Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Flippin' fun

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Jamalik Rogers, 12, prepares for a safe landing after bouncing off a mattress and flipping through the air near his home in College Station on Monday afternoon. His friends and he were enjoying the day off from school due to a College Station Indepen ...

Officials check on Bryan's progress

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Bryan Fire Station No. 5 is up and running. Check.About $400,000 each year is allocated for the replacement of traffic signals. Another check.The city, which hired a new parks director, now holds regular meetings with the Bryan Independent School Dis ...

Texas A&M System OKs issuing bonds

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A move by the Texas A&M System's governing authority will end up saving nearly $12 million over 15 years, officials said. The A&M System Board of Regents approved the issuance of up to $575 million in bonds to pay down older bonds with higher ...

Man charged after delivery man robbed

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

College Station police charged an 18-year-old man with robbery Monday in connection with a recent incident in which a pizza delivery man was knocked unconscious.Authorities said that a man reported Sept. 27 that he was getting out of his car on the 8 ...

Intersection of 28th and Bryan streets closed

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 01:21 AM PDT

The intersection of 28th and Bryan streets in downtown Bryan was closed Tuesday morning while Union Pacific Railroad crews perform an emergency repair, and city officials expect the closure to last throughout the day.City public works crews will be a ...

Emergency landing made at CS airport

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

A Continental Express pilot en route to Omaha, Neb., from Houston made an emergency landing Monday at Easterwood Airport in College Station.John Happ, airport director, said about 40 passengers were on board and no one was injured when the Embraer RJ ...

Pakistan militants, Taliban teaming up

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Militants from the heart of Pakistan teamed up with Taliban insurgents from the remote Afghan border region to carry out the bold weekend assault on army headquarters, the army said Monday -- an ominous development as the fourth major at ...

Woman wins economics Nobel

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson on Monday for analyzing economic governance -- the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and ec ...

Data wiped from Sidekick phones

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data. The incident is a blow to the reputation of the Sidekic ...

Low-cost airlines hip to social networks

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

ATLANTA -- A Seattle woman tweets from an airport that JetBlue's birthday present to her was forgetting to put her wheelchair on her flight. Seven minutes later, an airline official tweets back that the crew will work quickly to make things right.On ...

Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:18 AM PDT

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Protesters brought some different songs Monday to an elementary school where students sang in praise of President Barack Obama, bringing criticism from conservative commentators who said children were being indoctrinated. ...

Parents warned to heed flu signs

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

CHICAGO -- Max Gomez was a bright-eyed 5-year-old happy to have just started kindergarten when he developed sniffles and a fever. His mother figured it was only a cold.Three days later, the Antioch, Tenn., boy was dead, apparently from swine flu.At l ...

Insurers: Health plan will raise premium costs

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more.Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate, and threatens Preside ...

Summers: Bush era set stage for economic troubles

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- A top White House official issued a robust defense of the Obama administration's recovery policies on Monday with a pointed critique of economic conditions and fiscal policies during the presidency of George W. Bush.In a letter to House ...

Ohio boy, 7, hit by deer while playing football

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

WINTERSVILLE, Ohio -- A 7-year-old Ohio boy playing a game of backyard football was tackled by a deer.Brandon Hiles says he encountered the buck when the ball rolled into woods while he was playing with friends Saturday in Wintersville, about 125 mil ...

American is first woman to win Nobel in economics

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:16 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson on Monday for analyzing economic governance -- the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and ec ...

Texas man found asleep with corpse in closet

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- A Houston man found asleep with a corpse inside a closet of a vacant home has been charged with misdemeanor drug offenses, authorities said Monday.Cody Jean Plant, 21, was discovered Sunday after the owner of the house reported hearing voi ...

Trial begins for mayor in Texas over missing check

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

McALLEN, Texas -- Prosecutors argue that the outspoken mayor of Brownsville was trying to steal $26,000 from the Texas border town when he deposited a city check to a vendor in his personal account last year.Mayor Pat Ahumada has maintained that he h ...

Chicago Cubs file for Ch. 11 to speed team's sale

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:14 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- The Chicago Cubs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow their owner to sell the baseball team in an $845 million deal.The filing in Wilmington, Del., was anticipated and is expected to lead to a brief st ...

Uncle of 2 dead boys charged over alleged threats

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- A man whose two nephews died in a Houston house fire is jailed after he allegedly pulled a gun and threatened emergency responders.Jamar Segura was in custody Tuesday on a deadly conduct charge, plus possession of a controlled substance.A ...

Schwarzenegger creates day honoring Harvey Milk

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:13 AM PDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk will get a special day of recognition in California, making him only the second person in state history to gain such a designation.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signing of the bill establishi ...

Texas plan to hire abuse investigators struggles

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 03:22 AM PDT

HOUSTON -- Texas' plan to hire hundreds of child abuse investigators with law enforcement backgrounds was designed to save children and improve investigative techniques throughout the ranks of Child Protection Services caseworkers.But four years late ...

Monster-maker to Vt. brewer: No 'Vermonster' beer

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:18 AM PDT

MORRISVILLE, Vt. -- The maker of Monster energy drinks is taking aim at a Vermont brewery that sells a beer called Vermonster.Rock Art Brewery, which makes beer in Morrisville, says it has been told by Corona, Calif.-based Hansen Beverage Co. to stop ...

Inmates say Okla. gov's mansion workers raped them

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:14 AM PDT

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Prosecutors are investigating claims that the former chef and chief groundskeeper at the Oklahoma governor's mansion raped female prison inmates assigned to maintain the mansion grounds.Neither man has been charged but both have been ...

Young and Arthritic

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:01 PM PDT

CINCINNATI (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Arthritis is no longer your grandparent's disease. Doctors are seeing younger patients come into their offices with stiffness and joint pain.   Pro athletes like Pete Rose, Ken Griffey and Lebron James know inj ...

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