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- The color of Irish
- Aggies gather to help Japan crisis victims
- Atkinson: Disaster not likely to impact U.S. dealers
- Aggie basketball team visits the Windy City
- Pet of the week: Blitzen
- B-CS robberies have similar details
- Team probes wetlands ecology
- B-CS Chamber to host crawfish boil
- Local library group plans book sale
- Fish kill at Lake Granbury, part of Brazos River
- Houston woman jailed for drunken year-old daughter
- Deal to tap reserves won't stop cuts
- Feral hogs moving into urban areas in Texas
- Texas prison schools face cuts, opt for online
- Fire threat high in Panhandle
- Texas man snoozes in drive-thru lane, DWI case
- Food, energy drive up consumer prices
- 'Monster truck' hits, kills woman
- Southern blacks moving to suburbs
- UN authorizes 'all necessary measures' in Libya
- Beauty queen's bikini pictures 'unusable'
- Control could be weeks away in Japan
- Wildflowers offer low-maintenance beauty
- Garden calendar
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT Top photo: Texas A&M student Karen Johnson wears green Thursday in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Below: Ashley McIntyre laughs while sitting with friends at O'Bannon's Taphouse in College Station. |
| Aggies gather to help Japan crisis victims Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT After the 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan last week, Texas A&M student Fumi Sato got a text that said, "Do you know there's a tsunami coming?" The junior engineering technology major's family lives in Fukushima, the epicenter of the quake, and ... |
| Atkinson: Disaster not likely to impact U.S. dealers Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT Local Toyota dealer Paul Atkinson says he's been getting daily updates from company headquarters in Japan about the safety of employees and the status of production since the earthquake and tsunami and that Toyota, at least compared to other manufact ... |
| Aggie basketball team visits the Windy City Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT CHICAGO -- The Aggies are trying to make Chicago their kind of town. It's a little alien for some, though, having never been to the Windy City. Texas A&M's men's basketball team arrived early Wednesday evening in the third largest city in th ... |
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| B-CS robberies have similar details Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT Police still aren't saying whether two robberies earlier this week are connected, but officers from Bryan and College Station are investigating the crimes jointly. "Due to the similarities between the suspect descriptions, the timing and the type ... |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT Funded by a two-year, $400,000 NASA grant, a Texas A&M at Galveston research team is investigating the amount of carbon sequestration capacity lost during the last decade from alterations to naturally occurring estuarine wetlands along the Gulf ... |
| B-CS Chamber to host crawfish boil Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report The 13th annual Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce crawfish boil is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Brazos County Expo. More than 1,000 pounds of crawfish will be boiled, and catfish, sausage and hamburgers a ... |
| Local library group plans book sale Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT The annual Friends of the Library book sale for young readers will be March 26 at the Larry J. Ringer Library on Harvey Mitchell Parkway. Friends of the Library is a local organization that supports all three Bryan and College Station libraries by p ... |
| Fish kill at Lake Granbury, part of Brazos River Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:45 AM PDT GRANBURY -- Experts say a golden algae bloom has killed more than a quarter of a million fish in Lake Granbury and in the Brazos River.The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Friday that the bloom was noticed in early January on Lake Granbury and on Ma ... |
| Houston woman jailed for drunken year-old daughter Posted: 17 Mar 2011 07:51 AM PDT HOUSTON -- A 32-year-old Houston woman is jailed on a charge of endangering a child after authorities found both her and her year-old daughter drunk. Lashwanda Allen asked a Harris County judge Thursday for a court-appointed lawyer. Court documen ... |
| Deal to tap reserves won't stop cuts Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Texas lawmakers this week freed up $4 billion to spend over the next two years, but it won't do much to save teachers, nursing homes or the hundreds of other state programs coming under the budget knife. The plan, now being considered by ... |
| Feral hogs moving into urban areas in Texas Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:41 AM PDT IRVING -- Some Texas cities are going to the hogs.Neighbors in a Dallas suburb have certainly felt that way since seeing their well-manicured lawns uprooted and sprinkler systems destroyed by packs of hefty feral hogs -- beasts that once caused prob ... |
| Texas prison schools face cuts, opt for online Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:39 AM PDT AUSTIN -- The $128 million school system for state inmates could be replaced with online programs to save money. Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Florence Shapiro of Plano said Thursday that lawmakers will have to be convinced why the Windham S ... |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT LUBBOCK -- Summer-like temperatures and strong winds are adding up to dangerous wildfire conditions in parts of West Texas and the Panhandle, the Texas Forest Service said Thursday.The agency warned of hot, dry weather that could affect an area north ... |
| Texas man snoozes in drive-thru lane, DWI case Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:25 AM PDT CORPUS CHRISTI -- You want a wake-up call with that? Corpus Christi police detained a driver found snoozing in a vehicle in the drive-thru lane of a fast-food restaurant. Police say the 19-year-old suspect allegedly had been drinking. Police an ... |
| Food, energy drive up consumer prices Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Americans paid more for food and gas in February, driving up consumer prices at the fastest pace in nearly two years. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.5 percent in February, the largest increase since June 2009, the Labor Department ... |
| 'Monster truck' hits, kills woman Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:40 AM PDT A "monster truck" struck and killed a woman in the parking lot of a Dallas nightclub.A Dallas police report identifies the dead woman as 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie of Granbury. The report says she was walking through the club parking lot just after 2 ... |
| Southern blacks moving to suburbs Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- African-Americans in the South are shunning city life for the suburbs at the highest levels in decades, rapidly integrating large metropolitan areas that were historically divided between inner-city blacks and suburban whites. Censu ... |
| UN authorizes 'all necessary measures' in Libya Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT TOBRUK, Libya -- The U.N. Security Council on Thursday authorized "all necessary measures" to stop Moammar Gadhafi in Libya -- including strikes by sea and air -- hours after he vowed in harrowing terms to launch a final assault and crush the weeks-o ... |
| Beauty queen's bikini pictures 'unusable' Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- A beauty queen gained enough weight that airbrushing couldn't fix photos of her in a bikini, but that's not why the size-2 teen had her Miss San Antonio crown revoked, the pageant president told a jury. She said Thursday that the girl ... |
| Control could be weeks away in Japan Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT YAMAGATA, Japan -- Emergency workers seemed to try everything they could think of Thursday to douse one of Japan's dangerously overheated nuclear reactors: helicopters, heavy-duty fire trucks, even water cannons normally used to quell rioters. But ... |
| Wildflowers offer low-maintenance beauty Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:04 PM PDT Texas is known for incredible spring displays of our native wildflowers, especially bluebonnets, Indian blankets, evening primrose and black-eyed Susans. What is a wildflower? The horticultural definition is "a flowering plant that grows in a natur ... |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT Friday * Herbal Plant Sale and Gifts Shops, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Round Top Festival Institute, 248 Jasper Road, off Highway 237. Theme: "Getting Down to the Roots -- a Celebration of Herbal Roots, Rhizomes and Horseradish." 10 a.m.: Overview of plants a ... |
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