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- Rescuers learn to face disaster
- Loftin begins 'most challenging job'
- Crash landing
- Bryan schools to be closed Monday
- U.S. troops attack Marjah
- South coping with unexpected cold snap
- Snow days coming to an end
- Prof charged in campus shooting
- 2010 Olympic Games begin
- 3 men sought in string of fires
- Medina blames rivals for 9/11 flap
- Teamsters to represent Continental workers
- Texas Supreme Court will hear strip-club fee case
- Loftin officially named Texas A&M president
- Fey sends out email to 'Vogue' readers
- Religion Briefs
- Religion Notes
- Pope drawn into church scandal
- Presbyterians may take other paths to salvation
- Letters for February 13
- Calendar
- Pennsylvania family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman
- Out of luck: $2.5M Hoosier jackpot goes unclaimed
- NASA: Space shuttle flaws too small to pose danger
- Individual insurance rates soar in 3 states
| Rescuers learn to face disaster Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST Armed with only a crowbar, a Haitian father spent eight days digging through rubble in hopes of finding his children -- a son and daughter ages 8 and 12.Because of a traffic jam slowing a New York rescue team's return to its base for the evening, the ... |
| Loftin begins 'most challenging job' Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST R. Bowen Loftin took over as Texas A&M's 24th president Friday aware of the challenges that lie ahead: he's spent the last eight months preparing as interim president. "This clearly is the most challenging job in my life," said Loftin from the 10 ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST Mason Gill, 16, squeezes past a vehicle that crashed into a vacant building on Villa Maria Road near Texas Avenue in Bryan. Officer Jason James said sleet was a contributing factor in the Thursday night accident. No one was injured. The 33-year-old d ... |
| Bryan schools to be closed Monday Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportsBryan schools and administrative offices will be closed Monday in observance of President's Day. Bryan Collegiate High School follows the Blinn College school calendar and will not be closed. Classes will resume with normal hours o ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:14 PM PST NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan -- Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines and Afghan troops swooped down on the Taliban-held town of Marjah before dawn on Saturday, launching a long-expected attack to re-establish government control and undermine support for the mil ... |
| South coping with unexpected cold snap Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST ATLANTA -- Snowstruck Southerners tossed snowballs not far from the Gulf of Mexico as winter took its biggest whack at the region in decades Friday, coating areas from Texas to the Carolinas and grounding many flights at the world's busiest airport. ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST DALLAS -- A record snowfall of more than 12 inches knocked out power to tens of thousands of customers, closed businesses and schools, and grounded flights out of Dallas, but by Friday the snowstorm turned out to be relatively harmless.There were no ... |
| Prof charged in campus shooting Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:12 PM PST A biology professor at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus was charged with murder late Friday in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus.Authorities say Amy Bishop, an instructor and researcher at the universit ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:13 PM PST VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- In time-honored tradition, the show went on.Despite the training-run death earlier in the day of a luger from the country of Georgia, the Olympics' opening ceremonies were launched Friday night with a jubilant countdown ... |
| 3 men sought in string of fires Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:14 PM PST TYLER -- Arson investigators said Friday they are seeking three men in connection with a series of church fires in east and central Texas.Sketches of the three "persons of interest" were provided at a news conference by officials with the Bureau of A ... |
| Medina blames rivals for 9/11 flap Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:13 PM PST HOUSTON -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, reeling from her remarks that questioned whether the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, on Friday blamed the ensuing firestorm on a "coordinated attack" that she ... |
| Teamsters to represent Continental workers Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:13 PM PST DALLAS -- The Teamsters won an election to represent Continental Airlines ground workers who had rejected bids by other unions in recent years.The Teamsters said Friday that about 4,100 workers out of 7,600 voted to join the union.The airline industr ... |
| Texas Supreme Court will hear strip-club fee case Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:13 PM PST AUSTIN -- The legal dance over Texas' so-called pole tax, a $5 entrance fee at strip clubs, is going before the state Supreme Court.The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the fee is unconstitutional. Lower courts have ruled it an imprope ... |
| Loftin officially named Texas A&M president Posted: 12 Feb 2010 01:20 AM PST R. Bowen Loftin became Texas A&M’s 24th president shortly before 9 a.m. today. He was confirmed unanimously by the nine-member A&M System Board of Regents, eight months after he was named interim president of the 133-year-old university the ... |
| Fey sends out email to 'Vogue' readers Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:13 PM PST NEW YORK -- Vogue subscribers may have noticed an e-mail from Tina Fey in their inbox.It wasn't spam!Well, not really.The fashion magazine sent out a note from the actress promoting her cover shoot for its March issue.With a subject line that reads " ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:59 PM PST Christian school raid trial may proceedST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit filed against the state over a raid at a northeast Missouri Christian school for wayward youth may proceed to trial, allowing the nearly decade-long ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST Saturday* Castle Heights Baptist Church, 4504 Texas 21 in Bryan, will hold a Brotherhood Musical at 7 p.m. The special guests are the Zion Jubilees of Bryan. For more information, 778-3525.* The Greater Friendship District Association will host the s ... |
| Pope drawn into church scandal Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:14 PM PST VATICAN CITY -- A scandal in Italy's Catholic Church has morphed into a tale of Vatican intrigue complete with forged documents, reports of dueling cardinals and a papal admonishment Tuesday to put the matter to rest.The scandal erupted in August whe ... |
| Presbyterians may take other paths to salvation Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:12 PM PST LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Presbyterian Church USA's statement of faith says God through Jesus Christ delivers followers "from death to life eternal."But one in three members of the nation's largest Presbyterian denomination seem to believe there's some ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST Correcting the record A letter in Friday's Eagle criticized Congress and specifically U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, for accepting a pay raise this year. In fact, Congress voted last year to reject a pay raise for this year. Edwards has routin ... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe 12th annual Half Pint Library Book Drive, launched by Half Price Books, begins Monday and runs through March 31. The six-week program collects and distributes children's books to families and children in need through local nonp ... |
| Pennsylvania family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:18 PM PST GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Jennifer Daugherty's mom and stepdad didn't press for details when she mentioned she had made some new friends. The 30-year-old had the mental abilities of an adolescent but wasn't the kind to get in trouble, and she was even ... |
| Out of luck: $2.5M Hoosier jackpot goes unclaimed Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Hoosier lottery players have been digging through their trash, scouring their cars and bringing fistfuls of old tickets, some in shoeboxes, to an Indianapolis store, hoping they would find the winning -- but unclaimed -- $2.5 mil ... |
| NASA: Space shuttle flaws too small to pose danger Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A cracked tile and protruding ring on shuttle Endeavour are too small to pose any danger during next week's trip home from the International Space Station, NASA managers said Friday.In fact, the space shuttle's entire hea ... |
| Individual insurance rates soar in 3 states Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:12 PM PST TRENTON, N.J. -- Consumers in at least three states who buy their own health insurance are getting hit with premium increases of 15 percent or more -- and people in other states could see the same thing.Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of WellPoint In ... |
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