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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
College Station mayor Nancy Berry was a guest on The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, May 16. Click below to hear the full interview with Berry and WTAW’s Scott DeLucia. Nancy Berry, May 16
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Ted Cruz, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, was a guest on The Infomaniacs on Tuesday, May 15. Click below for the full interview with Cruz and WTAW’s Scott DeLucia. Ted Cruz, May 15
Posted by Chace Murphy
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
Polls open Monday for early voting in the May 29 primary. Brazos County voters have five options to cast an early ballot. In Bryan, you can vote at Arena Hall on Tabor Road, the Brazos County Administration Building, or Galilee Baptist Church on Logan Avenue. In College Station, you vote early at the M-S-C on [...]
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
A College Station police sergeant is recovering after an accident late Saturday morning with a drunk driver. Police say Sgt. Leeann Alvarez was inside a police Tahoe near the intersection of Southwest Parkway and the west Rudder Freeway frontage road when a southbound driver ran the red light and hit the SUV. Alvarez was treated [...]
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Some experts say a settlement reached between Texas Comptroller Susan Combs and Amazon.com to end Amazon’s sales tax dispute with the state may be illegal. Austin tax lawyer Buck Wood is former deputy state comptroller and general counsel under the late Comptroller Bob Bullock. He tells the Austin American-Statesman the state [...]
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ The trial of the founder of a South Texas-based cargo airline charged with distributing child pornography is scheduled to open in Brownsville. Robert L. Hedrick goes on trial in federal court on Monday. Prosecutors say Hedrick shared images of child pornography with undercover officers from Louisiana and Wisconsin in online chat [...]
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
CONROE, Texas (AP) _ A car slammed into a pickup truck at a Southeast Texas intersection, killing 3 people and injuring 2 others, 1 critically. The crash early Saturday in Conroe sent the car spinning from the impact, hurling a one of three passengers from the vehicle. Conroe police Sgt. Robert Engel says that person, [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) _ Federal lawmakers have proposed making the victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage eligible for the Purple Heart. A bill introduced in Congress would remove the distinction between international and domestic terrorism, making any military victims of terrorist attacks in the U.S. eligible for the Purple Heart. It’s now [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A university report says a South Texas oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The report on the Eagle Ford shale was released Wednesday by the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute for Economic [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
RICHLAND HILLS, Texas (AP) _ A suburban North Texas couple is under investigation after an 8-year-old second-grader brought a loaded handgun to school. A police statement says the boy tried to put the gun on his classroom desk when it fell to the floor at Richland Elementary School in the Fort Worth suburb of Richland [...]