Month: June 2010

Habitat for Humanity in Bryan/College Station has coordinated the building of new homes for years. A new program has started to assist low-income homeowners with minor exterior repairs, painting, and landscaping. Habitat’s Abby Johnson says [Read More…]

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) _ Convicted killer George Jones insists he wasn’t responsible for a fatal shooting and carjacking that put him on death row with an execution scheduled for Wednesday evening in Huntsville. The 36-year-old [Read More…]

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) _ The Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood wore his military uniform and wheeled himself into his first courtroom appearance. Attorneys for Maj. Nidal Hasan

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ As it did once before, Texas is refusing to apply for federal “Race to the Top” education funds. The state could be eligible for up to $700 million in this second [Read More…]

BASTROP, Texas (AP) _ A former Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission officer has been indicted, accused of raping a 16-year-old who helped him with a sting operation. The state attorney general’s office says 41-year-old Joe Chavez [Read More…]

BOWIE, Texas (AP) _ The publisher of a north Texas semiweekly newspaper is dead after a sport-utility vehicle hit her as she walked her dogs near her Bowie home. Connie Booker Winter was pronounced dead [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Travis County sheriff’s deputies have charged a 26-year-old man with capital murder in the shooting deaths of two men at an Austin-area strip club. The shootings happened in the parking lot [Read More…]

It’s not the economic power it once was, but the latest union contract news involving Alcoa is still being followed in Rockdale. A tentative agreement has been reached between Alcoa and the Steelworkers Union. It [Read More…]

NEW YORK (AP) _ Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell was awarded compensation valued at $963,623 in fiscal 2010. That’s a 54 percent decrease from $2.1 million in the previous year, according to an Associated Press [Read More…]