Saturday, October 31, 2009

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Getting a jump on Halloween

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:39 PM PDT

Eleven-month-old Damion Miller waits with other costumed children to enter the George Bush Presidential Library for the second annual Night at the Museum trick-or-treating event Friday. Area churches have kid-friendly activities on tap today, and ret ...

Facility to get Bryan land

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:22 PM PDT

The Bryan City Council on Friday agreed to give 21.44 acres of land to the Texas A&M University System in an effort to attract a biomanufacturing company to the city.The agreement is the first of many expected initiatives to entice the company to ...

Gun seized from school

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:23 PM PDT

Bryan police were investigating how a 9-year-old gained access to a .25-caliber handgun that was found in his backpack at school on Friday.The Ben Milam Elementary School fourth-grader will not face criminal charges because of his age, officials said ...

Cell phone ban in effect near schools

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:23 PM PDT

Consider this your first warning: If you're driving in a College Station school zone, get off the phone. College Station police said Friday that officers will issue warnings for drivers using their cell phones in a school zone until Nov. 15, when ci ...

Many await H1N1 shot

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:22 PM PDT

Some Brazos County residents have been vaccinated for the swine flu, but most residents are still waiting. The H1N1 vaccines are being manufactured at the federal level and distributed through states to county health departments. H1N1 is a strain of ...

Police: Man on bike caught pulling stolen lawnmower

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 03:37 AM PDT

Bryan Police said they arrested a 21-year-old man on a burglary charge after an officer saw him pulling a stolen lawnmower behind his bicycle.Steadmon Lee Sims was arrested Thursday on a charge of burglary of a building.An officer said in a police re ...

Sun setting on daylight saving

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:20 PM PDT

Having an extra hour to sleep in might encourage some to party extra hard on Halloween night, but come Sunday morning, there are a few chores to attend to. Flip the mattress, wind back the clock, rotate the rugs and check the fire alarms. Fire offici ...

Price of gas stalls spending

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:32 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached -- billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead.Gas averaged nearly $2.70 a gallon Friday, the highest of the year - ...

Bryan student arrested after bringing knife to school, police say

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 04:31 AM PDT

A 17-year-old Bryan Collegiate High School student was arrested after a double-edged, nine-inch knife was found in his pocket, authorities said.Nathan Aron Toler of Bryan was charged Thursday with unlawfully carrying a weapon in a weapons-free zone.T ...

Groups saluting military at game

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:20 PM PDT

-- Eagle Staff ReportDuring Saturday's Texas A&M football game against Iowa State University, the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band will perform America the Beautiful, student group Silver Wings will raise the Spirit Flag, and the 12th Man TV at the sout ...

BP slapped with record $87M fine

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday imposed a record $87 million fine against oil giant BP PLC for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers at its Texas City refinery.The fine -- ...

Austin cemetery tour takes walk on the wild side

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:16 PM PDT

Austin American-StatesmanAUSTIN -- If every life is a story, then every burial plot, every tombstone silently holds the secrets.Danny Camacho's job is to make the dead speak.How did they meet their fate? How did their deaths affect their families? Wh ...

Arts agencies pull off increase in funds

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:18 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.Under the ...

Officials tout jobs from stimulus

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:18 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, and the White House declared the nation on track to meet the president's goal of 3.5 million by the end of ...

Clinton tight-lipped about drone attacks

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:32 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani audiences Friday, including one woman who accused the U.S. of conducting "executions without trial" in aerial drone strikes. Slapping back, Clinton questio ...

Hondurans OK accord

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:19 PM PDT

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact would restore him to power in about a week, ending Honduras' isolation four months after soldiers flew the leftist leader into exile in his pajamas.The agre ...

Report: Dozens of lawmakers scrutinized

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:24 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.Seven of t ...

9 feared dead in midair crash

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:20 PM PDT

SAN DIEGO -- The nighttime collision of a Coast Guard aircraft on a rescue mission and a Marine helicopter left nine people feared dead at sea Friday as investigators tried to solve the mystery of how the aircrews failed to see each other in a heavil ...

Bonfire links

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 03:31 PM PDT

1999 bonfire commission report2002 bonfire planning review2002 bonfire projected costsRay Bowen's 2002 bonfire announcement ...

Religion notes

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:24 PM PDT

Saturday* St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 217 W. 26th St. in Bryan, will hold St. Andrew's Ville from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the youth hall. Cost of admission is a can of food to benefit the church food pantry. Enter through outside metal stairs on the par ...

Banish emptiness by daring to rejoice in the Lord

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:24 PM PDT

I remember stepping through the front "door" of his home. Door? Well, it was an opening; there was no door, no closing the outside from the inside, just a hole in the wall shaped like a door. Elijah, who must have weighed 100 pounds dripping wet, was ...

Letters for October 31

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT

It was almost like being at a Beatles concert My husband and I attended the Rain concert Wednesday evening and I had a ball. I was very a small girl when the Beatles were in their heyday but I now have an excellent idea what it would have been l ...

Calendar

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:25 PM PDT

MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe Bear Hugs! Teddy Bear and Stuffed Animal Collection Drive runs through Nov. 13 at Post Oak Mall in College Station. Bring in a new teddy bear or stuffed animal to be given to special needs children at Christmas. The donation bi ...

Police investigate fatal wreck

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:13 PM PDT

From left: Bryan police Officers David Lund, John Agnew and William Challis and Sgt. Jeff Peters set up a tripod Friday while investigating an Oct. 21 motorcycle wreck that killed 35-year-old Bryan resident Benjamin McKenzie. ...

Warning: Hang up the cell while in a CS school zone

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 04:49 AM PDT

Warnings will be issued through Nov. 15 to drivers using a cell phone in College Station school zones, but after that a citation will be given. Signs displaying the ban of cell phone usage in school zones have to be posted around schools before the ...

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