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Most Texas A&M Fees Missing Documentation, University Insists No Money Misspent

Any high school student in Houston will, or should, automatically know one of the biggest colleges to get into is Texas A&M. That is, if you have the money or the scholarships to afford the tuition and fees. In recent years what's been attracting a lot of attention at any school in the country is ... More >>

Pot Not

Why you shouldn't smoke weed with former Aggie QB Reggie McNeal.

No Wrist-Slap: Dereon Kelley Gets Almost Three Years For TSU Bomb Threat

Kids, if you're thinking of getting out of that final you never studied for by phoning in a bomb threat to the school, think again. Dereon Tayronne Kelley, 22, may not have been trying to miss a test, but he communicated a bomb threat to Texas Southern University last October, a federal jury found, ... More >>

Five Reasons You Shouldn't Smoke Pot With Former Aggie QB Reggie McNeal

College footballer with weed -- you're thinking Mack Brown's Longhorns, right? Forget it -- we're talking Aggies. Former Aggies. Former Aggies like quarterback Reggie McNeal, currently a Canadian Football League free agent. Currently a CFL free agent who keeps getting arrested for weed. McNeal was ... More >>

Micheal McCleary: Aggieland Judge Apologizes For Referring To "Nasty-Ass Body" Of Cop-Killer

An Aggieland justice of the peace has taken out a newspaper advertisement to apologize for comments he made in the wake of a shootout that left a constable dead. After the August 13 incident, in which Thomas Caffall III was killed shortly after he shot constable Brain Bachmann to death, JP Michael ... More >>

Texas A&M Issues a "Code Maroon"; Two Cops Shot, Suspect Arrested (UPDATED w/Constable Death)

Texas A&M officials issued a "Code Maroon" warning to the nearly empty College Station campus in connection with an incident in which two law-enforcement officers were shot. An "active shooter" in the 200 block of Fidelity near campus caused the warning, and the school warned students to avoid the ... More >>

Waco Tribune-Herald Bought By Warren Buffett

Another Texas paper has been bought by billionaire Warren Buffett, meaning more good news in the world of Texas journalism. Buffett has purchased the Waco Tribune-Herald for an undisclosed price from the rightwing father-son team that had owned it (and put the slogan "In God We Trust" permanently o ... More >>

Frank "The Tank" Stortini: Flashes Four Kids and Issues Weird Challenge, Police Claim

A College Station roofer has been charged with four counts of indecency with a child by exposure after police claimed that the man exposed his penis to four children at an apartment complex swimming pool on Saturday According to an arrest affidavit reported in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, a qua ... More >>

Warren Buffett Buys The Bryan-College Station Eagle

Good news for a good Texas newspaper -- Warren Buffett, the current savior of print media, is buying the Bryan-College Station Eagle for an undisclosed price, the Omaha World-Herald reports. Buffett has gone on a newspaper-buying spree, using his vast fortune to give hope to journalists and, not in ... More >>

Toshia McMurry: Clocked Hubby Eight Times With Cinder Block, Police Say

A Bryan woman was jailed for much of the weekend after she was arrested in connection with the brick-beating of her husband's head. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, after Bryan police arrived on the scene Friday, 22-year-old Toshia Lasha McMurray told them that her 40-year-old husband ... More >>

Omar Daniel Gonzalez-Torres: Craigslist Prank Backfires, Leads to April Fool's Day in Jail

According to what he told police, Omar Daniel Gonzalez-Torres was upset at the way a woman was treating his girlfriend, so he chose the route of high-tech vengeance. Posing as his girlfriend's alleged antagonist, the 21-year-old College Station man took out a Craigslist "casual encounters" ad offeri ... More >>

Gina Wilfong and Joseph Smith: Lovebirds Jailed on Valentine's Day After Faceboasting About Vandalizing Her Ex's Jeep

Lordy lordy, when will these criminals ever learn? First, if you really must brag about your crimes, do it face to face, preferably somewhere you won't be overheard. Second, if you really, really must do it on Facebook, and it just isn't enough to do it in a private message, lock down your profil ... More >>

Nancy Jane Mancuso Gelber: Police Say Aspiring Crime Writer Wanted Estranged Hubby Whacked

Brazos County JailNancy Mancuso Gelber: Could use old friend Percy Foreman in her corner about now.​ Nancy Mancuso Gelber could face up to life in prison after she was arrested Friday and charged with attempting to hire a hit man to kill her estranged husband. Unfortunately for the 53-year-old ... More >>

Michael Brown's Sex Tips

Give it up to your man

Dustin "Young Spliff" Aleman: College Station Teen's Diabolical Criminal Scheme Foiled By Lunch Lady

A College Station teen was arrested yesterday after he attempted to pass off two counterfeit bills in the cafeteria of A&M Consolidated High School. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, police say that 17-year-old Dustin Dominique Aleman gave a friend a stack of five one-dollar bills -- th ... More >>

Chanin Christine Lindgren: Asks Cops to Aid Cover-Up of Felony Assault

Brazos County SOChanin Christine Lindgren: How not to be a defendant.​According to a police report summarized in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Chanin Christine Lindgren was not happy when her on-and-off boyfriend refused to give her the cash she needed for a fix. Deploying faultless junky ... More >>

Ex-Con Jason Wayne Crockett Lives Up to Middle Name and Nickname

Brazos County JailJason Wayne "Crash 'Em Up" Crockett​We've said it before and we are duty-bound to say it again: Please, parents, get off the Wayne train when your baby needs a name. And as if having that apparently-crime-causing middle name wasn't bad enough, 28-year-old Jason Wayne Crocket ... More >>

Parents Baffled By Outbreak of Birth Defects in Aggieland

Tied to plant fire? State will investigate.​When five families in Bryan-College Station conceived children with an uncommon -- and usually fatal -- birth defect, they began searching for answers. And now, state health investigators and Texas A&M researchers are also part of that search. The ... More >>

Jessica Nicole Grays: Driving While Smashed on PCP with Infant in Car

Brazoria County JailJessica Grays: Driving while PCP'd​Driving while intoxicated is a very, very bad idea. Doing so with a one-year-old in the car is still worse. Driving while apparently knee-bucklingly high on PCP with an infant in the car takes the whole concept of intoxicated driving to le ... More >>

Aggie Frat Member Shot and Killed a Pet Goat, For Some Frat-Related Reason

Aggie frat is a different kind of animal house​Late last year, Texas A&M ordered a weeklong stoppage of all fraternity social activities in order to reinforce rules governing the groups. The university didn't lay out any specifics for what sparked their action, but the Bryan-College Station E ... More >>

Curtis Doss: Tax Collector Pleads Guilty To Misusing Public Funds, Keeps Job

No, it was the OTHER elected position I misapplied funds in​Curtis Doss is the Tax Collector of Burleson County. Curtis Doss pleaded guilty last week to misapplying public funds. Curtis Doss will not be losing his job as Tax Collector of Burleson County. Why? The wily Doss misused public fu ... More >>

Aggies Again OK In-State Tuition For Illegals

Aggies' move on illegals falls again​The Texas A&M Student Senate refused last night to override the veto of a bill that would have barred in-state tuition to illegal aliens. The Bryan-College Station Eagle reported that a vigorous, at times loud debate took place before the vote. The impact ... More >>

Aggies' Alexander Kemos: Well, No, I'm Not A Tufts Grad. Or A Navy SEAL, For That Matter

Alexander Kemos: Not a SEAL​When it comes to resume padding, there are two options. You can go small, like George O'Leary when he applied for the head football coaching job at Notre Dame and falsely claimed to have a master's from "NYU-Stony Brook University" and to have lettered in football a ... More >>

One Toke Of K2 Over The Line: Real High From Fake Weed Lands Bryan Man In Jail

Not in Bryan​An unidentified 24-year-old Bryan man faces Class B misdemeanor DWI charges after allegedly admitting to police that he smoked K2, a marijuana-like substance sold legally in Houston stores as incense.According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, a Brazos County sheriff's deputy spotte ... More >>

The Reverend Randy Scott: More Details Emerge In Case Of Kinky Aggieland Pastor

Randy Scott has an offer for you​Yesterday we told you about Randy Scott, the Bryan-College Station Assembly of God pastor accused of coercing sexual acts from men he met under false pretenses on the Internet. (He allegedly posed as a minor and then threatened to tell police his partners had soli ... More >>

George Randall Scott: Bryan Pastor Accused Of Coercing BJs In Bizarre Perversion Of Chris Hansen's Stings

Chris Hansen never worked like this guy apparently did​Very kinky crimes alert...Fifty-one-year-old Randy Scott, the pastor of Bryan's Bethel Temple Assembly of God was arrested here in Houston in connection with what is being portrayed in court documents as an extremely bizarre scheme.Accor ... More >>

Christie Laverne Hawkins: Bryan Woman Demands Dealer Upgrades On Stolen Truck

Photo courtesy Brazos County SOChristie Hawkins, not to be messed with​Christie Laverne Hawkins might not be the brightest thief in College Station, but never let it be said that she suffers from a lack of nerve.Police in Aggieland says the 35-year-old Bryan resident not only stole a pick-up truck ... More >>

Aggies And Horns Want Part Of Your Electric Bill For Their Struggling Sports Programs

Aggie Energy: Making sure Aggie jokes never go out of style.​It seems like we've heard a joke before about how many Aggies it takes to change a light bulb. It wasn't really funny then, but considering that Texas A&M, specifically Aggie athletics, is getting into the energy business, we're sure ... More >>

Aggies Might Cut Out Toilet Paper In Dorms: Students Tighten Belts While Dropping Pants

Obviously not Reveille​"Immediate action" and "toilet paper" are often used in the same sentence. But it is usually a need for toilet paper, not the removal of it.Inan effort to save money, Texas A&M is considering getting rid of the toilet paper for students living in the dorms that don't hav ... More >>

Bill Byrne: Adding To The Aggies' Ever-Growing Hall Of Internet Shame

​Texas A&M's athletic director, Bill Byrne, has become an Internet sensation for leaving a heated voicemail for a fellow Aggie. If you haven't heard, problems started when Byrne received an e-mail from an alum who was upset because A&M stuck with the Big 12 and the University of Texas. ... More >>

Aggies Recruit Teh Gheys

College Station, the San Francisco of Texas

Aggie Professors Trying To Recruit Gays? That's What Happens When Your Football Team Sucks

​Perhaps there's a side of Aggieland that we've never experienced, but Texas A&M, along with the entire College Station area, has never struck us as a place that accepts alternative lifestyles.But that could be changing, because the school's Faculty Senate took a step to attract more gay profe ... More >>

Aggies & Illegal Immigrants: A Sudden Bout Of Common Sense

The Student Senate holds off on whether illegal immigrants should pay out-of-state tuition​Maybe it's just people steeped in Aggie stereotypes who hold their breath when hearing Texas A&M is wading into something like the debate on illegal immigration, but it's certain that breath is being hel ... More >>

Dan Pastorini Fender-Benders His Way Into A DWI

Photo courtesy Brazos County SOPastorini, looking like he did after they called the Renfro pass incomplete in the title game​Houston Oiler quarterback Dan Pastorini, the man who led the team to within a blown call of the Super Bowl, was arrested this morning on suspicion of driving while intoxicat ... More >>

Lead Plaintiff In "Toxic Town" Lawsuit Dies

Photo by Daniel Kramer​A little over two years ago, the Houston Press published an award-winning story looking into Somerville, a small town 90 miles northwest of here that contained a plant that made railroad ties."Toxic Town" described the high rate of cancer in the town and focused on the lead ... More >>

Inside Aggieland with a Corps of Cadets-Inspired Resignation

​It's been about a month since Texas A&M named its new president, following the resignation of Elsa Murano, and some of the heaviest fall out has surrounded the Corps of Cadets. The day after R. Bowen Loftin was given the job in January as the university's president, Lieutenant General Joh ... More >>

In Aggieland, The Landlord-Tenant Disputes Can Involve The Bomb Squad

​Many folks have landlords they don't get along with, whether it's because landlords are sometimes sticklers for "rent money" and may not be impressed by certain flashes of interior redesign, such as punching your hand through a wall.But we're not used to a tenant being so pissed off as ... More >>

Aggies and the Ding Dong Song

​The code of conduct at Texas A&M is hard to keep straight, but here's the latest: It's okay to be an Aggie yell leader and sing the Ding Dong Song on video, but it's not okay to be a yell leader adviser and sing the Ding Dong Song on the same video.Because of these antics, Rusty Thompson, ... More >>

Railroad Wins Important "Toxic Town" Suit

Photo by Daniel KramerDennis DavisIn 2007, our Todd Spivak did a feature on  the "Toxic Town" of Somerville, 90 miles southnorthwest of Houston and home to a Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway plant.Residents there have much higher cancer rates than normal, a fact some traced to the arsenic, ... More >>

Texas A&M's President Goes Out In A Blaze Of Bad Headlines, Great Official Statements

God bless the Aggies. Who else could hire a new president amidst much fanfare (She's Hispanic, y'all!!) and then fire her 18 months later?Although we're not quite sure why she got fired. Sure, as we showed last week via an Open Records Act request, she was given a not-so-hot job review, but hey, tha ... More >>

The DREAM Act Might Be Dead, But These Kids' Hopes Are Not

They are American in everything but name. They can go to college in Texas and improve themselves. Doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they're just illegal immigrants without social security numbers or futures.

Girls Gone Wild

It's a regular bacchanal in one small town

Breaking Ranks

Will Clark was a reluctant Aggie until 12 people died in last year's Bonfire collapse. Now his desire to keep the tradition alive continues to make him an outsider in College Station.

Fresh Air, Times Square

Following the Money