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- Heart of the carnival
- Contractor questions Brazos County's bid selection
- Texas A&M System hires consultant to find savings
- Texas A&M System hires consultant to find savings
- Blaze destroys Bryan home
- College Station schools may change start times, bus routes to save money
- Fire at BV Recycling started in mulching building
- First Friday offers tech talk for average users
- Surgery to separate conjoined twins is successful
- Texas gun instructor draws heat for anti-Muslim ad
- Texas boy hit by truck on Halloween night dies
- UT president says he didn't seek $10M MyEdu deal
- Syria plants land mines
- Group wants Plan B on presidential ballot
- Texas family sues over alleged listeria death
- Filing period for Texas candidates may shorten
- Alcohol linked to cancer
- Texas red tide kills 4.2M fish since September
- Palestine wants to join other agencies
- More extreme weather forecast
- Vote on debt deal roils markets
- 956 water systems get conservation limits
- Bastrop recovering after fires
- Robert A. Caro penning fourth Lyndon B. Johnson book
- Michael Jackson doc's defense rests
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT People wander around as the ferris wheel at Wright's Amusements Carnival in the parking lot of Post Oak Mall on Tuesday in College Station whirls. This year's carnival -- open until Nov. 13 -- features several rides, game booths and food vendors.   |
| Contractor questions Brazos County's bid selection Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:07 PM PDT A local construction company owner raised concerns during a Brazos County Commissioners Court meeting Tuesday about the process being used to evaluate competitive proposals. Mark Dudley, owner of Dudley Construction, asserted that his company was ... |
| Texas A&M System hires consultant to find savings Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:05 PM PDT A consultant has been hired to conduct a comprehensive review of the A&M System, the $3.3 billion entity that has 11 universities, seven state agencies and a Health Science Center. Tallahassee-based MGT of America Inc. will evaluate organizat ... |
| Texas A&M System hires consultant to find savings Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:05 PM PDT A consultant has been hired to conduct a comprehensive review of the A&M System, the $3.3 billion entity that has 11 universities, seven state agencies and a Health Science Center. Tallahassee-based MGT of America Inc. will evaluate organizat ... |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:20 AM PDT Two adults and two children were displaced late Monday when their Bryan home was destroyed by fire.The blaze was reported at 10:35 p.m., and firefighters arrived five minutes later to find heavy flames coming from the home at 815 East 28th St., Batta ... |
| College Station schools may change start times, bus routes to save money Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT College Station school district administrators said they need to decide by winter break whether to change school start times to save $200,000 a year. Options were presented to the school board on Tuesday night during a workshop. Superintendent Ed ... |
| Fire at BV Recycling started in mulching building Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:48 AM PDT Firefighters spent about four hours extinguishing and cleaning up a fire that started in a wood mulching building at Brazos Valley Recycling late Monday.The fire started about 9 p.m. in the building that is separate from the main building at Brazos V ... |
| First Friday offers tech talk for average users Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:18 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report The First Friday Lecture for this month will be presented on Friday by Tyson Reddic, senior microcomputer/LAN administrator in the psychology department at Texas A&M University. Reddic's lecture, "Technology for Regular Peop ... |
| Surgery to separate conjoined twins is successful Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:01 PM PDT PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Twin 2-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stanford University's children's hospital. The operation that gave sisters Angelina and Angelica Sabu ... |
| Texas gun instructor draws heat for anti-Muslim ad Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:32 AM PDT MASON -- On a YouTube clip that has gone viral, brash Texas handgun instructor Crockett Keller defiantly tells Muslims and non-Christian Arabs he won't teach them how to handle a firearm. State officials see the ad as possible discrimination, and may ... |
| Texas boy hit by truck on Halloween night dies Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PDT PORT BOLIVAR -- Investigators say one Southeast Texas boy has died and another is hurt after both were hit by a truck while rushing to a Halloween party. The Galveston County Sheriff's Office says the boys jumped from a vehicle and tried to run acros ... |
| UT president says he didn't seek $10M MyEdu deal Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:35 AM PDT AUSTIN -- The president of the University of Texas System's flagship campus in Austin says he didn't seek a $10 million dollar deal that was reached between UT System regents and a politically connected company. Regents voted in August to invest $10 ... |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT SERHANIYEH, Lebanon -- Syria has planted land mines along parts of its border with Lebanon, further sealing itself off from the world and showing just how deeply shaken Bashar Assad's regime has become since an uprising began nearly eight months ag ... |
| Group wants Plan B on presidential ballot Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Lots of people complain about the shortcomings of the country's two-party system for picking a president. Now a nonpartisan group is gathering millions of petition signatures -- and dollars -- to offer people a Plan B. Americans Elec ... |
| Texas family sues over alleged listeria death Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:24 AM PDT DALLAS -- A negligence lawsuit filed by the family of an 89-year-old North Texas woman says she died after eating cantaloupe allegedly tainted with listeria. The lawsuit filed in Dallas against Jensen Farms of Holly, Colo., says Marie Jones died ... |
| Filing period for Texas candidates may shorten Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:35 AM PDT SAN ANTONIO -- A three-judge panel is unlikely to approve temporary maps for Texas' revamped political districts before candidates are scheduled to start filing for next year's primary elections, the federal judges said Monday.Consequently, the openi ... |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:00 PM PDT CHICAGO -- Whether sipping beer, wine or whiskey, women who drink just three alcoholic beverages a week face slightly higher chances for developing breast cancer compared with teetotalers, a study of more than 100,000 U.S. nurses found.The link betwe ... |
| Texas red tide kills 4.2M fish since September Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:21 AM PDT AUSTIN -- The algae bloom known as red tide has killed 1.2 million more fish along the Texas coast in less than two weeks. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reported Monday that about 4.2 million fish have died since the red tide outbreak be ... |
| Palestine wants to join other agencies Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT GENEVA -- It's not just UNESCO: The Palestinians' top envoy in Geneva said Tuesday he believes that joining the U.N. agency for culture, education and science will "open the door" to joining 16 other U.N. agencies within weeks.Ibrahim Khraishi, the t ... |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.A draft summary of an international ... |
| Vote on debt deal roils markets Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:18 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece -- The Greek government teetered and stock markets around the world plummeted Tuesday after a hard-won European plan to save the Greek economy was suddenly thrown into doubt by the prospect of a public vote. One day after Prime Mini ... |
| 956 water systems get conservation limits Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:04 PM PDT AUSTIN -- The historic drought punishing Texas has forced about a fifth of the state's water systems to ask or compel customers to follow water restrictions, while leaving 23 systems with either unknown supply levels or within six months of complet ... |
| Bastrop recovering after fires Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:14 PM PDT By DAVE HARMON Austin American-Statesman BASTROP-- First came the men with the pickup trucks and the fliers, soliciting homeowners who were sifting through the rubble. On their heels came the scrappers, hunting for salvage metal. Then came the de ... |
| Robert A. Caro penning fourth Lyndon B. Johnson book Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:00 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Robert A. Caro's quest to narrate the life of Lyndon Johnson, and document how Johnson handled and created political power, has lasted longer than LBJ's time in government. The Pulitzer Prize winning historian and former Newsday invest ... |
| Michael Jackson doc's defense rests Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:17 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson's doctor finally made a decision he had long delayed, telling a judge Tuesday he would not testify in his involuntary manslaughter trial. Minutes later, the defense rested its case and the prosecution, after present ... |
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