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- Texas A&M makes plans to relocate century-old graves
- Taliban threaten Afghan peace delegates
- Art Step event offers plenty of fun Friday
- Obama to deliver status-check speech on economy
- You've gotta get past me
- How much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico?
- Learning center honored
- Feds to probe oil spill
- BP shares plunge as next Gulf fix gets underway
- Man set to die for slaying
- Man shoots girl, 2 others
- Ft. Hood shooting suspect solemn, quiet in hearing
- Okla. inmates' uniforms make them easy to spot
- Texas again won't try for school money
- Former lawyer raises alarms
- TABC officer accused of raping teen gets indicted
- Fort Hood shooting suspect wins delay in hearing
- Dallas man to die Wednesday for carjack slaying
- Glitch emphasizes importance of GPS
- Police: 8-year-old, 2 relatives shot outside Burnet home
- Activists send new boat to Gaza
- More employers try dieting incentives
- Jamaica planning major assault on gangs
- Stocks plummet in late trading
- Think about soup for summer nights
| Texas A&M makes plans to relocate century-old graves Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT Under a concrete marker as thick as a washing machine, a former Texas A&M president rests in a fenced lot down the street from the McDonald's on George Bush Drive. Soon, Lafayette Lumpkin Foster, who died in 1901 while in office, likely will be m ...   |
| Taliban threaten Afghan peace delegates Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT by a Taliban member whose information has proven reliable over many years.Another major insurgent group, Hizb-i-Islami led by ex-Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, called the conference "a useless exercise" because "only hand-picked people" were in ... |
| Art Step event offers plenty of fun Friday Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe fifth anniversary of Art Step on Friday will be marked with live music, door prizes and birthday cupcakes. Art Step is a larger version of First Friday, with more emphasis on the arts, and is held in downtown Bryan. Visitors are ... |
| Obama to deliver status-check speech on economy Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:05 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says getting Americans back to work is his top priority, a message the White House has tried to underscore with weekly economy-focused stops outside Washington.His latest trip is Wednesday, when he is making a qui ... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT Texas A&M student Robert Long, 22, drives against friend Hamid Dorda, 19, as the duo play the courts at Calloway Villas apartments in College Station on Tuesday. ... |
| How much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico? Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:20 AM PDT PBS "NewsHour" has created a rolling graphic to estimate how much oil has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico based on the rate that readers believe the oil is leaking. </body&am ... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportSt. Thomas Early Learning Center in College Station was recently designated as the second Nature Explore Classroom in Texas.Nature explore classrooms -- certified by the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Education Research Founda ... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- BP's stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it Tuesday as the federal government announced criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP engineers, meanwhile, tried to recover from a failed atte ... |
| BP shares plunge as next Gulf fix gets underway Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:46 AM PDT PORT FOURCHON, La. -- BP lost billions more in market value Tuesday as its shares fell steeply on the first trading day since the weekend failure of its latest bid to cap the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.As the British oil giant turned to yet an ... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT LIVINGSTON -- Authorities linked George Jones to numerous crimes, mostly carjackings, in the Dallas area, and Jones has acknowledged he dealt drugs around the city.But the 36-year-old Dallas man insisted he wasn't responsible for a fatal shooting and ... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT BURNET -- A 7-year-old girl was in intensive care after she and two family members were shot by a relative in their home hours after the man warned them that he planned to kill them, police said Tuesday.The victims were hospitalized in the Austin are ... |
| Ft. Hood shooting suspect solemn, quiet in hearing Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:17 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas -- The Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood wore his military uniform and wheeled himself into his first courtroom appearance.Attorneys for Maj. Nidal Hasan on Tuesday won their request for a delay in his ... |
| Okla. inmates' uniforms make them easy to spot Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:18 AM PDT NORMAN, Okla. -- Bright orange jail uniforms just weren't enough to make inmates stand out in one Oklahoma county.Some may say the hot-pink shirts and yellow-and-white striped pants now worn by Cleveland County, Okla., inmates make them look more lik ... |
| Texas again won't try for school money Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:24 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- As it did once before, Texas is refusing to apply for federal "Race to the Top" education funds.The state could be eligible for up to $700 million in this second round of funding through the U.S. Department of Education. However, Gov ... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT HOUSTON -- The first time Sharon Russell met her daughter's boyfriend, she had a bad feeling about him. But it wouldn't be until months later, when the relationship with attorney Shawn Roland Roberts grew serious, that her maternal instincts would pr ... |
| TABC officer accused of raping teen gets indicted Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:25 AM PDT BASTROP, Texas -- A former Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission officer has been indicted, accused of raping a 16-year-old who helped him with a sting operation.The state attorney general's office says 41-year-old Joe Chavez was indicted Tuesday by a ... |
| Fort Hood shooting suspect wins delay in hearing Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT FORT HOOD -- Wearing his Army uniform and sitting solemnly in a wheelchair, the psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood made his first courtroom appearance Tuesday and won a delay in his case.Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was paralyzed a ... |
| Dallas man to die Wednesday for carjack slaying Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:16 AM PDT LIVINGSTON, Texas -- Convicted killer George Jones insists he wasn't responsible for a fatal shooting and carjacking that put him on death row with an execution scheduled for Wednesday evening in Huntsville.The 36-year-old Jones was condemned for the ... |
| Glitch emphasizes importance of GPS Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT DENVER -- A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.The Air Force has not said how many weapons, planes or other ... |
| Police: 8-year-old, 2 relatives shot outside Burnet home Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:44 AM PDT BURNET, Texas -- Police say an 8-year-old and two family members were shot by a relative outside their home, which is directly across the street from a police station.The victims were hospitalized in the Austin area. Their conditions were not release ... |
| Activists send new boat to Gaza Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:01 PM PDT JERUSALEM -- Pro-Palestinian activists sent another boat to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Egypt declared it was temporarily opening a crossing into the Palestinian territory after a raid on an aid flotilla that ended w ... |
| More employers try dieting incentives Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT ATLANTA -- How much money would it take to get you to lose some serious weight? $100? $500?Many employers are betting they can find your price. At least a third of U.S. companies offer financial incentives, or are planning to introduce them, to get t ... |
| Jamaica planning major assault on gangs Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica will launch a sustained assault on gangs that control poor communities across the island and fuel one of the world's highest murder rates, the prime minister said Tuesday.Prime Minister Bruce Golding says last week's bloo ... |
| Stocks plummet in late trading Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Stocks took another late-day dive Tuesday after the government said it was starting criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.The Dow Jones industrial average dropped almost 113 points. Its plunge came shortly be ... |
| Think about soup for summer nights Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:15 PM PDT The perfect bowl of soup makes a satisfying meal that's filling, yet low in calories and high in nutrition. But in the heat of summer, most people give it a pass.But this recipe for chilled zucchini and green bean soup with a pesto swirl could change ... |
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