Friday, January 22, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Loftin picked to lead A&M

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

It was anticlimactic. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. at Texas A&M, Regent Richard Box proposed a motion to the Board of Regents to name R. Bowen Loftin the sole finalist for the presidency. The nine-member body, without discussion, unanimously approved ...

Loftin named A&M president

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:32 AM PST

A bowtie-wearing Aggie born near Hearne and raised in Navasota has been selected to be the 24th president of Texas A&M University. R. Bowen Loftin, the measured and analytical interim president of the 133-year-old university, was selected unanimo ...

Leaders praise A&M's choice for presidency

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Student and faculty leaders expressed optimism about the selection of R. Bowen Loftin as the sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency. "I'm ecstatic," said student body president Kolin Loveless, who also was a chair of the 16-person committee t ...

Shots fired at Texas Capitol, no injuries reported

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:42 AM PST

AUSTIN, Texas â€" A man fired several shots into the air Thursday while standing on the Texas Capitol’s south steps before throwing down his handgun as state troopers closed in and tackled him, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.Nobody was woun ...

A&M athletics grilled over finances

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:57 AM PST

The Texas A&M Board of Regents grilled Athletic Director Bill Byrne and the department’s chief financial officer Thursday about a scathing audit released last month.The audit, which was formally presented to regents at the daylong meeting in Coll ...

Man hit while following generator is OK

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

A 42-year-old Alvin man was recovering from his injuries at College Station Medical Center on Thursday after being hit by a vehicle on F.M. 3090 in Navasota.Officials said George Perales was struck by a vehicle exiting off of Texas 6 and onto F.M. 30 ...

Police: Man broke into apartment to assault resident's friend

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:17 AM PST

A 21-year-old man remained jailed Friday after police said he pushed his way into a College Station home with the intent to assault a person.Jonathan Hoang Dang of College Station was arrested Thursday on a charge of burglary of a habitation.Police s ...

Man hit while following generator is OK

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

A 42-year-old Alvin man was recovering from his injuries at College Station Medical Center on Thursday after being hit by a vehicle on F.M. 3090 in Navasota.Officials said George Perales was struck by a vehicle exiting off of Texas 6 and onto F.M. 30 ...

Pitcock running again for schools

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

The vice president of the College Station school board announced Thursday that he plans to run for re-election. Randall Pitcock, 51, has served on the school board since May 2004 and is the owner of Pitcock and Croix Inc., a local custom-home company ...

Group aims to curb sex assaults

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

The Sexual Assault Resource Center of the Brazos Valley is launching an educational campaign Friday to raise awareness about drug-facilitated sexual assaults. Between 2006 and 2008, more than 250 sexual assaults involving the use of drugs were report ...

37 indicted on felony charges

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

A Brazos County grand jury indicted 37 people Thursday on felony charges that included drug possession and assault with a deadly weapon.Among those indicted was 40-year-old Bryan resident Joe Ruiz Marin. According to court documents, Marin threw a wo ...

Police ID body found on Sandy Point Road

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportThe woman whose body was found on private property on Sandy Point Road Wednesday has been identified as 27-year-old Julie Melissa Perez.Bryan police are investigating the woman's death as a homicide.Investigators said Perez did not ...

CPS joins probe into infant's death

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportChild Protective Services is investigating Wednesday's death of a 5-month-old boy along with College Station police.Lt. Rodney Sigler, a spokesman for the Police Department, said it's common to include CPS in an investigation when c ...

Report cites flaw in New Mexico football facility

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:17 AM PST

DALLAS -- An engineer's report for the University of New Mexico says the school's football practice facility is vulnerable to the same type of winds that caused the Dallas Cowboys' practice field canopy to collapse.The report, completed earlier this ...

Trial begins for man accused of killing 2

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportTestimony began this week in the murder trial of a Waco man accused of shooting two people in Hearne. Derrick Bible, 27, is the first of three men to stand trial on charges of capital murder in the deaths of Chandell Lewis, 28, and ...

Perry requests help in 'Twilight Rapist' case

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:38 AM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Rick Perry is asking for more resources to help catch a serial rapist targeting older women in Central Texas.Perry requested Thursday that a major crimes task force help investigate at least eight sexual assaults or attempted se ...

Part of 29th closed so 2 helicopters could land, take off

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:25 AM PST

Bryan police said they closed a portion of East 29th Street late Thursday morning to allow two helicopters access to St. Joseph Regional Health Center.Officer Jason James said the closure of the street, from Villa Maria Road to Memorial Drive, starte ...

Four A&M students face drug charges

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportFour 19-year-old College Station roommates were arrested on felony charges of marijuana possession after authorities reported finding drugs in their home. College Station police said they executed a search warrant on the Pintail Loo ...

NWS says tornadoes caused damage in East Texas

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:19 AM PST

DALLAS -- The National Weather Service confirmed Thursday that at least five tornadoes damaged parts of east Texas a day earlier.Near Canton, about 55 miles east of Dallas, at least one twister left a 15-mile trail of destruction Wednesday afternoon. ...

Home field advantage

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Texas A&M volleyball player Mary Batis takes advantage of the sunny weather by running up and down the bleachers at Kyle Field on Thursday. ...

Home field advantage

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Texas A&M volleyball player Mary Batis takes advantage of the sunny weather by running up and down the bleachers at Kyle Field on Thursday. ...

Meteorite strikes doctor's office in Virginia

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:59 AM PST

LORTON, Va. -- Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured.Dr. Frank Ciampi says the rock struck the two-story building around 5:30 p.m. Monday in ...

Haiti relocating victims

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti's epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian offi ...

Dems reject rushing health care

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Though reeling from a seismic political loss, House Democrats rejected the quickest fix to their health care dilemma Thursday and signaled that any agreement on President Barack Obama's signature issue will come slowly, if at all.Democr ...

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