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- Vote on Wellborn this week
- Vote on Wellborn this week
- Aggieland ready for moms, dads
- BV firefighters stay busy
- Men ambushed, shot and robbed
- Police say 58 were arrested at Chilifest
- BISD starts work on redrawing trustees' districts
- Residents invited to shuttle watch party
- Lanes closing for work on Texas 6
- Texas blazes hard to control
- Texas Senate may take up campus guns bill
- Crews make headway against 1 Texas wildfire
- Gbagbo routed from refuge
- Debris, challenges pile up in Japan 1 month later
- Gas sales fall due to prices
- Breaking down the budget cuts
- Libya rebels reject cease-fire proposal
- Ban on veils met with demonstrations in France
- Space station crew marks big milestones
- Cloth, disposable diapers duke it out
- 11 killed in Belarus subway explosion
- Royal couple completes pre-wedding trip
- A Corps experience
- Calendar
- Winklevoss twins lose appeal in Facebook case
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT After months of debate, College Station is expected to make a decision this week on whether to annex the community of Wellborn. But even that might not end the controversy that has consumed city politics this year. Opponents of annexation said the ...   |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT After months of debate, College Station is expected to make a decision this week on whether to annex the community of Wellborn. But even that might not end the controversy that has consumed city politics this year. Opponents of annexation said the ... |
| Aggieland ready for moms, dads Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT Aggieland will be bustling this weekend as Aggie moms and dads will pour into town for the annual Parents' Weekend like they have since 1919. For Audrey Roeder, director of the event, the weekend is the culmination of meeting three times a week wi ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT Brazos County firefighters spent nine hours on Monday making sure a trash fire off Texas 21 was properly extinguished. Joe Fairchild, a Precinct 4 volunteer firefighter, said crews responded to a grass fire around noon near a home off Kuder Road, ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:21 PM PDT Two Bryan residents were arrested Monday, less than 18 hours after three men were ambushed and two were shot outside a vacant home in west Brazos County. Albert Charles Bolden Jr., 21, and Angelika Marie Young, 20, were charged with three count ... |
| Police say 58 were arrested at Chilifest Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:54 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportFifty-eight people were arrested Saturday at the 2011 Chilifest in Snook, where about 35,000 people were in attendance, according to the Burleson County Sheriff's Office. Of those arrests, 26 people were charged with public intoxica ... |
| BISD starts work on redrawing trustees' districts Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT The Bryan school board began the process of redrawing the trustees' districts on Monday by unanimously approving the criteria and guidelines for the change.The firm the district hired to lead the process -- Bickerstaff Health Delgado Acosta LLP -- wi ... |
| Residents invited to shuttle watch party Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:45 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History will host a watch party beginning at noon Tuesday, when NASA officials will be announcing the destinations of the retired space shuttles. The announcement will be made during a live br ... |
| Lanes closing for work on Texas 6 Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:45 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportDaily lane closures along Texas 6 through Bryan-College Station will start Tuesday and last about two weeks.One lane in each direction will remain open at all times as crews work on a $5 million resurfacing project.Motorists should ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:40 PM PDT LUBBOCK -- Firefighters battled Monday to contain several large blazes that have burned hundreds of square miles of rural Texas and destroyed more than 60 homes since last week, getting reinforcements from out of state as they struggled against some ... |
| Texas Senate may take up campus guns bill Posted: 11 Apr 2011 02:36 AM PDT AUSTIN -- A bill to allow concealed handguns in Texas college classrooms failed its first big test.Another failure in the Senate on Monday, or another long delay without a vote, could mean the measure that was expected to easily pass this session cou ... |
| Crews make headway against 1 Texas wildfire Posted: 11 Apr 2011 02:35 AM PDT DALLAS -- A forest service official says firefighters are making headway against a northern Texas blaze that has burned about 110 square miles of parched rolling prairie.Texas Forest Service spokesman Alan Craft said Monday that crews battling the fi ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:40 PM PDT ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- The elected president of this West African nation heralded "the dawn of a new era of hope" Monday when a bloody, four-month standoff ended with the capture of his rival, the longtime strongman who lost the vote but refused to ... |
| Debris, challenges pile up in Japan 1 month later Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT NATORI, Japan -- A month after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, the challenges seem as daunting as ever: Thousands are missing and feared dead, tens of thousands have fled their homes, a leaking nuclear plant remains crippled and powerful aftershocks ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Soaring gas prices are starting to take a toll on American drivers. People are pumping less into the tank, reversing what had been a steady increase in demand for fuel. For five weeks in a row, they have bought less gas than they did a ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:41 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- A close look at the government shutdown-dodging agreement to cut federal spending by $38 billion reveals that lawmakers significantly eased the fiscal pain by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of ha ... |
| Libya rebels reject cease-fire proposal Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:40 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya -- Libyan rebels, backed forcefully by European leaders, rejected a cease-fire proposal by African mediators on Monday because it did not insist that Moammar Gadhafi relinquish power.A day after an announcement that the Libyan leader ... |
| Ban on veils met with demonstrations in France Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT PARIS -- The world's first ban on Islamic face veils took effect Monday in France, meaning that women may bare their breasts in Cannes but not cover their faces on the Champs-Elysees. Two veiled women were hauled off from a Paris protest within ho ... |
| Space station crew marks big milestones Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:44 PM PDT On the eve of two prominent space anniversaries, the six humans circling the Earth said Monday they will join in the celebrations from the best vantage point of all -- orbit. Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space and ... |
| Cloth, disposable diapers duke it out Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:40 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Disposables, cloth. Cloth, disposables. Fifty years after Procter & Gamble introduced affordable throwaway diapers, dubbing them Pampers, the battle over babies' bottoms rages on. The brand brought on a revolution in baby care, obl ... |
| 11 killed in Belarus subway explosion Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT MINSK, Belarus -- An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act. President Alexander Lukashenko ... |
| Royal couple completes pre-wedding trip Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT BLACKBURN, England -- Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton brought their electric smiles to northwest England on Monday for the last trip in their pre-wedding tour of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Adoring crowds in Blackburn igno ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:47 PM PDT Texas A&M freshman outside linebacker Charlie Thomas shares a laugh with cadets Rae Lietzau (middle) and Catherine Muse in Duncan Dining Hall on Monday evening. The entire Aggie football team was hosted by the Corps of Cadets, and each player was ... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:46 PM PDT Mark Your Calendar Building a Legacy -- The Nurse's Ball Launch Party will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Montelongo's Fine Jewelry. Nominations for five awards for nurses are being sought: Nurse in a Hospital Setting; Nurse in a Community Setting; ... |
| Winklevoss twins lose appeal in Facebook case Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court ruled Monday that former Harvard University schoolmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't undo their settlement over creation of the social networking site. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said ... |
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