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- Police helped with challenge of dealing with the mentally ill
- Deliberations to start in murder trial
- Fireflies are bugging out of B-CS
- B-CS gets own breast milk bank
- Weather Whys: Raining frogs
- Police: Driver found with mushrooms
- Officials suspect arson in church fire
- Tax breaks targeted in debt talks
- Troopers investigate Brazos County wreck
- NASA's mission getting privatized
- New but tiny moon found circling distant Pluto
- Minn. governor signs budget, ends state shutdown
- Space shuttle aims for Thursday landing
- Woman stabbed returning ring, boyfriend charged
- Inmate executed for killing store clerk
- British PM denies staff's involvement
- Bar owners building business in downtown Bryan
- 'Dome' traps U.S. in pressure cooker
- Fans swarm Comic-Con donned in costumes
- American Airelines orders 460 new planes
- France, Germany in last-ditch crisis talks
- A&M study: Leaving job is often more complicated than expected
- A&M study: Leaving job is often more complicated than expected
- Iconic 'Gone With the Wind' dresses faded forever
- Letters for July 21
| Police helped with challenge of dealing with the mentally ill Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:25 PM PDT Coming to after her last suicide attempt was another reminder that she couldn't do anything right, Sharla Albright said. At least, that's how she felt at the time, the 53-year-old said. "One of y'all actually saved my life," she said to a room fu ...   |
| Deliberations to start in murder trial Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:14 PM PDT A Brazos County jury was expected to begin deliberations in a murder trial of a Franklin man Thursday after both sides rested their cases Wednesday. Michael Allen Peck, 45, was charged in January 2010 with the murder of 27-year-old Julie Perez, a ... |
| Fireflies are bugging out of B-CS Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:18 PM PDT Kids in the Bryan-College Station area may need to find a new use for their mason jars: Texas A&M researchers say fireflies seem to be disappearing from the area. The reasons, they said in interviews this week, are likely twofold. First, the long ... |
| B-CS gets own breast milk bank Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:14 PM PDT Liam Pollard was born about 15 weeks premature. The now-4-month-old's mother, Melanie Pollard, credited his survival to donations of breast milk that helped him get the nutrients he needed to grow stronger. "When I have another child, if I'm ab ... |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:38 AM PDT Q: We know it's not possible to rain cats and dogs, but sometimes you hear about frogs and even fish coming down from the sky. Is this possible? A: It is, and it's happened many times throughout history, says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M Univers ... |
| Police: Driver found with mushrooms Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:19 AM PDT A traffic stop in Brazos County led to a felony charge after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper reported finding mushrooms in a vehicle. Brandy Davidson Romano, 23, of Lufkin was charged with possession of from four to 400 grams of a contro ... |
| Officials suspect arson in church fire Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:19 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Investigators in Leon County have determined that a fire at a church was intentionally set. Sheriff Jerry Wakefield said one of his deputies responded to the 911 call at Wilson Chapel Church on F.M. 1119 in Leona around 7 a.m. Tu ... |
| Tax breaks targeted in debt talks Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:25 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- A new bipartisan plan to reduce government borrowing would target some of the most cherished tax breaks enjoyed by millions of families -- those promoting health insurance, home ownership, charitable giving and retirement savings -- i ... |
| Troopers investigate Brazos County wreck Posted: 20 Jul 2011 08:14 AM PDT At least one person was injured in a two-vehicle wreck on Texas 21 in Brazos County Wednesday morning. The Texas Department of Public Safety responded at 9:28 a.m. to the wreck on Texas 21 East at the intersection with F.M. 2776, a DPS official said ... |
| NASA's mission getting privatized Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:18 PM PDT HOUSTON -- How America gets people and stuff into orbit is about to be outsourced in an out-of-this-world way.With the space shuttle's retirement Thursday, no longer will flying people and cargo up to the International Space Station be a government p ... |
| New but tiny moon found circling distant Pluto Posted: 20 Jul 2011 12:07 PM PDT HOUSTON -- Distant and tiny Pluto has been hiding something from Earth: another moon.NASA announced Wednesday that the Hubble Space Telescope has found a fourth moon circling Pluto, which had been demoted from full planet to dwarf planet. Astronomers ... |
| Minn. governor signs budget, ends state shutdown Posted: 20 Jul 2011 02:59 AM PDT ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a new budget Wednesday, ending the nation's longest state government shutdown in the past decade.Dayton's signature came just hours after lawmakers gave their own approval to the deal after meeting ... |
| Space shuttle aims for Thursday landing Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — On the eve of NASA’s historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey completed one last task. They released the very last satellite to be launched ... |
| Woman stabbed returning ring, boyfriend charged Posted: 20 Jul 2011 12:07 PM PDT WHITEHOUSE -- An East Texas man is accused of stabbing his fiancee multiple times as she returned his engagement ring.Smith County Jail records show 32-year-old Shaun Mark Lawler of Whitehouse is held on an aggravated assault/family violence charge, ... |
| Inmate executed for killing store clerk Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT HUNTSVILLE — A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for killing a Dallas-area convenience store clerk during a shooting spree that he claimed was retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Mark Stroman, 41, said hate in the world needed ... |
| British PM denies staff's involvement Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically denied claims that his staff tried to stop an inquiry into a phone hacking and police bribery at the News of the World and defended his decision to hire one of the tabloid's editors as his communica ... |
| Bar owners building business in downtown Bryan Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:25 PM PDT Billing it as "fun and funky," owners of a Northgate bar said they're opening a new bar in downtown Bryan in September. The Proudest Monkey -- under construction between The Queen Theatre and The Stafford Main -- will have a lunch menu and "high-q ... |
| 'Dome' traps U.S. in pressure cooker Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT For millions of people enduring this week's extreme heat and humidity, it feels like they're living in a pressure cooker. And in a sense, they are.Much of the United States is trapped under a heat "dome" caused by a huge area of high pressure that's ... |
| Fans swarm Comic-Con donned in costumes Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Calling all superheroes, zombies, space aliens, comic-book lovers and kids of all ages: Comic-Con is here. The pop-culture convention, which annually draws thousands of costumed fans to San Diego, begins Thursday, but the die-hards ... |
| American Airelines orders 460 new planes Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT FORT WORTH -- American Airlines is buying at least 460 new planes over the next five years in what it calls the biggest airline order in history. And in a victory for Airbus, it's splitting the work between the European plane maker and Boeing. Ame ... |
| France, Germany in last-ditch crisis talks Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT BERLIN -- The eurozone's economic powers are struggling to agree on a new debt crisis plan to present at an emergency EU summit, with Germany downplaying calls from France and Brussels for a big announcement that could boost market confidence and con ... |
| A&M study: Leaving job is often more complicated than expected Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:24 PM PDT It's complicated, an employee's decision to leave a job -- even more complicated than previously believed, Texas A&M University researchers concluded after conducting research on when job searches result in turnover. As expected, turnover was hi ... |
| A&M study: Leaving job is often more complicated than expected Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:24 PM PDT It's complicated, an employee's decision to leave a job -- even more complicated than previously believed, Texas A&M University researchers concluded after conducting research on when job searches result in turnover. As expected, turnover was hi ... |
| Iconic 'Gone With the Wind' dresses faded forever Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Efforts to preserve and restore several iconic dresses from the Oscar-winning Civil War movie Gone With the Wind have uncovered what might be painful for die-hard fans: Some of them simply can't be made to look like they did on screen. S ... |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:05 PM PDT Shame on Eagle for its editorial on debt ceiling Shame on Eagle Editorial Board for its July 17 editorial entitled, "Getting tired of everyone in Washington." The Board appeared desperate to say something of substance on a topic which has riveted ... |
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