thursday that the university's executive associate vice president for operations will resign effective May 3, one of several changes made in an effort to restructure the division of administration.
Rodney McClendon, w ...

Average retail Texas gasoline prices jump 22 cents

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:15 AM PST


IRVING, Texas -- Retail gasoline prices have jumped 22 cents this week across Texas in the biggest hike since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.
AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump was $3.30 a gallon. Nationwide gasoline price ...

Texas A&M business school ranked highly

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST

The Mays Business School's accounting program has been ranked 6th in the country in undergraduate and graduate program quality and faculty research, according to a Brigham Young University paper.
That spans over the last 20 years, according to a ne ...

Man convicted of stealing car, fleeing

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST

A Bryan man was convicted this week of robbery by a Brazos County jury.Donald Nelson Jr., 21, was accused of approaching a woman at a College Station car wash on Texas Avenue in November 2009 and demanding she give him the keys to her car. He drove ...

Fla. police question man in children's deaths

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 10:50 PM PST


DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- The man being questioned in the deaths of two children found in luggage in a South Florida canal has a record of several arrests.
Police named Clem Beauchamp, 34, a suspect in the deaths Thursday, but Delray Beach Sgt. Nicole ...

Airlines raising domestic fares again

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:15 AM PST

DALLAS -- Airfares at major U.S. airlines are climbing again, continuing a dizzying pace of nearly weekly increases on both penny-pinching vacationers and expense-account corporate fliers.The airlines are raising fares to cover higher jet fuel prices ...

Mom held on $5M bond in death of boy found in oven

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 10:51 PM PST


JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi judge has set bond at $5 million for the woman charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old son, whose body was found in an oven.
The Delta Democrat Times reports bond was set by City Judge Michael Prewitt dur ...

Jobless claims spur hope for economy

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The job market suddenly looks brighter.The number of people filing for unemployment benefits sank last week to its lowest point in nearly three years, and retailers and other service companies posted strong results Thursday for last mon ...

Ad campaign: God not needed for fulfilling life

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:18 AM PST

INDIANAPOLIS -- New billboards set to go up in Indianapolis next week will tell people passing by they "don't need God" to live fulfilling lives.A secular humanist group, the Center for Inquiry based in Amherst, N.Y., is sponsored multimedia ad campa ...

Study: Youths having less sex

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST


ATLANTA -- Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they're doing it less.
Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. ...

Combs: Cuts won't solve deficit

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST

AUSTIN -- The Texas comptroller told the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday that she can't imagine solving the current budget crisis through cuts alone.Susan Combs spoke at a hearing designed to be a reality check for conservatives who think ...

Colo. boy, 12, in custody after parents found dead

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:57 AM PST

BURLINGTON, Colo. -- Friends reacted with shock to the news that the parents of a friendly neighbor family had been killed, two children critically wounded and their 12-year-old brother in custody in the case.Warrants were sealed, and authorities Wed ...

Texas House passes abortion rules bill

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST

AUSTIN -- Democrats used procedural rules, dozens of amendments and lengthy debates Thursday, but failed to stop a measure requiring women in Texas to get a sonogram before ending a pregnancy, part of a nationwide push by Republicans and conservative ...

School to investigate sex demonstration

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST

CHICAGO -- Northwestern University's president said Thursday that he is "troubled and disappointed" that a psychology professor allowed a couple to engage in a sex act involving a motorized sex toy in front of dozens of students, and he is calling fo ...

Union bill flying through Ohio legislature

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- While much of the nation's attention remains focused on a stalled proposal in Wisconsin to restrict collective bargaining rights for public workers, an Ohio measure that in some ways is tougher and broader is speeding toward reality ...

Obama, Calderon unite against violence

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Thursday to deepen their cooperation in combating drug violence and declared a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispu ...

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