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- North Zulch family loses home to blaze
- Pair report being attacked in CS park
- Texas A&M football player Kyle Mangan arrested for fighting
- Texas school boards get flak for payouts
- Economy biggest roadblock for markets
- Texas drought will harm wildlife habitat for years
- Shiite cleric vows attacks if U.S. troops stay in Iraq
- Water turned off in North Texas town to conserve
- London deploys extra officers to quiet riots
- Syrian troops kill at least 59
- Catholic hospitals not eager for free birth control
- Comedy brings back tragic memories for family
- Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift feel the love at Teen Choice Awards
- Strike at Verizon may affect services
- Experts: Smartphones are playgrounds for hackers
- Docs say kids can be safe exercising outside
- Donaway-Palasota
- Letters for August 8
- Shooting for accuracy
- Calendar
- Congress has shot at jobs-creating bill
- California homeowners want to limit beach time
- Investors advised to stick with plans
- MLB Roundup
- Keselowski wins at Pocono with broken ankle
| North Zulch family loses home to blaze Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:07 PM PDT A North Zulch family of six had just returned from an outing at Texas Roadhouse in College Station and was tending to their dogs and horses when 12-year-old Macy O'Neal ran from the home. "Dad," she shouted outside 16597 Texas 21 West on Saturday ... |
| Pair report being attacked in CS park Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:07 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportAuthorities searched Sunday for a pair of men accused of attacking a man and woman in a park area off Rock Prairie Road and Welsh Avenue in College Station. The men were described as slender, black, about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9, with ... |
| Texas A&M football player Kyle Mangan arrested for fighting Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:08 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Texas A&M linebacker Kyle Mangan, who played at Brenham High, was arrested at 2:08 a.m. Sunday for disorderly conduct by fighting at 100 College Main in the Northgate area, according to the College Station Police Department. ... |
| Texas school boards get flak for payouts Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:08 PM PDT DALLAS -- State records show that Texas school boards have paid more than $7.7 million in severance pay over the past several years to buy out the contracts of superintendents. The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday that school trustees have offe ... |
| Economy biggest roadblock for markets Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:03 PM PDT NEW YORK -- U.S. investors will have their first chance Monday to react to Standard & Poor's decision to strip the U.S. government of its top credit rating. But the bigger issues facing Wall Street and stock markets worldwide remain debt-ridden ... |
| Texas drought will harm wildlife habitat for years Posted: 07 Aug 2011 11:54 PM PDT CANADIAN -- In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent of vegetative junk food and wild ... |
| Shiite cleric vows attacks if U.S. troops stay in Iraq Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:08 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- A powerful anti-American Shiite cleric in Iraq with thousands of loyal followers threatened on Sunday that U.S. forces who stay past the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline are fair game to attack. Iraqi officials, worried about a potential bac ... |
| Water turned off in North Texas town to conserve Posted: 07 Aug 2011 11:51 PM PDT KEMP -- Water conservation has been turned up a notch in one North Texas community: The water has been cut off.Kemp Mayor Donald Kile says water was turned off to residents Sunday for 48 hours. KDFW-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth reports that two weeks ago, ... |
| London deploys extra officers to quiet riots Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:06 PM PDT LONDON -- Police deployed extra officers on London's streets and monitored social network sites Sunday to prevent a repeat of the rioting, looting and multiple fires in a deprived area amid community anger over a fatal police shooting. A protest a ... |
| Syrian troops kill at least 59 Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:04 PM PDT BEIRUT -- Syrian troops fired on mourners at a funeral and raided an eastern city Sunday, killing at least 59 people in an intensifying government crackdown on protesters. Outrage was intensifying as well: Syria's Arab neighbors forcefully joined t ... |
| Catholic hospitals not eager for free birth control Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- They defied the bishops to support President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now Catholic hospitals are dismayed the law may force them to cover birth control free of charge to their employees. A provision in the law expanded pr ... |
| Comedy brings back tragic memories for family Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:04 PM PDT PITTSBURGH -- When the comedy 30 Minutes or Less opens in theaters Friday, one small group of people will be sure to avoid it. That would be the surviving family members of Brian Wells, the 46-year-old pizza delivery driver who was killed when a ... |
| Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift feel the love at Teen Choice Awards Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:04 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Selena Gomez conjured five wins at the Teen Choice Awards -- one more than boyfriend Justin Bieber. The star of Wizards of Waverly Place was selected as choice TV actress, female hottie and music group with her band The Scene. Gomez ... |
| Strike at Verizon may affect services Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:04 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Stalled contract negotiations led thousands of workers in Verizon Communication Inc.'s wireline division to go on strike Sunday, potentially affecting landline operations as well as installation of services like FiOS, its fiber-optic tele ... |
| Experts: Smartphones are playgrounds for hackers Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:03 PM PDT LAS VEGAS -- Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone.Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. The application not only logs details a ... |
| Docs say kids can be safe exercising outside Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:04 PM PDT CHICAGO -- Playing sports in hot, steamy weather is safe for healthy children and teen athletes, so long as precautions are taken and the drive to win doesn't trump common sense, the nation's largest pediatricians group says. New guidelines from t ... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 08:10 AM PDT Warren and Cindy Donaway of Bryan, Texas are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Leslie Donaway, to Ricky Palasota, Jr., son of Ricky and Elaine Palasota of North Zulch, Texas. The bride is a graduate of Bryan High School. ... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:05 PM PDT 'Shame' on greedy folks living on minimum wage I wish to thank Jerry Love (Eagle, July 29) for his excellent letter on why the unions and the minimum wage are the reasons our country is in such dire economic straits. Shame on you greedy people w ... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:11 PM PDT Justin Olexey, 16, whose grandfather, uncle and cousin are all veterans of the U.S. armed forces, takes aim Sunday at a target during the monthly First Sunday Turkey Shoot at the VFW on Harvey Mitchell Parkway in Bryan. On Oct. 1, the VFW will hold i ... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:06 PM PDT Mark Your Calendar The next Gardening 101 Seminar Series is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at the College Station library. Dr. Joe Masabni, vegetable specialist, will present Fall Vegetable Gardening. Learn how to use earth-kind methods to grow your own ... |
| Congress has shot at jobs-creating bill Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- When Congress gets back to work after Labor Day it will have the chance to achieve something that has largely eluded it for the entire year, passing legislation that might actually create jobs. With the battering debate over the debt ... |
| California homeowners want to limit beach time Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:03 PM PDT DANA POINT, Calif. -- In the beach town where California's surf industry first took root, where the loss of an epic break to a marina helped prompt the passage of the nation's most stringent coastal access laws, few imagined the city would go to su ... |
| Investors advised to stick with plans Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:03 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Investors should think twice before making any rash moves Monday. Many market analysts expect stocks to fall sharply because of anxiety about the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, the debt crisis in Europe and last week's stock mark ... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT White Sox 7, Twins 0: MINNEAPOLIS -- Jake Peavy pitched eight crisp innings to win for the first time in more than six weeks, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Twins 7-0 Sunday to sweep a three-game series in Minnesota for the first time in more tha ... |
| Keselowski wins at Pocono with broken ankle Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT LONG POND, Pa. -- Brad Keselowski raced all 500 miles of Sunday's Sprint Cup stop at Pocono Raceway with a broken left ankle.As if that wasn't enough, he somehow managed to win, too.Competing with a brace on his ankle, Keselowski sped off on the fina ... |
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