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- Hermine spares Brazos Valley, hits hard in other parts of Texas
- Watkins to get $222K in separation agreement
- Juror regrets her decision in Grammer murder trial
- Series of tornadoes spotted in Dallas area
- Brazos Valley area under flash flood watch
- CS parents air rezoning concerns
- Bakers getting ready for Kolache Fest
- Police: Man driving stolen vehicle swiped cigarettes from Bryan store
- A&M event to honor late science prof
- Obama implores minister to call off Quran burning
- Pentagon chief endorses call to cancel Quran burn
- 1 dead in Hermine's floodwaters
- At least 2 die after driving into water
- Houston suburb won't pursue immigration laws
- 3rd Mexican mayor in month slain by hit men
- Sounding the Jewish New Year
- CS reports new requests for development
- CS reports new requests for development
- Texas trims food stamp backlog
- BP shares blame for spill
- Study: Texas Enterprise Fund in trouble
- 7 arrested in Mexico massacre
- Castro says Cuban model doesn't work
- Florida pastor on outskirts of U.S. Christianity
- Winery guests will solve murder as they dine
| Hermine spares Brazos Valley, hits hard in other parts of Texas Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:14 PM PDT After two days of storms and severe weather warnings as a result of Tropical Storm Hermine, the Brazos Valley seems to have escaped unscathed. A flash flood watch for north central Texas that included Robertson and Milam counties remained in effe ...   |
| Watkins to get $222K in separation agreement Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:14 PM PDT David Watkins will be paid well over $222,000 under the terms of a separation agreement that doesn't allow him or the Bryan City Council to discuss what led to his departure. Following months of closed-door meetings, the Bryan City Council voted u ... |
| Juror regrets her decision in Grammer murder trial Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:14 PM PDT Barbara Symons said she and her fellow jurors struggled for eight hours last week over whether to convict a Bryan homeless man of murder. The evidence clearly showed that Danny Ray Grammer killed another homeless man with a steel pipe, she said. B ... |
| Series of tornadoes spotted in Dallas area Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:56 AM PDT DALLAS — A series of weak tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine are menacing the Dallas area, injuring at least one person. Tornado funnels have touched down just southeast, east and north of downtown Dallas. Only single funnel ... |
| Brazos Valley area under flash flood watch Posted: 08 Sep 2010 01:52 AM PDT A flash flood watch remains in effect through Thursday morning for parts of the Brazos Valley. The National Weather Service issued the watch late Tuesday for north central Texas, including Milam and Robertson counties. Forecasters said Tropical St ... |
| CS parents air rezoning concerns Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:14 PM PDT College Station school trustees have a lot to consider after hearing from residents Wednesday during their first public forum on the district's rezoning proposal. Nearly 125 people attended the meeting, and 17 offered their viewpoints. Eleven o ... |
| Bakers getting ready for Kolache Fest Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT Thirteen-year-old Colton Orsak has been competing in the Caldwell Kolache Festival since he was old enough to enter, at age 9.The Snook resident bakes with his mother, Shelia, and brother, Josef, in hopes of winning the top prize. "I go for the grand ... |
| Police: Man driving stolen vehicle swiped cigarettes from Bryan store Posted: 08 Sep 2010 04:27 AM PDT Police said they arrested a 29-year-old man after he was caught driving a stolen vehicle and taking cartons of cigarettes from a Bryan store. Ermilo Perez Jr. of Bryan remained jailed on $7,195 bail Wednesday and charged with unauthorized use of a v ... |
| A&M event to honor late science prof Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Texas A&M will host an all-day event Tuesday to honor the legacy of Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Prize-winning soil and crop sciences professor who died at age 95 last September. The Borlaug Legacy Series will be held from 9 a. ... |
| Obama implores minister to call off Quran burning Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:10 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend. Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview aired Thursday ... |
| Pentagon chief endorses call to cancel Quran burn Posted: 08 Sep 2010 04:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is adding his voice to those of top U.S. generals and others who say that a Florida church's plan to burn the Quran could endanger U.S. forces in the field. A Pentagon spokesman says Gates told his staf ... |
| 1 dead in Hermine's floodwaters Posted: 08 Sep 2010 07:19 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- The National Weather Service says flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine has killed one person in Killeen, north of Austin. National Weather Service duty officer Tony Merriman says the unidentified person died in a v ... |
| At least 2 die after driving into water Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT ARLINGTON -- The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine swept northward through Texas and into Oklahoma on Wednesday, forcing more than 100 high-water rescues, swamping city neighborhoods, spawning tornadoes and killing at least two people.Hermine packed ... |
| Houston suburb won't pursue immigration laws Posted: 08 Sep 2010 07:22 AM PDT TOMBALL, Texas -- A Houston suburb decided not to step into the fray over illegal immigration as it voted Tuesday not to consider city laws that would ban illegal immigrants from renting property or owning businesses or that would have made English ... |
| 3rd Mexican mayor in month slain by hit men Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:11 AM PDT MEXICO CITY -- The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago." Hill ... |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff warms up the Shofar, a ceremonial ram's horn, for formal sounding Thursday at the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center at A&M. The horn signals the beginning of the Jewish New Year High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, whi ... |
| CS reports new requests for development Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:56 PM PDT College Station officials said they had several new requests for development this week. Southside Plaza: 4081 Texas 6 South; a final plat for one general commercial lot on less than an acre. Holy Cross Lutheran Church: 1404 Sebesta Road; a prelimin ... |
| CS reports new requests for development Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:56 PM PDT College Station officials said they had several new requests for development this week. Southside Plaza: 4081 Texas 6 South; a final plat for one general commercial lot on less than an acre. Holy Cross Lutheran Church: 1404 Sebesta Road; a prelimin ... |
| Texas trims food stamp backlog Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Texas has significantly reduced a backlog of food stamp applications and improved the accuracy of processing them, thanks to the help of hundreds of new workers, a state official said Wednesday.But Health and Human Services Executive Commis ... |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it al ... |
| Study: Texas Enterprise Fund in trouble Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Two-thirds of the Texas Enterprise Fund companies that had to meet job-creation goals in 2009 in exchange for millions of dollars in taxpayer money failed to bring in the jobs they promised, according to a report released Wednesday. That ... |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT MEXICO CITY -- Mexican marines have arrested seven gunmen suspected of killing 72 Central and South American migrants in the worst drug cartel massacre to date, the government announced Wednesday.Four of the suspects were arrested after a Sept. 3 gun ... |
| Castro says Cuban model doesn't work Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT HAVANA -- Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.The fa ... |
| Florida pastor on outskirts of U.S. Christianity Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT NEW YORK -- The Florida pastor who plans to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 is rooted in Pentecostal tradition that believes Christians are engaged in a modern-day spiritual battle with evil.For Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach Cente ... |
| Winery guests will solve murder as they dine Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:57 PM PDT Messina Hof Winery & Resort will host a Toga Murder Mystery Dinner on Oct. 29. Guests will track clues to uncover a murderer amongst them while enjoying a four-course meal paired with Messina Hof's wine. Meals will include duck, roasted asparagu ... |
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