Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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House GOP candidates focused on the budget

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

Taking a cue from the cordial tone of last week's Republican U.S. House candidate forum, the four GOP candidates vying to represent Brazos County in the Texas House of Representatives expressed few differences on the issues Monday night during a foru ...

Corps commandant resigns

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

On R. Bowen Loftin's first full day as sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency, one of the campus' most respected administrators tendered his resignation. Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne, the 38th commandant of the Corps of Cadets, on Friday left th ...

Corps commandant resigns

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

On R. Bowen Loftin's first full day as sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency, one of the campus' most respected administrators tendered his resignation. Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne, the 38th commandant of the Corps of Cadets, on Friday left th ...

Nurse awarded for saving runner

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

Lynne Harkey was at mile 20 in the Chevron Houston Marathon and making good time when she noticed a man collapsed on the ground.Harkey, a College Station emergency room nurse, stopped running and went to work. The man had suffered a heart attack. He ...

Bryan police investigate bus stop, gas station robberies

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:25 AM PST

Bryan police are investigating armed robberies at a bus stop and gas station on Sunday night.Officer Jason James said police received a call around 5:14 p.m. reporting that a black man displayed a handgun and took an undisclosed amount of cash from t ...

Malfunction cited in CS power outage

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA power outage that affected about 4,300 College Station homes Sunday night was caused by an equipment malfunction, city officials said.About 4,300 homes and businesses were without power for about 35 minutes starting around 10 p.m. ...

Cameron officials investigate fire that destroyed bar, damaged apartments

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:15 AM PST

Fire officials said they believe a blaze that destroyed a Cameron bar and damaged three apartments early Monday was started by a faulty electrical appliance. Cameron Volunteer Fire Department Chief Henry Horelica said firefighters were dispatched to ...

Man charged for altercation at club

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportPolice charged a Bryan man with aggravated assault after they said he skipped out on his tab at a strip club and attempted to hit the club's manager with his vehicle. On Dec. 28, police responded to a call from the manager at Silk S ...

Obama announces plans meant to help middle class

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Declaring America's middle class is "under assault," President Barack Obama unveiled plans Monday to help hurting families pay their bills, save for retirement and care for their kids and aging parents. His comments previewed Wednesday' ...

UT developing 5 percent budget cut

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:55 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas is developing a plan to cut about $29 million from the state-funded portion of its two-year budget.President William Powers Jr. on Monday said the "sizable amount of money" adds up to a 5 percent cut as requ ...

Blasts at popular Baghdad hotels kill 37

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

BAGHDAD -- Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100.The attacks were another blow to an Iraqi government ...

Firing of Wyo. officers who Tasered tractor driver upheld

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:26 PM PST

GLENROCK, Wyo. -- Officials in the small Wyoming town of Glenrock have upheld the firing of two police officers who chased and Tasered a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in a parade.The Glenrock Town Council voted Monday night to uphold last year's ...

80 homes evacuated in San Antonio

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

SAN ANTONIO -- Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing the evacuation of dozens of homes.Ga ...

Homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:07 AM PST

SAN ANTONIO -- Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate. Gaping ...

S.C. official takes heat for welfare remark

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When things looked their darkest for Gov. Mark Sanford -- when he was in danger of being impeached for running off to Argentina to see his mistress -- his best insurance policy may well have been South Carolina's lieutenant governor ...

No survivors found after crash

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

BEIRUT -- The first sign of trouble was a flash of light on the horizon Monday -- and then witnesses said the Boeing 737 tumbled like "fire falling down from the sky" into the stormy Mediterr-anean Sea.All 90 aboard were feared dead in the pre-dawn c ...

Homes sell, but prices fell in '09

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Sales of previously occupied homes rose in 2009 for the first time in four years, despite a December slump that was due to a tax credit that led many buyers to complete sales earlier.Still, prices plunged more than 12 percent last year ...

Whitacre is GM's permanent CEO

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

DETROIT -- Ed Whitacre Jr. is dropping the interim from his CEO title at General Motors Co. and he reaffirmed Monday the automaker would repay in full its loans from the U.S. and Canadian governments by June.Whitacre said GM's board asked him to beco ...

Family: Kerrigan died of heart attack

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

WOBURN, Mass. -- Daniel Kerrigan, who rushed to his sobbing daughter Nancy and carried her into the locker room after an attack at a skating competition nearly derailed her Olympic dreams, died after what authorities said was a violent struggle with ...

Apple to unveil e-reader

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

SEATTLE -- The company whose CEO proclaimed in 2008 that people don't read anymore may now be poised to sweep in and school the electronic book reader market.That company is Apple Inc., and its CEO, Steve Jobs, was predicting Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle ...

'Chemical Ali' hanged for murders

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST

BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, who was hanged Monday, ordered the infamous poison gas attack on the northern Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988 that killed 5,000 people and earned him the chilling moniker "Chemical Ali ...

Genes May Affect Breast Cancer Treatment Success

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:45 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A genetic signature may help predict which breast cancer patients are resistant to chemotherapy drugs, something that may guide treatment choices. The genes were discovered by a group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who e ...

New Options for Childhood Birthmarks - Research Summary

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:36 PM PST

BACKGROUND: Vascular birthmarks, including hemangiomas and other malformations, occur in roughly 10 percent of births, which adds up to about 400,000 babies every year in the United States. Hemangiomas are the most common form of benign tumors affec ...

Letters for January 26

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

Willing to leave county if the price is right I happened to catch the news the other night where the supposedly poor Bryan school district and the wealthy College Station district are ending the transfer of money from the latter to the former. G ...

Calendar

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

TuesdayCLUBSBryan Noon Lions Club, 11:30 a.m. The Best Western Atrea, 1920 Austin's Colony Pkwy., Bryan. 731-5300.Brazos County Senior Citizens Association luncheon, noon. 1402 Bristol St., Bryan. 822-6873.College Station Kiwanis Club, noon, Hilton H ...

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