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- Brazos County Sheriff's Department trims budget
- Intoxication manslaughter trial under way
- Big cuts save Bryan $2.1 million
- Man dies after truck goes into Navasota River
- Bryan approves new contract with animal shelter
- Man faces prison in death of friend
- Facebook use lands Dallas workers in trouble
- Texas bill to alter elections in B-CS
- Afghan women begin military pilot training in US
- Murder trial starts today for man accused of strangling woman
- Autopsy: Toddler died of swallowing gasoline
- EPA says all Texas plants will get new air permits
- Texas girl found dead in SUV; heat suspected as cause
- Boy injured in shark attack in Texas Gulf coast
- GOP offers new debt limit power
- Scientists suggest foster care for severely obese kids
- Betty Ford remembered at bipartisan memorial
- French official relays reports that Gadhafi is ready to leave
- Ranger gets Medal of Honor
- Netflix raises DVD and streaming rates
- Astronauts finish last spacewalk in shuttle era
- Afghan president Hamid Karzai's half brother assassinated
- Energy standards staying on
- Creator of classic shows Sherwood Schwartz dies
- Restaurant Monitor
| Brazos County Sheriff's Department trims budget Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT This year isn't a good one to ask for funding increases, Sheriff Chris Kirk acknowledged to Commissioners Court on Tuesday during the budget hearing for the department. Keeping that in mind, Kirk said, he, Chief Deputy Mike Wilson and Jail Admini ... |
| Intoxication manslaughter trial under way Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:24 AM PDT Jurors on Wednesday will continue hearing a case against a 24-year-old who pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter in connection with a wreck that killed his friend. Sunset resident Kasey Lynn Vanhoose — who had a prior DWI conviction ... |
| Big cuts save Bryan $2.1 million Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT Job cuts and belt tightening will allow the Bryan city government to slash about $2.1 million from its general operations budget in the upcoming fiscal year, officials said Tuesday. Most of those savings will come from about 20 jobs that have bee ... |
| Man dies after truck goes into Navasota River Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:05 AM PDT Authorities on Tuesday continued to investigate the death of a 20-year-old Normangee man whose truck dove into the Navasota River after apparently striking a guardrail.Kevin Lee Kitchens died at the scene, 9 miles west of Normangee in Madison County, ... |
| Bryan approves new contract with animal shelter Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:04 PM PDT The Bryan City Council voted on Tuesday to end months of tense negotiations and sign a new 15-year contract with Brazos Animal Shelter. Under the agreement, Bryan will pay the shelter almost $380,000 next year to care for stray and neglected anim ... |
| Man faces prison in death of friend Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT Tears were shed on both sides of the 85th District Courtroom on Tuesday as testimony began in the punishment phase of a 24-year-old Sunset man who pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter for the death of his friend. Kasey Lynn Vanhoose was dr ... |
| Facebook use lands Dallas workers in trouble Posted: 12 Jul 2011 02:45 AM PDT DALLAS -- Constantly checking Facebook at work may get you in trouble.Two dozen Dallas City Hall workers received reprimands or counseling after a recent probe showed they spent too much time on the social networking site.Officials are working on new ... |
| Texas bill to alter elections in B-CS Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT matthew.watkins@theeagle.comThe way that Bryan and College Station conduct elections will be changing. But how has yet to be determined. The cause for the change is Senate Bill 100, which was signed by Gov. Rick Perry a few weeks ago. Aimed at making ... |
| Afghan women begin military pilot training in US Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:36 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- Four Afghan women are in Texas training to become among the first female pilots in the Afghan Air Force. The four women, all in the early 20s, are breaking the mold in male-dominated Afghanistan as foreign troops continue to help bu ... |
| Murder trial starts today for man accused of strangling woman Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT Opening arguments will be presented Wednesday morning in the Michael Allen Peck murder trial after attorneys completed jury selection late Tuesday evening. Peck, 45, was charged with the murder of 27-year-old Julie Perez in January 2010 after tire ... |
| Autopsy: Toddler died of swallowing gasoline Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:35 PM PDT BROWNSVILLE -- Preliminary autopsy results show that a 2-year-old South Texas boy died after swallowing gasoline.Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio revealed the results Tuesday of the autopsy on Leonardo Silva, who died after the June 27 incident at h ... |
| EPA says all Texas plants will get new air permits Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:44 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Nearly 140 Texas plants, including some of the nation's largest refineries, have reached a deal with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to receive new permits even though a long-standing battle between the Lone Star State and the fed ... |
| Texas girl found dead in SUV; heat suspected as cause Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:08 AM PDT CLEBURNE -- North Texas authorities suspect that heat may have played a role in the death of a 4-year-old girl found in her family's vehicle.But Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford says he's waiting on autopsy results expected Tuesday before discussing ... |
| Boy injured in shark attack in Texas Gulf coast Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:56 AM PDT FORT WORTH -- A 12-year-old boy is recovering from a shark attack off the Texas Gulf coast. The boy had surgery on his foot in a Houston hospital and will need more surgery, but he's OK. Family friend Mark Constein says his family was at Matagord ... |
| GOP offers new debt limit power Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- With compromise talks at a vituperative standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered Tuesday to hand President Barack Obama new powers to avert a first-ever government default threatened for Aug. 2.Under a proposal outlined by Se ... |
| Scientists suggest foster care for severely obese kids Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT CHICAGO -- Should parents of extremely obese children lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight? A provocative commentary in one of the nation's most distinguished medical journals argues yes, and its authors are joining a quiet chorus of ... |
| Betty Ford remembered at bipartisan memorial Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT PALM DESERT, Calif. -- First ladies, past and present, and others who called the White House home remembered Betty Ford on Tuesday, not just for her decades-long work against substance abuse but for her contributions to a political era when friends ... |
| French official relays reports that Gadhafi is ready to leave Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT PARIS -- France's foreign minister said Tuesday Paris has had contact with emissaries from Moammar Gadhafi who say the embattled Libyan strongman is "prepared to leave" power. It was not immediately clear whether such an offer is credible or amoun ... |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor Tuesday to Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry after describing how the soldier took enemy fire in Afghanistan but still grabbed a live grenade to save his comrades. "Th ... |
| Netflix raises DVD and streaming rates Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Netflix is raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for millions of subscribers who want to rent DVDs by mail and watch video on the Internet. The company is separating the two options so that subscribers who want both will hav ... |
| Astronauts finish last spacewalk in shuttle era Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts making the last spacewalk of NASA's space shuttle era on Tuesday retrieved a broken pump from the International Space Station and installed a fill-er-up experiment for a robot. The space station's two-armed robot ... |
| Afghan president Hamid Karzai's half brother assassinated Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The powerful half brother of President Hamid Karzai was gunned down in his heavily fortified home by a close associate Tuesday, setting off a power struggle in southern Afghanistan and raising doubts about stability in a cr ... |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Tuesday failed to stop the enactment of new energy-saving standards for light bulbs they portrayed as yet another example of big government interfering in people's lives.The GOP bill to overturn the standards set to ... |
| Creator of classic shows Sherwood Schwartz dies Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, has died at age 94. Great niece Robin Randall said Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday at Cedars-Si ... |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:05 PM PDT The Restaurant Monitor is a weekly listing of scores for restaurants inspected by the Brazos County Health Department. Inspection scores are on a 100-point scale. Generally, scores below 80 might cause the department to schedule a follow-up visit. A ... |
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