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- Canadian leader visits A&M
- Fans flock to Aggiecon
- Chilifest announces lineup
- Sausage sales will go to CARPOOL, Haiti
- Sunset man indicted
- Man arrested in thefts from Bryan employer
- Eleven die in insurgent attack
- Auto chief vows fixes
- Mid-Atlantic makes preparations for huge snow
- Obama: Health care reform may end
- Manley's ring now symbolizes two victories
- Mom accused of starving girl
- Super Bowl ads: goofy and frugal
- N. Korea to free detained U.S. man
- Offensive aims to turn page in Afghan war
- Twin blasts kill 40 in Iraq
- Job market improving, but has long way to go
- El Niño limiting wildfires
- Sheen vehicle apparently stolen, crashed in ravine
- Religion Notes
- Bryan church welcomes Colombian missionaries
- Super Sunday isn't just about football
- Letters for February 6
- Calendar
| Canadian leader visits A&M Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST Friday would have been a bad day for Canada to start a war. The nation's only four-star general was busy at the Bush Library in College Station. But if it was gearing up for another fight, chances are the U.S. would be as well. The focus of the talk ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST Robert Stikmanz sat across from a woman selling Japanese calligraphy on rice paper.The 54-year-old who was at Aggiecon, a science fiction and fantasy conference in College Station on Friday, knows about foreign languages; he conjured one. It's called ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST To passers-by, Sherri Hooper admits, the two-day festival probably doesn't look like much more than a mess. "But Chilifest is an absolute blessing," said Hooper, also known as the "mother of Chilifest" and committee member of Burleson County Go Texan ... |
| Sausage sales will go to CARPOOL, Haiti Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:06 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportAll sales at Slovacek Sausage on Saturday will benefit a safe-ride program run by Texas A&M students and relief efforts in Haiti following last month's earthquake. The retail store on F.M. 60 in Snook is open from 7 a.m. to 10 ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST A 23-year-old Sunset man was indicted this week on charges of intoxication manslaughter stemming from his part in a fatal 2009 accident that killed his 21-year-old passenger. Kasey Lynn Vanhoose could face between two and 20 years in prison and a $10 ... |
| Man arrested in thefts from Bryan employer Posted: 05 Feb 2010 01:30 AM PST A 24-year-old man faces a felony theft charge after police said an investigation showed he stole more than $3,000 worth of items from the Bryan business where he worked.Robert Manuel Reyes of Bryan was arrested Thursday on a charge of theft of proper ... |
| Eleven die in insurgent attack Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST KABUL -- Most of the soldiers were still asleep when gunfire rang out and insurgents stormed their isolated base from all sides. Eight Americans and three Afghan soldiers died.The Americans weren't even supposed to be there. Combat Outpost Keating ha ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST TOKYO -- Toyota's president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking gas pedals. Yet he stopped short of ordering a recall for the company's iconic Prius hybrid for braking ... |
| Mid-Atlantic makes preparations for huge snow Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Life in the nation's capital ground to a halt Friday as steady snow fell, the beginning of a storm that forecasters said could be the biggest in modern history.A record 2 1/2 feet or more was predicted for Washington, where snow was fa ... |
| Obama: Health care reform may end Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST WASHINGTON -- No, maybe he can't.President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.The president's newly conflicting signals cou ... |
| Manley's ring now symbolizes two victories Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST By MARY FLOODHouston ChronicleHOUSTON -- Troubled football great Dexter Manley once pawned his 1983 Super Bowl ring to buy cocaine.This week, while in Miami for Sunday's Super Bowl, the man nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense" was both ecstatic and w ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST HOUSTON -- A Houston woman is accused of starving her 8-year-old daughter, who weighed just 15 pounds when she died in January 2009, Child Protective Services said.CPS spokeswoman Estella Olguin says Almita Nicole Lockhart, 34, is accused of neglecti ... |
| Super Bowl ads: goofy and frugal Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST NEW YORK -- Game on! Super Bowl ads are returning to their goofy roots.Men march across a hillside without pants, toys joyride in Vegas and the miserly Mr. Burns from The Simpsons loses his fortune but finds happiness. It's a sign that people are fee ... |
| N. Korea to free detained U.S. man Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:17 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea -- A "repentant" American missionary set to be freed from North Korea after being arrested at the border on Christmas said he was ashamed of the "biased" view he once held of the communist nation, Pyongyang's state media said Frida ... |
| Offensive aims to turn page in Afghan war Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST KABUL -- A new and possibly decisive chapter of the Afghan war is unfolding. The U.S. is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the militants are being squeezed in their Pakistani sanctuaries, and the Afghan government is trying to draw them into p ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST BAGHDAD -- A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a suicide attacker who detonated a second bomb in coordinated blasts that killed at least 40 people and wo ... |
| Job market improving, but has long way to go Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The job market is lurching toward improvement. It just has a long way to go.The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released the unemployment rate for January, showing an unexpected decline from 10 percen ... |
| El Niño limiting wildfires Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST LUBBOCK -- Central Texas rancher Debbie Davis can hardly believe the turnaround in rainfall.While her pastures were parched and withered last summer after nearly two years without appreciable rain, the area northwest of San Antonio where Davis raises ... |
| Sheen vehicle apparently stolen, crashed in ravine Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:41 AM PST LOS ANGELES -- Actor Charlie Sheen's stolen Mercedes was found overturned hundreds of feet down a cliff near his Sherman Oaks home early Friday, but there's no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into the ravine, police said.Police got an eme ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST Saturday* New Testament No. 2 Outreach Church, 1218 Ettle St. in Bryan, will present a celebration of black history at 6 p.m. The guest speakers will be Pastor Michael Wolf of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Roans Prairie and the Rev. Positive of Grace M ... |
| Bryan church welcomes Colombian missionaries Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST By MATT IDOMI kept shifting my weight from one foot to the other, leaning on that odd little rental cart you get at the airport to haul your luggage to your car. I really don't like airports. I do not like driving into huge airports and trying to fol ... |
| Super Sunday isn't just about football Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST BOSTON -- It's tied by its name and air date to Super Bowl Sunday, but the Catholic "Faith Bowl" being broadcast nationwide has no link to football, unless you count talk about the saints.The third annual Faith Bowl will run just before and after the ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST Feb. 19 the deadline for election letters All letters pertaining to the March 2 party primaries must reach The Eagle no later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 19. All political letters will run by Feb. 25. Should there not be room for all political ... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST SaturdayEVENTSFourth annual Chili Cook-off, 7 a.m. Brazos Valley Elks Lodge 859. $15 per entry for chili; $5 for beans. Turn-in at noon for beans and 2 p.m. for chili. Fundraiser to benefit community projects. 220-5611.Rio Brazos Audubon Society -- B ... |
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