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- Fish team drills competition
- AAU tells A&M to resist reforms
- BISD budget plan cuts librarians
- Provost finalist has left the race
- DPS: Injuries in wreck on F.M. 1179
- Texas officials trying to revise gas tax
- Author coming to town for signing
- Lawmakers call for eliminating driver surcharges
- Aggieland day care closed for business
- Police: Suspect told friend he killed Texas pastor
- Gadhafi controls air over Libya
- Owner: Son among 6 killed in mobile home fire
- Gates weighs U.S. future in Afghanistan
- Mexico town fires young police chief who left post
- Texas to drop fees for driving offenses
- Convoy ambush kills 7 Mexican police, 1 prisoner
- Shatner sends off shuttle
- Wisconsin border meeting a no-go
- Claim of alien life discovery called into doubt
- Sheen's firing puts show a man down
- Hodge-Schweiloch
- Brazos Valley Reads hosts storyteller
- Letters for March 8
- Calendar
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST The nation's best precision rifle team is among us in the Brazos Valley. The Texas A&M Fish Drill Team Class of 2014 took home first place at the Mardi Gras Drill Meet hosted at Tulane University in New Orleans on Friday. For those unfamili ... |
| AAU tells A&M to resist reforms Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST When Mike McKinney received the letter from the president of a prestigious national organization urging him to resist the influence of a conservative think tank, the A&M System chief threw it away, he said. "It was a thinly veiled threat," Mc ... |
| BISD budget plan cuts librarians Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST The Bryan school board on Monday agreed to move forward with a plan to cut at least $4 million from its budget over the next two years. The plan could change as the state comes closer to finalizing its budget, which, with an expected $15 billion s ... |
| Provost finalist has left the race Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST One of two finalists for Texas A&M provost withdrew his name from consideration "a while ago," he confirmed Monday. James Coleman, a professor and vice provost for research at Rice University, declined to comment further. The A&M System annou ... |
| DPS: Injuries in wreck on F.M. 1179 Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:43 PM PST Troopers responded early Tuesday to a wreck in which injuries were reported at F.M. 1179 and Planters Loop. A Texas Department of Public Safety official said there were unknown injuries in the two-vehicle wreck that was reported at 6:50 a.m. The DP ... |
| Texas officials trying to revise gas tax Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST Fuel-efficient cars may be good for the environment and their owners' pocketbooks, but they may also make it more difficult for Texas to maintain its roads. The reason, experts say, is that the state's 20-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax is a key fund ... |
| Author coming to town for signing Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST Eagle Staff Report Author and reporter Kenneth T. Walsh will be in Bryan on Friday to sign copies of his latest book, Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House. The free event will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Brazos Valley A ... |
| Lawmakers call for eliminating driver surcharges Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:32 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- State lawmakers are considering eliminating a program that has required Texas drivers charged with offenses including DWI and no insurance to pay surcharges. Since nearly 60 percent of those who got the surcharges -- about 1.2 mi ... |
| Aggieland day care closed for business Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA note was posted on the door of Aggieland Learning Center on Monday letting parents know that the business is closed until further notice. Christy Simmons, owner of the day care also known as Fit for Kids, declined to give details ... |
| Police: Suspect told friend he killed Texas pastor Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PST ARLINGTON, Texas -- After buying jewelry and shoes with his friend during a mall shopping spree, a convicted felon told his friend that he had robbed a Texas church and suffocated the young pastor, according to police documents released Monday.Steven ... |
| Gadhafi controls air over Libya Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST RAS LANOUF, Libya -- Repeated air strikes by Libyan warplanes on Monday illustrated the edge Moammar Gadhafi holds in his fight against rebel forces marching toward the capital: He controls the air. After pleading from the uprising's leaders, Brita ... |
| Owner: Son among 6 killed in mobile home fire Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:58 PM PST GRANBURY, Texas -- The owner of a double-wide mobile home destroyed by fire after a weekend party says his son is among the six people who died.Kurt Reineck tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he lives in the mobile home on Lake Granbury but wasn't ho ... |
| Gates weighs U.S. future in Afghanistan Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States is beginning to decide what its responsibilities will be in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops leave, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday, but he ruled out permanent military bases in the strate ... |
| Mexico town fires young police chief who left post Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:33 AM PST MEXICO CITY -- A 20-year-old woman who made international headlines when she accepted the job as police chief in a violent Mexican border town was fired Monday for apparently abandoning her post after receiving death threats. Marisol Valles Garcia ... |
| Texas to drop fees for driving offenses Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST AUSTIN -- Lawmakers are considering eliminating a program that requires those charged with offenses including driving while intoxicated and failure to have insurance to pay state surcharges.Nearly 60 percent of those with the surcharges -- about 1.2 ... |
| Convoy ambush kills 7 Mexican police, 1 prisoner Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:58 PM PST CULIACAN, Mexico -- Gunmen swarmed a convoy transporting two prisoners in northern Mexico, shredding three police vehicles with bullets and killing seven officers and one inmate, prosecutors said Monday. Six officers and the second inmate were wounde ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Its decades-long mission accomplished, space shuttle Discovery headed home to retirement after undocking from the International Space Station on Monday for the last time. The world's most-flown spaceship got a dramatic send-of ... |
| Wisconsin border meeting a no-go Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democrats who fled the state nearly three weeks ago asked Monday for a meeting with Gov. Scott Walker to talk about changes to his plan to eliminate most public workers’ union rights, a request the governor dis ... |
| Claim of alien life discovery called into doubt Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST WASHINGTON -- NASA and its top scientists are distancing themselves from a space agency researcher who concludes that he found alien bacterial life in meteorites that were collected many decades ago. Richard Hoover of NASA's Marshall Space Flight ... |
| Sheen's firing puts show a man down Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- Charlie Sheen was fired Monday from Two and a Half Men by Warner Bros. Television following the actor's bouts of wild partying, repeated hospitalizations and a bitter media campaign against his studio bosses. The action was taken af ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Josephine Jane Dyer Hodge and Harrison Charles Schweiloch were married on Saturday, December 11, 2010, at the First Presbyterian Church of Navasota, Texas. Rabbi Barry Diamond, of Congregation Beth Shalom in Bryan, Texas, co-officiated with Rev ... |
| Brazos Valley Reads hosts storyteller Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST By CASIE COBOS "Perhaps there was no story that could truly satisfy. I myself didn't know if that story was true or even possible, but ... there are many stories. And mine too is only one," says Amabelle, the narrator of this year's Brazos Valley Re ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST Eagle columnist was naïve and uninformed I find Patricia Carr's (Eagle, Feb. 28) comments about the Wisconsin teachers' actions quite naïve and uninformed. Has she met any of the Wisconsin teachers? How does she know they do not value e ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PST Mark Your Calendar The Texas A&M Rodeo Club will hold its Intercollegiate Rodeo at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Brazos County Expo. Participants will be from more than 15 colleges in the Southern Region of the NIRA. There will be two sectio ... |
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