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Taking home the trophy

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Members of the Texas A&M women's basketball team celebrate their victory against rival Texas by holding the Lone Star Showdown trophy after their win at Reed Arena Saturday. ...

GOP hopefuls set sights on Edwards

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Texas' 17th congressional district has been a constant source of frustration for Republicans over the past decade.After its borders were redrawn in 2003, the district, which now stretches from the Brazos Valley north through Waco to just south of For ...

Ogden, Bius vie for Senate

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:23 PM PST

State Sen. Steve Ogden, the conservative Republican from Bryan, just doesn't think enough votes exist to his right. Don't tell that to Huntsville businessman Ben Bius, the incumbent's challenger in the March 2 Republican primary election. Ogden, who ...

Truancy problem is top priority for Pct. 2

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Judge Tommy Munoz said he hopes voters in the March 2 Republican primary will look at his record and decide that's what makes him the better candidate. Challenger and political newcomer Stanley Wells said it's time for the one-term incumbent to leave ...

JP incumbents challenged

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:12 PM PST

By DARREN BENSONdarren.benson@theeagle.comBrazos County Justice of the Peace George Boyett has won voters' confidence six times, and he sees no reason his seventh try will be different.His challenger for the Precinct 3 seat, Bruce Wick, said he can t ...

Habitat marks milestone

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:17 PM PST

Erica Walker and her daughters (from left to right) Rayven, Keera, Joycelyn and Brittni, celebrated the dedication of their Habitat for Humanity-built home Saturday. The completion of the home marks a 20-year milestone for the Bryan-College Station ...

Bryan woman charged with theft

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:12 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 26-year-old Bryan woman was arrested on a felony theft charge after a Kohl's employee reported seeing her stuffing infant clothes into her pants and a baby stroller.College Station police said Crystal Lasha Harris had planned to s ...

Parent nights set for Bryan school

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportBryan middle schools will host orientation nights for parents of fifth-graders who will soon be transitioning to sixth grade.Information on registering for school, the type of courses and electives offered and pre-AP classes will be ...

Running with a friend

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Lindsay Compton runs with her dog, Laila, and others at the See Spot Run 3K and 5K event at Wolf Pen Creek in College Station on Saturday. The event, which is a fundraiser for Texas A&M veterinary students, gave four-legged runners and their owne ...

Troops continue assault in Marjah

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

MARJAH, Afghanistan -- U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.President Hamid Kar ...

Many oppose IRS rules

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON-- Joseph Stack's methods were unthinkable -- he is accused of ramming a plane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Texas -- but his views on taxation follow a long line of protesters who believe tax laws don't apply to them.While ...

Alabama shooting suspect brilliant but peculiar

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

BOSTON -- Amy Bishop's intelligence was never debatable. Even as a child, she didn't hesitate to tell people when they were wrong. As she grew older, earned a Harvard Ph.D. and claimed a genius IQ of 180, her brilliance could come with a bluntness, c ...

All 64 rescued after ship sinks

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

RIO DE JANEIRO -- When wind and rough seas drove the Canadian sailing ship carrying dozens of teenage students to lean precariously to one side, the captain figured it was just another day of sailing in rough weather.When the boat immediately keeled ...

Haitian children weren't orphans

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- There is not one orphan among the 33 children that a U.S. Baptist group tried to take from Haiti in a do-it-yourself rescue mission following a devastating earthquake, The Associated Press has determined.In a visit to the ru ...

Christian college reverses 'Star-Spangled' ban

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

GOSHEN, Ind. -- For more than a century, there was no playing of The Star-Spangled Banner at Goshen College -- a small Christian college with ties to the Mennonite Church.That's about to change. For the first time in the school's history, Goshen Col ...

Rodents of Unusual Size: Pet capybaras aren't for everyone

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

It's one thing to get a goldfish because your daughter begs for one. It's quite another to end up with a hundred-pound rodent who has more than 2,700 Twitter followers.Caplin Rous is a capybara. Related to the guinea pig, the capybara is the largest ...

Let home decorating bring you together

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

In some ways, it was simpler before. When Joy Lane Hicks wanted to buy a new piece of furniture or do some redecorating, she says, "I would start with, 'Hey, honey, I have an idea,' and he would drop his head, groaning and moaning."She'd decorate, an ...

Award-winning 'Groovaloo' brings street style to B-CS

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

I wasn't there for the meeting, but I can imagine that last year when Anne Black was describing what MSC OPAS' 37th season would be like, she might have said, "This season we're going to get the audience out of their seats before the standing ovation ...

Our Neighbors

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

SHOWING AGGIE LOVEFollowing last weekend's performance of Love Letters by actor Robert Pine and his wife, Gwynne Gilford, Aggie Jerry Cooper, class of 1963, presented the couple with some mementos of Aggieland. Gilford's mother, Anne Gwynne, starred ...

Calendar

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

Sunday* Financial Peace University. 9 a.m. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 217 W. 26th St., Bryan. 13-week Dave Ramsey program to help people handle their money. Register: communications@standrewsbcs.org or 218-6702.Monday* College Station Senior Advi ...

School menus

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

Here are this week's school menus. Milk is included with each meal.BryanMonday: Chicken nuggets, munchable with pickle, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, roll, fruit.Tuesday: Hot dog, chili cheese hot dog, breaded chicken sandwich, sandwich tr ...

Whelan 50th

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

Pat and Cecilia Whelan of Bryan, Texas, celebrated their 50th anniversary on February 6, 2010 with a Mass officiated by Mr. John McCaffrey at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Bryan, Texas. The couple were married in the same church on Feb. 6, 1960 and c ...

Russ-Huddleston

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

Steve and Molly Russ are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Holly Russ to Jason Huddleston. Jason is the son of Gerry and Shirley Harrison and the late Ron Huddleston. The wedding will take place on Saturday ...

Rother-Mills

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

Dennis and Beth Rother and Loretta Rother of College Station, Texas, are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Candace Renee, to Ryan W. Mills, son of Bruce and Judy Mills of Sugar Land, Texas.Candace is a 200 ...

MEET THE CANDIDATES

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:23 PM PST

Ben Bius* Age: 54* Education: Bachelor's degree in finance from Sam Houston State University, 1979* Prior elected experience: NoneSteve Ogden* Age: 59* Education: Bachelor's degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, 1973; master's in business from Texas A& ...

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