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- Muster remembers more than 160 Aggies who died
- Sewers in CS need a revamp
- CS center organizes battles against blazes
- Former CS worker jailed
- Local Easter services
- Police: Train statue stolen from Scotty's House recovered
- Open or closed for Good Friday holiday?
- Man charged with damaging former employer's truck
- Autopsy: Teen Texas basketball player had heart ailment
- Panel OKs Texas budget
- GOP: Bill would ease ed cuts
- Poll: Diplomas aren't enough
- BP, Gulf spill partners suing each other
- Lives upended by Libyan battles
- Apple devices store location data
- Dry ice lake reveals Mars once had a 'Dust Bowl'
- Queen Elizabeth gives out presents on her 85th
- Photos, video permitted in Jackson trial
- Irrigation can fight weather challenges
- Garden calendar
- Ask a neighbor for some petunias
- Nursery more like a botanical garden
- Letters for April 22
- Rallying the TAKS troops
- Calendar
| Muster remembers more than 160 Aggies who died Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT A leisurely trip down the Guadalupe River eight days after graduation from Texas A&M led to a spinal cord injury that left Tobin Boenig lucky to ever be able to touch his nose again, he told a packed Reed Arena on Thursday. But it was an outp ...   |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT College Station's sewers are nearing capacity and it may cost $90 million to adequately expand the system over the next decade, according to early results from a wastewater study.The growth will likely mean increases in sewage rates for city customer ... |
| CS center organizes battles against blazes Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT By 10 a.m. every morning, Mark Stanford is in the Texas Forest Service emergency operations center, ready to lead the conference call that will determine the agency's plan of attack against the wildfires that have been raging across the state since ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT A woman who worked for the city of College Station for 26 years before her termination was arrested Thursday and charged with theft of between $20,000 and $100,000 by a public servant. The thefts dated back to 2005, the district attorney's office all ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT Good Friday, April 22 Good Friday Pilgrimage, 7:30 a.m. Begins with Stations of the Cross at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 1101 Rock Prairie Road, College Station with stops at St. Thomas Episcopal, St. Michael's Episcopal School and ending at St. A ... |
| Police: Train statue stolen from Scotty's House recovered Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:46 AM PDT Police said they expected to return a painted train art piece to a Bryan home for abused children Thursday after it was found at a nearby apartment complex the day before. The train was stolen from in front of the Scotty's House building on Kent Str ... |
| Open or closed for Good Friday holiday? Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:57 PM PDT Here is what is open and closed for the Good Friday holiday. * Federal offices: Open. * State offices: Many state offices will be closed. The Bryan Department of Public Safety office will close at noon. * City offices: Bryan, College Station and N ... |
| Man charged with damaging former employer's truck Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:40 AM PDT A 35-year-old man faces a felony charge after being accused of returning a company vehicle to his former employer with damages. Carl Johenry Frantzen of College Station was charged Wednesday with criminal mischief from $1,500 to $20,000, a state jai ... |
| Autopsy: Teen Texas basketball player had heart ailment Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:56 AM PDT AUSTIN -- Autopsy results show a 16-year-old South Texas basketball player who died last month suffered from a rare heart valve problem.Robert Garza collapsed during a timeout in an AAU tournament game March 13 in Austin. Paramedics administered CPR ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT AUSTIN -- A Texas Senate committee on Thursday approved the use of $3 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to help bring into balance the $176 billion state budget proposal for the next two years. In all funds, the Senate plan would still make ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Republican House members on Thursday were pushing legislation they say will give relief to Texas schools buckling under a strapped state budget over protests from the very people they say the bill will protect.School districts could increas ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The nation's economic upheaval has been especially hard on young people trying to start their working lives with a high school education or less. Only about a third are working full-time, compared with two-thirds of recent college gra ... |
| BP, Gulf spill partners suing each other Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT MIAMI -- After being hammered for a year over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP is going on the offensive with multibillion-dollar lawsuits seeking to shift at least part of the blame to those who owned the ill-fated rig or designed a failed safety ... |
| Lives upended by Libyan battles Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT ABOARD THE IONIAN SPIRIT -- The scene was testimony to the wrenching changes war brings. It turned Dr. Ali Salhi, a Libyan dentist, into a battlefield medic. In a ship's corridor transformed into an intensive care unit, the patient he hovered over wa ... |
| Apple devices store location data Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users -- records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge. It ... |
| Dry ice lake reveals Mars once had a 'Dust Bowl' Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Think Mars today is a hostile place? It was worse 600,000 years ago, according to new research that suggests the planet had a dustier, stormier atmosphere."It was an unpleasant place to hang out," said lead researcher Roger Phillips of ... |
| Queen Elizabeth gives out presents on her 85th Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT LONDON -- It's Queen Elizabeth II's birthday, but she's the one handing out the presents. For the first time, Elizabeth's birthday has coincided with Maundy Thursday, the day marking Jesus' Last Supper, when the queen traditionally gives special c ... |
| Photos, video permitted in Jackson trial Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors can show jurors two images from Michael Jackson's autopsy during the involuntary manslaughter trial of the pop star's doctor, a judge ruled Thursday.Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said the photographs, one of which sho ... |
| Irrigation can fight weather challenges Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT The lack of rain and strong, warm winds have posed challenges for gardeners trying to grow vegetables. A suitable irrigation system can help. Efficient irrigation methods are a drip system, a soaker hose (on the surface or buried a foot deep), a ro ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT Saturday * Brazos Valley Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon. Texas Avenue and William Joel Bryan Parkway in Bryan. Locally grown fresh produce and other items. www.brazosvalleyfarmersmarket.com, hpw@tconline.net or 229-5503. * Tenth Street Farmers Mark ... |
| Ask a neighbor for some petunias Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT Dear Neil: Do you know where I can get some old-fashioned perennial petunia seeds or plants? A: The old inbred petunias are usually in older neighborhoods. Watch for them to be blooming now, and ask permission to gather some seeds later in the spr ... |
| Nursery more like a botanical garden Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. -- The displays inside the new greenhouse showroom of an interior landscape design company in suburban Detroit feel more like a botanical garden than a nursery. But at Planterra's new home in West Bloomfield, nearly everythin ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT It would be foolish to recall the CS mayor I urge College Station voters to vote "against" in the recall election scheduled for May 14. Early voting starts May 2 at City Hall and at the College Station school administration building on Welsh Avenue. ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Thieman Watkins answers questions about the Apache attack helicopter he and a co-pilot landed near Johnson Elementary in Bryan on Thursday. The chopper's appearence was the centerpoint of a rally the school held as par ... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT MARK YOUR CALENDAR The Mwangaza Children's Choir is holding a concert at 7 p.m. on April 27 at Life Church, behind JoAnn's Fabric in the Tejas Shopping Center. Children, ages 8 to 12 from villages in Uganda, share the gospel of Jesus Christ through ... |
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