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- Troops train for national disaster
- Water board tables decision
- Wildfire rescuers looking for help
- Vigil honors violence victims
- Two charged with burglarizing Bryan store
- Texas sees drop in areas in worst stage of drought
- Achievement of a century
- How to help the Brazos Valley volunteer firefighters
- Police: Crack found during traffic stop
- Fiery wreck at Houston toll booth, 2 drivers dead
- Retail gasoline prices up 4 cents in Texas
- Alleged AC thief hit with more charges
- Cold, wet PSAT exam burns some N. Texas students
- BBB introduces free mobile app
- Texas drought leaves lake too low for cities' use
- Funds went to Perry donors
- Funds went to Perry donors
- Lucky surfer's shark tale has no bite
- Drought hampers wildlife
- Bastrop gets $850K after fires
- Studies: Use vitamins with care
- Wall Street protesters asked to leave for park cleaning
- BlackBerry maker restores service
- Little known about Iranian group accused in plot
- Return of the 'Walking Dead'
| Troops train for national disaster Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT Hundreds of Texas National Guard troops converged on Disaster City in College Station Thursday to become the country's third certified homeland response force. For the past 18 months, troops with the Texas National Guard Joint Task Force-71 have ...   |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT A local regulatory board voted on Thursday to hold off on developing new rules to open more groundwater access in the Brazos Valley until it further examines the issue and ponders new options. The decision came during a tense meeting of the Brazo ... |
| Wildfire rescuers looking for help Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT Some volunteer firefighters this summer took vacation days from full-time jobs to serve their communities and save as many homes from wildfires as possible. In the aftermath, several donation drives have benefited the victims of the fire, but few ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT Baby Joseph wasn't born into a loving family that had been anxiously awaiting his arrival for nine months. He had no name, no voice, no value, College Station police investigator Kenny Elliott told those who observed the 17th annual Domestic Viol ... |
| Two charged with burglarizing Bryan store Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:23 AM PDT Two Bryan men were caught breaking into a Bryan business and then evaded police in a stolen vehicle early Thursday, authorities said. Jermey Montrel Williams, 18, was charged with burglary of a building, credit or debit card abuse and evading arrest ... |
| Texas sees drop in areas in worst stage of drought Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:59 AM PDT LUBBOCK -- The map colors depicting the Texas drought have brightened somewhat as good rainfall pulled about 15 percent of the state out of the most severe drought stage. The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows 73.1 percent of the st ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT Nina Flood, who turned 100 last week, had one big regret in her century of life. Before a birthday celebration at the Millican House in Bryan, someone asked Ford if there was anything she would have changed in her life. Yes, she replied, she wou ... |
| How to help the Brazos Valley volunteer firefighters Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT Anyone interested in making a cash donation that will benefit all Brazos Valley volunteer firefighters can do so by visiting The Bank and Trust. The Eagle, KBTX-TV Media and WTAW/Candy95 have united in creating the nonprofit BV Media Giving Back ac ... |
| Police: Crack found during traffic stop Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Two men stopped by police just before 4 a.m. Wednesday for displaying the wrong inspection sticker on a car were arrested on a felony charge of manufacturing or delivering crack cocaine. According to the police report, an office ... |
| Fiery wreck at Houston toll booth, 2 drivers dead Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:21 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Investigators say a fiery two-vehicle accident at a north Houston toll booth has killed both drivers.Harris County authorities say the crash involving a truck and a car happened shortly before 2:30 a.m. Friday at an unmanned toll booth. Of ... |
| Retail gasoline prices up 4 cents in Texas Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:59 AM PDT HOUSTON -- Retail gasoline prices across Texas have jumped 4 cents a gallon this week. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price per gallon reached $3.24. The association says the average price nationwide also rise 4 cents, to reach $3.43 a ... |
| Alleged AC thief hit with more charges Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT A Bryan man who has been jailed on a theft charge since September was hit with three additional charges on Thursday -- evading arrest, building burglary and home burglary. According to a police report, Alfredo Oviedo Jr. was stopped on Sept. 29 by ... |
| Cold, wet PSAT exam burns some N. Texas students Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:21 AM PDT WICHITA FALLS -- Some parents thought it was a joke when a North Texas school district announced high school students would be taking a major preliminary college entrance exam in an ice hockey arena.But 258 students from Wichita Falls High School end ... |
| BBB introduces free mobile app Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report The Better Business Bureau recently released a free app for Apple products that lets consumers look up information on businesses across the country. The app -- which is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch -- allows users ... |
| Texas drought leaves lake too low for cities' use Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:21 AM PDT FORT WORTH -- The devastating drought has taken its toll on a Texas Panhandle lake, now too low to keep supplying water to nearly a dozen cities. The Canadian River Municipal Water Authority near Amarillo voted to stop using Lake Meredith, which had ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Nearly half of the companies receiving grants from the governor's Texas Enterprise Fund also gave money to Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaigns or the Republican Governor's Association, according to a report released Thursday by a watc ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Nearly half of the companies receiving grants from the governor's Texas Enterprise Fund also gave money to Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaigns or the Republican Governor's Association, according to a report released Thursday by a watc ... |
| Lucky surfer's shark tale has no bite Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:23 AM PDT Doug Niblack was trying to catch another wave before going to work, when his longboard hit something hard as rock off the Oregon Coast and he suddenly found himself standing on the back of a thrashing great white shark. Looking down, he could see ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT HOUSTON -- In a 30-mile area of the Texas Panhandle, biologists found 76 white-tailed deer -- but zero babies. Not far away, they located only three quail on a stretch of road where they would see 15 in a normal year. In South Texas, a biologist repo ... |
| Bastrop gets $850K after fires Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT BASTROP -- The Dallas-based Meadows Foundation announced Thursday it's donating $850,000 to help the Bastrop County area recover from wildfires that burned 50 square miles last month, including most of the popular Bastrop State Park. Wildfires tha ... |
| Studies: Use vitamins with care Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT Two studies this week raised gnawing worries about the safety of vitamin supplements and a host of questions. Should anyone be taking them? Which ones are most risky? And if you do take them, how can you pick the safest ones? Vitamins have long had a ... |
| Wall Street protesters asked to leave for park cleaning Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK -- The owner of the private park where Wall Street protesters are camped out gave them notice Thursday that after it power-washes the space it will begin enforcing regulations, which prohibit everything from lying down on benches to storin ... |
| BlackBerry maker restores service Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT NEW YORK -- BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world Thursday, after a three-day outage that interrupted services for millions of customers. Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the phones, said the system was back to normal early ... |
| Little known about Iranian group accused in plot Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Among the many mysteries inside Iran's ruling hierarchy, the Quds Force has a special place in the shadows. It's been linked by Western officials and others to dozens of clandestine operations around the world such a ... |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT SENOIA, Ga. -- Just down the road from a tiny country church in rural Georgia, the apocalypse has already arrived.A band of scrappy survivors is fighting the undead, camping in the woods in hopes of outrunning the hordes of zombies roaming the world. ... |
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