Bill Oliver 06:03 pm | There should be just as much excitement about research at Texas A&M University as there is about Aggie football. That was among the first things told to local business leaders Wednesday by Jeff Seeman is the chief research officer for the flagship campus and the A&M System. Seeman told the…

Bill Oliver 05:48 pm | Approaching it’s 40th anniversary, a major facelift is underway at a Bryan mobile home park. The city council at its last meeting gave preliminary approval to rezoning allowing the new owner of Finfeather Acres to add recreational vehicles and mini-storage units. The attorney representing Finfeather Acres, Chris Peterson, says the…

Chelsea Reber 04:46 pm | Texas Rangers are investigating the death of a Leon County Jail inmate, John French, 37, of Normangee. At approximately 12:50 a.m. on February 21, 2012 Leon County Jail employees conducting hourly checks of inmates, found French, hanging in a single inmate cell.  He was found with a bed sheet knotted around his…

Chelsea Reber 06:35 pm | As the 2012 Girl Scout cookie season comes to a close, local members are completing their annual campaign to give those in the military a taste of home. Girl Scouts in Bryan and College Station have been part of ”Operation Cookie” for several years.  But 2012 marks the first time members will deliver cookies to the…

Chelsea Reber 05:46 pm | HOUSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review appeals from two Texas death row inmates, including a man who suffocated a 2-year-old Utah girl on Christmas Day 1997 and buried her in a suitcase near Houston. Britt Ripkowski was condemned for the slaying of Dominque Frome. Evidence…