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- Bryan makes offer on Briarcrest Country Club
- Bryan council approves parking garage rates
- Card spotlights need for civility at interfaith dinner
- Local schools expect to maintain high financial marks
- Man charged with causing almost $5K of damages to truck
- Texas rapist appears to target sorority alumnae
- Movie depicts Juarez violence
- Perry sidesteps questions about Obama's birthplace
- Joshua Baker vies for seat in House
- 2 charged with compelling teen into prostitution
- Tree trimmers have perfect form
- Police: Motorcyclist shot at Bryan officer
- Suspected illegal immigrants rescued in Houston
- Road work to close CS intersection
- Mexican army raids bulletproofing auto shop
- Club seeks support in polio eradication
- Bogus Texas college student, 48, gets prison
- Superheroes against drugs
- Gadhafi buried at secret site in Libya
- Gov. Perry calls for tax cuts, benefits changes
- DA accused of taking money for lighter sentences
- SeaWorld accused of enslaving orcas
- Occupy(ing) Halloween
- Rotarians working to eradicate polio
- Nurse testifies that Jackson was seeking out propofol
| Bryan makes offer on Briarcrest Country Club Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:16 PM PDT The Bryan City Council voted on Tuesday to offer to buy the Briarcrest Country Club contingent on voter approval of the purchase in November. The proposal was made public in order to give voters an idea of how much the city would have to pay for ... |
| Bryan council approves parking garage rates Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT Most patrons of a new parking garage in Downtown Bryan will pay about $1 per hour under a rate plan approved by the Bryan City Council on Tuesday night. The garage is expected to open in November. Drivers can park for free if they stay for less t ... |
| Card spotlights need for civility at interfaith dinner Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT Andrew Card has been deeply influenced by the Old and New testaments, but he pulled out another book during a dinner Tuesday in College Station and said it also is important: the Constitution. "[The founding fathers] wrote a document that described the role of faith f ... |
| Local schools expect to maintain high financial marks Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT The Bryan and College Station school districts scored well in the state's recently issued financial accountability ratings, but administrators in both districts believe those scores will only increase in the coming years. College Station received ... |
| Man charged with causing almost $5K of damages to truck Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT A 25-year-old Bryan man faces a felony charge after being accused of side-swiping a truck and hitting it with a bat in March.Benito Thomas Cisneros was charged Tuesday with criminal mischief from $1,500 to $20,000, a state jail felony punishable by u ... |
| Texas rapist appears to target sorority alumnae Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:57 AM PDT DALLAS -- A national black sorority is urging alumnae to remove any trace of their affiliation with the group from cars, clothing and even their key chains while authorities investigate several rapes that appeared to target members in the Dallas su ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT Many have read about the violence in Juarez, Mexico, fueled by drug cartels battling for control of the city and routes to traffic narcotics into the U.S., but this Friday Bryan-College Station residents can witness it in theaters. The documentary fi ... |
| Perry sidesteps questions about Obama's birthplace Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:36 PM PDT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday declined to say whether he believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States.At a news conference with state legislators just hours after he'd introduced a major economic plan, the GOP pr ... |
| Joshua Baker vies for seat in House Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:09 PM PDT Editor's note: This is the last in a series of profiles on the candidates for the District 14 seat in the Texas House. Joshua Baker only recently completed his political science studies at Dallas Baptist University. Now he is seeking to put them to ... |
| 2 charged with compelling teen into prostitution Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:36 PM PDT HOUSTON -- A Dallas-area couple has been jailed in Houston and accused of forcing a Houston teen into prostitution. Melvin James Bell and Kierra Nicole Benjamin were booked Sunday into Harris County Jail and charged with compelling prostitution. B ... |
| Tree trimmers have perfect form Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT Renaldo Romero (from left), 39, and Guillermo Balleno, 52, use a cone-shaped apparatus to work the form onto trees that they were pruning Tuesday at the Boonville Road entrance to Miramont Country Club in Bryan. They use the device twice a year on do ... |
| Police: Motorcyclist shot at Bryan officer Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report No one was injured Tuesday evening when a man driving a motorcycle in the area of Rock Prairie Road and Texas 6 fired shots at an off-duty officer, police aid. Officer Rhonda Seaton, spokeswoman for College Station police, said ... |
| Suspected illegal immigrants rescued in Houston Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:45 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Houston police say more than a dozen suspected illegal immigrants have been rescued from a home and four apparent smugglers have been caught. Police say neighbors had complained about suspicious activity at the alleged stash house, where t ... |
| Road work to close CS intersection Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report A damaged signal pole will be replaced Wednesday at the intersection of F.M. 2818 and Wellborn Road. The work will take place between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Drivers are asked to be aware of police officers directing traffic through th ... |
| Mexican army raids bulletproofing auto shop Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:39 PM PDT MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican army have found an auto shop used to bulletproof vehicles for drug gangs.Ten people were arrested and soldiers confiscated 10 cars or SUVs that were being bulletproofed, as well as six other vehicles in a warehouse in the n ... |
| Club seeks support in polio eradication Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThree health professionals will speak Wednesday at the Bryan Rotary Club on the topic "eradicating polio globally."Rotary officials said ending the spread of polio has been a priority for their organization since the early 1980s. In ... |
| Bogus Texas college student, 48, gets prison Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:36 PM PDT AUSTIN -- A 48-year-old Dallas man who stole an identity and faked being a college student to get loans has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison.A federal judge in Austin on Tuesday sentenced Solomon Hobbs Jr., also known as Virgil Clinton P ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT Dressed as Superman, Bowen Elementary kindergartner Mike Koym stands on his tiptoes to reach the water fountain Tuesday during recess. As part of the national Red Ribbon Week, students dressed as their favorite superheroes to show their commitment to ... |
| Gadhafi buried at secret site in Libya Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT MISRATA, Libya -- Flamboyant and grandiose in life, Moammar Gadhafi was buried in secrecy and anonymity, laid to rest in an unmarked grave before dawn in the Libyan desert that was home to his Bedouin tribal ancestors. The burial ended the gruesom ... |
| Gov. Perry calls for tax cuts, benefits changes Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT GRAY COURT, S.C. -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry proposed dramatic tax and spending changes Tuesday, saying he would let Americans choose between a 20 percent flat tax and the current system, allow private Social Security accounts a ... |
| DA accused of taking money for lighter sentences Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT CENTER -- The district attorney in a Texas county with a well-known drug-trafficking route repeatedly allowed suspected drug runners and money launderers to receive light sentences -- or escape criminal charges altogether -- if they forfeited their c ... |
| SeaWorld accused of enslaving orcas Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT SAN DIEGO -- A federal court is being asked to grant constitutional rights to five killer whales who perform at marine parks -- an unprecedented and perhaps quixotic legal action that is nonetheless likely to stoke an ongoing, intense debate at Ame ... |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and "occupied" their friends' Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered ... |
| Rotarians working to eradicate polio Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:05 AM PDT Imagine a virus that strikes healthy people suddenly -- particularly children. A virus that attacks its victims' nerves, crippling limbs or making it impossible for them to breathe. That virus is polio. It occurred in epidemic waves across the Unite ... |
| Nurse testifies that Jackson was seeking out propofol Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- A sometimes tearful nurse testified Tuesday that her efforts to save Michael Jackson from the drug he craved for sleep were rebuffed by the star who insisted he needed the powerful anesthetic that eventually killed him. Cherilyn Lee, a ... |
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