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- Couple homeless after fire
- Edwards secures federal funding
- Plaza lacking for some guests
- Consultant enters county judge race
- Woman says man assaulted her in bed
- Police: Robbery faked to void lease
- New toys will get people into concert
- Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC
- Economy shows signs of recovery
- Dems push major makeover of Wall Street through the House
- Texas prison under review
- Reactions mixed to climate proposal draft
- Drug combination could help in fight against cancer
- Sources: FBI has questioned students arrested in Pakistan
- Report: Health care overhaul will push tab up
- Atheists pick and choose holiday rites
- Dem leader urges debt limit increase of $1.8-1.9T
- Security fears deter bidders at Iraqi oil auction
- Spread cheer this season
- Letters for December 12
- Calendar
- Sugary treat
- NYC mayor on deadly shootout: 'Too many guns'
- NJ authorities, feds announce drug ring bust
- Czar grants pay waivers
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST A College Station couple who are longtime volunteers in the community lost their home in a fire Friday.No one was injured in the blaze at 8601 Creekview Court, where Ed and Bea Uvacek have lived for 25 years."The whole city has opened their doors to ...   |
| Edwards secures federal funding Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards has secured several million dollars in federal funding for local projects, including $12.2 million for a new headquarters building for an Army brigade based in Bryan, his office announced this week. The House passed the 2010 ap ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST Visitors to College Station last weekend complained to local tourism officials about being left in the cold during their stay at an area hotel. Shannon Overby, executive director for the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau, said she ... |
| Consultant enters county judge race Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST A 25-year-old business consultant who frequently attends College Station City Council meetings filed paperwork Friday to make a run for Brazos County judge.Brian Alg, an independent contractor who works with the College Station office of the consulti ... |
| Woman says man assaulted her in bed Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:09 PM PST â€" Eagle Staff ReportA 19-year-old Bryan man was in jail Friday, accused of breaking into a neighbor's home and attempting to commit a sexual assault. According to Bryan police, Terrance Vonshea Darnell climbed through a bedroom window of a home on As ... |
| Police: Robbery faked to void lease Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST â€" Eagle Staff ReportPolice said a 17-year-old Granbury girl reported a robbery that didn't happen in an attempt to get out of her lease.The girl was charged with falsifying a police report and released from the Brazos County Jail on Friday after post ... |
| New toys will get people into concert Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST â€" Eagle Staff ReportFor the cost of a new toy, residents of Bryan-College Station and the surrounding area can enjoy a lengthy lineup of live bands Sunday at Rockwell's on Harvey Road in College Station. The Toys for Tots Acoustic Jam Benefit, headli ... |
| Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:58 AM PST RALEIGH, N.C. -- Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government -- but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in ... |
| Economy shows signs of recovery Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Just in time for Christmas, the fragile economic recovery is showing signs of strengthening: Consumers are spending, companies are rebuilding stockpiles and Chinese exports are mounting a comeback.Data released Friday eased some worries ... |
| Dems push major makeover of Wall Street through the House Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year's Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.The sprawling ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST AUSTIN -- An independent security review will be conducted at a Texas prison where a convicted sex offender used a smuggled handgun to escape, prison system officials announced Friday as a second guard was fired over the incident.Monte S. Henson, lie ... |
| Reactions mixed to climate proposal draft Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST COPENHAGEN -- After a week of U.N. climate talks, some money is finally on the table and a draft agreement has been circulated. Now the really hard bargaining begins.The draft proposal was sent around Friday to the 192-nation conference, although it ... |
| Drug combination could help in fight against cancer Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors ... |
| Sources: FBI has questioned students arrested in Pakistan Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST WASHINGTON -- FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said F ... |
| Report: Health care overhaul will push tab up Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep going up and proposed Medicare savings may harm the program.A new report from government econ ... |
| Atheists pick and choose holiday rites Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST MINNEAPOLIS -- Angie O'Neill recently moved into a new apartment complex for seniors and she's trying to make new friends. But Christmas is a tough time of year for an atheist."All the planned activities at this time of year revolve around the church ... |
| Dem leader urges debt limit increase of $1.8-1.9T Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:58 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top House Democratic leader said Friday Congress will have to permit at least $1.8 trillion in additional federal borrowing next year in order to avoid a default on the U.S. debt.Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said that an i ... |
| Security fears deter bidders at Iraqi oil auction Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the country's biggest postwar auction Friday. But from there, the chill set in.Oil executives from around the ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST Now that College Station's red light cameras are kaput, there ought to be more merriness to go around the Brazos Valley this holiday season, flowing on and off our roadways and all around us. I think maybe there is.The other day on Texas Avenue, I sa ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:05 PM PST President, Congress taking us into an abyssThe president and Congress seem obsessed with sending our country to the bottom of an abyss of economic destruction which is primarily of their making. In 2006, with the employment rate below 4.5 percent an ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is holding Winter Mini Camp 2009 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 21-22 and 28-30. The camp is for students ages 4-12. Children will learn about planets, constellations, comets, space explor ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST Top: Annika Strayer, 6, dances with other "Bon-Bons" during a performance at the library. Bottom: Scarlet Emmerson, 3, gets a chance to meet the "Sugar Plum Fairy," played by Jesse Drummond, and choreographer Diana Wilcox before a performance of sele ... |
| NYC mayor on deadly shootout: 'Too many guns' Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:57 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) -- The mayor railed against gun violence on Friday, one day after a street peddler armed with a machine pistol died in a shootout with police outside a hotel in bustling Times Square.Raymond Martinez, 25, was killed by a plainclothes se ... |
| NJ authorities, feds announce drug ring bust Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:55 PM PST PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Federal and New Jersey authorities said Friday they have busted a network that moved marijuana and methamphetamine from Mexico to southern New Jersey and laundered at least $1.5 million through banks across the U.S.By Friday morn ... |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has told four bailed-out companies that they can't pay some top earners more than $500,000 cash per year. But it's told the official who made that decision that the rule shouldn't always apply.Kenneth Feinberg, t ... |
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