Monday, January 25, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Food and fellowship offered at free weekly potlucks

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

For more than two years, a 34-year-old man who goes by the name E has walked a few blocks to Neal Park in Bryan each Sunday, rain or shine.The man from Fort Worth said he ended up in Brazos County after his car broke down on his way to Houston about ...

CARPOOL will pick up again soon

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

A Texas A&M student-run program that offers free rides to curb drunk driving is expected to return to the road within two weeks after financial difficulties put it in park.Caring Aggies R Protecting Over Our Lives, better known as CARPOOL, stoppe ...

A&M profs gazing for start of the universe

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

Researchers at Texas A&M have yet to see images of the beginning of the universe. But they're getting closer.Two A&M astronomers, along with fellow team members from the University of Massachusetts and two astrological institutes, spent the l ...

A&M profs gazing for start of the universe

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

Researchers at Texas A&M have yet to see images of the beginning of the universe. But they're getting closer.Two A&M astronomers, along with fellow team members from the University of Massachusetts and two astrological institutes, spent the l ...

Police arrest two for dumpster fires

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST

Two Bryan residents remained jailed late Sunday after authorities said they admitted to setting fire to five dumpsters around a shopping center at 29th Street and Carter Creek Parkway. Christobal Lopez Jr., 19, and Daniel Barnett Hambric, 21, were de ...

Power back on for thousands in CS

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 02:32 PM PST

The power is back on late tonight for an estimated 4,300 homes and businesses in College Station after being in the dark for about 35 minutes. Jay Socol, spokesman for the city, said that the affected areas included Post Oak Mall, Northgate, College ...

Wal-Mart cutting jobs at Sam's Club

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will cut about 11,200 jobs at Sam's Club warehouses as it turns over the task of in-store product demonstrations to an outside marketing company.More than a dozen local jobs were lost in the cuts.The move is an effort ...

Plane crashes with 90 on board

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

BEIRUT -- An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the sea early Monday just minutes after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon's transportation minister said.The cause was not immediately known. But police ruled out terrorism and sai ...

Haiti ups estimate of deaths

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The truckers filling Haiti's mass graves with bodies reported ever higher numbers: More than 150,000 quake victims have been buried by the government, an official said Sunday.That doesn't count those still under the debris, c ...

Wildlife safe, vessels separated after spill

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

PORT ARTHUR -- The Coast Guard used sheets of plastic and skimmers Sunday to contain and clean up a crude oil spill in a southeast Texas port. The spill was contained in a 2-mile area and was not believed to have hurt any local wildlife, the Coast Gu ...

Actor Gary Coleman jailed in Utah

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:53 PM PST

SANTAQUIN, Utah -- Actor Gary Coleman was arrested in Utah on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said.The 41-year-old former "Diff'rent Strokes" actor was booked into the Utah County Jail Sunday, said Santaquin police officer Shawn Cart ...

Bin Laden praises attack

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

CAIRO -- Osama bin Laden endorsed the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and threatened new attacks against the United States in an audio message released Sunday that appeared aimed at asserting he maintains some direct comman ...

IDs on 2 plane crash victims in Texas

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:51 PM PST

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A high school student from Fort Worth and his flight instructor died in the crash of a small plane in Ellis County.A statement from the Fort Worth Independent School District said counselors would be on hand Monday at Dunbar High ...

Top Bush official Mosbacher, 82, dies

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

HOUSTON -- Robert Mosbacher Sr., a Houston oil multimillionaire who served as U.S. Commerce secretary under President George H.W. Bush, died Sunday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He was 82.Mosbacher died after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cance ...

Use of road funds in question

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

FORT WORTH -- Nearly $1 billion in transportation funds have been used over the past 18 years on Texas projects that had little to do with improving traffic flow, a newspaper reported Sunday.A Fort Worth Star-Telegram analysis of state and federal re ...

Possible U.S. drone crashes in Pakistan

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suspected U.S. drone crashed in Pakistan's lawless tribal area near the Afghan border Sunday, a rare mishap for a program Washington has increasingly relied on to kill Taliban and al-Qaida militants, said intelligence official ...

Premier: Israel to keep land forever

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

JERUSALEM -- Israel's leader declared his country's permanent claim to parts of the West Bank on Sunday, angering Palestinians again and complicating efforts by President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy -- though the same claim was also made by previous ...

Breaking out the bubbly for 50 years

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- People have walked to the altar dressed in it, protected their garden plants with it, even put it on display at highbrow art museums.Mostly, they like the sound it makes when they destroy it, piece by piece, which largely explai ...

Digital Mammograms Deliver Less Radiation

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 05:45 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) --  One of the largest mammography trials in history shows that the radiation dose associated with digital mammography is significantly lower than conventional film mammography.  Researchers found that digital mammograp ...

Birth Weights Drop

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study suggests babies are getting smaller in the U.S.  Researchers found birth weights decreased by an average of 52 grams (1.83 ounces) between 1990 and 2005.  They say the drop in weight was especially notable ...

Letters for January 25

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

Many reasons Wellborn doesn't like annexation If one wants to know why we in Wellborn do not want to be part of the "People's Republic of College Station," look no farther than the remarks of Lance Simms, assistant planning director for College ...

Taking CARPOOL donations

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST

* Tax-deductible donations can be made at http://carpool.tamu.edu.For more information, contact CARPOOL at tamucarpool@gmail.com.* Spoons Yogurt, 1509 South Texas Ave., in College Station will donate a percentage of proceeds received from noon to 2 p ...

Lend a hand

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST

* Bring food to the 1 p.m. potluck at Neal Park * Attend an 11 a.m. service at the park on 22nd Street* E-mail Dan Kiniry at dkiniry@gmail.com for more information ...

Calendar

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:11 PM PST

MondayCLUBSCollege Station Senior Advisory Committee meeting, 10 a.m. The Exit Teen Center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. Visitors are welcome. 764-6371.College Station Noon Lions Club. Hilton Hotel. 690-8525.EVENTSWelcome Back Students! goody bag giveaway ...

Too Many Antipsychotic Drugs?

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 05:47 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Nursing homes where there is a record high rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions in the previous year are more likely to prescribe antipsychotic agents to newly admitted older adult patients, even when there is no clinical ind ...

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