Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Bonfire debate rages on

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

As a group of Texas A&M students hoist 25-foot logs, several wearing yellow helmets -- or pots -- bark orders at them, while their bosses -- distinguishable by their red pots -- monitor the scene. These students on a rural patch of land 15 miles ...

Bonfire debate rages on

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

As a group of Texas A&M students hoist 25-foot logs, several wearing yellow helmets -- or pots -- bark orders at them, while their bosses -- distinguishable by their red pots -- monitor the scene. These students on a rural patch of land 15 miles ...

Memories, effects vary among injured

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

An estimated 70 students were working on the Aggie Bonfire before dawn on a weeknight in 1999. It was the last week of construction before it would be lit in front of 70,000 people.Music was blaring. A meteor shower was expected at any time over the ...

Memories, effects vary among injured

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

An estimated 70 students were working on the Aggie Bonfire before dawn on a weeknight in 1999. It was the last week of construction before it would be lit in front of 70,000 people.Music was blaring. A meteor shower was expected at any time over the ...

Conlee expected to run for county judge

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Bryan Mayor Mark Conlee filed paperwork Monday to document a campaign treasurer for a likely run for Brazos County judge.The action is not a formal declaration of his candidacy -- he still could opt not to run -- but it's the first step toward a camp ...

CS Council approves removal of red light cameras

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

The College Station City Council on Monday voted unanimously to have the city's nine red light cameras taken down as soon as legally possible.The vote comes after a petition with more than 840 signatures put the measure on a ballot earlier this month ...

Garland woman dies in wreck

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Police identified the woman who died after her vehicle left the roadway and struck a pole in College Station Monday night as a 22-year-old Garland woman. Police said they responded to the accident around 8:15 p.m. in the 14500 block of Rock Prairie ...

Two men attempted to burglarize CS home, police say

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 02:55 AM PST

Police said they arrested two men on charges of attempting to break into a College Station home Sunday.Bronshae Lonell Robinson, 23, of Satin was arrested on charges of burglary of a habitation and failure to identify - fugitive, along with a warrant ...

Bonfire events

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Texas A&M events scheduled for the 10th anniversary of the Aggie Bonfire collapse:* Texas A&M Bonfire Memorial8 to 9 p.m. TuesdayReed ArenaAggie family members are invited to remember the "12 Fallen Aggies" as they listen to speeches from A&a ...

Former Burleson County judge dies

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

A former Burleson County judge and an active member of the Brazos Valley community will be remembered for his compassion toward all, family members said Monday. Woods Allen Caperton died Sunday at St. Joseph's Regional Health Center in Bryan. He was ...

Obama prods China on free speech, Web controls

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

BEIJING -- President Barack Obama declared Monday the world is urgently watching for a "meeting of the minds" between the U.S. and China as he meets with President Hu Jintao on the globe's biggest issues -- climate change, economic recession, nuclear ...

Defendant testifies that she never harmed child

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

A College Station woman on trial for injury to a child took the witness stand Monday to give her version of how a 14-month-old she cared for at her unlicensed's day care collapsed with brain injuries. Dana Rene Munyon, 45, said she was placing Alexis ...

Idaho boy kills bear that wouldn't leave porch

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 01:32 AM PST

DRIGGS, Idaho -- An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave.The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when t ...

Red Cross auctioning pieces of history

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission -- the prec ...

NC searchers find body of missing 5-year-old girl

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

SANFORD, N.C. -- For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl's mother offered her for sex.The investigation into the dis ...

Unfriend is US dictionary's word of the year

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

NEW YORK -- What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend?That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook.Each year Oxford University Press tracks ...

In-orbit inspection scheduled for space shuttle

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis is circling Earth in pursuit of the International Space Station.Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the space station Wednesday. In the meantime, the astronauts will pull out an inspection boo ...

Twins joined at head successfully separated

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue were successfully separated Tuesday after 25 hours of delicate surgery, hospital officials said.It is too early to know ...

Reports: Army to probe alleged shooter's career

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The Army will conduct an internal investigation to examine whether it missed warning signs about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people in the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, two newspapers reported Mond ...

Mexican woman found hiding in suitcase

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

McALLEN -- Customs inspectors in Laredo caught a 31-year-old Mexican woman trying to enter the U.S. hidden inside a suitcase.Customs and Border Protection says on Thursday it arrested 29-year-old Maria Candelaria Moreno, from Milwaukee, Wis. She was ...

12 Afghans killed in attack on meeting with French

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan -- Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local offici ...

Palestinians seek EU support for independence

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israeli consent.The idea of seeking U.N. intervention has been gaining ...

Chicago schools president's death ruled a suicide

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

CHICAGO -- Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as his death was met with disbelief by civic leaders and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.Chicago Board ...

Palin talks politics, family ahead of book release

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin wouldn't reveal her political plans for 2012 in an interview with Barbara Walters, but when asked whether she'd play a major role replied that "if people will have me, I will."The former Republican vice presidential candidate ...

Navy: Missing plane wreckage found off Texas coast

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

CORPUS CHRISTI -- The U.S. Navy says wreckage of a training plane has been found off the Texas coast nearly three weeks after it went missing.But Lt. Brett Dawson said Monday that officials won't know whether the body of 29-year-old Houston native Lt ...

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