Authorities continue to collect information from storms that hit the Brazos Valley Friday night. Brazos County Emergency Management Coordinator Chuck Frazier tells victims who have not filed a damage report to call 979-361-3888. Frazier says in Brazos County they received no damage reports from possible tornadoes. Over six inches of rain Friday night and Saturday [...]
Officials at Texas A&M University report a continuation of record enrollment. Spring headcount of 46,717 represents an increase of 295 compared to last year. President Bowen Loftin told those attending the recent Chamber of Commerce Economic Outlook Conference A&M is looking to grow in two specific areas, junior transfers and graduate students in specific areas. [...]
Tongue in cheek, if you live in College Station and you’re not interested in the glitz and glamour of local elected office, there’s still a place for you. City spokesman Jay Socol says recruitment is underway for openings on advisory boards and committees. Socol says there are 39 vacancies on 10 boards. Comments from Jay Socol. [...]
HOUSTON (AP) _ A fugitive described by the FBI as being a “tall, dark and handsome bandit” has been accused of holding up two banks this week in Texas. Bank surveillance photos provided Friday show a suspect, believed to be the same man, with sunglasses atop his head during robberies in Houston and Beaumont. Investigators [...]
Weather likely played a part in a one-vehicle crash Thursday that killed a Burleson County man. Authorities say Edwin Moravec was southbound on Texas 36 near Lyons when he lost control of his pickup and crashed into a storm drain. Moravec, 84, was pronounced dead at Burleson-St. Joseph in Caldwell. He was wearing his seat [...]
NEW YORK (AP) _ Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the renowned breast-cancer charity, is facing an escalating backlash over its decision to halt breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Some of Komen’s local affiliates are openly troubled, and at least one top official has quit, reportedly in protest. Dallas-based Komen has been deluged with negative [...]
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) _ A military judge has delayed the murder trial for the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage until June. Attorneys for Maj. Nidal Hasan argued Thursday they didn’t have all the evidence they needed to be ready for the March trial. Prosecutors insisted they didn’t need more time, [...]
HOUSTON (AP) _ The first major metropolitan area in Texas is emerging from the state’s historic drought. The U.S. Drought Monitor’s weekly map posted Thursday classifies the Dallas-Fort Worth area as being not in drought for the first time since July. Texas has been in the grips of the most severe one-year drought in state [...]
DALLAS (AP) _ A Dallas teenager deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was misidentified as an illegal Colombian immigrant. In a recent television interview, 15-year-old Jakadrien Turner said she tried repeatedly to convince Houston police she had lied when she initially identified herself to [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Houston trial lawyer Jason Gibson has dropped out of the Democratic primary race for the U.S. Senate. In a statement released Thursday, Gibson says he is endorsing former state Rep. Paul Sadler for the Democratic nomination. Gibson said he is a strong supporter of organized labor and did not want to [...]
