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The City of College Station will activate a newly constructed traffic signal at the intersection of William D. Fitch Pkwy at Lakeway Drive on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. The signal will flash red for all [Read More…]

The City of College Station sent two people and two more supporting letters to testify before the Texas House Urban Affairs Committee last week. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with College Station Traffic [Read More…]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The U.S. recession apparently has taken some of the hassle out of flying. Details come from private researchers in their annual study of airline quality — based on Transportation Department figures. Overall [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A new round of public hearings is scheduled as Texas lawmakers review a controversial plan to tighten voter ID laws. The proposal has already sparked partisan meltdown in the state Senate, [Read More…]

TEMPLE, Texas (AP) _ A Temple man has told sheriff’s investigators that he shot his wife to death nearly 15 years ago. Milton Britt Crowe walked into the Bell County Sheriff’s Department on Friday afternoon [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ The state’s Hispanic students are falling behind educationally, with high school graduation rates lower than average and college enrollment lagging that of black and white students. Hispanics are the fast-growing ethnic group [Read More…]

WHEELER, Texas (AP) _ Firefighters from the Texas-Oklahoma border to the Gulf Coast battled wind-whipped wildfires on Sunday. The largest of those fires, an 15,000-acre blaze near the Panhandle town of Wheeler, destroyed eight homes [Read More…]

DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) _ Two robbery suspects are sought after a stand-off at a Dallas-area store ended with the men fleeing. A Dollar General Store employee who hid in a bathroom throughout the stand-off in [Read More…]

Janice Kemp of the College Station Police Department stopped by the WTAW studios Friday to talk with Chris Clift and Tom Turbiville.

A search for drugs at an apartment in Temple sent three people to the hospital Friday. Sgt. Brad Hunt says officers were serving a drug related search warrant at the Creekside Apartments on H.K. Dodgen [Read More…]