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- International students test ideas at Disaster City
- Watson named A&M provost
- Karan Watson named Texas A&M provost
- Bryan keeping options open for shelter
- Man in custody after standoff at Bryan apartment
- CS schools hire woman as new AD
- CS outlines services to Wellborn if annexation goes through
- Retailer finds money in envelope
- Police: Two men attempted to hide PCP
- Committee considers ban on texting and driving
- Festival offers plenty of science-oriented fun
- Central Texas baby left in vehicle found dead
- IDs of 5 of 6 killed in mobile home fire released
- Teen could be tried as adult in sister's death
- Young Mexican police chief seeks US asylum
- Activists protest abortion bills
- Embattled Alamo stewards set to testify at Capitol
- Texas teen who attacked delivery man faces prison
- 'Bigfoot' fighting to stay on mountain
- Police standoff
- New Mexico decapitated dog trial ends in hung jury
- Kids' athleticism put to DNA tests
- More than 700 Dallas educators to resign early
- Gates notes gains and hurdles
- Rebels losing ground
| International students test ideas at Disaster City Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PST Robotics students from as far away as Japan have converged on "Disaster City" in College Station this week to put their latest and greatest designs to the test. Six teams from different Japanese universities, as well as two from Texas A&M an ... |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST Growing up as a kid in West Texas, Karan Watson wanted to be a cowboy to ride horses and explore, an architect to build stuff and find solutions, and a teacher to help kids. "I have to tell you," Watson said Tuesday from her ninth-floor office in ... |
| Karan Watson named Texas A&M provost Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:53 AM PST Karan Watson will be the first woman to serve as Texas A&M provost in the university's 134-year history. The Texas A&M System Board of Regents named her the College Station campus' top academic officer in a unanimous vote during a specially ... |
| Bryan keeping options open for shelter Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST The Bryan City Council showed renewed interest Tuesday in continuing its partnership with the Brazos Animal Shelter -- a possibility that had looked unlikely in recent weeks as it considered opening a city-owned facility or contracting with a priva ... |
| Man in custody after standoff at Bryan apartment Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:35 AM PST A man was in custody Tuesday night after a standoff with police at a Bryan apartment complex that lasted several hours. It wasn't immediately clear what police were investigating in the west Bryan neighborhood, but SWAT officers were at the scene in ... |
| CS schools hire woman as new AD Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PST Longtime College Station coach and administrator Sue Betts was named the district's interim athletics director Tuesday, making a ground-breaking move to a job set on shifting sand. College Station ISD Superintendent Eddie Coulson announced Betts' ... |
| CS outlines services to Wellborn if annexation goes through Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST A plan detailing how the residents of Wellborn could expect city services to change if the community is annexed by College Station was outlined Tuesday afternoon at a special city council meeting. The presentation was one of three scheduled to ta ... |
| Retailer finds money in envelope Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportKamal Ahmad Rahman was headed into the Exxon station his family has owned in Bryan for more than two decades when a piece of paper caught his eye in the parking lot.He initially thought the envelope was empty and planned to throw it ... |
| Police: Two men attempted to hide PCP Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:25 AM PST Two men face felony charges after they were accused of attempting to conceal PCP during a College Station traffic stop.De Shannon Montrell Pierce, 31, of Hearne, and Melvin Eugene Murphy Jr., 27, of Bryan, were each charged Monday with manufacture or ... |
| Committee considers ban on texting and driving Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:33 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The House Transportation Committee will consider legislation to institute a statewide ban on texting while driving. The committee was expected to hear testimony Wednesday from the family of Alex Brown. The West Texas girl died in ... |
| Festival offers plenty of science-oriented fun Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PST Children and children at heart will have the opportunity for some hands-on scientific fun on March 26 at the Physics and Engineering Festival. The free event will last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the George P. Mitchell Physics Building on Texas A&a ... |
| Central Texas baby left in vehicle found dead Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:31 PM PST NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- Police say a 6-month-old girl found dead in a vehicle in Central Texas was accidently left there after her mother drove to work that morning. New Braunfels authorities say the baby was still strapped in her car seat Tuesday ... |
| IDs of 5 of 6 killed in mobile home fire released Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:36 PM PST GRANBURY, Texas -- Officials have released the identities of five of the six people killed when a weekend fire destroyed a North Texas mobile home. The predawn fire Sunday destroyed the double-wide mobile home on Lake Granbury after a birthday par ... |
| Teen could be tried as adult in sister's death Posted: 08 Mar 2011 01:37 AM PST TYLER, Texas -- East Texas prosecutors have filed a petition asking for a 15-year-old accused in the shooting death of his older sister to be tried as an adult.The Smith County District Attorney's office made the request Friday. The New Chapel Hill t ... |
| Young Mexican police chief seeks US asylum Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:35 PM PST EL PASO, Texas -- A young woman who received death threats after recently becoming police chief of a violence-plagued Mexican town is in the U.S and seeking asylum, Mexican and U.S. officials said Tuesday.Marisol Valles Garcia, who was 20 when she wa ... |
| Activists protest abortion bills Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST AUSTIN -- A day after losing a fight over a bill that would give Texas some of the strictest abortion rules in the country, House Democrats stood Tuesday with Planned Parenthood advocates working against a barrage of legislative attempts to weaken ... |
| Embattled Alamo stewards set to testify at Capitol Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:32 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- The longtime custodians of the Alamo are expected in Austin amid a state investigation into their care of the revered Texas landmark.Leaders of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas were scheduled Wednesday to appear before a Texas ... |
| Texas teen who attacked delivery man faces prison Posted: 08 Mar 2011 06:09 AM PST FORT WORTH, Texas -- A teenager who robbed and attacked a pizza deliveryman with a baseball bat could finish serving his 40-year sentence in a Texas prison.The teen is to appear in a Fort Worth juvenile court Tuesday. But the matter is unrelated to t ... |
| 'Bigfoot' fighting to stay on mountain Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:02 PM PST CONCORD, N.H. -- First there was a Bigfoot sighting. Now, there's a Bigfoot suing. A performance artist and amateur filmmaker who dressed as the mythical beast says New Hampshire park rangers didn't have the right to kick him off a mountain where ... |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PST Bryan police officers, members of the Tactical Response Team and Department of Public Safety officers converged on an apartment at La Brisa Drive and Toro Lane Tuesday afternoon after it was reported that a man on whom a warrant was being served was ... |
| New Mexico decapitated dog trial ends in hung jury Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:32 AM PST Associated PressFARMINGTON, N.M. -- Jurors couldn't reach a verdict in the New Mexico trial of a man accused of decapitating a dog with a chain saw, so the judge in Farmington declared a mistrial.Corey Bowen is the second man charged in the case. The ... |
| Kids' athleticism put to DNA tests Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST CHICAGO -- Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Marketers of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits costing less than $200.Some customers say the test results help them steer their children to appropriate sports. But skeptical doct ... |
| More than 700 Dallas educators to resign early Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:48 PM PST DALLAS -- More than 700 Dallas teachers, principals and other employees have accepted the district's offer to resign early to offset potential layoffs.The Dallas school district's incentive provided up to $10,000 for some educators with contracts to ... |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST COMBAT OUTPOST SABIT QADAM, Afghanistan -- The Taliban are reeling. U.S. and Afghan troops are clicking. The war is going really well. That's what Pentagon chief Robert Gates heard in two days with troops and commanders. Much less clear: the hoped-fo ... |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:15 PM PST TRIPOLI, Libya -- After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi. Pro-regime forces halted its drive on Tripoli with a heavy barrage of rockets i ... |
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