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- WASP recognized for service
- Woman stole $65K from employer, authorities say
- Woman tried to run over man, police say
- Troops stationed overseas mark losses
- Obama gives speech in D.C. after rain-out
- Two drivers injured in Rockdale wreck
- Oil spill damage may run deep
- 'Flotels' await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf
- Textbooks may not dominate
- Afghans to discuss ending war
- 2 dead after Austin-area strip club shooting
- Texas monitoring deadly drug combo
- 10-minute workout may benefit for hours
- Bumped fliers may get higher payout
- Pa. pair born in same hospital on same day to wed
- Artist Bourgeois dies at 98
- 'Hobbit' loses director
- Letters for June 1
- Calendar
- Who you callin' NY?! Super Bowl 2014 is in Jersey
- MLB: Oswalt ejected, Astros whipped
- SPORTS IN BRIEF
- Henin's French Open winning streak ends
- Blackhawks take 2-0 lead in Stanley Cup finals
- Marine aircraft park mishap injures 10
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT Stepping into the American Legion Post No. 159 in Bryan on Memorial Day was like walking into a big family reunion -- a crowded one.The turnout at Monday's service was larger than usual, and many agreed that Catherine Chatham was the reason.The forme ...   |
| Woman stole $65K from employer, authorities say Posted: 31 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT A former Eastep Auto Sales employee remained behind bars late Monday after authorities said she stole almost $65,000 over a three-year period.Virginia Lee Wall, a 56-year-old College Station resident, was in charge of handling money received from cus ... |
| Woman tried to run over man, police say Posted: 31 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA College Station woman remained jailed late Monday after police said she was trying to run over a man during an argument. Authorities said Crystal Lynn Elliott, 31, was in a verbal dispute with Brennen Elliott, 30, and began chasin ... |
| Troops stationed overseas mark losses Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq remembered friends and colleagues Monday in solemn Memorial Day ceremonies to commemorate all of their nation's war dead.As some soldiers paused, violence raged on in both p ... |
| Obama gives speech in D.C. after rain-out Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. â€" President Barack Obama said Monday that the meaning of Memorial Day is found in the story of ordinary Americans who become extraordinary for one simple reason: love of country.Obama, speaking to dozens of troops at Andre ... |
| Two drivers injured in Rockdale wreck Posted: 01 Jun 2010 01:14 AM PDT Police said two people were taken to area hospitals after a head-on collision in Rockdale early Monday evening.Officers on Tuesday continued to investigate the two-vehicle crash on U.S. 79 in front of O'Reilly Auto Parts at around 6 p.m., a dispatche ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton.Researchers have said th ... |
| 'Flotels' await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:08 AM PDT PORT FOURCHON, La. -- The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words "Martin Quarter ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- Pop quiz: Does the school curriculum adopted in Texas really wind up in textbooks nationwide? If you answered yes, you might get a failing grade.As the second-largest purchaser of textbooks behind California, the Lone Star State has hi ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai is rolling out his program to lure Taliban and other insurgent fighters off the battlefield, addressing a three-day conference starting Wednesday aimed at building a national consensus on how to end the ne ... |
| 2 dead after Austin-area strip club shooting Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:11 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- Two men are dead after a shooting outside a Travis County strip club.Sheriff's spokesman Roger Wade says deputies were called to the Pink Monkey Cabaret about early Monday morning and found two men who had been shot. One man died at ... |
| Texas monitoring deadly drug combo Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT HOUSTON -- A Texas Department of Public Safety tracking system shows that Harris County doctors rank first in writing prescriptions for three highly addictive drugs that officials say give users a "heroin high" when taken together.The Houston Chronic ... |
| 10-minute workout may benefit for hours Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Ten minutes of brisk exercise triggers metabolic changes that last at least an hour. The unfair news for panting newbies: The more fit you are, the more benefits you just might be getting.We all know that exercise and a good diet are im ... |
| Bumped fliers may get higher payout Posted: 31 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT DALLAS -- Giving up your airline seat may become a little less painful.Federal officials are expected to announce this week a plan to raise the maximum amount that airlines must pay passengers who get bumped off an oversold flight, currently at $400 ... |
| Pa. pair born in same hospital on same day to wed Posted: 31 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT BUSHKILL, Pa. -- An engaged eastern Pennsylvania couple were born on the same day in the same hospital -- and their mothers even shared a room in the maternity ward.Amy Singley and Steven Smith were born at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill on Apr ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died Monday, her studio's managing director said. She was 98.Bourgeois had continued cr ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Hollywood director Guillermo del Toro said Monday that production delays have forced him to quit the planned film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, a two-part prequel to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson's blockbust ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT New state guidelines cause profound sadness As a fifth generation Texan and a practicing professional historian for 30 years I view the recent passage of new social studies guidelines by the State Board of Education with profound sadness and des ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT TuesdayCLUBSBryan Noon Lions Club, 11:30 a.m. The Best Western Atrea, 1920 Austin's Colony Pkwy., Bryan. 731-5300.Brazos County Senior Citizens Association luncheon, noon. 1402 Bristol St., Bryan. 822-6873.College Station Kiwanis Club, noon, Hilton H ... |
| Who you callin' NY?! Super Bowl 2014 is in Jersey Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:10 AM PDT EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It's a geographical fact: The 2014 Super Bowl will be played in New Jersey -- not in New York.One could be forgiven for not realizing that, however, based on the media coverage of the National Football League's decision to h ... |
| MLB: Oswalt ejected, Astros whipped Posted: 31 May 2010 05:10 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Carlos Maldonado and Ryan Zimmerman hit three-run homers off Chris Sampson, long after Roy Oswalt was ejected, and Washington put together the highest scoring inning in Nationals' history for a 14-4 win over the Houston Astros on Monday.Zi ... |
| Posted: 31 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT Rangers' Holland likely headed to disabled listARLINGTON -- Texas Rangers left-hander Derek Holland is likely headed to the disabled list because of mild inflammation in his left rotator cuff.The pitcher left in the second inning of his start Sunday ... |
| Henin's French Open winning streak ends Posted: 31 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT PARIS -- Justine Henin kept saying it, even if no one was listening.She's not back to being the player she was before taking a 20-month hiatus from tennis. She's still searching for consistency on court. Too many "ups and downs," to use her term.Turn ... |
| Blackhawks take 2-0 lead in Stanley Cup finals Posted: 31 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT CHICAGO -- Marian Hossa and Ben Eager scored 28 seconds apart late in the second period, Antti Niemi had 32 saves, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 on Monday night for a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals.After a wild scori ... |
| Marine aircraft park mishap injures 10 Posted: 31 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK -- A U.S. Marine Corps aircraft's powerful propellers whipped up a wind that sent branches hurling off a tree and into a crowd of about 150 people watching a Memorial Day demonstration in a park, leaving 10 people with cuts and other minor i ... |
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