Month: July 2009

Severe weather

The severe weather has taken a toll on utility service throughout the area. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Carol Roach, Public Information Officer for College Station Utilities: The number to report an [Read More…]

A former Brazos County probation officer took a plea deal

PRIMERA, Texas (AP) _ A search was under way for a 14-year-old Rio Grande Valley girl taken from her front yard. Two masked men jumped from behind trees, dragging Diana Izaguirre into a black car [Read More…]

TYLER, Texas (AP) _ Police say a man killed himself Monday after shooting his ex-girlfriend as she arrived for work at a Tyler hospital. The woman was shot three times near East Texas Medical Center, [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ State Rep. Kino Flores is free on his own recognizance after he was booked Monday into the Travis County jail. The Lower Rio Grande Valley lawmaker is charged with not disclosing [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ Attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford have appealed a federal judge’s decision to deny him bond while awaiting trial on charges he swindled investors out of $7 billion. Stanford’s attorneys on [Read More…]

AUSTIN (AP) _ A newspaper review of disciplinary records finds that the State Board of Dental Examiners is less likely to take disciplinary action against practitioners than the state medical board. The Austin American-Statesman also [Read More…]

A intense night of severe weather in the Brazos Valley that has already seen a pair of tornado warnings as well as severe thunderstorm warnings for Brazos County continues with a flood advisory and a [Read More…]

Extended hot and dry conditions are not helping agricultural producers state wide. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Dr. Travis Miller, Associate Department Head and Extension Program Leader for the Department of Soil [Read More…]