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- A day in Sherwood Forest
- Man recounts fatal '08 stabbing
- Texas may be first to get high-speed rail
- Former adviser to Bush honored
- CS city checks will be online
- Police: Man accused of stealing shirts from sorority house
- Facebook helps spread breast cancer event
- Crape myrtles, shade trees on sale
- Woman accused of trespassing, spitting on officer
- Man reports being shoved out of wheelchair, robbed
- Chile miners start new lives, adjusting to freedom
- Soldiers recall Fort Hood attack
- Police say UT gunman had no plans to harm others
- 2 Houston cab drivers killed
- Police: Gunman not after others
- Report: Mexico suspends search for US tourist
- Ike rebuilding could bring jobs
- Judge: Suit over health overhaul can go to trial
- Anchorage among best cities for jobs
- NY county creates public database of animal cruelty convicts
- 8 NATO troops killed in attacks
- Natural burials more popular
- Obama invested in November election
- Iran leader taunts Israel at rally
- Being Healthy May Lower Your Chance of Breast Cancer
| Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT Mitchell Elementary students laugh as Patrick Perry portrays Robin Hood during a performance Thursday by the Windy City Players at the school. The Windy City Players, an acting troupe from Chicago, performed a comical version of Robin Hood with a cas ...   |
| Man recounts fatal '08 stabbing Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT A Bryan man took the witness stand in his murder trial Thursday to described how he fatally stabbed an 18-year-old in 2008. Brandon Harris, 27, said he never intended to kill Obije Lewis, but was afraid of him after previous altercations. Lewis di ... |
| Texas may be first to get high-speed rail Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT A Japanese company has invested millions in researching travel patterns in the United States to determine the best location for building a high-speed passenger rail, say local officials working to bring the project through Bryan-College Station. ... |
| Former adviser to Bush honored Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT Texas First Lady Anita Perry remembered him as "the most handsome member of the Bush Cabinet." Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and Texas A&M Bush School Dean Ryan Crocker called him "the finest commerce secretary America has ever had." A crowd ... |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT The College Station City Council on Thursday agreed to start publishing city checks online as a fiscal transparency measure.Chief Financial Officer Jeff Kersten said the city will design a page on its website that will be a "one-stop shop" for reside ... |
| Police: Man accused of stealing shirts from sorority house Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:20 AM PDT Police arrested a 21-year-old man on charges of burglarizing a sorority house in College Station. Authorities said Charles Wayne Compton took two T-shirts from the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house on Athens Drive on Wednesday. A woman told police sh ... |
| Facebook helps spread breast cancer event Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT The Texas A&M University Student Government Association-Diversity Commission has set up an event on Facebook to help fight breast cancer. Users can invite friends to wear pink on Friday and those attending can RSVP. "'Pink it all!' is an initia ... |
| Crape myrtles, shade trees on sale Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:19 AM PDT -- Eagle staff reportOrders are being accepted for Keep Brazos Beautiful's eighth annual crape myrtle and shade tree sale.Residents interested in purchasing trees for $18 can get order forms online at www.keepbrazosbeautiful.org. The deadline for pla ... |
| Woman accused of trespassing, spitting on officer Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:21 AM PDT A 22-year-old woman faces a felony and two lesser charges after police said she violated a criminal trespass warning and spit on an officer Wednesday. Paulette Johnson of Houston was charged with criminal trespass of a habitation, resisting arrest, ... |
| Man reports being shoved out of wheelchair, robbed Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:26 AM PDT Bryan police on Thursday said they were investigating a report that a Bryan man was pushed out of his wheelchair and robbed at gunpoint the day before. Police responded about 4:45 p.m. to a home on West Carson Street, where a 60-year-old man reporte ... |
| Chile miners start new lives, adjusting to freedom Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT COPIAPO, Chile -- The Chilean miners began their unfamiliar new lives as national heroes Thursday and got a taste of what awaits them outside the hospital doors -- a swarm of reporters, TV producers, publicity agents and even soccer teams all desper ... |
| Soldiers recall Fort Hood attack Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT FORT HOOD -- Unarmed soldiers caught up in a deadly shooting rampage as they prepared to deploy from Fort Hood reacted as though they already had reached a combat zone, playing dead to avoid direct gunfire and refusing to leave fallen comrades behind ... |
| Police say UT gunman had no plans to harm others Posted: 14 Oct 2010 08:15 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- Police have concluded that a 19-year-old University of Texas student who killed himself after going on a shooting rampage at the Austin campus never meant to harm anyone. UT Police Chief Robert Dahlstrom told reporters Thursday th ... |
| Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:22 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Houston police say that two cab drivers were robbed and shot to death this week by passengers picked up from the same gas station after it had closed for the night.Investigators, who say there's no doubt the crimes are related, are looking ... |
| Police: Gunman not after others Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Police have concluded that a 19-year-old University of Texas student who killed himself after going on a shooting rampage at the Austin campus never meant to harm anyone.UT Police Chief Robert Dahlstrom told reporters Thursday that Colton T ... |
| Report: Mexico suspends search for US tourist Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:23 AM PDT McALLEN, Texas -- A Mexican official says the search for an American tourist believed to have been shot while crossing a border lake has been temporarily called off.Tamaulipas state attorney general's office spokesman Ruben Dario Rios Lopez told the ... |
| Ike rebuilding could bring jobs Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT GALVESTON -- Thousands of jobs could be created as Galveston rebuilds public housing destroyed by Hurricane Ike and considers demand for more low-cost homes, officials told a town hall meeting.Mike Gerber, executive director of Texas Department of Ho ... |
| Judge: Suit over health overhaul can go to trial Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Crucial pieces of a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's health care overhaul can go to trial, with a judge ruling Thursday he wants to hear more arguments over whether it's constitutional to force citizens to buy healt ... |
| Anchorage among best cities for jobs Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:21 AM PDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Anchorage is among U.S. metropolitan centers ranked as the best for creating and sustaining jobs.The Milken Institute's Best Performing Cities 2010 report ranks Alaska's largest city 8th among the nation's 200 largest metro areas ... |
| NY county creates public database of animal cruelty convicts Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:47 AM PDT FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. -- A county on New York's Long Island is creating what is believed to be the nation's first public database of animal cruelty convicts. Animal welfare activists are hoping the law passed this week in Suffolk County will inspire ... |
| 8 NATO troops killed in attacks Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight NATO service members were killed in a spate of attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, including four in roadside bombings, bringing the alliance's troop losses over the past two days to 14, officials said.It has been the dead ... |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT GOLDENDALE, Wash. -- Steve Sall moved forward on uneven, rocky terrain in his motorized wheelchair and came to a stop at the edge of a sweeping vista of ponderosa pines and bright pockets of yellow wildflowers.Sall wanted to see the canyon he used to ... |
| Obama invested in November election Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Republicans are poised to topple at least a dozen Democratic governors next month, and that could cause President Barack Obama and his party major headaches far beyond this year's elections.A cadre of new GOP governors, including some i ... |
| Iran leader taunts Israel at rally Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT BINT JBEIL, Lebanon -- Iran's president taunted archenemy Israel on Thursday from just across the tense border in Lebanon, rallying tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters as Israeli attack helicopters buzzed in the skies nearby."The world should k ... |
| Being Healthy May Lower Your Chance of Breast Cancer Posted: 14 Oct 2010 06:49 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Did you need motivation to use that gym membership? Well here it is! Regular activity, maintaining a healthy weight and drinking less alcohol can lower breast cancer risk for women with or without a family history. Breast canc ... |
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