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- Blocker Building closed for business
- College Station considers using hotel taxes to attract sporting events
- Blocker building flooded on Texas A&M campus
- Pregnant dog's litter gets a pardon
- Agundiz guilty of engaging in criminal activity
- Agundiz found guilty of engaging in criminal activity
- Slain Aggie's spirit lives on in documentary
- Off-duty UPD officer's eye-witness account leads to arrest
- Texas redistricting talks reportedly stalled
- Texas town running out of water
- Mitt Romney enjoying Florida lead
- Monkey owners hiding out in Texas
- Veterinarians look to pets to advance cancer research
- Everglades python population worrying officials
- Destructive Oakland protest breaks Occupy lull
- Senator's stroke part of a grim trend — younger victims
- Syrian violence puts pressure on Russia
- GOP legislatures targeting state income taxes
- ABC, Volkswagen take TV ads to a new level
- Big 12 race tightens up as teams pass midway mark
- Big 12 race tightens up as teams pass midway mark
- David Alan Grier shrugs off 'Porgy' criticisms
- Letters for January 31
- Calendar
- Spurs hand Grizzlies 4th straight loss, 83-73
| Blocker Building closed for business Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST Workers sweep and squeegee out gallons of water from the first floor lobby of the Blocker Building on the Texas A&M campus, which suffered extensive water damage due to flooding after a 4-inch water line burst on the second floor Monday morning. ...   |
| College Station considers using hotel taxes to attract sporting events Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST For most of the past decade, the city of College Station stowed away money collected from its hotel occupancy tax in hopes of building a convention center on University Drive. But after negative voter feedback and unfavorable market conditions, t ... |
| Blocker building flooded on Texas A&M campus Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:53 AM PST Hundreds of students were evacuated from the Blocker Building on the Texas A&M University campus Monday morning due to flooding from a 4-inch pipe that burst on the second floor, sending water down through the walls and into the main lobby. All c ... |
| Pregnant dog's litter gets a pardon Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST Pancake will be a mother after all. When Melissa Floyd adopted the Shih Tzu from the Bryan Animal Center this month, she didn't realize the dog was pregnant. The city-run animal shelter's requirement to have the dog spayed within 30 days of adoptio ... |
| Agundiz guilty of engaging in criminal activity Posted: 30 Jan 2012 03:06 AM PST UPDATE: "Marco" Cabrera Antonio Agundiz has been found guilty of engaging in criminal activity, and the trial is proceeding with the punishment phase. Prosecutors plan to rest their case by the end of the day. ____ A Brazos County jury broke for d ... |
| Agundiz found guilty of engaging in criminal activity Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST Brazos County jurors are expected to begin deliberations Tuesday in the punishment phase of an engaging in criminal activity case of a 28-year-old man who faces life in prison for his involvement in a 2008 gang shooting. "Marco" Cabrera Antonio A ... |
| Slain Aggie's spirit lives on in documentary Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST Rufus Stephens Jr. excitedly jumped up and down, all 6 foot 4 inches and 240 pounds of him, when relaying tales about fish he caught on the scenic War Eagle Creek in Arkansas. "I can still picture him now," said his stepmother, Rebecca Stephens. ... |
| Off-duty UPD officer's eye-witness account leads to arrest Posted: 30 Jan 2012 12:05 AM PST Authorities said two Brazos Valley residents attempted somewhat different tactics when trying — but failing — to steal merchandise from local Walmart stores over the weekend. A 36-year-old woman tried to walk out of the Colleg ... |
| Texas redistricting talks reportedly stalled Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST SAN ANTONIO -- Negotiations between minority groups and Texas officials in a lengthy clash over new political districts appeared stalled Monday as both sides prepared to argue in Washington over whether the Republican-drawn maps violate the federal ... |
| Texas town running out of water Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST AUSTIN -- A Central Texas village that's become the state's first community to run out of water due to a punishing drought will have water trucked in by the Lower Colorado River Authority, officials said Monday. Agency spokeswoman Clara Tuma said ... |
| Mitt Romney enjoying Florida lead Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST MIAMI -- Cheered by new polls, Mitt Romney is all but predicting victory in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary. Newt Gingrich is looking past Florida to regroup, vowing he won't stay buried long. "With a turnout like this, I'm beginning to ... |
| Monkey owners hiding out in Texas Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:03 PM PST NEAR THE TEXAS-LOUISIANA LINE -- Even in their Texas hideout, Jim and Donita Clark are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years ... |
| Veterinarians look to pets to advance cancer research Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST Houston Chronicle HOUSTON -- Leading Texas veterinarians are mobilizing to enlist pets in the testing of experimental cancer therapies, a potential benefit to not just dogs and cats but people. The veterinarians recently set up a registry they hope ... |
| Everglades python population worrying officials Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A burgeoning population of huge pythons -- many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big -- appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Eve ... |
| Destructive Oakland protest breaks Occupy lull Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST OAKLAND, Calif. -- It started peacefully enough: A midday rally at City Hall and a march. But as the day wore on, Oakland was hit by the most turbulent protests in weeks as Occupy demonstrators clashed repeatedly with police, leaving more than 400 ... |
| Senator's stroke part of a grim trend — younger victims Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST WASHINGTON -- When a stroke hits at 52, like what happened to Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, the reaction is an astonished, "But he's so young." The reality is that strokes don't just happen to grandma. They can happen at any age, even to children -- ... |
| Syrian violence puts pressure on Russia Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST BEIRUT -- Syrian forces pushed dissident troops back from the edge of Damascus in heavy fighting Monday, escalating efforts to take back control of the capital's eastern doorstep ahead of key U.N. talks over a draft resolution demanding that Presid ... |
| GOP legislatures targeting state income taxes Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST OKLAHOMA CITY -- A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative's dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes. The idea ha ... |
| ABC, Volkswagen take TV ads to a new level Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST NEW YORK -- Frankie Heck settled into the driver's seat of a new Volkswagen on a recent episode of ABC's The Middle, caressing the steering wheel as celestial music played. Her face was a mask of such pure pleasure that you almost wanted to avert y ... |
| Big 12 race tightens up as teams pass midway mark Posted: 30 Jan 2012 01:18 PM PST Kansas coach Bill Self is sticking by the prediction he made back in October, before the season began and long before the Big 12 race started heating up. Four losses will still mean a chance to win the league. Three may be good enough to do it out ... |
| Big 12 race tightens up as teams pass midway mark Posted: 30 Jan 2012 01:18 PM PST Kansas coach Bill Self is sticking by the prediction he made back in October, before the season began and long before the Big 12 race started heating up. Four losses will still mean a chance to win the league. Three may be good enough to do it out ... |
| David Alan Grier shrugs off 'Porgy' criticisms Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST NEW YORK -- David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece. "Relax. Let it go," he says. "We're not killing it. We're just doing our version." The actor ... |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST Will Bryan ban all those weathered gray fences? So Bryan, the land of mile upon mile of unpainted, weathered and leaning board fences, is concerned that someone might use a bright color (Like maybe some of those people who aren't from around here? ... |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST Mark Your Calendar Feb. 10 is the online registration deadline for the Ranger Run for Fisher House Race set for Feb. 11 at Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Park. The entry fee is $25 for the 1-mile Family Fun Run or 5K race and $30 for the 10K race. ... |
| Spurs hand Grizzlies 4th straight loss, 83-73 Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Matt Bonner scored 15 points, going 5 of 9 from outside the arc, and Tim Duncan added 14 points as the San Antonio Spurs sent Memphis to its fourth straight loss with a 83-73 victory over the Grizzlies on Monday night.Rookie Kawhi L ... |
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