Updated: 6:50 PM An airport in our area will have its tower remain open despite the FAA's plans to close its doors, but it's not Easterwood Airport at Texas A&M.

Updated: 8:44 AM It's not everyday you get to see a tank from World War II, but this weekend at the Museum of the American GI open house, you'll see a whole lot more than that.

Updated: 6:48 PM A bill being considered by the Texas legislature would make it a felony to call in a bomb threat to an institution of higher learning.

Updated: 6:55 PM Easterwood Airport is one of 20 airports in Texas that might be forced shut down air traffic control facilities because of cut-backs from the sequester, and an official with TxDOT told News 3 that would not be a safe move.

Updated: 10:27 AM The new Pope Francis -- Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina -- has appeared on the balcony above St. Peter's Square, waving to the tens of thousands of people who were gathered below.

Posted: 5:33 PM Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Tuesday, signaling that cardinals had failed on their first vote of the papal conclave to choose a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and their troubled church.

Posted: 6:44 PM Fresh off a Southeastern Conference tournament title, Texas A&M's women's basketball team is set to host some of March's madness again.

Updated: 5:36 PM The wives of Bryan and College Station firefighters have teamed up to host the Run for Remembrance at the Brayton Fire Training Field.

Updated: 4:20 PM The Mumford boys basketball team received a community send off as they left for the state tournament Wednesday afternoon.

Posted: 5:40 PM The Center for Community Health Development (CCHD) in the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health is conducting the fourth local health assessment across a nine-county region.

Updated: 4:47 PM Government agencies are already taking steps to comply with automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday.

Updated: 1:55 PM The Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) College of Nursing recently received a community grant from the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation to study the childhood obesity epidemic throughout the Brazos Valley.

Updated: 8:43 AM Stanley Robertson will be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the August 2010 murder of Annie Toliver in College Station.

Updated: 11:14 AM The jury in the trial of convicted College Station killer Stanley Robertson has, in their words, "deadlocked" on the issue of whether Robertson is mentally retarded, the second of three issues the jury has on its plate to address.

Updated: 6:35 AM A Brazos County jury has began deliberating the fate of convicted College Station killer Stanley Robertson, and will continue Tuesday morning after being sequestered at a local hotel Monday night.

Updated: 1:50 PM Bryan firefighters Ricky Mantey and Mitch Moran’s conditions continue to improve at UTMB hospital in Galveston.

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Updated: 1:55 PM It’s not very often a story or situation hits so close to home for me. The fire at the Knights of Columbus hall in Bryan, and the tragic loss of two firefighters, strikes at my core. My father is a firefighter.

Updated: 9:43 AM One of the key witnesses for the defense team in convicted College Station murderer Stanley Robertson's trial continued his testimony Thursday.

Updated: 9:24 PM Convicted murderer Stanley Robertson is ineligible for the death penalty if jurors believe a psychologist for the killer's defense team.

Updated: 10:50 PM A day after finding Stanley Robertson guilty, a Brazos County jury returned to court Friday morning to begin hearing arguments and testimony about the College Station man's punishment for capital murder.

Posted: 8:52 AM At 10:40 a.m. Thursday, the jury began deliberating in the trial of Stanley Robertson, accused of capital murder.

Posted: 8:53 AM Both sides have rested and closed their cases in the capital murder trial of Stanley Robertson, and closing arguments will take place Thursday morning.

Posted: 9:01 AM The ex-girlfriend of Stanley Robertson whose mother was allegedly murdered by him provided emotional testimony Tuesday morning in Robertson's capital murder trial.

Posted: 9:07 AM The defense for accused murderer Stanley Robertson admitted to the jury in its opening arguments that their client killed Annie Toliver in August 2010.