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- Kinky all about the balance in things
- Health bill clears key Senate test
- Police identify suspect in CS burglaries
- CS police: Woman tried to run over man
- Shoot-out, wreck reported in Milam
- Mentally ill youth offenders go free
- Taylor Swift voted AP entertainer of the year
- Poll: Economy top story
- Eurostar train canceled indefinitely
- Obama plan could limit records kept from public
- Actress Murphy dead at age 32
- Leader in Iran's reform movement dies
- Polish police retrieve damaged Auschwitz gate sign
- Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning
- Gas could be the calvary in global warming fight
- Shipping giants rush to deliver
- Heart Risk Elevated After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
- Genetic Link to Heart Failure
- New Web Tool Predicts Risk of Second Stroke
- Tom Ford swaps fashion for film with 'Single Man'
- Friend:Polanski working on film
- Letters for December 21
- Calendar
- Brain Plaques in Healthy People Linked to Alzheimer's Risk
- Fierce weekend snow storm eases up
| Kinky all about the balance in things Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST Politics filled the air of Texas Avenue Cigars as much as the thick smoke on a recent Friday night.Texas A&M student Jess Fields, co-owner of the store, had just indicated to a local radio station that he planned to run for College Station City C ... |
| Health bill clears key Senate test Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:59 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas." ... |
| Police identify suspect in CS burglaries Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST Police said they arrested a 20-year-old man who is a suspect in at least 10 cases of burglary of a habitation and criminal mischief in a College Station housing complex. Marti Jahrel Frieson of Humble, a Blinn student, was arrested on charges of pos ... |
| CS police: Woman tried to run over man Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST A College Station woman remained jailed Sunday after police said she intentionally ran into a man with her car. Glendora Taplin Jones, 46, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Saturday morning. According to a police report, Jones ... |
| Shoot-out, wreck reported in Milam Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST Milam County authorities were kept busy Sunday, working a police chase and shoot-out in the morning and, later, an unrelated auto-train wreck. The first incident happened before 2 a.m., when Hearne resident JeJuan Shauntel Cooks, 30, was pulled over ... |
| Mentally ill youth offenders go free Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST TYLER -- A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.Both were released by the Texas Youth Commissi ... |
| Taylor Swift voted AP entertainer of the year Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:09 PM PST NEW YORK -- It's a love story, baby.Taylor Swift sang those words about a young romance, but they apply just as well to America's feelings for the 20-year-old country singer. Swift, adding to the heap of awards already bestowed on her, has been voted ... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST NEW YORK -- The convoluted American economy -- restoring windfalls to a lucky few while leaving millions jobless and distraught -- was the top news story of 2009, followed closely by the inauguration of President Barack Obama, according to U.S. edito ... |
| Eurostar train canceled indefinitely Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST LONDON -- The only passenger rail link between Britain and the rest of Europe has been shut down indefinitely, Eurostar said Sunday, promising more travel misery for thousands of stranded passengers just before Christmas.Services have been suspended ... |
| Obama plan could limit records kept from public Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the number of ... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit Clueless and rose to stardom in 8 Mile" before her movie roles declined in recent years, died Sunday in Los Angeles of what appeared to be natural causes, a Los Angeles ... |
| Leader in Iran's reform movement dies Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST TEHRAN, Iran -- The spiritual father of Iran's reform movement died Sunday at the age of 87, prompting thousands of his followers to immediately head to the holy city where the dissident cleric is to be buried.A huge display of mourning for Grand Ay ... |
| Polish police retrieve damaged Auschwitz gate sign Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST WARSAW, Poland -- Polish police found the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign that was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz after an intensive three-day hunt and arrested five suspects, police said early Monday. The sign was ... |
| Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST AUGUSTA, Maine -- A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.The ... |
| Gas could be the calvary in global warming fight Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It's cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under our feet.It's natural gas, the same fossil fuel that ... |
| Shipping giants rush to deliver Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Mellany Sorrell's face glistened with sweat as she lifted packages and seemed in constant motion during the holiday rush at the epicenter of UPS' global air shipping network.The 29-year-old methodically hoisted boxes and put them g ... |
| Heart Risk Elevated After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and suicide. Katja Fall and colleagues from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden found that the relative risks of cardiovascular ... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A team of researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, has identified a group of 12 genetic variants in the HSPB7 gene that are associated with heart failure in humans. The team, led by Gerald Dorn, used ... |
| New Web Tool Predicts Risk of Second Stroke Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Scientists have developed a new web-based tool that may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke. "This is an important new tool because studies show that people who have a se ... |
| Tom Ford swaps fashion for film with 'Single Man' Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:10 PM PST LONDON -- Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with "A Single Man," the soulful, immaculately styled story of a grieving college professor in 1960s California.The ultra-confident Ford never doubted his abilities -- th ... |
| Friend:Polanski working on film Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST GENEVA -- Roman Polanski is finishing the edit of his latest movie, Ghost, from his house arrest in Switzerland, surrounded by family and bombarded by telephone calls of support, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy said in an interview Sunday.Levy, ... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:05 PM PST Health of our nation should be top priority I read a complaint that America is now too successful at liberty. We have freedom to acquire great wealth and spend it on anything we want. Our own greed allows us to choose who will be rich and who w ... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:05 PM PST MARK YOUR CALENDARSHave an event on New Year's Eve? E-mail your information (organization, time, place, cost, entertainment/band, etc.) to spotlight@theeagle.com or calendar@theeagle.com. Deadline for submissions is Dec. 27.MondayCLUBSCollege Station ... |
| Brain Plaques in Healthy People Linked to Alzheimer's Risk Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:45 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Scientists have long assumed that amyloid plaques found in autopsies of the brains of Alzheimer's patients are harmful and cause Alzheimer's disease. But autopsies of people with no signs of mental impairment have also revealed ... |
| Fierce weekend snow storm eases up Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A weekend storm dropped record snowfall and stranded travelers up the coast from Virginia to New England, but its timing helped minimize headache-inducing work commutes and left many with the prospect of a very white Christmas.Res ... |
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