HOUSTON (AP) _ Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has ordered a troubled Houston-area school district to close and be absorbed by the neighboring Houston Independent School District. Scott’s order shuts the 7,600-student North Forest Independent [Read More…]
HOUSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says all 136 Texas plants and refineries operating with permits that violated the Clean Air Act have applied for new paperwork. The EPA ruled last year the [Read More…]
TYLER, Texas (AP) _ An East Texas prison inmate who confessed to threatening the life of President Barack Obama and the First Family has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison. U.S. Attorney John [Read More…]
SNYDER, Texas (AP) _ Residents of a small West Texas town gathered outside the town’s courthouse to pray as a police officer fights for his life after he was shot in the head. The Tuesday [Read More…]
Texas A&M women’s basketball head coach Gary Blair and members of the 2011 NCAA National Championship team are in for a treat this week. Blair, Adaora Elonu, Sydney Carter and Maryann Baker will walk the [Read More…]
WTAW’s Bill Oliver visits with Marco Maina (MY-nuh) the new Executive Director of B/CS Habitat For Humanity.
The Brazos Animal Shelter got most of what it wanted from the City of Bryan to continue housing strays for the next 15 years. Much of the shelter leadership and employees watched then applauded the [Read More…]
City and school board elections in Brazos County may be moving to November starting next year. That follows presentations by City Secretaries in College Station and Bryan to their respective city councils on Tuesday. Both [Read More…]
It’s a big week for the local Habitat for Humanity program. A new Executive Director is in town, in time to celebrate Habitat’s 200th home and renovated offices. The background of new director Marco Maina [Read More…]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ Preliminary autopsy results show that a 2-year-old South Texas boy died after swallowing gasoline. Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio revealed the results Tuesday of the autopsy on Leonardo Silva, who died [Read More…]
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