Month: July 2009

The College Station Fire Department has three new trucks on the road. Chief R.B. Alley says the new equipment was put into service

Every couple of weeks we get an update from the Communications Director at Bryan ISD. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Sandy Farris: Sandy’s prep notes: New graduation requirements take effect this fall. [Read More…]

Junior League of Bryan/College Station is holding their first “Stuff the Bus” event of the summer Friday. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Junior League volunteer Kimberly Winn: The first of three “Stuff [Read More…]

IRVING, Texas (AP) _ Retail gasoline prices dropped an average 3 cents across Texas this week. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump was $2.31 a gallon. The nationwide cost for [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ The 2009 hurricane season has been off to a slow start, but experts say the real activity usually doesn’t begin until August. The early season lull doesn’t necessarily mean a weak overall [Read More…]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ One of the largest custody cases in U.S. history is over. Texas District Judge Barbara Walther on Thursday signed an order giving a relative permanent custody of a 15-year-old girl who [Read More…]

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) _ Oil is washing up on the beach at tourist-popular South Padre Island and the state is trying to figure out the source of the muck. Tar-like blobs as big [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ The man accused of keeping three emaciated children in a hotel bathroom for about a year and sexually assaulting one of them said in an interview from jail that he is a [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Gov. Rick Perry has returned from a Defense Department trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Perry’s office say the governor arrived back in Texas late Wednesday after traveling with the governors of [Read More…]

An on-going dispute with a College Station man has landed two Brenham men in Brazos County Jail.