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- Festival celebrates the colors of spring
- Bryan workers getting clinic
- Obstacles hinder cleanup efforts at Japan plant
- Rise in payments brings little security
- Israel deploys new anti-rocket system
- Supreme Court to take up Wal-Mart sex-bias claim
- Facebook getting some teens down
- S.C. cameras snap speeders, spark controversy
- Air raids hit Libyan capital, leader's hometown
- Japan crisis ripples through the auto industry
- Plant downplayed tsunami risk
- Study: Big quakes can't go the distance
- Feds think man aided terror suspects through Texas
- Judged innocent, man waits in prison for ruling
- Youngsters get early lesson in money management
- Letters for March 28
- Calendar
- Griner scores 40 as Baylor beats Green Bay 86-76
- Kentucky beats North Carolina 76-69 in East final
- Memphis gives Spurs third straight loss
- Three Heat players reach 30 points in win over Rockets
- Kansas falls to VCU; last No. 1 seed ousted
| Festival celebrates the colors of spring Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT Color-splattered Texas A&M Indian students dance and frolic Sunday during the A&M India Association's Holi Hai on Simpson Drill Field. The event is a festival of colors marking the arrival of spring and signifying the victory of good over evi ... |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT Bryan will open a wellness center for city employees this week in hopes of reducing health care costs for the city.The City of Bryan Employee Health Center, at 2010 E. Villa Maria Road, will have nurses, a nurse practitioner and a part-time doctor on ... |
| Obstacles hinder cleanup efforts at Japan plant Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT TOKYO -- Mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for huge amounts of contaminated water, have stymied emergency workers struggling to nudge Japan's stricken nuclear complex back from the edge ... |
| Rise in payments brings little security Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments. The government is projecting a slight cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits ... |
| Israel deploys new anti-rocket system Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT BEERSHEBA, Israel -- Israel deployed a cutting-edge rocket defense system on Sunday, rolling out the latest tool in its arsenal to stop a recent spike in attacks from the neighboring Gaza Strip.Israel hopes the homegrown Iron Dome system will provide ... |
| Supreme Court to take up Wal-Mart sex-bias claim Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Christine Kwapnoski hasn't done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days. But Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club stores in both Miss ... |
| Facebook getting some teens down Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT CHICAGO — Add “Facebook depression” to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors’ group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. Researchers d ... |
| S.C. cameras snap speeders, spark controversy Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT RIDGELAND, S.C. -- As Interstate 95 sweeps past this small town along South Carolina's coastal plain, motorists encounter cameras that catch speeding cars, the only such devices on the open interstate for almost 2,000 miles from Canada to Miami. T ... |
| Air raids hit Libyan capital, leader's hometown Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT RAS LANOUF, Libya -- International air raids targeted Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte for the first time Sunday night as rebels quickly closed in on the regime stronghold, a formidable obstacle that must be overcome for government opponents to re ... |
| Japan crisis ripples through the auto industry Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT TOKYO -- The auto industry disruptions triggered by Japan's earthquake and tsunami are about to get worse.In the weeks ahead, car buyers will have difficulty finding the model they want in certain colors, thousands of auto plant workers will likely b ... |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT TOKYO -- In planning their defense against a killer tsunami, the people running Japan's now-hobbled nuclear power plant dismissed important scientific evidence and all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history, an Associated Press investigati ... |
| Study: Big quakes can't go the distance Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT NEW YORK — Here’s some good news in the wake of Japan’s disaster: A new study says big earthquakes don’t set off other dangerous ones around the globe. Big quakes do trigger local aftershocks, but researchers found no sign ... |
| Feds think man aided terror suspects through Texas Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- Federal officials believe members of East African terrorist groups sneaked into the U.S. after a Somali man now in custody helped them get through Mexico and Texas, according to a newspaper report.A Justice Department memo and other do ... |
| Judged innocent, man waits in prison for ruling Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT DALLAS -- Ben Spencer sits in prison three years after a judge ruled him innocent of a deadly March 1987 Dallas carjacking. Now 46, Spencer's in his 24th year in prison as he waits for an appeals court ruling on the judge's recommendation that his ... |
| Youngsters get early lesson in money management Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT By ERICA RODRIGUEZ The Victoria Advocate VICTORIA -- There's no money in education these days, Aloe Elementary teacher Kelly Lorance will say, unless you're a fifth-grader in her class. On any given day, there are hordes of cash spilling from stu ... |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT Supply and demand explains gas prices In response to Bill Flores (Eagle, March 17) recent column, Steve Beikirch (Eagle, March 22) asked, "How is it that events in the Middle East have such an impact on oil prices when the vast majority of our imp ... |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT Mark Your CalendarThe Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary Spring Luncheon and Meeting will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 5 at The Salvation Army Fellowship Hall. The luncheon is open to any woman interested in learning more about The Salvation Army ... |
| Griner scores 40 as Baylor beats Green Bay 86-76 Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:36 PM PDT DALLAS -- Brittney Griner had another big game, got some help from Baylor's freshman point guard Odyssey Sims, and the top-seeded Lady Bears ended any chance for Wisconsin-Green Bay to have a Butler-like finish.Griner had a career-high 40 points wit ... |
| Kentucky beats North Carolina 76-69 in East final Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:22 PM PDT NEWARK, N.J. -- Kentucky spent 13 straight springs watching other schools play in the Final Four, a destination college basketball's winningest program considers its birthright.At most places, that's hardly a drought.In the Bluegrass, it's a lifetime ... |
| Memphis gives Spurs third straight loss Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:35 PM PDT MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Tony Allen and Zach Randolph had 23 points apiece, and the Memphis Grizzlies sent San Antonio to its third straight loss with a 111-104 victory over the Spurs on Sunday night.Randolph also grabbed 11 rebounds for Memphis, which curr ... |
| Three Heat players reach 30 points in win over Rockets Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:34 PM PDT MIAMI -- LeBron James had 33 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, Chris Bosh added 31 points and 12 rebounds, and the Miami Heat set a franchise record in beating the Houston Rockets 125-119 on Sunday for their eighth win in nine games.Dwyane Wade ... |
| Kansas falls to VCU; last No. 1 seed ousted Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:48 AM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- So long, Kansas. Just like all the other No. 1 seeds, the Jayhawks aren't going to the Final Four.Staring down what would've been the easiest path ever to a national championship, coach Bill Self's deep, talented squad stumbled in the ... |
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