| Keeping up with the boys Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT Makaylah Flores, 11, tries to make her way past the tag of Matt Salvaggio, 10, during a pick-up football game Monday evening at Sue Haswell Park in Bryan. |
| Grant to energize Texas A&M female faculty Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Texas A&M University has received a $3.5 million grant aimed at increasing the number of tenured female faculty members in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The National Science Foundation grant will be used to establish the AD ... |
| A&M revamps faculty award system Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT A controversial program that gave cash awards up to $10,000 to Texas A&M faculty members based on anonymous student evaluations is getting a makeover: The award amount has been sliced to the range of $800 to $1,500, but far more faculty members ... |
| Fire chief 's e-mail hacked Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT Friends and family members of Brazos County Precinct 4 Fire Chief Joe Ondrasek received an e-mail Sunday night asking for "urgent assistance." The message said that Ondrasek and his wife, Missy, had been robbed while in Wales. Their wallets were s ... |
| Authorities: Man led police on high-speed chase Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA man remained in jail late Monday, accused of leading Washington County sheriff's officers on a high-speed chase through a residential neighborhood in Brenham on Sunday.Authorities said Joseph Michael Myers, 37, of Huffman refused ... |
| Registration open for Navosota garage sale Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Navasota officials have opened registration for the city-wide garage sale set for Nov. 6. The deadline to register for the annual event is Oct. 22 More than 90 garage sales registered last year, officials said. Participants mu ... |
| Man accused of DWI with kids in car Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:32 AM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA 48-year-old man from College Station spent a night in jail over the weekend after being accused of drinking while driving with two children in the car, police said. Jeffrey David Brooks was pulled over during a traffic stop Saturd ... |
| Tea Party candidates take hits on social issues Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT ALBANY, N.Y. -- The tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration's bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government. But some of its candidates are getting tripped up on social is ... |
| Seniors preparing to tighten budgets Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as the news spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase.The government is expec ... |
| Texas teacher charged with injury to 9-year-old Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:35 PM PDT CANUTILLO, Texas -- A Texas school teacher faces a charge of injury to a child after a student's mother said the man knocked her daughter to the ground and pulled her back up by her hair during class, authorities said Monday. Jose Gregory Juarez, ... |
| El Paso man tells police he didn't kill his mother Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:34 PM PDT EL PASO, Texas -- An El Paso man accused of killing his mother declared his innocence and disputed phone records in a videotaped statement to police that was played at his trial.The murder trial of 30-year-old David Marmolejo was scheduled to resume ... |
| Democrat White calls for campaign finance limits Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:33 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- In a state known for its high-dollar political donations, Democrat Bill White is calling for limits on the size of contributions to candidates for governor. But he still hasn't figured out how much is too much.White, trying to unseat ... |
| Stars' Ribeiro jailed for public intoxication Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:30 PM PDT PLANO, Texas -- Dallas Stars forward Mike Ribeiro has been arrested on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication at a suburban Dallas restaurant.Plano police say Ribeiro and three others were released from jail before dawn Monday after their arrest ... |
| Job market analysts win Nobel Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT STOCKHOLM -- Two Americans and a British-Cypriot economist won the 2010 Nobel economics prize Monday for developing a theory that helps explain why many people can remain unemployed despite a large number of job vacancies.Federal Reserve board nomine ... |
| Dems: Business group using foreign cash to aid GOP Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:34 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- A new Democratic TV ad all but accuses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of using foreign funds to secretly back Republican congressional candidates, igniting a furious round of denials and counter-accusations from Republicans.Democrats pre ... |
| Hokies left guard lost part of finger, played on Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:29 PM PDT BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia Tech left guard Greg Nosal earned tough-guy points on Saturday, postponing the reattachment of a torn-off tip of his left pinkie to keep playing. Turns out, he had no idea how bad he was hurt for a few plays. Nosal sai ... |
| Schools track kids by using ID badges Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Two school districts in the Houston area have begun monitoring students' whereabouts on campus by issuing them identification badges with radio frequency identification technology -- the same technology used to track cattle.The Spring scho ... |
| Microsoft bets big on cell phones Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Microsoft Corp. knows the cell phone world is where it's happening, and it's determined to be a part of it. After years of declining sales of phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, the company is starting with a fresh sla ... |
| Number of ed civil rights complaints on the rise Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:02 AM PDT African American boys who are suspended at double and triple the rates of their white male peers. English language learners who, for years, remain in separate classes, falling behind their peers and scoring poorly on standardized tests. Disabled stud ... |
| U.S. rescuers may have killed captive in Afghanistan Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- At first, NATO blamed a Taliban bomb for the death of a captive British aid worker during an American rescue attempt in eastern Afghanistan. Two days later, the coalition changed its account, saying Monday that U.S. forces ma ... |
| N.C. chief: Unclear when missing girl last seen Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT HICKORY, N.C. -- Time was running out Monday in the search for a shy but upbeat 10-year-old whose battles with bone cancer left her with a prosthetic leg and hearing aids in both ears, the police chief said. It's unclear when she was last seen aliv ... |
| Famed soprano Joan Sutherland dies Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT GENEVA -- Joan Sutherland, a former small town secretarial school student whose mastery of tone, astonishing range and vocal control vaulted her into the top echelons of opera, has died at 83 after a four-decade career that won her praise as the su ... |
| Melanoma Uses the Body's Immune System to Spread Posted: 11 Oct 2010 06:48 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) Melanoma is the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. It spreads so rapidly, that it causes almost all the deaths related to skin cancer. This study found that the melanoma cells use the immune system to spread and develop ... |
| Heart Disease Link Is No Link At All Posted: 11 Oct 2010 06:48 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) A genetic marker, KIF6, previously touted as being a predictor of coronary heart disease, is now proven not to be. The study analyzed the data from more than 17,000 patients with cardiovascular disease and 40,000 others to asses ... |
| Courtney Cox and David Arquette say they're undergoing 'trial separation' but remain friends Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:29 AM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Courteney Cox and David Arquette announced Monday they have been separated for some time but said they remain committed parents and "best friends."The actors released a joint statement announcing what they are calling a trial separatio ... |
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