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- Spring shower
- West Corp. to close Bryan site
- Disappearing signs
- West Corp. to close Bryan call center
- Area Census needs more counters
- Bryan teen's funeral is today
- Players needed for flag football tourney
- Police: Drugs found during traffic stop
- Victims of the weather
- 2 UA students die, 1 hurt, in fall from cliff
- Health bill talks escalate
- Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing
- Texas mom watching children's play stabbed in back
- Feds looking into devices found in Texas mailboxes
- Teen declared brain dead after skiing accident
- Police, rioters clash in Israel
- Feds investigate devices found in mailboxes
- 2 killed, at least 30 injured in Texas bus crash
- Bus overturns in South Texas
- Plane hits jogger during run on beach
- Feds use Web to nab suspects
- Fed keeps rates at record low
- Too Optimistic About Cancer?
- Should Colon Cancer Treatment be More Aggressive?
- Liver Cancer Treatment Shows Promise
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT Texas A&M student Ravi Manavalan crosses University Drive at College Main on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. ...   |
| West Corp. to close Bryan site Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT It's unclear how the closure of West Corp.'s Bryan call center will affect the company's contract with the Research Valley Partnership, officials said Tuesday.The company will lay off 260 people and close its University Drive campus May 15, employees ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT Stealing street signs is an adrenaline rush and an idea born from boredom, according to some who've done it.In most cases, it's a youthful quest that costs taxpayers.In College Station, about 160 road signs disappeared last year, compared to 279 in 2 ... |
| West Corp. to close Bryan call center Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:03 AM PDT West Corp. will close its Bryan call center May 15 and lay off 260 people, employees were told at a meeting Tuesday morning. "Over the past several months, we have experienced a decrease in our call volume for the client we serve in that center," sai ... |
| Area Census needs more counters Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT Local government officials have been urging residents for months to stand up and be counted this year by the U.S. Census. But the bureau organizing the census is having a hard time finding people in Brazos County to do the counting. Local and federal ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT Funeral services for the 19-year-old killed in a motorcycle accident last week are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Church of the Nazarene in Bryan. Christopher Owens died Friday when his motorcycle crashed into the driver's side of a Suburban that ... |
| Players needed for flag football tourney Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:39 AM PDT Local residents are encouraged to sign up for a flag football tournament. From 8 a.m. until noon March 27, those interested can register at the Brazos Center in Bryan. The entry fee is $100 per team, and up to 15 players can be on a team. You must be ... |
| Police: Drugs found during traffic stop Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA man and woman were in the Brazos County Jail on Tuesday on multiple felony charges after authorities reported finding methamphetamine during a traffic stop. A Bryan officer stopped Brandon Lee Cathey's vehicle Tuesday because it h ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT Bryan Police Officer Stacey Dowling investigates the scene of a two-vehicle accident on Harvey Mitchell Parkway on Tuesday. The driver of a car was cited for failure to maintain a single lane of traffic after hydroplaning and causing the accident wit ... |
| 2 UA students die, 1 hurt, in fall from cliff Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:20 AM PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Two University of Arkansas students, including one from the Houston area, were killed when they fell from a cliff on private land in Franklin County.Another student was hurt trying to come to help them.Franklin County officials s ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass -- or stop -- President Barack Obama's massive health care legislation by the weekend.Business groups are spending $1 million a day to depict the bill as a j ... |
| Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:31 AM PDT HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga. ... |
| Texas mom watching children's play stabbed in back Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:40 AM PDT STEPHENVILLE, Texas -- Authorities say a mother watching her two young children play in a north Texas city park was approached from behind by a man who stabbed her in the back and quickly walked away.Stephenville police Chief Roy Halsell said the all ... |
| Feds looking into devices found in Texas mailboxes Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:38 AM PDT DALLAS -- Federal officials have acknowledged that they are investigating the discoveries of an undisclosed number of apparent incendiary devices in east Texas mailboxes.The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said Tuesday it would offer $5,000 for inform ... |
| Teen declared brain dead after skiing accident Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:27 AM PDT BEAVER CREEK, Colo. -- The Eagle County coroner says a 13-year-old Texas girl who hit a tree while skiing has been declared brain-dead.Coroner Kara Bettis says Taylor Storch fell backward and hit a tree while skiing at Beaver Creek Sunday afternoon. ... |
| Police, rioters clash in Israel Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT JERUSALEM -- Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envo ... |
| Feds investigate devices found in mailboxes Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT DALLAS -- Federal officials acknowledged Tuesday that they are investigating a series of apparent incendiary devices placed in East Texas mailboxes after five more liquid-filled bottles with wicks were found.U.S. Postal Inspector Amanda McMurrey decl ... |
| 2 killed, at least 30 injured in Texas bus crash Posted: 16 Mar 2010 08:40 AM PDT CAMPBELLTON, Texas -- A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, officials said.The accident happened around 10 a.m. on sou ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT CAMPBELLTON -- A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, officials said.The accident happened around 10 a.m. on southbound ... |
| Plane hits jogger during run on beach Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beac ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle, where Sopo was wanted on ban ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve on Tuesday repeated its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment.But the Fed's assessment of the economy was more upbeat. It said the job market is stabi ... |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:49 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When newspaper and magazine journalists report about cancer, they may be putting an optimistic spin on it. A new study shows that reports about cancer are more likely to discuss aggressive treatments and survival rather th ... |
| Should Colon Cancer Treatment be More Aggressive? Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:49 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with a common type of colon cancer -- especially older patients -- often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy as research shows is necessary to improve survival. Led by researchers from the RAND Corporatio ... |
| Liver Cancer Treatment Shows Promise Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:49 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new liver cancer treatment is showing promise in extending the lives of patients who have the deadly disease. Every year, 18,500 new cases of liver cancer are diagnosed. The disease is twice as common in men as in woman and o ... |
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