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- Federal team arrives to help battle blazes
- Ogden says Rainy Day funds needed
- Panel: EPA a burden to Texans
- 'All well' at school after stabbing
- Cow gives birth to third set of twins
- Police: Woman fires shotgun, pellets hit boyfriend
- Authorities investigate cause of Brazos County house fire
- Brown's bill takes on abortions by minors
- Program aids homebuyers
- AP: Inactive Gulf oil wells sit unplugged
- Scientists: Soot may be key to warming in Arctic
- New airline regulations in play
- Wine and Roses festival is Saturday
- Wine and Roses festival is Saturday
- Raul Castro formally given top spot in Cuba
- A&M System teams up with Marines
- Free drugs get big price tag
- Gadhafi forces hit Misrata hard with heavy weapons
- Elections lead to rioting
- Poor lead ditching of landlines
- Obama shares plans with Facebook pals
- 7 B-CS Suddenlink employees honored
- Nutall reappointed to state nursing board
- One year after the Gulf oil spill
- Letters for April 21
| Federal team arrives to help battle blazes Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT DALLAS -- Weary firefighters finally got a handle on a massive wildfire spanning three northern Texas counties Wednesday, aided by federal reinforcements and a weather change that brought cooler temperatures and calmer winds. But some officials ca ... |
| Ogden says Rainy Day funds needed Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT AUSTIN -- A Texas Senate plan to ease massive cuts to public schools over the next two years would still require about $3 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund, the head of the chamber's budget committee said Wednesday.Shortly after approving a pro ... |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT A trio of Texas energy experts took aim Wednesday at the Environmental Protection Agency during a panel at Texas A&M about energy regulation. A variety of new rules are going to impact coal production in Texas and will risk many coal generato ... |
| 'All well' at school after stabbing Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT The Bryan student stabbed by an eighth-grader returned to school on Wednesday, and the school settled back into its normal routine.Bryan district spokeswoman Sandy Farris said Sam Rayburn Middle School Principal Lane Buban sent out a recorded message ... |
| Cow gives birth to third set of twins Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT Maybe there's no category for it in the Guinness Book of Records, but Caldwell rancher Mark Skrabanek certainly has one for the books: For the third year in a row, one of his cows has had twins. Skrabanek said he's been raising cattle for about 4 ... |
| Police: Woman fires shotgun, pellets hit boyfriend Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:17 AM PDT A 36-year-old woman faces a felony charge after Bryan police said she fired a gun aimed at the floor but pellets hit her boyfriend. The Bryan woman remained jailed Wednesday on a charge of aggravated assault of a household member. Bail was set at $5 ... |
| Authorities investigate cause of Brazos County house fire Posted: 20 Apr 2011 04:49 AM PDT Police on Wednesday said they were investigating a suspicious fire at an abandoned Brazos County home that burned the night before. Neighbors reported the fire at 11:15 p.m. on Hopes Creek Road near the intersection with Trotter Lane, Sheriff Chris ... |
| Brown's bill takes on abortions by minors Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT A bill authored by state Rep. Fred Brown to eliminate a minor's ability to obtain a judge's consent to get an abortion without parental notification was introduced in the House's State Affairs committee on Wednesday. The proposal by the Bryan Rep ... |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT Diane Carr contacted two lenders before she found a third that could help her buy a home. The Bryan divorcée bought her Parkway Terrace home in January after learning about a local program that gives up to $2,000 in tax credit each year for ... |
| AP: Inactive Gulf oil wells sit unplugged Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters fouled by last year's BP spill, The Associated Press has learned.These ... |
| Scientists: Soot may be key to warming in Arctic Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- An international research team is in the land of snow and ice, in search of soot. Though the Arctic is often pictured as a vast white wasteland, scientists believe a thin layer of soot -- mostly invisible -- is causing it to absorb m ... |
| New airline regulations in play Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT DALLAS -- The U.S. government is adding new protections for travelers when airlines lose their bags, bump them off flights or hold them on the runway for hours. The airlines will also have to more clearly disclose the fees they charge. Consumer a ... |
| Wine and Roses festival is Saturday Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:48 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Messina Hof is hosting a festival Saturday to celebrate the blooming of the roses and budding of the grapevines. The annual Wine and Roses festival will be from noon to 6 p.m. at 4545 Old Reliance Road in Bryan. The event is f ... |
| Wine and Roses festival is Saturday Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:48 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Messina Hof is hosting a festival Saturday to celebrate the blooming of the roses and budding of the grapevines. The annual Wine and Roses festival will be from noon to 6 p.m. at 4545 Old Reliance Road in Bryan. The event is f ... |
| Raul Castro formally given top spot in Cuba Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT HAVANA -- Raul Castro was named first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party on Tuesday, and his aging brother Fidel was formally removed from the leadership for the first time since the party's creation 46 years ago.Despite raising hopes during the gat ... |
| A&M System teams up with Marines Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe Texas A&M System's 11 universities have partnered with a program that provides guaranteed college admission to pre-screened and qualified Marines who have left active duty, the system announced Wednesday. The U.S. Marine Cor ... |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT LONDON -- A global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years, vastly exceeding the levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associat ... |
| Gadhafi forces hit Misrata hard with heavy weapons Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT MISRATA, Libya -- Inside the besieged city of Misrata, spent rockets protrude from the pavement of a parking lot, unarmed teenagers prepare plastic crates of Molotov cocktails, and fighters at roadblocks sit inside empty shipping containers outfitt ... |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT KADUNA, Nigeria -- In the time it took to raise a machete or shout the name of a political party, neighbors again became enemies over politics split along religious lines in northern Nigeria.At least 70 people died this week after Muslim mobs targete ... |
| Poor lead ditching of landlines Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A growing number of Americans are getting rid of their old landline telephones and using only cellphones, a trend led not by the high-tech elite but by people in poorer states trying to save money. Government estimates releas ... |
| Obama shares plans with Facebook pals Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT PALO ALTO, Calif. -- President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that congressional Republicans are pushing a radical plan to trim Medicare and Medicaid, ramping up the rhetoric before a friendly Facebook crowd at the headquarters of the popular social ... |
| 7 B-CS Suddenlink employees honored Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:48 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Seven Bryan-College Station Suddenlink employees have earned the company's President's Club Award. Joe Bethany, Shannon Bullard, Kris Ann Martin, Earl Millhollon, Holli Perdue, Teresa Routon and Frank Zaragoza earned the award in ... |
| Nutall reappointed to state nursing board Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:40 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report A Bryan nurse has been selected to serve a second six-year term on the Texas Board of Nursing. Beverly Nutall was reappointed to the 13-member board by Gov. Rick Perry. She was first appointed to the Commission of Vocational Nurs ... |
| One year after the Gulf oil spill Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- Relatives flew over Gulf of Mexico waters on Wednesday where 11 oil rig workers died a year ago, residents gathered in quiet prayer vigils onshore and President Barack Obama vowed to hold BP and others accountable for "the painful lo ... |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT As in Foxfire, CS will treat Wellborn very well In response to Richard Crooks' (Eagle, April 20) comments about being "subject to harassment" by the city of College Station after Foxfire had been annexed -- apparently some people are never satisfi ... |
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