Posted: 1:31 PM Jane Long orchestra teacher Mary McNeel was surprised by a team from Office Max in their "A Day Made Better" promotion.

Posted: 1:18 PM It's fair season across the Brazos Valley and that means plenty of county fair royalty as well. This gem is from our friends over at KWHI in Brenham

Posted: 1:09 PM The family of Montgomery County's sole remaining survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor paid tribute to the patriarch with a flag dedication ceremony Wednesday.

Posted: 4:32 PM TAMU quarterback Johnny Manziel helped rescue a cat from the middle of a College Station road.

Updated: 4:34 PM Bianca, the 11-year-old MCSO drug dog, is officially retired from active duty after nearly seven years of service. Suffering from arthritis, she will live out the rest of her life with former partner, now owner, Deputy Tom Thompson.

Updated: 4:34 PM It takes a lot of volunteers to help out abused and neglected children in our community and Voices for Children just announced how much hard work was put in this fiscal year by those generous people.

Posted: 4:48 PM International Data Group’s Computerworld Honors Program, at their annual awards program on June 4th in Washington D.C., presented the City of Bryan’s Information Technology Department with a 2012 Honors Laureate Medallion for Collaboration for their technology support of the Brazos Valley Child Abduction Response Team.

Posted: 5:46 PM A young rider is heading to Colorado this month for a national competition.

Posted: 9:00 PM A proposal on novel vehicular natural gas storage led by Texas A&M University chemist Hongcai Joe Zhou is one of 13 selected nationwide to share in a total of $30 million awarded through the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to ignite American natural gas energy research and identify new ways to capitalize on the country's vast related reserves.

Posted: 4:43 PM Aggieland Credit Union, on June 19, 2012, presented Hannah Trejo with a $1000 scholarship check to attend Texas A&M University for the upcoming fall 2012 semester.

Updated: 6:43 PM The Texas A&M University Police Department (UPD) is honored to announce that Senior Police Officer Donny Ohana has been awarded “Officer of the Year.”

Updated: 7:24 PM Blinn College History Professor and Social Sciences Division Chair Blanche Brick recently published an entry on American education reformer Horace Mann for The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers published by Continuum Books.

Posted: 5:07 PM Greg Goudeau will compete in the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship June 15 and 16.

Posted: 12:38 PM The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries announced that 238 school libraries are being awarded $1,126,315 in grants for 2012. The schools receive grants of up to $5,000 to expand, update and diversify their library book collections.

Updated: 6:36 PM 2012 A&M Consolidated High School graduate Alexander Zietsman has never missed a day of school.

Updated: 6:41 PM Audrey Brewton, 7, made more than lemonade when she turned her “Lemonade Dreams” stand into a fund-raiser for the Alzheimer’s Association on May 6.

Updated: 6:47 PM A new ranking in the just published A Review of Fifty Public University Honors Programs puts the Texas A&M University Honors Program in the top spot in the category of “Schools with Engineering Focus.”

Updated: 6:19 PM A&M Consolidated High School students Lisa Hsiao and Rebecca Stark advanced the national Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) contest via top performances at the recent state competition.

Updated: 6:34 PM A&M Consolidated High School’s newspaper, The Roar, was recently awarded the Silver Star from the Interscholastic League Press Conference (ILPC), placing the newspaper in the top five percent of scholastic newspapers in Texas.

Updated: 6:31 PM Blinn College set a new enrollment record with 1,335 students enrolled in the May minimester.

Updated: 6:26 PM A team of eleven 6th to 8th graders are among Davilia Middle School's Kickstart Kids Demo Team. The team has ranked in the top three positions in 21 of their 22 recent competitions.

Updated: 6:37 PM Four Sam Houston State University employees who have demonstrated excellence in service, commitment, meritorious performance and a high level of motivation have been selected as recipients of the 2012 Staff Excellence Award.

Posted: 4:49 PM Two members of the Prairie View A&M University Department of Public Safety were honored this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigations for their work in a recent terrorism case.

Posted: 4:48 PM The Blinn College Foundation recently received a donation from the family and friends of Auggie Babbitt to establish a $22,000 endowed scholarship.

Updated: 7:14 PM The Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) School of Rural Public Health inducted an honorary member, faculty member, nine students and nine alumni into the local Alpha Tau chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health at a luncheon in their honor May 4 at Veritas Wine and Bistro.