Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Aggies enjoy time in spotlight

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT


INDIANAPOLIS -- The weather was lousy Monday outside Conseco Fieldhouse, but, inside, the Texas A&M women's basketball program never shined brighter.
Head coach Gary Blair and the players basked in the spotlight as they prepared for the progra ...

Colleges ask for tuition increases

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Texas A&M students will face no designated tuition increase next year -- as instructed by the A&M System Board of Regents -- but four of the school's 10 colleges will seek "differential" tuition increases, administrators and student leaders s ...

Brazos Valley under severe thunderstorm watch

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:38 AM PDT

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Brazos Valley.
The watch covers Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Robertson and Washington counties until 3 p.m.
Leon County is under a severe thunderstorm wa ...

Palestine superintendent named sole finalist for BISD top admin job

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 06:58 AM PDT

The Bryan school board on Monday named Palestine Superintendent Thomas Wallis as the lone finalist for the top  spot.
The 5-2 decision — in which Douglas Wunneburger and David Stasny were the dissenting votes — came in the trus ...

BISD names superintendent finalist

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT


Palestine Superintendent Thomas Wallis celebrated with his family Monday night with pizza and soda after being named the lone finalist for the Bryan school district's top job.
The 5-2 decision came during the school board's noon meeting. Douglas W ...

Ogden bill gets support

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

A bill that would require municipally owned utilities in Texas to release employee salary information was approved by a Senate committee on Monday with support from open government advocates and a statewide public utility group. The bill filed by Sen ...

Texas Dems' budget hopes lie with Senate

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- After adopting a bleak state budget that catered to the conservative supermajority with staggering cuts to schools, highways, prisons and other programs, Texas House leaders and Democrats looked to the Senate on Monday to create something m ...

Nuke plant pours tainted water into Pacific

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT


TOKYO -- Workers began pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, freeing storage space for even more highly radioactive water that has hampered efforts to ...

Email breach worries experts

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT


SAN FRANCISCO -- Think twice next time you get an email from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent it.
A security breach that exposed the email addresses of potentially millions of customers of ...

More Southwest planes to be grounded for checks

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT


PHOENIX -- Federal aviation officials readied an order Monday for emergency inspections on 80 U.S.-registered Boeing 737 jetliners like the one on which a piece of fuselage tore away more than 30,000 feet above Arizona last week.
The order, to be ...

Third stopgap bill planned

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- With budget talks deadlocked, House Republicans readied a weeklong bill to cut spending by as much as $12 billion while averting a government shutdown threatened for Friday, officials disclosed Monday night.The measure also would includ ...

3rd arrest in slaying of South Texas teacher

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:51 AM PDT

BROWNSVILLE -- A third man has been arrested over the killing of a South Texas elementary teacher in a slaying allegedly arranged by her pastor husband.Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio says 37-year-old Daniel Lopez faced arraignment Tuesday on a cap ...

Obama announces bid for new term

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- No longer the fresh voice of change, President Barack Obama embarked on a bid for re-election Monday by asking a divided, anxious electorate to let him finish the job he won in 2008. He's getting an early start against a Republican fie ...

2 U-Texas execs among top 3 for total compensation

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT

DALLAS -- Two University of Texas System leaders have been ranked among the top three public higher education executives for total compensation.The Chronicle of Higher Education annual review found that Francisco Cigarroa, appointed UT System chance ...

Gadhafi's forces don't show medics any mercy

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT


ADJABIYA, Libya -- Overwhelmed by fatigue, Ramzi Mohammed took a deep drag on his cigarette, leaned against the door of his ambulance and recalled the blur of the past six weeks. He's seen fighters torn apart by rockets. He's been shot at for tryin ...

Fire risk high as drought worsens

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT


LUBBOCK -- Storms that swept the eastern part of Texas on Monday did little to relieve an extreme drought that now covers more than 40 percent of the state, and wildfires continued to burn Monday in parts of West Texas, where some ranchers haven't ...

Military trials likely for terror suspects

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civilian federal court in New York and will prosecute them instead before m ...

Libya rebels push into town they lost twice before

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT


BREGA, Libya -- Rebel fighters pushed back into this hard-fought oil town on Monday, seizing half of Brega and pledging to drive out Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces in hours in an advance that would open a vital conduit for oil sales by the ...

Final battle rages in Ivory Coast, forces close in

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- United Nations and French forces closed in on Ivory Coast's presidential palace early Tuesday after launching full assaults on the residence of the entrenched leader, the republican guard, two major military bases and state TV ...

UConn stops Butler for NCAA title

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT

By Joe Juliano
The Philadelphia Inquirer
HOUSTON -- With every brick launched by Butler Monday night in cavernous Reliant Stadium, Connecticut built a lead and control of the NCAA final, finishing a comeback from its middling Big East regular-seaso ...

Eager for a championship Tuesday night

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Eagle Editorial Board
When the Texas A&M women win their first national basketball championship in Indianapolis tonight, they will be adding to a long and distinguished list of Aggie champions.
All season long, the Aggie women have shown their ...

Calendar

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

MARK YOUR CALENDARChristian Women's Connection is holding its monthly luncheon at 11:45 a.m. April 19 at the Glory Inn. Cost is $5. Bring a paper item as your gift to help restock the Still Creek Ranch shelves. Melody Thompson will share how she over ...

Cruz homers in 4th straight, Rangers beat Mariners

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:49 PM PDT

ARLINGTON -- Nelson Cruz became the third player in major league history to homer in the first four games of a season, Derek Holland pitched six effective innings and the Texas Rangers remained one of four unbeaten teams with a 6-4 victory over the S ...

Kruger doesn't see Oklahoma as rebuilding project

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:23 AM PDT

NORMAN, Okla. -- New Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger has been through a couple of rebuilding projects.This, he says, is different."This program has got great tradition, so we're not rebuilding. We're not bringing it back," Kruger told a crowd of hundreds w ...

Miami says Haith to become Missouri coach

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:19 AM PDT

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Miami coach Frank Haith resigned Monday to take the Missouri job, Hurricanes officials said.Missouri officials hadn't confirmed the hiring. University curators are meeting Monday night in a closed session to consider Haith's contract ...

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