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Prepared for launch

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Students from Allen Academy created and launched 300 paper airplanes at the front of their school Thursday in an event marking the launch of their fall fundraiser. This year's goal is to raise $125,000 in recognition of Allen's 125th anniversary. The ...

Deputy constable Agustin Rubio released from jail

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT


Deputy constable Agustin Rubio spent about three hours in the College Station jail Wednesday night after police arrested him on a charge of kidnapping.
Rubio, 41, was released just before midnight after he posted $10,000 bail for the third-degre ...

Blinn to stop paying card fee

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Blinn College is now passing credit card transaction fees to students, a move expected to save the community college more than $300,000 a year as budgets tighten."A lot of colleges and universities have had to do this," said Blinn spokesman Brandon W ...

Helton receives 10-years probation

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

The former president of the Youth Rodeo Association pleaded guilty to third-degree felony theft charges this week for stealing more than $82,000 from the organization over a four-year period. Donald Helton Jr., 62, of Bryan, received a 10-year probat ...

Forgeries may land woman in prison

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Forty-five people were indicted by a Brazos County grand jury Thursday for an array of charges including aggravated sexual assault of a child, possession of a controlled substance, burglary and credit card abuse. A 32-year-old Bryan woman was indicte ...

Police: Driver found with cocaine

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:33 AM PDT

A 25-year-old Bryan man driving in College Station was arrested during a traffic stop early Thursday after an officer reported finding cocaine in his vehicle.
DaChristopher Demond Harrison was charged with possession of from one to four grams of a c ...

Silver Taps to honor 7 A&M students

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Reports
Texas A&M University's first Silver Taps of the school year will be Tuesday.
The ceremony will be at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Academic Building. Free parking in the University Center garage will be available from 9 p.m. to ...

Hurricane Katia continues moving across Atlantic

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:20 AM PDT

MIAMI -- Hurricane Katia was moving across the Atlantic and two other storm systems were developing over open water, but forecasters said Thursday it was too soon to tell if any might hit land.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said a low pr ...

DPS troopers out in force over Labor Day weekend

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:37 AM PDT

AUSTIN -- All available Texas troopers have been assigned Labor Day holiday weekend duty looking for speeders, drunken drivers and other traffic violators. The Department of Public Safety says increased patrols are planned Friday through Monday.DPS s ...

UT: A&M said no to network

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Texas A&M could have been a partner with Texas in a lucrative television network but wasn't interested in joining the Longhorns when the idea was hatched, Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Thursday.
Dodds told The Associated ...

Forecasters eye disturbed weather in Gulf

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:17 AM PDT

NEW ORLEANS -- The National Weather Service said a low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico could become a tropical depression by the weekend.People all along the northern Gulf coast were advised to monitor the system, which was producing cloudiness ...

UT: A&M said no to network

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Texas A&M could have been a partner with Texas in a lucrative television network but wasn't interested in joining the Longhorns when the idea was hatched, Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Thursday.
Dodds told The Associated ...

Report: Historic records at risk

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

By CAROL CHRISTIAN
Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON -- In dusty basements and boxcars across Texas, thousands of historical documents are at risk of theft, loss or destruction by bugs, rats or weather, according to a new report.
Issued by the Texas Court ...

Gadhafi denies rebels' demand

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT


TRIPOLI, Libya -- In a fiery broadcast from hiding, Moammar Gadhafi warned Thursday that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds were armed and preparing for battle, a show of defiance hours after rebels extended a deadline for the surrender of the ...

Medical legacy of 9/11 still a mystery

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Like a lot of New Yorkers who spent time near the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center, Lorraine Ashman needs to take a deep breath before listing all the health problems that have afflicted her over the past decade.First she got bronc ...

Economy fares better than expected in August

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumers and businesses are not so worried that the economy is about to tumble into a recession after all.Manufacturing grew a little slower in August than the previous month, but it didn't contract as some had feared. Shoppers sp ...

Mars rover examining new site

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT


LOS ANGELES -- The Mars rover Opportunity is snapping pictures like a tourist since arriving at its latest crater destination, much to the delight of scientists many millions of miles away.
The solar-powered workhorse beamed back images of the ho ...

Obama speech timing settled

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will a deliver rare address to a joint session of Congress next week to introduce a long-awaited plan for jobs and economic growth, but not before being forced to yield in a test of wills with House Speaker John B ...

Afghans anxious about troop exit

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's been a tough summer in Afghanistan: Foreign troops started leaving. The Afghan president's half brother was assassinated. Suicide bombers keep killing government officials. The Taliban shot down a helicopter, killing 30 Ame ...

Charity denounces violence

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- The cousin of the Army psychiatrist accused in a shooting rampage at an Army post in Texas has created a Muslim charity that denounces violence in the name of Islam, and is using the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to draw at ...

Grocery store shutting doors

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Jessica Everett of College Station holds a sign to attract traffic on University Drive to the total inventory sale at Albertson's Thursday afternoon. The store, which was recently purchased by H-E-B, will be selling off inventory in preparation for v ...

Three ribbon cuttings planned this week

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:24 AM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce is hosting a ribbon cutting Thursday for StageCenter & Mystery Dinner Theatre.
The open house for the community theater will be from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at 201B West 26th St. in dow ...

Requests issued for CS developments

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:21 AM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
College Station officials received the following requests for development this week:
* College Station Medical and Senior Living: 1401 Arnold Road; A request to rezone more than 17 acres from single-family residential to planned ...

Mobile food truck requires more votes

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:21 AM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Veritas Wine & Bistro's mobile food truck needs to keep securing votes through Sept. 12 if its going to help win a national contest.
Executive Chef Tai Sung Lee said the winner of "The Great Food Truck Race," sponsored by Foo ...

Garden calendar

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Saturday
* Independent Growers Market, 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Sons of Hermann Lodge parking lot, 1104 W. William J. Bryan Parkway. Garden-direct fruit and vegetables.
* Brazos Valley Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon. Texas Avenue and William Joel Bryan ...

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