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- College Station closer to restricting water usage
- Va. Tech lifts campus alert after report of gunman
- Bryan, College Station campuses fail progress test
- Aggies snatching up season tickets
- Bad news for parched Texas: La Nina may re-occur
- Summer Soiree event set for next week
- Mobile eateries briefly shut down
- New Mexico mayor was drunk when he signed deal
- Mexico city's police force quits after attacks
- AG: Ex-agent has history of sexual misconduct
- Texas polygamist sect leader found guilty of raping child
- 4-H to perform for public
- Ever wonder what it's like to be a firefighter?
- Bryan woman: 2 men tried to rob her
- Dow plummets by 512 points
- Scorpion anti-venom is first to be approved by FDA
- Jurors convict Warren Jeffs of assault
- Va. Tech gives all clear after 5-hour lockdown
- Pentagon fights deeper cuts
- Texas drought may persist for another year
- Experts question stall in turkey meat recall
- Chrysler recalling 367,000 minivans a second time
- Resident: Random killings in besieged Syrian city
- Clinton urges Somali militants to allow famine aid
- FBI chased hundreds of Cooper ghosts
| College Station closer to restricting water usage Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT College Station is inching closer to mandatory water restrictions. And though Bryan isn't, both cities are urging conservation amid record-setting heat and drought conditions. Three consecutive days of water usage exceeding 90 percent of capacity ...   |
| Va. Tech lifts campus alert after report of gunman Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:33 AM PDT BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia Tech was locked down for several hours Thursday after three children attending a summer camp said they saw a man holding what looked like a gun on the campus where a 2007 massacre left 33 people dead. The univer ... |
| Bryan, College Station campuses fail progress test Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT Bryan and College Station school districts each failed to meet federal accountability standards, according to a Texas Education Agency report released Thursday. Bryan had 12 of 26 campus that did not make the required "adequate yearly progress," o ... |
| Aggies snatching up season tickets Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT Veronica Shawver spent a year away from Aggie football in 2010, but the team has pulled her back in for 2011. The 2010 Texas A&M graduate attended most games when she was in school. But then she moved to Corpus Christi and didn't have the money t ... |
| Bad news for parched Texas: La Nina may re-occur Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- Climatologists said Thursday that the La Nina conditions that have contributed to Texas' worst drought in decades may re-occur later this year -- troubling news for the state's beleaguered farmers and ranchers who also learned there ... |
| Summer Soiree event set for next week Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:58 PM PDT Keep Brazos Beautiful will host a ribbon-cutting and Member's Summer Soiree event on Thursday in downtown Bryan. The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce will do the honors for the non-profit agency at 4:30 p.m., followed by the Soiree at 5 p.m ... |
| Mobile eateries briefly shut down Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:03 PM PDT A local eatery had two of its mobile units briefly shut down by the Brazos County Health Department for not passing inspections. One of the Tacos La Morenita food trucks scored a 53 on a scale of 100, while the other one had a 54 score. Accordin ... |
| New Mexico mayor was drunk when he signed deal Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:14 AM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Mexico border town mayor and congressional candidate Martin Resendiz was drunk when he signed nine contracts with a California company that is now suing the city for $1 million, according to a deposition in the case."The day I si ... |
| Mexico city's police force quits after attacks Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:58 PM PDT CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday. The officers' resignatio ... |
| AG: Ex-agent has history of sexual misconduct Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:58 PM PDT BASTROP -- A former liquor control agent accused of sexually assaulting a teenager recruited for an underage drinking sting had a history of sexual misconduct with teens, and he was hired to enforce Texas liquor laws despite being fired from a police ... |
| Texas polygamist sect leader found guilty of raping child Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:51 AM PDT A Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault Thursday in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages.” The 55-year-old head of the Fundame ... |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT The members of the Brazos County Faith Riders thought their season was over when they came home toting two second place finishes from the state 4-H meet a few weeks ago. The 10-month practice season had culminated with the team's highest ever fin ... |
| Ever wonder what it's like to be a firefighter? Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:36 AM PDT The Bryan Fire Department is accepting applications for its Citizen Fire Academy through Aug. 26 or until the class is filled. The nine-week program meets each Thursday from Sept. 8 through Nov. 3, and is designed to create better communication betw ... |
| Bryan woman: 2 men tried to rob her Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:14 AM PDT Bryan police on Thursday were investigating a report by a woman who said two men may have used a weapon in an attempt to rob her a night earlier.Police responded about 11 p.m. to her apartment in the 2900 block of Prairie Flower Circle after she repo ... |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Gripped by fear of another recession, the financial markets suffered their worst day Thursday since the crisis of 2008. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points, its ninth-steepest decline ever.The sell-off wiped out the ... |
| Scorpion anti-venom is first to be approved by FDA Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:14 AM PDT PHOENIX -- Health officials are lauding a newly approved anti-venom by the FDA that they say is now the best way to treat sometimes-deadly scorpion stings.Leslie Boyer, director of a University of Arizona institute that studies venoms, says Thursday ... |
| Jurors convict Warren Jeffs of assault Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT SAN ANGELO -- A Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault on Thursday, in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls "spiritual marriages." The head of the Fundamental ... |
| Va. Tech gives all clear after 5-hour lockdown Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A report of a possible gunman at Virginia Tech on Thursday set off the longest, most extensive lockdown and search on campus since the bloodbath four years ago that led the university to overhaul its emergency procedures.No gunman ... |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon got nearly everything it asked for during a decade of two wars shadowed by the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the rise of al-Qaida. No more.Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen ack ... |
| Texas drought may persist for another year Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- The drought that has turned Texas and parts of the Plains into a parched moonscape of cracked earth could persist into next year, prolonging the misery of farmers and ranchers who have endured a dry spell that is now expected to be t ... |
| Experts question stall in turkey meat recall Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The first sickness was in March and the first signs of a salmonella outbreak appeared in May. Two months later, investigators linked the outbreak to ground turkey and a Cargill meat processing plant in Arkansas. On Wednesday, almost fiv ... |
| Chrysler recalling 367,000 minivans a second time Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT DETROIT -- Chrysler is recalling more than 367,000 Dodge and Chrysler minivans because the air bags can go off unexpectedly.It's the second recall of the 2008 Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans for a similar problem.Those vans ... |
| Resident: Random killings in besieged Syrian city Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT BEIRUT -- The flashpoint Syrian city of Hama endured a fifth day under military siege Thursday, with a resident saying people were being "slaughtered like sheep" in the streets and families were burying their dead in home gardens or roadsides rather ... |
| Clinton urges Somali militants to allow famine aid Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed Thursday for Islamic militants in Somalia to allow aid groups unrestricted access to areas of the country under their control to distribute food to hundreds of thousands of people threa ... |
| FBI chased hundreds of Cooper ghosts Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- One suspect made a deathbed confession that he was the never-captured skyjacker D.B. Cooper. Another was a fugitive at the time of the hijacking. Still another was an airline worker and former paratrooper.Each had a face that closel ... |
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