Friday, September 25, 2009

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Pilot in crash identified

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

HILLTOP LAKES -- Federal investigators arrived in Leon County on Thursday hoping to piece together an explanation for why a small airplane crashed into a subdivision Wednesday night, killing the pilot and destroying a home. Authorities identified the ...

Travis Bryan Jr. dies at 87

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A longtime local banker and active community member will be remembered for his integrity, love and faith, his friends and family said. Travis Bryan Jr. died Thursday morning of congestive heart failure. He was 87 and had been in and out of the hospit ...

Legal fees may hit $1.2 M

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

The city of College Station could spend nearly $1.2 million on legal fees in its lawsuit with Weingarten Realty Investors.Chief Financial Officer Jeff Kersten said the city had spent more than $577,500 on the case through June 30 and $215,100 in July ...

Travis Bryan Jr. dies

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:39 AM PDT

Funeral services are pending for banker and business leader Travis Bryan Jr., who died Thursday morning. Mike Holmgreen, area vice chairman for Bank & Trust in Bryan, said Bryan, who was the former chairman and CEO of the bank, recently had been ...

Life Sciences Building opens its doors

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A $100 million research building -- the largest construction project in Texas A&M's history -- opened Thursday. The Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building will house more than 30 laboratories and provide a sort of cutting-edge gathering spot fo ...

$17M savings plan presented to regents

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Nearly $17 million in savings has been identified by teams formed to evaluate combining functions of Texas A&M and the 11-university system that governs it, the Board of Regents was told in a presentation Thursday. Texas A&M System Chancellor ...

No animal shelter audit

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

The Brazos Animal Shelter is not being audited by the city of Bryan, but shelter officials have acknowledged concerns about the facility's euthanasia rate.Two area residents raised concerns about the Bryan-based shelter's policies this week as the Br ...

CS man arrested on fourth DWI charge

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

-- Eagle Staff ReportA 25-year-old College Station man who was charged with his third driving-while-intoxicated offense in late May was arrested Thursday after police reported observing him driving erratically.Texas A&M University police officers ...

Seats aboard B-25 bomber up for sale

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

-- Eagle Staff ReportSeats on a B-25 bomber that will fly over Kyle Field prior to Texas A&M's football game Saturday against the University of Alabama at Birmingham are being auctioned until midday Friday. Galveston-based Lone Star Flight Museum ...

Police: Woman was drunk, belligerent

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A woman suspected of driving while intoxicated faces several charges after becoming combative with police and medical officials, authorities said.College Station police stopped Alice Thayer Wager, 39, of Hearne, on Wednesday after she nearly caused a ...

Authorities say man broke into vehicles

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A 20-year-old Bryan man remained in the Brazos County Jail Thursday evening on multiple charges, including four of burglary of a vehicle.College Station police responded to reports of a man burglarizing vehicles at the Woodlands Apartments on Harvey ...

Toxins found in water at schools

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

CUTLER, Calif. -- Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants hav ...

Anglo-Saxon artifacts uncovered in UK countryside

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

LONDON -- It's an unprecedented find that could revolutionize ideas about medieval England's Germanic rulers: An amateur treasure hunter searching a farmer's field with a metal detector unearthed a huge collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver artif ...

Frozen water found far south on Mars

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

PASADENA, Calif. -- A spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted water ice in several impact craters midway between the north pole and equator -- the first time ice so close to the surface has been discovered so far south on the red planet.Instruments on N ...

Classes resume at Texas school after teacher slain

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:37 AM PDT

TYLER, Texas -- A makeshift memorial surrounded a flagpole Thursday at a high school where classes resumed under tight security a day after a teacher was fatally stabbed, allegedly by one of his students.Uniformed officers were stationed outside John ...

G-20 meets amid Pittsburgh protests

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

PITTSBURGH -- As police clashed with protesters in the streets, world leaders on Thursday closed ranks on pay limits for bankers whose risky behavior contributed to the global financial meltdown. With economies on the mend, a summit mood of cautious ...

2 plead guilty to training 12-year-old dominatrix

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A man and a woman accused of training the woman's 12-year-old daughter as a sexual dominatrix in Missouri and prostituting her online pleaded guilty Thursday in a deal that will send both to prison.Todd Barkau, 37, and the girl's ...

Fired lawyer told of border agency mismanagement

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:34 AM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- A former lawyer for a little-known federal agency that helps control the Rio Grande and the U.S. boundary with Mexico says he was fired after complaining of gross mismanagement.Robert McCarthy was fired by the commissioner of the Inter ...

Stabbing suspect called mentally ill

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

TYLER -- A 16-year-old student accused of stabbing his teacher to death at a Texas high school has a "lengthy history" of mental illness, his attorney said Thursday.Jim Huggler said he planned to seek a competency hearing after a juvenile judge rule ...

Attorney: Jail says mom accused of baby mutilation competent for trial

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:32 AM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- The attorney for a Texas mother accused of killing and mutilating her 3-week-old son says a jail psychiatrist has deemed her competent to stand trial.Ed Camara said Thursday that a judge will consider that recommendation at a November ...

Home sales fall after steady climb

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Four steps forward, one step back.Home resales dipped unexpectedly last month, falling 2.7 percent from a month earlier, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday, reversing steady monthly gains since April. Most economists, ho ...

HIV vaccine 'instills new hope'

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

BANGKOK -- For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures had led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possi ...

Ex-Fed chair says bailouts possible

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- A top White House economic adviser says the Obama administration's proposed overhaul of financial rules preserves the policy of "too big to fail" and could lead to future bailouts.Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said Thursd ...

Eagle pickers at top, bottom of Prog Panel

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

It's all the media's fault. The economy. Global warming. Obesity in our children.On the local front, we favor Bryan over College Station -- or is it College Station over Bryan? I seem to forget. Either way, we're the reason the cities haggle over thi ...

Community is better for Travis Bryan

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Eagle Editorial BoardTravis Bryan Jr. was so very proud of the community named for his ancestor, William Joel Bryan, a nephew of Stephen F. Austin. But he didn't let that go to his head. Rather, it made him work harder to make Bryan a great place to ...

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