Month: June 2010

ROWLETT, Texas (AP) _ Police in Rowlett

A College Station woman was in Brazos County Jail early Monday after a fight led to a stabbing late Sunday.

UNDATED (AP) _ Theme park operator Six Flags Entertainment says three park executives are leaving the company as part of recent layoffs that the company estimates will save it $16 million a year. It emerged [Read More…]

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) _ Georgetown police are investigating why a man, with his 5-year-old son in his car, drove the vehicle off a boat ramp into a lake, killing them both. The bodies of 31-year-old [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A former head of the U.S. Census Bureau says Texas must do more to prepare preschool-age children before they enter kindergarten so they won’t drop out later. Former state demographer Steve [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ An emergency preparedness task force says Dallas is not ready to deal with a major disaster. The Mass Care Task Force says the city has only 26 percent of the supplies and [Read More…]

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ The nearly $16 million dredging of the Brownsville ship channel is finished. Port of Brownsville spokesman Manuel Ortiz says the dredging, which took about four months, is meant to clear the [Read More…]

The number three administrator at Texas A&M University resigned Friday. The departure of Senior Vice President of Administration Alexander Kemos follows an internal investigation of several misrepresentations of his academic degrees and military service. Click [Read More…]

This is the time of year you hear the warnings about leaving babies and pets inside your locked vehicle with the windows rolled up. In Kingsville, a one year old died after police say she [Read More…]

In November 2008 there was a home invasion in College Station involving drugs that led to gunfire and the arrests of four Bryan men. The first of those accused has pleaded guilty to ten felony [Read More…]