Posted: 8:20 PM The Milam County Courthouse is quite the spectacular structure. And to get it looking immaculate, it took a lot of work and a lot of money. But ask the people practicing here, and they'll tell you it was worth it.
Posted: 8:14 PM There were once around 300 hatcheries in the country. Today, there are around 10. And Cameron has been home to the biggest and the best for more than six decades.
Updated: 9:43 PM A Bryan man accused of robbing two local convenience stores has been found guilty of aggravated robbery. A jury sentenced him late Thursday afternoon to 68-years in jail.
Posted: 6:25 PM More West Nile has been found in the Twin Cities, including the year’s first case in a bird. Brazos County Health Officials have tested several traps over the past two weeks.
Updated: 10:44 PM After weeks of speculation, the executive director of the Brazos Animal Shelter resigned Thursday.
Shelter board member and County Judge Randy Sims says Kelley Durham announced her resignation Thursday morning.
Posted: 5:48 PM A juvenile is locked up after police say he broke into a Bryan church and tried to set it on fire. The-16-year-old male was arrested and charged with arson, burglary, and evading arrest.
Updated: 6:10 PM Get ready for a major traffic detour on Highway 6 this weekend.
On Saturday, the Texas Department of Transportation will be shift traffic from Highway 6 to the frontage roads, between Greens Prairie and the Texas World Speedway.
Updated: 7:59 AM A study finds that babies born in the Corpus Christi area are more likely to have birth defects than those born in other parts of the state. It found that Corpus Christi babies were 17 percent more likely to have a severe birth defect. They're also nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with any birth defect.
Updated: 7:56 AM Prosecution rebuttal testimony continues today in the retrial of Andrea Yates in the drowning of her five children. A sheriff's deputy who overheard Andrea Yates' interview with a jail psychiatrist testified yesterday that he heard Yates say she knew what she did was wrong.
Updated: 7:52 AM Three bankers facing Enron-related wire fraud charges in Texas left Britain today -- bound for Houston. David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby - the so-called NatWest Three - boarded a commercial flight in London.
Updated: 7:50 AM Two 18-year-olds from Sugar Land accused of murdering a classmate are in custody today after trying to cross into Canada. Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright says Sean Brown and Matthew McCombs were caught yesterday in Port Huron, Michigan.
Updated: 7:47 AM A College Station teenager is dead after an early morning accident. Officials say 19-year-old Casey Wolf was driving his motorcycle on Harvey Mitchell Parkway Thursday morning when a car turned in front of him.
Posted: 9:32 PM An accused killer is on the loose, and Bryan police need your help tracking him down. A murder warrant has been issued for Efrain Gomez, 19, of Bryan.
Posted: 9:12 PM College Station's city council is poised to appoint citizens to what should be an active board. During Thursday 7pm meeting, the council could fill eight open slots on the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC).
Posted: 6:10 PM Two spacewalkers, including Aggie Astronaut Michael Fossum, sheepishly lost a spatula in orbit on Wednesday.
But NASA engineers didn't mind much, because the two accomplished their main task of testing a method to apply emergency patches to a shuttle heat shield.
Posted: 5:13 PM The Brazos County's Sheriff's office has some new vehicles to add to the fleet. The department has five new 2006 Dodge Chargers outfitted with high-tech equipment ready to work patrol.
Updated: 8:57 PM Leon County authorities have arrested one of their own after he allegedly burglarized a Madison County property. Deputy Casey Moreland is accused of stealing $3,500 worth of tools from a storage shed in North Zulch back in April.
Updated: 9:41 PM A College Station woman was jailed after police say she attempted to stab her husband. Twenty-four-year-old Fatimah Hankins was arrested by College Station police and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Posted: 4:59 PM A former Brazos County employee who stole thousands of dollars from the district attorney's office could spend the next eight years behind bars.
Updated: 8:01 AM Country star LeAnn Rimes is resting after surgery in Los Angeles for a leg infection. The 23-year-old entertainer, who grew up in Garland, canceled three performances on her "This Woman" tour to undergo outpatient surgery for a tissue tear.
Updated: 7:57 AM In a demonstration of "Aggie Spirit", some Houston Aggies are planning a few activities to make sure the first Aggie in space, Mike Fossum, knows they are rooting for him. Today will be Maroon Out day at The Johnson Space Center.
Updated: 7:54 AM With NASA confidence growing that the space shuttle program is back on track, two astronauts are getting ready for an important spacewalk today to further cement the belief. They'll be testing techniques to repair damaged heat shield tiles in orbit.
Updated: 7:51 AM Two congressmen say they won't support a deal before Congress to settle a North Texas airport dispute over the Wright Amendment. The congressmen are worried about the deal's potential ramifications for other regional airports. They're scheduled to testify today at a House hearing on the matter.
Updated: 7:49 AM A house fire in Jasper County has left two children dead. Officials say the parents of the victims were not home when the fire broke out around midmorning yesterday.
Posted: 10:09 PM Kyle Field's new big board is starting to rise. Though the Mitsubishi screen is still a few weeks away from being installed, the support beams are rising at the south end of Kyle.
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