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- Bringing culture to life
- Flores backtracks on comment about raising retirement age
- Donors get to see funds at work for CSISD
- Bryan school board sees students' handiwork
- Defendant's mom testifies in trial
- Spay day aims for empty shelters
- Mexican authorities seize 105 tons of marijuana
- Man in jail, facing third DWI charge
- Gulf's health gets a D
- Survey finds wealthy districts get best teachers
- Soldiers recall Fort Hood shooting
- Badly burned Texas man waits for face transplant
- French protests pick up steam
- Bank of America plans to resume some foreclosures
- Resentencing of wife who stabbed husband 193 times
- Fox host Kilmeade apologizes for remark on Muslims
- Octomom fertility doc's license hearing to begin
- Iraq PM in Tehran on key political visit
- Scientists working on longer-lasting addiction treatments
- Private Facebook info leaked by apps
- Report: Dozens of Facebook apps breached
- Phair-King
- Breast Cancer Breathalyzer
- Genetic Predisposition Skin Cancer May Hinge On Vitamin D
- Recommendations for top two state courts
| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT Josh Smith of Great Promise for American Indians out of Austin, performs Monday for seventh-graders during a display of Native American dances in the Jane Long Middle School cafeteria. The group is a nonprofit organization dedicated to performing a ...   |
| Flores backtracks on comment about raising retirement age Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Democratic U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards continued to attack his Republican opponent, Bill Flores, for saying and then recanting that he's "not philosophically opposed" to raising the Social Security retirement age. Meanwhile, Flores announced on Monday ... |
| Donors get to see funds at work for CSISD Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT It's not every day that people get to see their charitable donations put to work. On Monday, College Station school officials gave supporters of the Education Foundation a chance to do just that during their annual Walk Our Walk event. The Educ ... |
| Bryan school board sees students' handiwork Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:20 PM PDT Bryan school board members got a rare look Monday at how their decisions to approve funding for certain programs are benefiting students. Trustees took a tour of Rudder High School's Industrial Automation and Pre-Engineering Classroom and got to ... |
| Defendant's mom testifies in trial Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT A Bryan man convicted last week of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old in the back could find out his punishment Tuesday as his trial is expected to conclude. Brandon Cornelius Harris, 27, faces up to life in prison after being found guilty of murder ... |
| Spay day aims for empty shelters Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT A group of animal lovers has teamed up once again to offer a low-cost spay and neuter program for cats to help curb overpopulation and reduce the euthanasia rate. Amy Glass, a volunteer and co-creator of BCS Spay Day, said the partnership between ... |
| Mexican authorities seize 105 tons of marijuana Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:09 AM PDT TIJUANA, Mexico -- Mexican security forces seized at least 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana in the border city of Tijuana on Monday, by far the biggest pot bust in the country in recent years.Soldiers and police grabbed the drugs in pre-dawn raids i ... |
| Man in jail, facing third DWI charge Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report A 55-year-old College Station man was in the Brazos County Jail on Monday after being charged with driving while intoxicated for the third time. A College Station officer smelled alcohol on Steven Theodore Nault's breath during ... |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. -- Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the Gulf of Mexico can be measured more in increments than extinctions, say scientists polled by The Associated Press. ... |
| Survey finds wealthy districts get best teachers Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:08 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas -- A survey that measures teacher quality in Texas has found that students in underachieving poor and minority districts are more likely to have under-qualified teachers than those in better-performing, wealthier white districts.The Ass ... |
| Soldiers recall Fort Hood shooting Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT FORT HOOD -- A pregnant soldier shot during a rampage at a Texas Army post last year cried out, "My baby! My baby!" as others crawled under desks, dodged bullets that pierced walls and rushed to help their bleeding comrades, a military court heard ... |
| Badly burned Texas man waits for face transplant Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:07 AM PDT FORT WORTH, Texas -- Dallas C. Wiens wants to be able to smile, to smell the rain, to feel his 3-year-old daughter's kisses.Two years ago, Wiens' face was burned away in a horrible electrical accident that also left him blind. Although doctors were a ... |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT PARIS -- Airlines flying into France were ordered to slash schedules -- and to bring enough fuel for the trip out. Gas stations ran short or dry, while truckers jammed highway traffic Monday by driving at a snail's pace, a tactic known in French as ... |
| Bank of America plans to resume some foreclosures Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The pace of U.S. home foreclosures may not slow much after all.Bank of America said Monday that it plans to resume seizing more than 100,000 homes in 23 states next week. It said it has a legal right to foreclose despite accusations tha ... |
| Resentencing of wife who stabbed husband 193 times Posted: 18 Oct 2010 02:23 AM PDT HOUSTON -- A jury is set to hear testimony in the case of a Texas woman who was sentenced in 2004 to 25 years in prison for stabbing her tied-up husband 193 times and burying him in their backyard. Susan Wright is being resentenced for the 2003 ki ... |
| Fox host Kilmeade apologizes for remark on Muslims Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:10 AM PDT NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade is apologizing for saying on the air that "all terrorists are Muslim." Kilmeade, a host of the "Fox & Friends" morning show, said Monday that he misspoke Friday when he and his colleagues were d ... |
| Octomom fertility doc's license hearing to begin Posted: 18 Oct 2010 04:32 AM PDT LOS ANGELES -- The doctor who helped Nadya Suleman conceive her octuplets and six other children through in vitro fertilization faces allegations of negligence at a licensing hearing. Dr. Michael Kamrava could have his license to practice medicine ... |
| Iraq PM in Tehran on key political visit Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran gave its clearest nod of support to Iraq's prime minister Monday as he seeks to line up backing from key neighbors in his bid to remain in office after a more than seven-month political limbo in Baghdad.Iran plays a critical role ... |
| Scientists working on longer-lasting addiction treatments Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- New treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic painkillers promise longer-lasting relief that may remove some day-to-day uncertainty of care: A once-a-month shot is now approved and a six-month implant is in the final testing phas ... |
| Private Facebook info leaked by apps Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT NEW YORK -- The latest Facebook privacy fiasco shows that the world's largest online social hub is having a hard time putting this thorny issue behind it even as it continues to attract users and become indispensible to many of them. The Wall Street ... |
| Report: Dozens of Facebook apps breached Posted: 18 Oct 2010 04:33 AM PDT NEW YORK -- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that 10 popular Facebook applications have been transmitting users' personal identifying information to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. The newspaper said Monday that the bre ... |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:34 AM PDT Brad and Debbie Phair are proud to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jessica, to Kenny King, son of Keith and Liz King. Jessica is a 2005 graduate of Bryan High School. She is currently employed as a pet ... |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 06:35 PM PDT ATLANTA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every year, millions of U.S. women have mammograms to determine if they have breast cancer. While these tests range from frightening to painful, mammograms provide early detection that saves lives. Now, a new test can " ... |
| Genetic Predisposition Skin Cancer May Hinge On Vitamin D Posted: 18 Oct 2010 06:49 PM PDT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with basal cell nevus syndrome, which predisposes them to develop non-melanoma skin cancers, appear to be at increased risk for vitamin D deficiency if they take steps to protect themselves from sunlight. "Vitamin D de ... |
| Recommendations for top two state courts Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Editorial Board Some of the most important races in the November general election involve candidates almost no one has heard of running for offices virtually no one understands. And yet, the outcome of the election is critical to all Tex ... |
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