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- Record number of Aggies graduate
- Bryan makes deal with Brazos Animal Shelter
- Emails reveal unrest at A&M
- Girl Scout gets top award for retreat for girls
- Grads get tips to land new jobs
- Bryan wants biocorrider public hearing
- Farmers' crops washed away
- Big cities voting for mayors
- Visa lottery results thrown out
- Social Security, Medicare take hits
- Gadhafi taunts NATO troops
- Robots, humans jam together
- Tissues in demand this allergy season
- Scooping up a deal
- Higher ed ideas to be implemented "with or without" TAMUS's McKinney, e-mail states
- Ashton Kutcher to replace Charlie Sheen on 'Men'
- Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton getting hitched
- Faith calendar
- Garden calendar
- Letters for May 14
- Polling places
- Work for patents pays off for A&M System
- Calendar
- Not so fast — Bryan and Animal Shelter back together again
- Polling places
| Record number of Aggies graduate Posted: 13 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT As Denise Celeste Robledo walked across the Texas A&M graduation stage Friday for the third time, her twin sister and two close friends crammed together on a nearby ledge to let out screams of excitement and praise. Robledo, 31, of McAllen, r ...   |
| Bryan makes deal with Brazos Animal Shelter Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Bryan and the Brazos Animal Shelter are sticking together after all. Following months of back-and-forth over costs, the Bryan City Council unanimously voted Friday to continue its 31-year partnership with the nonprofit shelter. No contract has be ... |
| Emails reveal unrest at A&M Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Ten months before Chancellor Mike McKinney unexpectedly announced he was retiring, the father of the author of the "seven breakthrough solutions" wrote that those ideas would be implemented "with ... or without" the A&M System chief, according ... |
| Girl Scout gets top award for retreat for girls Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT An A&M Consolidated graduate chose to throw a banquet for underprivileged girls as part of her last project to achieve the Gold Award for Girl Scouts. Every girl likes to have the opportunity to dress up and feel beautiful, said 18-year-old ... |
| Grads get tips to land new jobs Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT For the estimated 6,800 Aggies walking across the stage Friday and today, a new title awaits: Former student. The Association of Former Students -- the nation's largest organization for such a group -- is even giving them an afterparty, with one o ... |
| Bryan wants biocorrider public hearing Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report The Bryan City Council on Friday expressed support for an agreement to share the costs and revenues with College Station from the proposed bioresearch corridor along the city's border with its neighbor, but delayed approving the p ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. -- With crop prices soaring, farmers along the lower Mississippi River had been expecting a big year. Maybe even a huge one. Now, many are facing ruin, with floodwaters swallowing up corn, cotton, rice and soybean fields. And eve ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT FORT WORTH -- Voters in Dallas and Fort Worth are preparing to elect new mayors after contentious races for the open seats, while in San Antonio one of the state's rising Democrats is expected to easily win his second term. In Amarillo, a transgen ... |
| Visa lottery results thrown out Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Jackpot! Not so fast. For a few joyful days, more than 20,000 people around the world thought they literally had hit the lottery and won a chance to come and live legally in the United States. Oops, the State Department said Friday, ... |
| Social Security, Medicare take hits Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The bad economy is worsening the already-shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, draining the trust funds supporting them faster than expected and intensifying the need for Congress to shore up the massive benefit programs, the ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Libya -- Taunting NATO, Moammar Gadhafi said Friday that he is alive despite a series of airstrikes and "in a place where you can't get to and kill me." The defiant audio recording was broadcast after the Libyan government accused NATO of ki ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT VALENCIA, Calif. -- They can defuse bombs, help decontaminate nuclear power plants, even vacuum the living room floor without bashing into the furniture or knocking over a vase. One thing you don't see robots doing, though, is jamming with a live, ... |
| Tissues in demand this allergy season Posted: 13 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT There may be a whiff of truth to claims by allergy sufferers who sniffle that this season is, well, a bigger headache than years past. And now, more bad news: It's also lasting longer, prolonging the misery of the millions of people for whom sprin ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Spoons Yogurt owner David Mebane calls the names of the first 50 store patrons at the yogurt company's new location in Bryan on Friday. The first 50 customers at the store near Kroger received free yogurt for a year. |
| Higher ed ideas to be implemented "with or without" TAMUS's McKinney, e-mail states Posted: 13 May 2011 08:23 AM PDT Ten months before Chancellor Mike McKinney unexpectedly announced he was retiring, the father of the author of the “seven breakthrough solutions” wrote that those ideas will be implemented with the A&M System chief “or without h ... |
| Ashton Kutcher to replace Charlie Sheen on 'Men' Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Acting with an imminent deadline to keep alive a hit comedy after it had been derailed by Charlie Sheen's troubles this season, CBS and Warner Bros. Television said Friday that actor Ashton Kutcher will replace Sheen in Two and a Half M ... |
| Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton getting hitched Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The most anticipated wedding in the country music world this year doesn't involve a prince or a Middleton. Country's royal couple, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, are tying the knot Saturday in Texas. "I'm excited to get ma ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT Sunday * St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 2700 W. Villa Maria Road in Bryan, will hold a traditional service at 9 a.m. and a contemporary service at 11 a.m. The Rev. Jason Burnham will preach on "Follow Me!," part of the sermon series "Jesus, the ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 02:01 AM 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 Market, ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT Rep. Flores violating own stated beliefs According to his own standards U.S. Rep. Bill Flores must step down. During his town hall meetings and campaign speeches, when running for the congressional seat, one of his issues was that his opponent voted ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Today is Election Day in Bryan and College Station. The following polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.:City of College Station/College Station ISD Joint ElectionPrecincts/LocationCSISD: 1, 2A-2, 83, 84City: 2A-1Wellborn Special Utility D ... |
| Work for patents pays off for A&M System Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Representatives of various agencies under the Texas A&M University System gathered last week as administrative officials and corporate partners recognized research employees who received patent protections for their inventions within the last y ... |
| Posted: 13 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Mark Your Calendar The College Station Kiwanis Club will be holding a Child Safety Seat Checkup Event from 8 to 11 a.m. June 4 at the Bryan Towne Center located near the Bryan Target store. Bring your child and his or her car seat and know your chil ... |
| Not so fast — Bryan and Animal Shelter back together again Posted: 13 May 2011 04:42 AM PDT The city of Bryan and the Brazos Animal Shelter are sticking together after all. Following months of back and forth and arguing over costs, the Bryan City Council voted Friday to continue its 31-year partnership with the non-profit shelter. By ... |
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