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- A new ride
- Attacks linked to lone culprit
- Agency: 200 kids still need gifts
- Brenham chorus show rescheduled
- Officials investigate fire at abandoned home
- Bryan cracks down on transfer policy
- Police looking for tips in Bryan burglary
- Obama asks banks to boost lending
- NC mom sentenced for putting son in boiling water
- Citigroup to repay $20B in bailout money
- Boycott called off at climate talks
- Kinky leaves Texas governor's race, seeks ag post
- Fetus found in gift box, Texas couple charged
- Mayon volcano in Philippines oozes lava
- Top US officer: Taliban harder to defeat
- Castro says U.S. on offensive
- Target admits to error in advertising organic milk
- Texas man accused of killing girlfriend, 2 others
- Oregon rescuers race clock in search for hikers
- More Therapy Suggested for Rare Breast Cancer
- Using Nanosensors to Detect Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer: No Good Test?
- Robot Lends Hand to Heart Surgery
- Ethnicity Impacts Risk for Gestational Diabetes
- Ovarian Cancer: No Good Test? - Research Summary
| Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST Holli Rodriguez, 7, is all smiles after being named a winner of one of the 26 bikes and helmets given to students in the Milam Elementary School cafeteria Monday morning. Academy Sports and Outdoors provided the bikes and sponsored the 8th annual You ...   |
| Attacks linked to lone culprit Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST Authorities have DNA evidence linking crimes to a serial rapist who targets elderly women living alone, officials confirmed Monday.That announcement, along with a vague description of the man, marks the first time officials have released details abou ... |
| Agency: 200 kids still need gifts Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST The local Salvation Army's Red Kettle drive is down about $20,000 in holiday donations compared to last year.Meanwhile, the organization's popular Angel Tree program faces a Tuesday deadline with 200 children not yet "adopted." The program allows for ... |
| Brenham chorus show rescheduled Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe annual Christmas Concert of the Brenham Children's Chorus has been rescheduled for January to allow for fans to support the Brenham High School Cubs in the state championship football game Saturday.Memories of Christmas will be ... |
| Officials investigate fire at abandoned home Posted: 15 Dec 2009 12:05 AM PST Bryan Fire Department officials are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed an abandoned home late Monday.Battalion Chief Jimmy Davis said the fire off Fowler Drive near Texas 47 started around 11:30 p.m.Davis said the home in the woods had b ... |
| Bryan cracks down on transfer policy Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST Bryan school trustees on Monday instructed Superintendent Mike Cargill to start strictly enforcing the intradistrict transfer policy.Until that order, the general transfer clause under board policy has allowed administrators to "liberally" approve tr ... |
| Police looking for tips in Bryan burglary Posted: 14 Dec 2009 03:26 AM PST Police are asking for tips in the burglary of a Bryan business discovered early Monday that left about $10,000 in damages to the store.Bryan police said they responded at 7:10 a.m. after employees arrived and reported an open door at Dollar General a ... |
| Obama asks banks to boost lending Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST WASHINGTON-- President Barack Obama implored top bankers Monday to help keep the fragile recovery from faltering by boosting lending to small businesses and getting behind an overhaul of financial regulation. "We rise and fall together," Obama decla ... |
| NC mom sentenced for putting son in boiling water Posted: 14 Dec 2009 11:04 PM PST WAYNESVILLE, N.C. -- A 22-year-old North Carolina woman who put her toddler in boiling water and burned his foot with a cigarette has been sentenced to prison.Media outlets reported Tuesday that Tabitha Rich pleaded guilty to two felony counts of inf ... |
| Citigroup to repay $20B in bailout money Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST NEW YORK -- Citigroup said Monday it is repaying $20 billion in public bailout money, freeing the banking giant from the close scrutiny and pay restrictions that came with the rescue program. The government also will sell its one-third stake in the c ... |
| Boycott called off at climate talks Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST COPENHAGEN -- Poor countries ended a boycott of U.N. climate talks Monday after getting assurances that rich nations were not conspiring to soften their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases, European officials said.European Union environment spok ... |
| Kinky leaves Texas governor's race, seeks ag post Posted: 14 Dec 2009 11:16 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- Musician and humorist Kinky Friedman said Monday he is dropping his bid to be Texas governor and will instead seek to become the state's agriculture commissioner.Friedman, who ran for governor as an independent in 2006, says he decid ... |
| Fetus found in gift box, Texas couple charged Posted: 14 Dec 2009 10:58 PM PST SAN JUAN, Texas -- A south Texas couple put an aborted 7-month-old fetus in a gift box under a Christmas tree after they were unable to flush the remains down a toilet, authorities alleged Monday.Ruby Lee Medina, 31, and Javier Gonzalez, 37, of Missi ... |
| Mayon volcano in Philippines oozes lava Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST MANILA, Philippines -- Authorities moved thousands of villagers from harm's way near the Philippines' most active volcano Tuesday after it oozed lava and shot plumes of ash, and said they probably will spend a bleak Christmas in an evacuation center ... |
| Top US officer: Taliban harder to defeat Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST KABUL -- The top U.S. military officer said the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan is harder to defeat now than it was a year ago, and said he will take up concerns about strengthening ties to al-Qaida with government leaders in Afghanistan and Pa ... |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST HAVANA -- Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America -- more evidence of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations after a thaw had seemed possible j ... |
| Target admits to error in advertising organic milk Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST MADISON, Wis. -- Target Corp. has admitted to wrongly advertising soy milk as organic, the U.S. Agriculture Department said in a letter announcing the conclusion of its investigation into a complaint filed by a farm policy group.Target told the USDA ... |
| Texas man accused of killing girlfriend, 2 others Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST LUFKIN -- A man accused of shooting to death his girlfriend and two others in a Texas mobile home was upset after the girlfriend allegedly told him about a sexual encounter with the other victims, a sheriff said Monday.Raymond Wilson II, 45, of the L ... |
| Oregon rescuers race clock in search for hikers Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. -- As a winter storm barreled toward Mount Hood, rescuers raced to find two experienced climbers missing for four days on Oregon's highest peak.A military Black Hawk helicopter spent Monday scanning the upper reaches of the mou ... |
| More Therapy Suggested for Rare Breast Cancer Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:43 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified an association between a rare type of breast cancer and multiple tumors undetected by mammography or ultrasound. Mucinous carcinoma is a type o ... |
| Using Nanosensors to Detect Cancer Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors are now able to use nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood, which could dramatically simplify the way physicians test for cancer and other diseases. The team of Yale University researchers, led by Mark ... |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:36 PM PST CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every year, more than 20-thousand women find out they have ovarian cancer. For almost two-thirds of them, it's a deadly diagnosis. But unlike other cancers, doctors say yearly screening for ovarian cancer may ... |
| Robot Lends Hand to Heart Surgery Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The day when computers actually start performing surgery may soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart. The robotic technology predi ... |
| Ethnicity Impacts Risk for Gestational Diabetes Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Korean-American and Chinese-American women's risk of diabetes during pregnancy is one-third higher than average -- and more than double that of Caucasian and African-American women. More than 10 percent of women of Chinese ... |
| Ovarian Cancer: No Good Test? - Research Summary Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:45 PM PST BACKGROUND: According to the American Cancer Society, about 21,550 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year. More than 14,000 women die from the cancer each year. Ovarian cancer is the ninth most common cancer in women (not counting skin ... |
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