Month: August 2010

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A review of records indicates an Austin condominium’s second-story balcony that collapsed, injuring 26 party goers, was not built according to city code. A permit also was not secured to build [Read More…]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) _ It’s a good thing this Nina didn’t make the original voyage to the New World. A replica of one of the ships used by explorer Christopher Columbus sprung a leak [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ An insurance claim helped police find a driver accused over the May 19 hit-and-run death of a Marine on layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Irving police say 44-year-old Richard Dean of [Read More…]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A banner about the Battle of the Alamo could soon grace the side of a towering building in San Antonio. A proposal for a 13-story banner heralding the 175th anniversary of [Read More…]

There was a drowning Monday at Gibbons Creek Lake. The Grimes County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as 63 year old Calvin Offord of Simonton. An autopsy will be done by the Travis County Medical [Read More…]

A longtime College Station resident is the first to file for the unexpired city council position left with the June death of Larry Stewart. Jana McMillan has announced her candidacy, adding she was intending to [Read More…]

All public schools in Texas play by the same state rules when it comes to determining accountability ratings…which in many cases improves the campus classification. Individual campus ratings receive the Texas Projection Measure, which College [Read More…]

News release and photograph courtesy of the Texas A&M University Health Science Center: Monica Wendel, Dr.P.H., has been named director of the Center for Community Health Development (CCHD) at the Texas A&M Health Science Center [Read More…]

ATLANTA (AP) _ The University of Georgia has won a national title this year _ top party school. The Princeton Review announced Monday that Georgia is ranked the country’s No. 1 party school its now [Read More…]