Monday, February 22, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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A-G-G-I-E-S

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

Seven-year-old Kate Eilers acts as yell leader as she leads a group of A&M softball fans in the Aggie yell Sunday during A&M's game vs Louisiana-Monroe. Eilers knows how to call all the yells, and has been doing so at the Aggie softball compl ...

Taxis may have to follow new rules of the road

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

The College Station City Council is considering tightening the city's regulations for taxi companies, in part, officials said, to ensure the companies are providing a pleasant experience for tourists.There are concerns that some taxis operating in th ...

Snow expected in Brazos Valley Tuesday

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:05 PM PST

Weather forecasters said they expect a winter storm in the Brazos Valley that will bring rain and snow Tuesday.National Weather Service officials on Monday issued a winter storm watch for north Texas -- including Leon, Milam and Robertson counties -- ...

Somerville man dies in car accident

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 49-year-old Somerville man died after he lost control of his vehicle on F.M. 60 Saturday morning, authorities said.Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Christopher Flores was the only person inside the SUV when he lost ...

Three arrested on drug charges

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportTwo Bryan men and a College Station woman were arrested on drug charges after an officer found hydrocodone and marijuana during a traffic stop, authorities said.A College Station police officer initiated the traffic stop near the in ...

Teens accused of burglarizing vehicle

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 17-year-old from Brenham was in the Brazos County Jail on Sunday, accused of breaking into two vehicles in Bryan.Police said Ronald Dwayne Miller and a juvenile were seen walking on Garden Lane, Sharon Drive, Wayside Drive and Est ...

Police: 27-year-old arrested for dealing cocaine

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 27-year-old Navasota man was charged with dealing drugs early Sunday after Bryan police reported finding him with crack cocaine.An officer stopped Kedrick Lawrence Walters after observing him cross South Texas Avenue illegally thr ...

Credit card rules may shock some

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use.Now, thanks to a long-awaited law that goes into effect Monday, you'll know that if you pay the minimum on a $3,000 balance with a 1 ...

Police: Two men catch car burglar

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 12:27 AM PST

College Station police said they arrested a 19-year-old after a man and his friend saw him taking a wallet from a vehicle and chased him late Sunday.Police said they were called about 7:20 p.m. to the Diamond Shamrock at 603 Harvey Road about a burgl ...

Two in jail for church blaze

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

TYLER -- Two men who once attended church together were charged Sunday with intentionally burning down a church in east Texas and are suspected in a string of similar blazes, authorities said.Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and 21-year-old Daniel George Mc ...

Daughter says pilot in Austin IRS crash was a hero

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:16 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her father a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which killed an IRS employee, were “inappr ...

Simmering for decades, engineer's grudge explodes

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:24 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas -- In the California where Joe Stack started out as a fresh-from-college software engineer, fighting the tax man was, quite literally, a religion.Back in the 1970s and '80s, California was not just the center of the "silicon revolution. ...

Toyota dealers add voices to PR push

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- How rattled are Toyota dealers about the company's problems? Some dealerships nearly hired the same crisis public relations firm that handled the travails of socialite Paris Hilton, singer Chris Brown and a company that California calle ...

Plastic bags in US -- to pay or not to pay?

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:42 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- For decades the standard question at U.S. grocery store check-out counters has been "Paper or Plastic?" But since January, consumers in the U.S. capital have faced a different question: "Will you pay 5 cents for a bag?"Europeans have lo ...

Train kills 3 Florida teen girls

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Three teenage girls were joking around and taking pictures on a narrow bridge when they were hit by a train, killing them as a friend watched helplessly, police and a witness said Sunday.The girls and the fourth teenager, a boy, ha ...

Most 'test tube' kids healthy

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

SAN DIEGO -- More than 30 years after the world greeted its first "test-tube" baby with a mixture of awe, elation and concern, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between these children and kids conceived in the traditiona ...

Researchers: Heat will fuel hurricanes

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject.But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell w ...

'Hurt Locker' wins big in the UK

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

LONDON -- Britain's love of the underdog triumphed Sunday as intimate war drama The Hurt Locker beat 3D spectacular Avatar to take six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.Kathryn Bigelow won the best-director battle wit ...

Haiti pins hope on garment industry

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Jordanie Pinquie Rebeca leans forward and guides a piece of suit-jacket wool and its silky lining into a sewing machine, where -- bat! bat! bat! -- they're bound together to be hemmed.If she does this for eight hours, she wil ...

Secondary Strokes Often Deadly

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:46 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- One out of 12 people who have a stroke will likely soon have another stroke, and one out of four will likely die within one year, emphasizing a glaring need for better secondary stroke prevention, researchers say. South Carolin ...

Minorities Receive Low Quality Care

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:48 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients of minority backgrounds may be more likely to receive treatment at lower quality medical facilities.Whether the reasons are financial or geographic, researchers at Yale University's School of Public Health found black, ...

Letters for February 22

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

The one candidate who can beat Chet Edwards After watching five Republican Primary candidates for our Congressional District 17 on a Waco TV station, it came to me that it's going to be awfully hard to pick just one of them to face Chet Edwards. ...

Calendar

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST

MondayCLUBSCollege Station Senior Advisory Committee meeting, 10 a.m. The Exit Teen Center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. Visitors are welcome. 764-6371.College Station Noon Lions Club. Hilton Hotel. 690-8525.GARDEN & MARKETSLandscape Design Study cour ...

Concussions: Lasting Brain Injury

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:47 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than 1 million people suffer them in the United States every year, but now researchers say concussions may be more dangerous than you think. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also widely referred to as concussions, are o ...

Alzheimer's: Visit Eye Doctor to Catch it Early

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:45 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study gives seniors a reason to visit the ophthalmologist -- those with poor vision who sought help were 64 percent less likely to develop dementia. University of Michigan researchers suggest poor vision may now be a pre ...

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