Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski on WTAW

The Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB) has announced WTAW has received six first place awards and is a finalist for six more awards for our news and sports coverage from 2024. WTAW competes in the Texas Broadcast News Awards (TBNA) radio division outside the major markets of Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. WTAW was recognized for The Infomaniacs as best local talk show, continuing coverage of the efforts to recruit a semiconductor manufacturing and research facility to the RELLIS campus, the best beat coverage for our reporting of Texas A&M and the A&M system, the best news anchor, the best sportscast, and the best use of audio. WTAW is a finalist for best newscast, best reporter, coverage of the November 2024 election returns, light feature, serious feature, and overall excellence. Those winners will be announced at the TBNA awards banquet in April. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A program on Bryan Broadcasting’s Magic 97.3 is honored again by the Texas Gospel Music Excellence Awards. Gloria Cooks’ Paradise Gospel Express won this year’s award for radio station of the year. The Paradise Gospel Express can be heard Sunday afternoons from one until three. Cooks has hosted her programs on KAGC, which is now “Aggieland’s R&B and Throwbacks”, since February 1989.

Brazos County commissioners unanimously approve a new agreement with Blinn College allowing Blinn nursing students to get training hours at county facilities. The commission’s chief of staff, Ed Bull, said Blinn nursing students will be clinical hours at the county’s employee clinic, the jail, and the juvenile detention center. Before the unanimous vote at the commission’s February 25th meeting, commissioner Fred Brown hoped Blinn graduates would consider a full time job with Brazos County, in hopes of eliminating a contract with an Arizona based company. Click HERE to read and download the agreement that was approved at the February 25, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Click below to hear comments from the February 25, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.  

Gunfire outside a Bryan apartment complex Saturday night (March 1) struck an undercover Bryan police officer twice in the arm. BPD arrest reports also say one of 10 to 15 shots that were fired went through an apartment. Two adults and a child who were in the apartment were not hit. The officer was treated at a local hospital and released for wounds near a wrist and below an elbow. The accused shooter, 18 year old Quincy McMiller of Bryan, told a detective he was not aware he shot an officer. As of Monday (March 3), Quincy McMiller remains in jail with no bond set following his arrest for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of deadly conduct by discharging a firearm. BPD arrest reports say the gunfire took place after the officer got out of an unmarked pickup to follow McMiller, who was holding a gun. After the gunfire, McMiller and three others ran away. All four were caught with the assistance of a drone. 17 year old Qwanell McMiller of Bryan is out of jail after posting a $4,000 dollar bond on a charge of evading arrest. Two juveniles, whose ages and genders were not released, were also charged with resisting arrest. One of the juveniles was also charged with possessing an undisclosed amount of a controlled substance.