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- Aggies enjoy time in spotlight
- Colleges ask for tuition increases
- Brazos Valley under severe thunderstorm watch
- Palestine superintendent named sole finalist for BISD top admin job
- BISD names superintendent finalist
- Ogden bill gets support
- Texas Dems' budget hopes lie with Senate
- Nuke plant pours tainted water into Pacific
- Email breach worries experts
- More Southwest planes to be grounded for checks
- Third stopgap bill planned
- 3rd arrest in slaying of South Texas teacher
- Obama announces bid for new term
- 2 U-Texas execs among top 3 for total compensation
- Gadhafi's forces don't show medics any mercy
- Fire risk high as drought worsens
- Military trials likely for terror suspects
- Libya rebels push into town they lost twice before
- Final battle rages in Ivory Coast, forces close in
- UConn stops Butler for NCAA title
- Eager for a championship Tuesday night
- Calendar
- Cruz homers in 4th straight, Rangers beat Mariners
- Kruger doesn't see Oklahoma as rebuilding project
- Miami says Haith to become Missouri coach
| Aggies enjoy time in spotlight Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS -- The weather was lousy Monday outside Conseco Fieldhouse, but, inside, the Texas A&M women's basketball program never shined brighter. Head coach Gary Blair and the players basked in the spotlight as they prepared for the progra ...   |
| Colleges ask for tuition increases Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT Texas A&M students will face no designated tuition increase next year -- as instructed by the A&M System Board of Regents -- but four of the school's 10 colleges will seek "differential" tuition increases, administrators and student leaders s ... |
| Brazos Valley under severe thunderstorm watch Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:38 AM PDT The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Brazos Valley. The watch covers Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Robertson and Washington counties until 3 p.m. Leon County is under a severe thunderstorm wa ... |
| Palestine superintendent named sole finalist for BISD top admin job Posted: 04 Apr 2011 06:58 AM PDT The Bryan school board on Monday named Palestine Superintendent Thomas Wallis as the lone finalist for the top spot. The 5-2 decision — in which Douglas Wunneburger and David Stasny were the dissenting votes — came in the trus ... |
| BISD names superintendent finalist Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT Palestine Superintendent Thomas Wallis celebrated with his family Monday night with pizza and soda after being named the lone finalist for the Bryan school district's top job. The 5-2 decision came during the school board's noon meeting. Douglas W ... |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT A bill that would require municipally owned utilities in Texas to release employee salary information was approved by a Senate committee on Monday with support from open government advocates and a statewide public utility group. The bill filed by Sen ... |
| Texas Dems' budget hopes lie with Senate Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT AUSTIN -- After adopting a bleak state budget that catered to the conservative supermajority with staggering cuts to schools, highways, prisons and other programs, Texas House leaders and Democrats looked to the Senate on Monday to create something m ... |
| Nuke plant pours tainted water into Pacific Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT TOKYO -- Workers began pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, freeing storage space for even more highly radioactive water that has hampered efforts to ... |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Think twice next time you get an email from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent it. A security breach that exposed the email addresses of potentially millions of customers of ... |
| More Southwest planes to be grounded for checks Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT PHOENIX -- Federal aviation officials readied an order Monday for emergency inspections on 80 U.S.-registered Boeing 737 jetliners like the one on which a piece of fuselage tore away more than 30,000 feet above Arizona last week. The order, to be ... |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- With budget talks deadlocked, House Republicans readied a weeklong bill to cut spending by as much as $12 billion while averting a government shutdown threatened for Friday, officials disclosed Monday night.The measure also would includ ... |
| 3rd arrest in slaying of South Texas teacher Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:51 AM PDT BROWNSVILLE -- A third man has been arrested over the killing of a South Texas elementary teacher in a slaying allegedly arranged by her pastor husband.Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio says 37-year-old Daniel Lopez faced arraignment Tuesday on a cap ... |
| Obama announces bid for new term Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- No longer the fresh voice of change, President Barack Obama embarked on a bid for re-election Monday by asking a divided, anxious electorate to let him finish the job he won in 2008. He's getting an early start against a Republican fie ... |
| 2 U-Texas execs among top 3 for total compensation Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT DALLAS -- Two University of Texas System leaders have been ranked among the top three public higher education executives for total compensation.The Chronicle of Higher Education annual review found that Francisco Cigarroa, appointed UT System chance ... |
| Gadhafi's forces don't show medics any mercy Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT ADJABIYA, Libya -- Overwhelmed by fatigue, Ramzi Mohammed took a deep drag on his cigarette, leaned against the door of his ambulance and recalled the blur of the past six weeks. He's seen fighters torn apart by rockets. He's been shot at for tryin ... |
| Fire risk high as drought worsens Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT LUBBOCK -- Storms that swept the eastern part of Texas on Monday did little to relieve an extreme drought that now covers more than 40 percent of the state, and wildfires continued to burn Monday in parts of West Texas, where some ranchers haven't ... |
| Military trials likely for terror suspects Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civilian federal court in New York and will prosecute them instead before m ... |
| Libya rebels push into town they lost twice before Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT BREGA, Libya -- Rebel fighters pushed back into this hard-fought oil town on Monday, seizing half of Brega and pledging to drive out Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces in hours in an advance that would open a vital conduit for oil sales by the ... |
| Final battle rages in Ivory Coast, forces close in Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- United Nations and French forces closed in on Ivory Coast's presidential palace early Tuesday after launching full assaults on the residence of the entrenched leader, the republican guard, two major military bases and state TV ... |
| UConn stops Butler for NCAA title Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT By Joe Juliano The Philadelphia Inquirer HOUSTON -- With every brick launched by Butler Monday night in cavernous Reliant Stadium, Connecticut built a lead and control of the NCAA final, finishing a comeback from its middling Big East regular-seaso ... |
| Eager for a championship Tuesday night Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT Eagle Editorial Board When the Texas A&M women win their first national basketball championship in Indianapolis tonight, they will be adding to a long and distinguished list of Aggie champions. All season long, the Aggie women have shown their ... |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT MARK YOUR CALENDARChristian Women's Connection is holding its monthly luncheon at 11:45 a.m. April 19 at the Glory Inn. Cost is $5. Bring a paper item as your gift to help restock the Still Creek Ranch shelves. Melody Thompson will share how she over ... |
| Cruz homers in 4th straight, Rangers beat Mariners Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:49 PM PDT ARLINGTON -- Nelson Cruz became the third player in major league history to homer in the first four games of a season, Derek Holland pitched six effective innings and the Texas Rangers remained one of four unbeaten teams with a 6-4 victory over the S ... |
| Kruger doesn't see Oklahoma as rebuilding project Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:23 AM PDT NORMAN, Okla. -- New Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger has been through a couple of rebuilding projects.This, he says, is different."This program has got great tradition, so we're not rebuilding. We're not bringing it back," Kruger told a crowd of hundreds w ... |
| Miami says Haith to become Missouri coach Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:19 AM PDT COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Miami coach Frank Haith resigned Monday to take the Missouri job, Hurricanes officials said.Missouri officials hadn't confirmed the hiring. University curators are meeting Monday night in a closed session to consider Haith's contract ... |
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