Month: March 2010

The College Station ISD Board of Trustees is giving residents one more chance to voice their opinion on rezoning issues. The public forum is

A former U.S. Marine has been found not guilty on both counts in the Northgate stabbing trial.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ The New Orleans coroner says a Houston energy executive drowned in the Mississippi River, and apparently hit his forehead as he fell from a steamboat dock. Dr. Frank Minyard said Wednesday [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ Dallas police say a former city attorney accused of shooting a father and son inside their financial business has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse said Robert Mustard [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The politically shifting State Board of Education has opened discussion of new social studies curriculum standards that could affect the publishing of textbooks nationwide. The board started their three-day meeting Wednesday. [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ State sales tax collections were down 8.8 percent in February, compared with the same month a year ago. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said Wednesday that the state collected $1.6 billion in [Read More…]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) _ A former employee of a state facility for the developmentally disabled accused of sanctioning fights among residents has pleaded guilty midway through his Corpus Christi trial. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times [Read More…]

FERRIS, Texas (AP) _ An American woman accused of inciting foreign terrorism was twice arrested in Texas on misdemeanor public intoxication charges. An investigator with the Ferris police department in rural Texas said Wednesday that [Read More…]