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COLLEGE STATION — Gatesville coach Kyle Cooper would have done just about everything differently. Trailing Cameron Yoe by five with five minutes remaining, Cooper would have milked the clock. He would have gotten behind his big, physical offensive linemen and run counter plays.

For more than 250 participating students, the beginning of the summer won't be spent re-adjusting to the luminescent light of the television screen.

The State Comptroller's Office released statistics Friday for Texas sales tax rebates in June, showing Killeen with a sharp decrease and Harker Heights with a steady ascension.

It's a good weekend to stay indoors. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a heat advisory in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday for Bell County and much of North Central Texas.

Gov. Rick Perry appointed long-time Lampasas resident Gail Lowe as the new chairwoman of the State Board of Education Friday. She replaces Don McLeroy, R-Bryan, an ardent creationist whose re-nomination was rejected by the Texas Senate this spring.

McLennan County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man in China Spring on Saturday afternoon after a four-hour standoff.

Three motorcycle riders died and three other people were injured in a five-vehicle collision Saturday morning in Corsicana.

Coach Carter’s Impact Academy in Marlin is one of a few glimmers of hope for a community beset by struggling schools, poverty, crime and crumbling infrastructure.

Local hospital officials are cautiously optimistic that a deal brokered by their industry groups will help facilitate health care reform while still safeguarding their budgets.

MARLIN — In this hard-luck town, Coach Ken Carter is about to take his biggest gamble yet.

By DONNIS BAGGETTThis may be an odd question to ask in the middle of a heat wave, but I'll ask it anyway: Can't we all just chill a little?Chilling may not be an option weather-wise, but Our Town would be a better place if we all took a chill pill an ...

Sitting in the room he shares with three other troubled teens, a 16-year-old explained how his time at a residential treatment center had taught him the word no and the importance of recognizing the consequences of his actions."It's changed my life ...

A Bryan man was in jail Saturday, accused of setting his family's home on fire.Bryan Fire Department investigators believe Robert Brandon Sawyer doused the back deck of his mother's East 25th Street home with gasoline and set it on fire July 1.Sawyer ...

-- Eagle staff reportAuthorities said an alert bank teller who suspected a check was forged helped Bryan police officers recover a stolen purse.A Citibank employee told officers Friday that Chrystal and Steven Bice had been in earlier that day and ca ...

Buffalo Results of the Buffalo Livestock Commission's June 27 sale: Head: 1,711Steers: 150-200 lbs., $95-$125; 200-300 lbs., $95-$123; 300-400 lbs., $95-$122; 400-500 lbs., $85-$115; 500-600 lbs., $85-$99; 600-700 lbs., $84-$96; 700-800 lbs., $81-$92 ...

A man caught burglarizing a woman's home barricaded himself in a truck leading to more than 4-hour long standoff.

Recreational divers have discovered skeletal remains on the bottom of a Central Texas lake.

A former Texas radio talk show host has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to charges in an assault on his fiancée.

A couple that was part of the alleged love triangle in the case of former astronaut Lisa Nowak are getting married.

One person died and three others were injured when a public transit bus rear-ended two cars on a busy Texas interstate highway.

Associated Press - July 12, 2009 6:03 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, in an op-ed piece, is urging Americans to have patience with the stimulus plan.

Associated Press - July 12, 2009 5:13 AM ET MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Carlos is heading west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean and is expected to get stronger.

Associated Press - July 12, 2009 4:43 AM ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA will decide this morning whether to try again today to launch space shuttle Endeavour.

Associated Press - July 12, 2009 3:53 AM ET ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - Families lined up at a cemetery in Alsip, Ill., to learn if remains of their loved ones have been disturbed in an alleged scheme...

Associated Press - July 12, 2009 3:13 AM ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's legislative leaders say they are making steady progress on the state's $26.3...

Authorities in College Station arrested two suspects Saturday in what they say was a violent home invasion. Charges against a third suspect are pending.

A private prison company with a history of problems in Texas has caught the attention of state officials with a $7.5 million contract to run a new psychiatric hospital near Houston.

Round Rock Stony Point's John Howell intercepted a pass in his end zone and returned it for a touchdown in a 33-31 win over Cypress Fairbanks in the 7-on-7 Division I championship game Saturday.

Authorities say three people were killed and three others injured when a pickup plowed head-on into a group of motorcycles during a charity ride.

Firefighters Saturday night battled a forest fire north of Huntsville.

Mark Oler will portray John Dillinger in a re-enactment of the gangster’s death scheduled for July 22 in Belton. (Courtesy photo) BELTON - A casting call for the crowd in a re-enactment of the 1934 shooting death of John Dillinger is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at 208 E. Sixth Ave. in Belton, across from H-E-B.

BELTON - The 20-year-old Killeen woman jailed for leaving her 1-year-old son locked inside a dangerously hot car is out on bail. Sarah Lowelle Traylor was released on Monday after more than a week in jail. She posted bail through the Bell County Personal Bond Department.

Kristy Lohr, left, holds Zeke, her certified therapy dog, so Liam Macal, a Scott & White Children’s Hospital patient, can pet him. Zeke has been visiting patients twice a week.

WASHINGTON - Eat less, live longer? It seems to work for monkeys: A 20-year study found cutting calories by almost a third slowed their aging and fended off death.

A 60-year-old woman from Temple is the first person from Bell County to die of H1N1 influenza, the Bell County Public Health District reported Thursday. The health district does not have more details on the death at this time.

Temple College will host a Family and Student Orientation and Information Night for new, returning, and prospective students and their families tonight.

“I come back bearing money.” With those words, Gandolf Burrus of Grant Development Services confirmed what Cameron City Manager Ricky Tow told the city council at an earlier meeting.

The horns from the passing trains may have interrupted them, but they couldn’t stop the enthusiastic speakers at Saturday’s unveiling of a new historic marker at the Milam County Courthouse.

The third case of H1N1 flu was reported in Milam County this week by the Department of State Health Services and that total is expected to rise in the coming months a Milam County Health Department representative said.

Alumni from O.J. Thomas School will be in Cameron for their annual Homecoming celebration Aug. 7-9. And the group wants to make sure the city knows it has not been, and will not be, involved in activities outside the school campus.

The double suicide of the Rev. Eldon Earl Johnson, 69, and his wife, Linda Kay, 61, on the train tracks in Henrietta was particularly shocking because of the key role the Johnsons played in helping nearby Ringgold rise from the ashes after nearly being destroyed by wildfires three years ago.

Cameras rolled as the SWAT team stormed into Carlton Marshall's house near Lancaster to demolish the house so the ABC reality TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and local builder Cheldan Homes can build him a new one.

The $33 million glass building - an architectural cross between a mall and an executive office - houses a full-service restaurant, a bank, a courtroom, a convenience store and a broadcast studio.

FORT WORTH - Two weeks after a heated sweep of the gay Rainbow Lounge left one patron with a serious head injury, a key question is left unanswered: Did the raid go too far?

Just about every weekday morning, a bus pulls in front of Annie Dorsey's home near Fair Park and takes her a few blocks to the Martin Luther King Center, where she gets a hot meal and a chance to visit with friends she's made over the last few years.

The governor of oil-rich Jonglei state in southern Sudan is struggling to rebuild as the decades-long civil war in the country has come to an end, at least for the time being.

Selestino Torres, 23, charged with murder in the Monday shooting death of Michelle Lira, was found Saturday night.

It is unknown if alcohol played a role in the crash.

The driver, identified as Gerald Partida, 38, was driving a brown GMC pickup truck west in the 7000 block of State Highway 225 at a high speed around 1:13 a.m. when he crashed into a guardrail, authorities said.

Not only do investigators say they have recently uncovered millions of dollars of health care fraud in the Houston area, but they also allege large sums of this stolen money may have been shipped out of the country.