Monday, February 1, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Grooving to 'Grease'

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST

Above: Actors go airborne during one of the 13 song and dance routines in A&M Consolidated High School's presentation of Grease in the school auditorium Sunday afternoon. Below: Sandy (Sarah McKneely) and Danny (Garrison Liles) finally get togeth ...

CARPOOL gets back in gear

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST

A safe-ride program run by Texas A&M students is on the road again following a surge of donations the last couple weeks totaling roughly $30,000.CARPOOL was sidelined the first week of the semester. Leaders blamed the lapse on a troubled economy ...

Flood warning for Navasota River in effect

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

Weather officials have issued a flood warning for the Navasota River and are urging residents and drivers to use caution near high waters.The National Weather Service on Sunday issued a flood warning for the Navasota River near Easterly, affecting Le ...

Teen reportedly used fake $5 bill

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportAuthorities said a 17-year-old tried to pay his bill at a Sonic by using a fake $5 bill that he made from a home printer. The teen was arrested Saturday and posted $4,000 in bail the same day.College Station officers said they respo ...

Police: Man broke in, assaulted residents

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 23-year-old Bryan man remained jailed Sunday, a day after police said he broke into a house and made two residents drop their pants. Bryan police said they were called to a house on Henry Street at about 4:30 a.m. in reference to ...

Officers find stolen weapon during stop

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 19-year-old Bryan resident was arrested on two felony charges after police said he ran a stop sign.Bryan police said they saw a vehicle ignore the traffic sign at Palasota Drive and Finfeather Road at about 9 p.m. Saturday. Office ...

Former Vision Center worker faces theft charge

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:02 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 27-year-old former employee of Vision Center in Bryan was taken into custody over the weekend after authorities said he stole more than $3,000 in merchandise last fall. In a theft report filed in January, supervisors at the store ...

GOP facing challenges in the House

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST

AUSTIN -- The Texas House is Republican-led and about as conservative as any political body in the country. But for some in the state's GOP, it's not nearly conservative enough.A wave of anti-establishment fervor -- first harnessed last year with the ...

Budget on way to Congress

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion.Still, the administration ...

Monday deadline to register for Texas primaries

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:42 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texans wanting to vote in next month's Republican or Democratic primaries must be registered.The deadline to register is today. The primaries are Tuesday, March 2.Further details are available from the Texas secretary of state's offi ...

Toyota tells dealers parts on way to fix pedals

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:40 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday its dealers should get parts to fix a sticky gas pedal problem by the end this week as the automaker apologized to Toyota owners and tries to bring an end to a recall that has affected 4.2 million vehicles ...

10 held for trying to 'rescue' kids

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.Prime Minister Max Bellerive told ...

University of Texas cuts cafe, informal classes

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:43 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas is shutting down the Cactus Cafe, the famed campus venue where Lyle Lovett and others started their careers.The Austin university is also cutting its decades-long program of informal classes that allow area re ...

Who ya gonna call in Galveston?

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST

Galveston County Daily NewsGALVESTON -- People visit Galveston for the surf, hot spots along the Great Texas Birding Trail and for one of the country's largest collections of historic architecture.But one group says this island city also could conjur ...

Military wary of Hawaii school system

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- The third- to fifth-graders ran up to their instructor clutching a list of words using the letters B, D, and E.Split into boy and girls teams, the students offered the teacher "bed" and "bead." The boys spelled more word ...

Texas officials say failed wall not built to plan

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:45 PM PST

SAN ANTONIO -- A city official who inspected a collapsed retaining wall in a San Antonio neighborhood says it was not built according to a design engineer's plan.Assistant City Manager T.C. Broadnax wrote in an e-mail obtained by the San Antonio Expr ...

Davos forum ends without solutions

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST

DAVOS, Switzerland -- The world's foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what's going to spur job growth and preven ...

Chaos eases with Haitian women in food lines

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The 79-year-old woman with a 55-pound bag of rice perched on her head gingerly descended concrete steps Sunday and passed it off to her daughter-in-law -- who quickly disappeared behind the faded leopard-print sheets that are ...

Beyonce, Swift have big nights at the Grammys

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST

LOS ANGELES -- Beyonce became the most decorated female on a Grammy night as she collected six trophies, including song of the year for her anthem Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), but it was another diva -- Taylor Swift -- who nabbed the top honor, ...

13 students killed at party in Mexico

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Armed men stormed a party in this violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses said they thought was an attack prompted by false information.About two dozen teens and young adults ...

Hope For Iron Deficiency and Overload

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers may be on the trail of a new treatment for iron deficiency. A team at the Medical College of Georgia discovered the protein neogenin helps regulate the body's iron levels. Developing a drug that targets the protein, ...

Fused Cells Prevent Transplant Rejection

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Scientists have discovered a way to make embryonic stem cell transplants less likely to be rejected by a recipient's immune system. By fusing embryonic stem cells with bone marrow cells, scientists have found a recipient's body ...

Power In Placebos

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:41 PM PST

ANN HARBOR, Mich. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- They're called placebos, sugar pills, shams, shots of saline and fake creams. But some argue even though their ingredients may be bogus, the reactions are real. Almost half of all doctors regularly give their ...

Power In Placebos - Research Summary

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:36 PM PST

BACKGROUND:  According to a new survey, nearly half of American doctors report regularly giving their patients placebo treatments. For the purpose of the survey, the definition of "placebo" went beyond sugar pills. These "treatments" typically ...

Letters for February 1

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

Are the city councils of College Station and Bryan trying to encourage the unification of the cities and a local tax revolt? What other conclusions could be drawn from the realization that our local governments have spent more than $500,000 on legal ...

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