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- Texas A&M athletics' new home in SEC official
- Investigators release names of couple found dead Saturday
- Academics play little role in move
- Couple's deaths a shock for relatives
- Ceremony honors fallen firefighters
- Texas refineries may get back $135M
- Saudi women can vote in 2015
- The upside of economic worries: Lower gas prices
- Bullfighting comes to end for Catalonia
- Mass grave uncovered in Libya
- Health scare forces woman to cut swim short
- Hummingbirds make annual fall visit to South Texas
- Romney takes his state in poll
- U.S. gets relief at the gas pump
- Iran hikers back in U.S.
- Calendar
- Haas wins high-stakes FedEx Cup
- Tony Stewart wins at New Hampshire
- Rangers hit 4 HRs in 12-5 win over Mariners
- Colorado sets team record with 25 hits in 19-3 win
- Saints rally past Texans 40-33
- Man credited with creating Doritos dies in Dallas
- Girl, 14, charged in hit-and-run death of boy, 14
- Texas Rangers investigate deputies' stun gun death
| Texas A&M athletics' new home in SEC official Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT Texas A&M is hopeful that good things come to those who wait. The Southeastern Conference officially became a 13-team league Sunday by giving the Aggies an unconditional offer. It replaces a conditional one the league had given A&M on Sept ...   |
| Investigators release names of couple found dead Saturday Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:54 AM PDT Investigators identified the two bodies found Saturday afternoon in a rural Brazos County home as 22-year-old Chance Schneider and 20-year-old Ashley Lenz. The bodies of the estranged couple were found by a roommate, authorities said. A gun was ... |
| Academics play little role in move Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin lists visibility and stability -- both conference and financial -- as the main reasons for the Aggies' move to the Southeastern Conference. Academics, however, is not at the forefront. It isn't pertinent, h ... |
| Couple's deaths a shock for relatives Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT Ashley Lenz was on the right track, her brother said. The 20-year-old had a job at Gage Gandy Bail Bonds in Bryan, and she was going to Blinn College with the hope of becoming a lawyer. Chance Schneider, at age 22, also found success: He bought a ... |
| Ceremony honors fallen firefighters Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:10 AM PDT Eagle Staff Report The public is invited to join local emergency responders in honoring a pair of firefighters from Texas who died in the line of duty last year. The College Station Fire Department is scheduled to host a local memorial noon Monday ... |
| Texas refineries may get back $135M Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:49 PM PDT PASADENA -- Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million -- money Texas' cash-strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pa ... |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, considered a reformer by the standards of his own ultraconservative kingdom, decreed on Sunday that women will for the first time have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015.It i ... |
| The upside of economic worries: Lower gas prices Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:52 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Soaring gasoline prices are in the rearview mirror. For the first time in months, retail gasoline prices have fallen below $3 a gallon in places, including parts of Michigan, Missouri and Texas. And the relief is likely to spread thank ... |
| Bullfighting comes to end for Catalonia Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain -- Matadors drove the killing sword into bulls for the last time Sunday in Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia in an emotive farewell fight before a polemical regional ban on the country's emblematic tradition takes e ... |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Libya -- A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a cactus-covered desert field are grim testament to a 1996 massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Libyan officials announced Sunday they have ... |
| Health scare forces woman to cut swim short Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT MIAMI -- Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad spent more than 40 hours in the shark-filled waters between Cuba and the Florida Keys, climbing into a boat only to be treated for searing welts left by Portuguese man o' war stings. Left swollen and red, Nyad h ... |
| Hummingbirds make annual fall visit to South Texas Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:49 PM PDT Eds: APNewsNow.CORPUS CHRISTI -- Like the springtime arrival of swallows at San Capistramo, the hummingbirds are back in Corpus Christi and other parts of South Texas for their fall migration south.The tiny speedy birds show up along the Texas Coasta ... |
| Romney takes his state in poll Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Michigan native Mitt Romney rolled over Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the rest of his Republican presidential rivals in a Michigan straw poll on Sunday, reinforcing a favorite son status that could make it tough for anyone else ... |
| U.S. gets relief at the gas pump Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Soaring gasoline prices are in the rearview mirror. For the first time in months, retail gasoline prices have fallen below $3 a gallon in places, including parts of Michigan, Missouri and Texas. And the relief is likely to spread thank ... |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Declaring that they were detained because of their nationality, not their actions, two American hikers held for more than two years in an Iranian prison came home Sunday, ending a diplomatic and personal ordeal with a sharp rebuke of th ... |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT Mark Your Calendar The Brazos County VFW Post 4692 Motorcycle Unit 4692-21 is holding a fundraiser Oct. 1 beginning at 10 a.m. at the VFW Post on Harvey Mitchell Parkway. There will be a barbecue meal, silent and live auctions, cake wheel, 50/50 raf ... |
| Haas wins high-stakes FedEx Cup Posted: 25 Sep 2011 02:38 PM PDT ATLANTA -- In the richest playoff in golf history, Bill Haas came up with the shots that matched the money.With his ball half-submerged on the bank of a lake, Haas blasted out of the water to about 3 feet to save par on the second playoff hole agains ... |
| Tony Stewart wins at New Hampshire Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:28 AM PDT LOUDON, N.H. -- Tony Stewart made it 2 for 2 in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, pulling ahead when Clint Bowyer ran of gas with two laps left to win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday.Stewart is on a roll when it matters most, follo ... |
| Rangers hit 4 HRs in 12-5 win over Mariners Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:01 AM PDT ARLINGTON -- Yorvit Torrealba homered twice, including a grand slam, and Derek Holland pitched his scheduled five innings for his 16th victory and the AL West champion Texas Rangers beat Seattle 12-5 Sunday in their final home game of the regular sea ... |
| Colorado sets team record with 25 hits in 19-3 win Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:49 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Colorado set a team record with 25 hits, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Chris Iannetta each drove in five runs and the Rockies routed the Houston Astros 19-3 Sunday.Jordan Pacheco, Ty Wigginton and Tommy Field had four hits each for the Rockies, who ... |
| Saints rally past Texans 40-33 Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:46 AM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- Drew Brees passed for 370 yards and three touchdowns, and twice led the Saints back from fourth-quarter deficits in a 40-33 victory over the Houston Texans on Sunday. Mark Ingram's first career touchdown on a 13-yard run gave the Sa ... |
| Man credited with creating Doritos dies in Dallas Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:10 AM PDT DALLAS -- Arch West, a retired Frito-Lay marketing executive credited with creating Doritos as the first national tortilla chip brand, has died in Dallas at age 97.A statement issued by the West family says he died Tuesday at Presbyterian Hospital in ... |
| Girl, 14, charged in hit-and-run death of boy, 14 Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:10 AM PDT BELLMEAD -- A 14-year-old suburban Waco girl has been charged in the fatal hit-and-run car accident that left a 14-year-old boy dead.The Thursday night accident killed 14-year-old La Vega Junior High eighth-grader Jourdan Moore in the Waco suburb of ... |
| Texas Rangers investigate deputies' stun gun death Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:49 PM PDT LUBBOCK -- The Texas Rangers are investigating the death of a man after Lubbock County sheriff's deputies used stun guns to subdue him during a domestic disturbance near Lubbock.The incident began with a Saturday morning domestic disturbance call jus ... |
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