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- Christmas Downtown
- Medical staff ready for Bryan-College Station marathon
- Police: Woman offered wedding ring to have husband killed
- BCS Marathon highlights
- Woman accused of trying to hire hitman
- ABC's 'Extreme Makeover Home Edition' to feature Bastrop family
- Region's first hospice to host open house Sunday
- Animal shelters offering special adoption fees for holidays
- Time to kick some trash
- Alleged shooter out on reduced bond
- Atheists seek OK for banner for Christmas display
- B-CS mayors battle to aid Salvation Army
- Video shows missing American alive
- Teen gets 20 years for Wylie fatal beating in yard
- Texas school districts sue state over education funding
- High court halts new Texas electoral maps
- History of poverty preceded welfare shooting
- Britain casts lone 'no' vote on new EU treaty
- Review: Mistreatment of wild horses was humane
- Virginia Tech shooter identified
- UN struggles to ink climate deal
- 'X Factor' judge booed after controversial call
- Rabbi to become Army chaplain
- Large Vietnamese church set to open in Arlington
- Faith calendar
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST Dressed as a Christmas present, Christopher Martinez waves from the back of a float moving down Main Street at the Downtown Christmas Parade in Bryan on Friday.   |
| Medical staff ready for Bryan-College Station marathon Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST It wasn't until a month ago that Scott & White learned that Bryan-College Station's marathon Sunday was expected to have three times as many runners than organizers had originally planned for. "We set up a big meeting, and asked, 'How do you ... |
| Police: Woman offered wedding ring to have husband killed Posted: 09 Dec 2011 12:48 AM PST Brazos County law enforcement officials arrested a 53-year-old woman in Bryan early Friday on a warrant for attempting to hire someone to kill her husband. Nancy Mancucso Gelber of Bryan was arrested at 2 a.m. on a warrant for solicitation to commit ... |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST * Both the marathon and half-marathon will begin at 7 a.m. at Wolf Pen Creek in College Station. * 1,500-plus participants are expected. Both races are sold out. * Aid stations will be every 1.5 miles. Volunteers will dispense water and sports d ... |
| Woman accused of trying to hire hitman Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST A 53-year-old Bryan woman who attempted to hire an undercover officer to kill her husband remained in the Brazos County Jail Friday night on $75,000 bail. Nancy Mancuso Gelber was arrested at 2 a.m. Friday at a friend's home at The Grove Apartmen ... |
| ABC's 'Extreme Makeover Home Edition' to feature Bastrop family Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST The family of a volunteer firefighter whose house was consumed by the Labor Day fires in Bastrop will be receiving a new home courtesy of ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The Texas Engineering Extension Service and student volunteers at Texas ... |
| Region's first hospice to host open house Sunday Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:18 PM PST For three decades, Hospice Brazos Valley nurses and caretakers have been making house visits to terminally ill patients who turn to them in their last hour. Hospice workers say their goal is to help patients live life to the fullest until the las ... |
| Animal shelters offering special adoption fees for holidays Posted: 09 Dec 2011 06:14 AM PST Eagle Staff Report Bryan-College Station animal shelters are offering special adoption rates for animals this month, and people can also raise funds for a shelter by getting pet photos with Santa this weekend. PetSmart, 1505 University Drive, will ... |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST Navasota -- Superheroes visited a Navasota elementary school Friday. Their mission: Teach students how to become litter-savvy. The superhero team, the Litter Force, taught the John C. Webb Elementary students the importance of throwing garbage in ... |
| Alleged shooter out on reduced bond Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:18 PM PST Eagle Staff Report A 43-year-old Bryan man accused of shooting at an off-duty police officer was released from jail Thursday after his bond was reduced from $200,000 to $105,000. Motorcyclist Sonny Alan Holligan was arrested on Oct. 26 for aggrava ... |
| Atheists seek OK for banner for Christmas display Posted: 09 Dec 2011 12:05 AM PST ATHENS -- A national atheist foundation plans to seek permission to hoist its own banner to join secular and religious Christmas displays on an East Texas courthouse square.The display surrounding the Henderson County Courthouse in Athens includes a ... |
| B-CS mayors battle to aid Salvation Army Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:18 PM PST The mayors of Bryan and College Station will be competing against one another this Saturday in a competition to raise the most money for the Salvation Army. Mayor Jason Bienski will be at the Bryan Walmart from noon until 1 p.m. Saturday ringing the ... |
| Video shows missing American alive Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Christine Levinson had endured nearly four years of despair since her husband, Robert, disappeared in Iran. Every glimmer of hope in the U.S. government's search for him had faded away, every optimistic lead had ended with disappointmen ... |
| Teen gets 20 years for Wylie fatal beating in yard Posted: 09 Dec 2011 12:05 AM PST McKINNEY -- A North Texas teen has been sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison for the fatal beating of a man during an argument about reckless driving.A judge in McKinney on Thursday sentenced 18-year-old Seth Dorris of Wylie, a day after convi ... |
| Texas school districts sue state over education funding Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST AUSTIN -- A coalition of about 120 property-wealthy Texas school districts sued the state Friday, alleging that its system of paying for public education is inadequate and unconstitutional. Six school districts, ranging from Lewisville and Richar ... |
| High court halts new Texas electoral maps Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST HOUSTON -- Texas' March primary will likely be delayed after the Supreme Court on Friday blocked the use of state legislative and congressional district maps that were drawn by federal judges.The court issued a brief order late Friday that applies to ... |
| History of poverty preceded welfare shooting Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST LAREDO -- In one of the poorest counties in the U.S., neighbors still pitied Rachelle Grimmer and her children. Grimmer would walk down the highway after midnight and beg closing crews at restaurants for food they planned to throw away. Her children, ... |
| Britain casts lone 'no' vote on new EU treaty Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST BRUSSELS -- Working almost to exhaustion and persuading countries one by one, European leaders agreed Friday to redefine their continent -- hoping that by joining their fiscal fortunes they might stop a crippling debt crisis, save the euro currency ... |
| Review: Mistreatment of wild horses was humane Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST RENO, Nev.-- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada found some mustangs were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, b ... |
| Virginia Tech shooter identified Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A dean's list student who killed a Virginia Tech police officer had no ties to the university and did not know the patrolman, authorities said Friday without offering a motive for a crime spree that spanned two days and ended in ... |
| UN struggles to ink climate deal Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST DURBAN, South Africa -- Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world's poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling against an unlikely allia ... |
| 'X Factor' judge booed after controversial call Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST NEW YORK -- Declaring herself unable to choose between two rival contestants, an X Factor judge cast her vote against Rachel Crow in an emotion-filled scene Thursday that led to the young singer collapsing onstage and the studio audience booing the j ... |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An Orthodox Jewish rabbi who was barred from serving as an Army chaplain because he refused to shave the beard required by his faith has won his legal fight against the military and will be sworn in Friday. Rabbi Menachem ... |
| Large Vietnamese church set to open in Arlington Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST By ROBERT CADWALLADER Fort Worth Star-Telegram ARLINGTON -- Grandeur counts when building a Vietnamese church, especially when the current place of worship is a converted Food Lion grocery store. "A church's size and quality is basically the best ... |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST Saturday * First Christian Church, 900 South Ennis in Bryan, will host an Advent dinner with a gathering at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Music will be provided by the Korean Christian Orchestra. For more information call 823-5451 or visit www.firs ... |
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